Stephen McTaggart :Guitar & Vocals
Blueprint:
Stephen McTaggart :Guitar & Vocals Peter Reeks:
Keyboards, Bass and Vocals ,Richard Linklater: Drums
Roundhouse Jazz Quartet: Stephen McTaggart :Guitar &
Vocals Tony Ramsay Keyboards, Bass and Vocals Don Weller: Bass and Vocals
Influences
Stephen likes the following...
Peter Green, Frank Zappa, Eric Clapton. Stevie Ray, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Beatles, Jeff Beck, Chicken Shack, Alan Lavis, Kenny Burrell, Wes Montgomery, Freddy, Albert, BB King, Grant Green, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Rory Gallagher, Roy Buchanan, and Jimi Hendrix (its hard to know where to stop)
Sounds Like
Sounds like
For Blues, it sounds a bit like Peter Green era Fleetwood Mac mixed with Jimmie Vaughn mixed with Bluesbreakers Eric clapton with a little Freddie King thrown in for good measure. For the Jazz/blues stuff, Its equal parts Kenny Burrell, Grant Green, George Benson and Wes Montgomery. But most important of all is having the right tone!!!
Listen to Buddy Guy and Junior Wells play "Help me" From "Chicago, the Blues, Today" (1965 I think) I and you will know what Im looking for.I remember the first time I wanted to play this kind of music. I was 11 years old and my older sister was moving to Australia. Sad, I know but she left behind her record collection including the “Most Of the Animals” album. Eric Burden doing John Lee hooker tunes. What more could you ask for, in New Zealand, in the 1960’s, The first record I brought was Sgt Peppers. Next came Eric Clapton and Hendrix. I bought my first Fender Stratocaster at age 18 and it was all down hill from there. Hearing Peter Green play "Need your Love so Bad" changed my life. All of the notes you could ever need were in that song. The rest is my history.
I have been playing in Various R&B/Blues bands around Auckland and Sydney for the last 30 years. I was in in The Sovereigns, The Steve McTaggart Blues band, Mike and the Stingrays, The Stillettos, then Blueprint with the exellent Peter Reeks on K'boards and Bass and Richard Linklater on drums.
My last band before Benson road was the Roundhouse Jazz Quartet with the multi instrumentalist Tony Ramsay on Piano and Don Weller on Bass, again with Richard on drums. These guys now perform as Roundhouse, as a trio and are great. Check them out.
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My new music video to my song "Heartbreakin Game" should be coming out in the near future. There is also a fanpop page for me that has been set up. If you get a chance visit it at http://lnk.ms/0zvbC . You can also sign up to follow me on twitter at www.twitter.com/vanessathompson :)
I will be performing live at Club Heaven in Seattle, Washington for the Seattle Music Revival September 27, 2008. It begins at 6PM and I will be performing at 10:30 PM. Hope to see you there.
Thank you for being our friend. Mike Dollins & The Cruize Bros "Live" Hot Springs Blues Festival 2009 jamming Sissy Strut.
Guido Ciardetti – Born in Chicago, and was Buddy Miles Bass Player
Brad Messer – Born in Texas, and grew up with SRV
Mike Fraz – Born in New Orleans, playing same venues as Dr. John
Mike Dollins – From California & Arkansas Delta, played in the King Biscuit Blues Band, and with the great blues legends Big Daddy Rucker and Len Rainey on the west coast.
These veteran players love jammin’, and Sissy Strut is becoming a fan favorite on YouTube, AOL, MySpace and FaceBook. United as brothers in the roots of Blues, Jazz, R&B, Soul, Funk, Gospel and American Rock.
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Keep on jammin’ them blues, it’s music to my ears. The House is a Rockin’ at Odie’s House of Blues with host band Mike Dollins & The Cruize Brothers every Thursday Check out www.bluesguitarnews.ning.com an all blues network to list your gigs, videos and photos. See who has joined in the blues social network, and join the fun. Burn them 6L6's into little sizzling pools of melted glass brothers and sisters. Peace to the world through blues.
How is the weather there? It is hot and muggy here in North Carolina. Hey, check out my old, very early Vibratone! I use it as an extention speaker, which cuts down the warble, but give a subtle, sweet tone!
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do u like sea ? sometimes it looks calm and peace but sometimes it makes waves
did u got covered with spray ? maybe u wonder why does i ask so .. well , coz just now i have finished my newest tune named spray :)
spray is very beautiful and thrilling in the twinkling of an eye it's so out of control that we r hard 2 catch its come and go
what's ur come and go ? i sincerely invite u 2 listen ( or experience ) and leave me a review if u r willing 2 share ur personal spray in life also welcome 2 my newest blog "New Tune Release : Spray"
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