During Tony Jezzard’s lifetime, he must have played thousands of gigs, so how fitting that in his last ever gig he played at The Wheatsheaf with the Shapes, was reviewed by nightshift magazine with these fitting words. The Shapes similarly have history going back many decades, and feature local blues-rock legend Tony Jezzard on keys, while singer Tony Kelly was in 80s mod rockers The Flex. Their soft-centred mix of blues, country and old-school pub rocking should be a turn off, but songs like `Baby, You’re Strange’ have an easy charm with hints of 60s folk-pop and 80s indie jangle. `The Heavens Will Be Ours’ is more Van Morrison waltz but when they hit hoedown mode at the end of their set you could be in a Nashville blues bar. It’s all carried off with a resolute lack of pretension, and when Tony signs off with “We’re The Shapes, we’re from Oxford and we’re old,” it shows that class is ageless The last recording Tony played on, was at the Truck studios back In January, in which he played some suburb piano and organ parts, especially on find peace where you know Lay, in which the lyrics are a fitting tribute to this great man, He told me he spent 2 solid days working on the part, I’d never seem him so excited, He was so chuffed with his piano part and in my opinion the counter melody he played, really makes the Song. On the last track The Heavens will be Ours, he played a fantastic dirty Hammond part with a classic 60’s sound. He was never very good at remembering the titles for my songs,(Mostly my fault as I change the titles regularly.) So he used to say to me, Tone is that the sunshine song, and I would reply yep. So from now on Tony it will always be known as the sunshine song. Please download these songs for free. in memory of this Oxford legend with those crazy shirts and fantastic wit. Rest in peace old fella, you will be sorely missed, The Shapes
Posted on: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 07:43:38 +0000
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