Ray Brown, Eddie Gomez, Doug Wuimbish, Mike Visceglia, The Bad Plus, Charlie Haden, Ornette Coleman, Dave Mathews Band, John Patitucci, John Coltrane, James Brown, Jaco Pastorius, Michael Manring, Steve Lawson, Phillip Glass, Portico Quartet, Steve Reich, James Jamerson, Tony Levin, Led Bib, The Neil Cowley Trio, Danny thompson, Bootsy Collins, Bill Evans, Peter Gabriel, Dan Reed Network, Sting, Don Henley, RATM, Charlie Parker, Hall and Oates (T bone rules), Guy Pratt, It Bites, The Zawinul Syndicate, Stanley Clarke, Oscar Peterson, Niles Orsted Pedersen, Yes, Pink Floyd, Suzanne Vega, Kate Bush, Joni Mitchel, Prince, Starless and Bible Black, Damian Rice, Miles Davis, Rush, Weather Report, David Gilmore, Rufus Reid, Ed Friedland, The black sea gentleman, The Police, The disposable heroes of Hiphopcrisy, John Mayer, Big Strides, Bare Naked ladies, Nuevo Latino, Good ambient/chill out music, Jeff Beck, REM, Counting Crows, Dave Bruebeck, Incubus, Led Zepplin, all good music. Pasta and Pesto sauce, my sisters Lasagne, good fresh coffee, Builders tea, Green tea, Mango, Sweet potatoes, Carrot cake, Cous cous, Chilli, Curry, Parsnips, sticky rice, water slurped direct from a Lake district stream, Scuba, Trees, Flumps, Liquorice, The sea, Truth, Peace, Inteligence, Humility and above all my family and my two wonderfull daughters.
A good humoured, supportive and dedicated professional, a quick learner and a team player in it for the love of good music.
My experience ranges from recording at Rockfield and Loco studios to live UK TV performances on Bravo, ITV and YTV, and live prime time TV and radio performances during my recent Japanese a UK promotional tour with Big Strides
I am based in Islington, London. My career as a performing musician began at the age of eight when I began Spanish classical guitar lessons, as I reached my early teens my interest turned to electric guitar and the desire to join a band naturally followed, soon I was playing in several local bands and upon leaving school I enrolled at music college.
Leaving college I discovered my true calling as a bassist, and began working as a professional musician, gigging at least four or five times a week on the club circuit in the north/north east and in Wales, gaining very valuable experience, playing a wide variety of styles and learning the art of winning over legendarily tough audiences.
Following that I started working with a number of original artists performing mainly on the south coast, London and Oxfordshire. During this period I had the pleasure of working with a number of very talented musicians, and clocked up yet more stage time and a great deal of studio experience.
Over the length of my career I have played in many different styles with many different people and situations, from Basement bars to sold out concert halls, from small commercial studios to residential studios used by major record labels, the one thing that remains constant is my absolute dedication to giving the best possible performance and serving the needs of the song above all else.
Recent playing history:
The London Outfit at the Proud galleries Nov 2009
• November 2008 promo tour of Japan and the UK with Big Strides for their Reservoir Records (EMI Japan) release Super Custom Limited including live TV and Radio performances.
• Live and studio and live radio dates with Johanna Koolman an in demand session singer for Peyote for president, Mozez, Zero 7, The Humble and artist in her own right.
• Studio dates with Alex Morris, Producer for Zero 7 & and Mozez
• Live and studio dates with Johanna Steadman, Swedish singer songwriter
who has toured and sessioned for Novocain, Blind maze, Anoraklite and guitarist Rosco and is an artist in her own right.
• Live and studio dates with guitarist Rosco as part of 'The London Outfit', a seriously good guitarist and all round top bloke who is currently playing with Danny Valentine amongst many others.
• Live and studio dates with Eugene Waters, a singer songwriter from a national award wining family of Irish singers and performers.
• Live and studio dates with Sam Honey crossover rock/dance artist on Hardcore underground
• Currently gigging regularly on the London circuit with vocalist Marmaduke Dando and his band, having secured residencies in several London venues including Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre on the south bank.
Musicians of note I have worked with:
• Mark Buckle/Keys (Ian Gillan) I worked with Buck in his studio in Oxford following his tour and album as keyboard player with Ian Gillan of Deep Purple.
• Gary King/Drums (Jeff Beck, Joe Lynne Turner and many others) I had the privilege of working with Gary through my work with vocalist Spencer Jones
• Marcus O'neill and Lewis Kirk (Big Strides) incredible musicians !
• Lee Russell/Producer/Guitarist (Kate Walsh, Ezio, Melanie Blatt, Paul Carrack)
• Spencer Jones/lead vocals, now emigrated to Australia and working as a highly in demand session vocalist and artist in his own right
• Ian Jones/Guitar (Blitzkrieg) I met Ian through my work with Buck as he played guitar on and engineered a number of tracks on our album, he later called on me in his role as producer to provide the bass end for his new artist Findlay Webster’s debut EP, and a live performance on Bravo TV.
• Steve Glover/Keys (Statetrooper, Brian Robertson, Vamp)
• Rami Siam/Drums (Rumhoney)
Former student of:
• The Bass School (Samurai studios, London)
• The Bass Institute (The bass Centre, Wapping).
• Paul Westwood (author of Bass Bible) I had private lessons with Paul, here is a small part of the list of people he has worked with: George Martin, Wayne Shorter, Barbara Thompson, John Hiseman, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Phil Ramone, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Hans room, The Sex Pistols, Charles Aznavour, Steve Gadd, Larry Coryell, Joe Beck, Madonna.
• Liran Donin (of Mercury prize winners - Led Bib)
Equipment
Romanian Fully carved double bass
Zeller hybrid double bass with a Shadow pickup
NS design CR5 electric upright bass
German and French pattern bows
Peavey Grind 6 string bass
Gallien-Krueger amps and cabs.
Genz Benz combo
LR Bags pre amp
Boss GT10B
Thomastik Spircore strings
Korg tuners
Boss Metronomes
Rarely play in the UK with Rich and he's back to Melbourne on Thursday, but will keep you in the loop re other stuff! And I need to come see you play at some point too.
Hi! I've just uploaded a new demo track of my all bass waltz "Angel" as well as new demos of "Soulmates" and "And at the Going Down of the Sun" I hope you will get to check them out and let me know what you think :)
ya, i have to keep my face warm for the winter. i cut 3 trees every other day for our heat. ohio is cold in the winter time. thanks for the view and comment. i'm always looking for bass tabs if you can some my way?? keep on makeing music it's great__thanks__joe the crow oddo
Hey I've made more updates to my myspace. I've added three brand new solo bass tracks "Ad Vitam Aeturnam" , "The Meaning of Times Passing" , "Are We Smoking'?" and brand new recording of "Two Minds"........Hope you get to check them out and let me know what you think :)
Hey I've just uploaded a new demo track to my myspace called "Ad vitam aeternam ", I hope you will get chance to check it out and let me know what you think :)
Hey there, just thought we'd let you know that we're throwing a party at The Dublin Caste (Camden) on the 30th of Setpemeber, a week on Wednesday to launch our new EP. Everyone's invited!
If you venture out to listen to live music, make sure you don't miss out on a great gig & after party...
