ERIC GALES (with Dom Martin Support)
The Assembly,
Leamington, UK

2nd June 2022

Lineage:
Church Audio CA-14 omnis > CA-9200 > Edirol R-07 (@24/96) > Cool Edit Pro 2 (Edits, downsample)> CDWave > TLH
Recorded 50' from house right stack

Recording, transfer & artwork by boombox

Dom Martin:
1. Introduction
2. Maxwell Shuffle >
3. Moby Dick
4. Dixie Black Hand
5. Blues On The Bay
6. Unsatisfied
7. Drink In Blue Colours
8. Rory Gallagher Medley (Laundromat, Morning Sun, What's Going On)

Dom Martin - guitar & vocals
Dave Thomson - bass
Laurence McLeown - drums

Eric Gales:
1. Opening Jam
2. Smokestack Lightning
3. You Don't Know The Blues
4. The Storm
5. Banter
6. Survivor
7. Put That Back
8. Stand Up ^
9. Banter
10. Take Me Just As I Am *
11. Bass Solo & Jam
12. My Own Best Friend
13. I Want My Crown

^ - with extended keyboard interlude and thoughts on the recent school shooting in Texas
* - with LaDonna on lead vocals

Eric Gales - guitar & vocals
Smoke Face - bass
Jonathan Lovett - keyboards & backing vocals
Nick Hayes - drums
LaDonna Gales - percussion & backing vocals

Artwork - both single artist & combined artist artwork supplied, depending on how you wish to burn this.

boombox's notes june 2022:

This was my second time seeing Eric within three months partly because he was so good in March, but also because we were going to get Dom Martin, who was an inspired choice of warm-up act. His 47 minute set of "very relaxed blues and rock" was anything but and went past all too quickly. Showing very little sign of any jetlag, Eric Gales & Co then followed this up with an hour and forty minutes of fine blues and soul. Setlist was pretty much the standard one for the tour, although we didn't get his take on 'Voodoo Chile', which was a pity.

We arrived at the venue just before 1930h, to discover that one, it was a 1930h start and two that it was open seating. This meant I couldn't really pick a decent taping spot. As a result, the recording is a bit boomier than I'd hoped. It was also one of the loudest gigs I've attended recently, meaning I had to undertake very minor clip restoration on the right hand channel. That said, it still came out much better than I'd expected.

Please go out and support the band by buying tickets and merch - both these artists deserve to be playing bigger venues to bigger crowds so that they might earn a living more commensurate with their talent.

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