Blues Amplified - Space Shuffle (2018)

Blues Amplified = Band continuing the tradition of the original hardcore and blues. This is a trio of bass / vocals, guitar and drums, which brings straightforwardness, breakthrough and blues urgency, but also the difficulty of instrumental abilities of musicians, in this case players with years of experience. The repertoire is for the most part self-produced, which would be hard to deny the relationship with bands such as Allman Brothers Band, Free, Humble Pie, Cactus and others. The members of the band perceive it as an extremely important musical training gained during many years of exploring American and English music of the late 1960s and early 1970s, as Honza Holecek expressed with slight exaggeration "We have heard all the records of that time." However, it is not a copy, it is a work based on the same principles of composition and arrangements what the famous bands of that time used.

Jan Holecek (Energit, Luboš Andršt Blues band, Afterglow, Freeway Jam, RBB) is a composer, keyboardist, bass guitarist, but mainly a singer with a real blues feeling. Ray Charles has learned to sing most of the quality singers of this style, including Honza, but there is a strong influence from other giants such as Gregg Allman, Steve Marriott, Paul Rogers, Roger Chapman. In Blues Amplified, Honza alternates both keyboards and bass. At the B.A. concerts he plays mostly bass and sings.

Jindrich Musil (Freeway Jam, Afterglow, Led Zeppelin Revival, Eric Clapton Revival), a great guitarist and songwriter. He always composed, but he was not able to find his compositions. Playing in guitar rehearsal bands for him was a great challenge and great entertainment, but he was strictly avoiding circus elements in the sense of copying original players in terms of clothing, gestures and equipment. But he always copied everything he liked when playing guitar without scruples, in the sense of saying, "Listen to all, steal the best." He stole this password from Peter Frampton. However, only re-collaboration with Honza Holecek enabled him to fully develop his compositional and texting skills and gave him another impetus to his instrumental development.

Dan Hubacek (accompanied by Canadian bluesman Martha Halla, Jan Koubkova, Led Zeppelin Southern Revival ...) is a very talented drummer who is the most inspired John Bonham play. Sensitivity and sense of tension are other attributes of his rhythmically diverse games, just like the quick reactions in the improvisation parts.

Blues Amplified concerts are appreciated by anyone interested in the roots of blues and rock music, the band playing honestly, engaging with conviction. The belief that blues is not an archaic and surviving affair, however, is the current and necessary music, and that it makes a lot of sense to go along the way to the singularity of extraordinary creation and performance, as demonstrated by a number of world bands at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s.