Eddie Cochran, Elvis Presley, Cliff & the Shadows, The Beatles, The Kinks, The Stones....
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...you could be in for wonderful, rokkin' trip down memory lane!
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Richard is an accomplished, professional wedding and portrait photographer. Book him, get a discount and get to see him all day... what could be better! Here's his site and his email address.
Rollicking Rikki Riffmeister (alias Richard Summersby) is a leg-end in his own trousers. He has been making a racket way back into the last century - to the birth of rock 'n' roll itself. Never overstated, "Jumping Jack Flash" has a modest taste in clothes and guitars. Rik always blends into the background and enjoys dialing-in a low volume setting on his Fender amp... NOT! Although he'll often ask the question, Richard is not really interested if anyone in the audience is feeling kinky. He normally chooses a Fender Master Salute Stratocaster guitar, a Gretsch White Falcon and a Gibson Everley Brothers acoustic from his huge arsenal for his full frontal assault. His secret weapon is a wound third; most guitarists have never heard of one of these. Rik is partial to tweed and a tweed-flavoured 4x10 Fender DeVille serves up the throbbing pulse of the band. A force to be reckon with Richard uses special picks, weakened in the middle, to give the rest of the band a fighting chance. A nigroid impregnated Shure Beta 58 conveys his subtle vocal tones to the PA amplifier.
Margie is (probably) the baby of the band (well she's a babe anyway).
All doo-wops and wiggles she paints up the band a treat. Always struggling to do more changes of attire than Richard between sets she adds sparkle and class and a touch of the Blondie. She has a particular thing about boots.
A Shure Beta 57 captures her angelic vocals as best it can.
Roger Taylor is NOT Roger Taylor neither is there anything of the Queen about him - just like Richard.
He has the longest tooth in the band (just) but only Margie is thinner.
Mr Thundersticks can also play jazz (never mind - he keeps it to himself).
Rog uses a compact, donkey-brown Premier kit. Rog hates it when a song ends... he'll often play several more bars for free. He likes to have the last say.
Jays "the Bass" Walsh (or is that Jason the Basin?) has a wealth of gigging experience in both in the UK and abroad. He has an alarming number of bass guitars that light up frightenly at odd times. He is a very theatrical person! He has written a serious biog but if he thinks I gonna put it here he has another thing coming! If you detect strange noises during a gig it's likely to be one of Jason's famous theatrical sound effects. He has a good selection of hats, wigs, bandanas and stage wear to suit any gig apparently (he must have been involved in some strange gigs in the past).
Herbie Payne tries his best and smiles at Richard a lot whilst endevouring not to fall over. Richard and Herb go back a long way... He is so mean he has been known to make some of his own guitars out of wood instead of buying them. A Fender Hotrod DeVille amplifies the voltage produced by vibrating D'Addario strings over the various magnets in the pickups of Fender, Gibson, Gretsch and his bespoke guitars
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Thanks for the friendship you guys. Ric I now have friendhship with the Shads who, as everyone knows, originally modelled themselves after 'The Rokkits'. Herb you must give my space a makeover! Keep right on rockin'!
