I guess a few of you will have heard on the grapevine that David Martin has made the reluctant decision to leave Legend, sadly resigned to the fact that arthritis in his left hand precludes him from playing rhythm chords as effectively as he would like - and as the music demands. Many of you will know that David & Terry traditionally shared rhythm & lead duties and David felt it was unfair to expect Terry to wholly take over rhythm duties while he became our principal lead player. We fully understand this decision, albeit that we're extremely sorry to see David go...........we've had some fabulous times together, achieving things we'd all only ever dreamed of doing.
But we're determined not to stand still, and are delighted to welcome to our happy band Tony Hoffman, someone with whom many of you are familiar. Tony is the long-time publisher of Shadsfax and is, himself, no mean guitarist! He is highly proficient on both lead and rhythm and has long been looking for an opportunity to play some 'serious' Shads music. So we're delighted to welcome him on board and Chris, Terry & Martin along with Matt, our keyboard player are looking forward to getting back to playing regularly and expanding our repertoire. I'm sure you will join with us in wishing Tony every success in his new role.
As Chris Jarvis says, "Tony is a very handy guitarist – he only lives only a couple of miles from our practice venue!"
Indeed, as David says, "If I had to do it all over again, I'd do it all over Tony!"