8 Ball Aitken ‘Sagas and Dramas’

April 3rd, 2007

One of my local watering holes, Cafe Bello (now unfortunately closed) used to do some great live music.. One of my faves is 8 Ball Aitken, who is a particularly gifted musician (his steel guitar stuff is absolutely awesome).

One of his albums (8 ball in) become my music of choice to help me cheer up during a recent agonisingly prolonged (2 years of long distance crappola) split with a girlfriend of 7 years who shall henceforth be known only as the psychotic lesbian.

8 Ball is One of My Favourite Musicians

8 Ball comes from Far North Queensland, where the crocodiles roam in a Steamy locale called Mareeba. It’s right smack bang in the centre of the huge area (1500 square kilometres) that I used to service in my days as a research scientist with the Sugar industry, so we hit it off pretty much straight away.. Plus he’s of Irish ancestry, and known for being a bit eccentric – things I’m familliar with too :).

I used to immensely enjoy the nights he came along to play, and couldn’t help but think that I was witnessing a real blues genius in the infancy of a great career.

8 Ball’s New Video Clip

I was visiting 8 Ball’s website recently and came across his latest film clip – Sagas and Dramas. It is a bit more ‘main stream’ than alot of the stuff that 8 Ball does, a bit less bluesy, but shows off his talent as well as his unique dress sense pretty brilliantly.

(and congrats to Nancy for starting a fan site – the 8 ball aitken fan site)

Cheers,

theDuck

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