BRIDGE SCHOOL CONCERT 2006 (SUNDAY) !!!!!

"....he ( Neil ) opened the show with Ambulance Blues with that guy from Pentangle playing it with him.

Everybody gasped and got chills when he played it, and the girl next to me actually started crying..."

" Bert Jansch, legendary Scots troubadour and guitar hero."  The man who gave Neil the structure for his finest ........................ " Ambulance Blues ".

A career as long as Neil's, releasing album after album, treading the boards ......... all the way to the outer limits,( great tales of him hitting the Islands in a beaten up van with his guitar case, Ole' Rustie Scot might just tell us one ot two ) The music is the thing !!!! he's still as fresh as a daisy and his last couple of albums just might be the best of his career ...... sound familiar ?

In the early sixties, having hitch-hiked to London from his hometown of Edinburgh, Bert began performing his unique blend of folk, blues and jazz on the folk club scene of the time, playing the Marqueeand the 100 Club amongst others. His first album "Bert Jansch" (1965), played on a borrowed guitar and sold for 100, caused a sensation at the time for his innovative technique and powerful songs, and was phenomenally influential. It is still selling today - 35 years on - and is cited by legions of guitar players, famous and otherwise, as a major influence.

“He revolutionised the guitar…I don’t think anybody has ever been revered as much as he is.” ­ Dick Gaughan

"Bert Jansch" was followed by "It Don't Bother Me" and the also enormously influential "Jack Orion". On this album Bert was already exploring his innovative treatments of full-length ballads - something he took further with Pentangle, the band he formed with fellow guitarist John Renbourn. Pentangle made six albums and enjoyed an unprecedented degree of success for an acoustic band. On extensive world tours they played the Royal Albert Hall in London and Carnegie Hall in New York.

In 1973 Pentangle split up and Bert returned to his solo career. To date he has made 21 albums and is still as active, innovative and influential as ever. His latest albums are the highly acclaimed "When the Circus Comes to Town" (1996) and "Toy Balloon" (1998) on Cooking Vinyl.

 “At one point, I was absolutely obsessed with Bert Jansch. When I first heard that LP [1965], I couldn’t believe it. It was so far ahead of what everyone else was doing. No one in America could touch that.” ­ Jimmy Page

You can also still catch him live if you are lucky. Bert's solo performances are a chance to see a living legend revisit the songs that made him famous and to sample his latest offerings which are as satisfying as anything he has ever written. A Bert Jansch performance is not show business: there are no tried and tested routines. He can only give his all, the audience treasuring the chance to sit at his feet while a piece of living history plays and sings as only he knows how.       

listen to samples of Bert's "Crimson Moon" release.   thank you BertJansch.com

BERT & NEIL DUET SET @ THE BRIDGE ................ now wouldn't that be something else ......... its just an email away :-)

2006 Bridge Concert .................. it happened  !!!!!!!!!

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