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Beki Brindle grew up playing guitar with the legendary James "Yank" Rachell (of Diving Duck and She Caught The Katy fame.) In 1983, she was invited to Woodstock, NY by Rick Danko and Richard Manuel who had discovered her at Indiana University playing blues! Subsequently, Beki joined The Tom Pacheco band, and Eric Anderson's tour band. She played with these bands for several years as she still worked with Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, John Sebastian, and others rock and blues artists. In 1988, Beki joined Tom Pacheco for a year when he moved the band to Dublin, Ireland. While she was there, she also joined the Mary Stokes Blues Band and experienced over-night Irish fame due to playing the Guinness Jazz Festival in Cork City and also due to a week long performance on the National TV show, "NightHawks." In Ireland, Beki shared the stage with Hot House Flowers, members of U2, The Waterboys, members of Thin Lizzy, and backed up blues artists such as Carey Bell, Johnny Mars, and Fenton Robinson. In Dublin, she was commissioned by Bono of U2 to run a blues workshop at a new Rock School/TV show on RTE. The show was success and ran in Ireland, Italy and Sweden. The Rock School in Dublin is still going strong today! In 1989, back in the U.S., Beki joined the Warner /Reprise band "Grace Pool" with whom she recorded and toured with until 1992. In 1992, Beki began playing with Yank Rachell again and made two albums with her band, Windopane. She was playing with Jerry Lee Lewis off and on. In 1995, Windopane topped the Italian psychedelic and college music charts as "Album of the Year!. Beki lives in Upstate NY and besides being a busy session musician, she is also the leader of The Beki Brindle Band and co-founder and lead guitarist of NY band Beki Brindle & The Hotheads. Beki is a working stage and film actor trained in the Meisner method and often plays lead guitar with her husband's band, The Blues Magoos (www.thebluesmagoos.com)

Ken Golden's Lazer's Edge Review, NYC

Windopane

See?

Lucky Catatonia

Just as the catalog was near completion these two titles slipped in under the wire. After I popped "See?" into my player I had some immediate questions:

1) How much acid did this chick take to play guitar like that?

2) How do I make it louder?

3) Where's the repeat button?

After thinking about this for a while I came up with Ken's Third Law of Music (please don't ask about the first two.)

ACID + CHICK + GUITAR + LOUDER = REPEAT Windopane is a midwest trio of Beki Brindle on Lead guitar and bippy shirt, bass, and Mark Cutsinger on drums. "See?" is mostly an instrumental showcase for Beki's long dosed out 'shroomarama' superfuzz, wah-wah guitar solos that make guys like Martin Weaver, Nick Soloman and Terry Strangelook like a bunch of wussies. Surprisingly her solos are coherent and melodic, this is not Fushishita, after all. The low fi production makes me think of some of those long lost German underground monsters where the engineer keeps pushing the levels way into the red so that the needles in the VU meters are spinning 360' at 100 mph and no one cares because after the 10th tab no one cares about anything, so they just keep on jamming until the sun rises......

On "Lucky Catatonia," their new album, the low budget edge (and frankly some of the charm) is gone. The production quality is much better. This CD is more song oriented as Beki sings and Larry adds more guitar bits but Beki's guitar talents are just as good as on "SEE?" Actually in some ways this disc is better than "SEE?" in that you can actually tell that she is a good songwriter. On "SEE?" you're just blown away by the playing. The "Lucky Catatonia" CD features a cool cover version of Damon's "Don't You Feel Me."

Ken Golden

Official Music site: http://www.reverbnation.com/bekibrindlescala

Official Website: http://www.thehotheadsband.com