12th March 2014: JULIAN MOKHTAR, at Backyard Pub, Sri Hartamas!

Hashim on drums.

Aznan Aziz on guitar. Here’s the bluesman with a glass slide.

Sham on bass.

Little guy behind the locking nut of Julian Mokhtar’s guitar!

A hilarious moment, when he held up his glass to hint for it to be refilled.

Aznan also plays the harmonica.

Harmonicas usually are diatonic, meaning they only contain 7 notes of the 12-note scale. To cover the other 7 notes, in other keys, you’d have to get more harmonicas.

Effects.

Shiny wah.

Julian is well-known as being the lead guitarist for Blues Gang. However, that night, he played blues and rock classics – a few that come to mind, only because I also bootlegged them, were Steve Miller Band – The Joker, The Eagles – Take It Easy, Johnny Cash – Folsom Prison Blues, Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade Of Pale, Don McLean – American Pie, and Jimi Hendrix – All Along The Watchtower. All, of course, with roaring hot solos!