Steady Eddie from Retro by Will Godfrey

The band's lead guitarist was a good player but somewhat volatile, and easily wound up by seemingly bizzarre regulations at some venues. If we got to him quickly enough, just a smile, a pat on the back and "Steady Eddie" was enough to defuse the situation.

I was with the band as a general dogs-body, but it was known I was learning to handle keyboards. Eddie always wanted me to join the band playing (mostly 12 bars Blues) but I was into other things. On one occasion there was a new, rather expensive Hammond in the hall where the band were practicing, and at the end of their session I wandered over and and started playing a new tune I was developing. Eddie shot up and yelled "It's a fucking 12 bar, you bastard!" - hence the name of the final result.

Will Godfrey has been involved in music in one form or another since childhood, starting with early piano lessons and progressing through accordion, guitar, harmonica and tin whistle. Eventually, combining his electronics background he moved on to synthesizers and currently soft-synths.