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When you leave you get a free Squier Danish Pete Bullet Tele, so it's not all bad...
50/50.
Not if you've ever read even a single interview with him.
The musical bits, definitely.
He's a bit of an odd fish. Obviously his playing is sublime - and the tunes he played were fantastic (as was the band, with the excellent Darby Todd on drums (who I've previously seen in Buddy Whittington's band) and a very good bass player whose name I didn't catch), but he didn't appear to be relaxed at any stage of the proceedings - at all. He was guarded with his responses, not quite to the point of mild paranoia, but not that far short. I mean, it could have been yet another example of the communications gap that manifests itself between some Americans and some Britons where, for instance, an American will make a humorous remark and then feels the need to immediately follow that up with the totally unnecessary, "That's a joke, of course", or where a British person will make a possibly clumsy humorous remark and an American will take it as a personal slight. Equally, he can hardly be blamed for some of the poor questions he was asked, but he was directly responsible for all the poor answers he gave to them.
It was nice to see him in a small venue and to hear him play live again (it seems like a very long time since I've been able to do that) and his frankly unholy fat Telecaster bridge pickup tone was worth the price of admission alone! He was also generous enough to do a meet-and-greet with the entire audience afterwards and happy to have photos taken with fans and sign items (including guitars, which I've seen him refuse to do in the past) but even that was tainted by the merch table having his latest CD (available on Amazon, brand new, for £8) being sold from a box that had clearly been sent straight to him from his record label (so, presumably, for free - or, at most, at cost) on sale at £20 a pop.
All in all, the event was nice and I enjoyed myself, but I don't feel the overwhelming need to go to one again.