Steve McTaggart & Benson Road

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Listen to Buddy Guy and Junior Wells play "Help me" From "Chicago, the Blues, Today" (1965 I think) I and you will know what Im looking for.I remember the first time I wanted to play this kind of music. I was 11 years old and my older sister was moving to Australia. Sad, I know but she left behind her record collection including the “Most Of the Animals” album. Eric Burden doing John Lee hooker tunes. What more could you ask for, in New Zealand, in the 1960’s, The first record I brought was Sgt Peppers. Next came Eric Clapton and Hendrix. I bought my first Fender Stratocaster at age 18 and it was all down hill from there. Hearing Peter Green play "Need your Love so Bad" changed my life. All of the notes you could ever need were in that song. The rest is my history.



I have been playing in Various R&B/Blues bands around Auckland and Sydney for the last 30 years. I was in in The Sovereigns, The Steve McTaggart Blues band, Mike and the Stingrays, The Stillettos, then Blueprint with the exellent Peter Reeks on K'boards and Bass and Richard Linklater on drums.



My last band before Benson road was the Roundhouse Jazz Quartet with the multi instrumentalist Tony Ramsay on Piano and Don Weller on Bass, again with Richard on drums. These guys now perform as Roundhouse, as a trio and are great. Check them out.

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