“The End” existed from about 1998 to 2000
with our ‘farewell’ gig in January 2001.
We were a six-piece covers band who started
out playing Oasis, The Beatles,
and similar stuff, and ended up as a Doors
cover/tribute band! We played most of our gigs
in Eamonn Doran’s, Temple Bar, Dublin.
That’s me below playing my little heart out on
lead guitar to the right, with Mark
singing, Karl and Derek on bass and rhythm in the shadows
on the left, and Frank’s hand and legs as
he plays keyboard just in front of me.
Steve is on drums in the back.
I met the lads through the ‘music board’ of
a local ‘free adds’ paper and we went
from being a lazy, untalented and
drummer-less bunch to the best Doors cover band
I’ve seen!! There were some nights in
Doran’s when we were all stoned, pissed or possessed,
the crowd was in, we had the vibe, and we
played the ass off the songs!! The crowd was
sometimes so stunned by the brilliance and
intensity of our performance that they forgot
to clap, or couldn’t take the heat and
left!!!
In the end(sorry!) some of us fell out with
each other or got bored with the whole thing
and the band split up, playing our last
gig, and first in almost a year, in January 2001.
Incidentally, it was probably our best
performance!! Who knows, maybe someday we’ll go
back on the road and do a money making
reunion tour for all those people who never had
a chance to see The End in our prime!!...
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