2-Sheds Jackson - The Line Up

2-Sheds Jackson

The Line Up - Kenny Langlands


Kenny (left), anxiously awaiting the arrival of puberty	Showing off a newly acquired Strat, aged 22 (post puberty)

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Kenny was born in Edinburgh on the very day that England won the world cup. A fact in which he senses the cruel hand of fate. He is also, therefore, old enough to know better.

After those long adolescent years, playing Smoke on the Water on one string of an old Spanish guitar, an American friend passed on the wisdom of the ancients (i.e. a 12 bar blues and a pentatonic lick). After many years reverentially picking out these sacred notes, he joined a Bristol based band and realised that learning a few more licks was probably the order of the day, should he not wish to be rumbled.

Following a glittering spell as the resident covers band at the prestigious Redland Tennis Club, he left for the States, where his lack of mullet effectively precluded his joining the bar-band circuit. Despondent as a result of this tonsorial faux-pas, he wound up in squat in London (well actually moved to Cambridge), whereupon he encountered a group of easily impressed individuals. And thus, 2-Sheds Jackson was given life. The rest, as they say, is history. Or rather it would be, should someone have chosen to record it.

"A visceral amalgam of Hendrix and Page, imbued with the mysticism of the Doors, topped off with a righteous slice of Sly-styled funk". This is an inaccurate description of Kenny's style. However, as the, erm, 'Sheds progress from marquees and barns, unleashing their heady mix of 60s psychedelia and, erm, other 60s stuff on an unsuspecting public, thrilled punters may make up their own minds..

Jim Morrison enjoying 2 Sheds Jackson's demo, "Scratching the surface"
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