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--- Dan Peters - guitar, lead vocals, songwriter -
Dan has put his guitar skills to work for several high profile acts including: Susie Dobbs, The Big Swing, The Chicago Children's Choir, Sway Chicago, Professor John, The Tom Carey Band and Tommy Vitale amongst others.
His guitar playing can also be heard on the popular video arcade golf game Golden Tee Live. Career highlights include: performing with Jules Holland of Squeeze for a BBC television special on Chicago blues, playing with The Vanguard Aces on Cupid (a former prime-time TV show for ABC starring Jeremy Piven) and winning Chicago's Hottest Guitarist Contest in 1994 (sponsored by Budweiser and Washburn Guitars).
--- Derek Brand - bass -
Derek is best known as the long time bassist of respected Chicago based artist Nicholas Tremulis who had two critically aclaimed albums on Island Records in the early 90's. He has performed on stage with such legendary musicians as Billy Corgan, Rick Nielson & Bun E. Carlos, Hubert Sumlin, Sonny Landreth, Ian Hunter and Rick Danko to name but a few.
--- Kyle Olson - drums, backing vocals -
The West Side Winders proudly welcome our newest member. Kyle's bio will be coming soon.
Influences
In addition to those mentioned in "Sounds Like" (see below), the following guitarists and bands were also influential in my musical development:
Led Zeppelin, Wes Montgomery, Steve Vai, Danny Gatton, Charlie Christian, Brent Mason, Van Halen, Michael Schenker, Jimmy Bryant, Jeff Beck, Cliff Gallup, Eric Johnson and, of course, William Shatner!!
Sounds Like
A celebrity Texas Hold 'em tournament between Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Dick Dale, Brian Setzer, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Joe Satriani.
BREAKING NEWS - March, 2008 - WSW song "Keep It In The Family" is announced as a winner in the 2007 Great American Song Contest www.greatamericansong.com - Nov., 2007 - WSW songs "Scary Harry" and "The Spooky Surfer" licensed for use in Warren Miller’s "Wave Chasers" on The Travel Channel - August, 2007 - WSW SONG "KEEP IT IN THE FAMILY" WINS THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD IN THE 2007 UNISONG INTERNATIONAL SONG CONTEST WWW.UNISONG.COM - June, 2007 - WSW GUITARIST DAN PETERS WINS 3RD PLACE IN THE 2007 NORTH AMERICAN ROCK GUITAR COMPETITION
- AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT... THE BIO - The West Side Winders began in early spring of 2001 under the name The Sidewinders. Guitarist/vocalist Dan Peters took a wide variety of influences and worked towards developing a group that would be both technically challenging and highly entertaining.
After working through a few lineup and stylistic changes, he found the perfect niche in the form of a swingin’, surfabilly power trio.
Their music mixes rockabilly, surf, jump-blues, honky-tonk, jazz and western swing into a high-octane blend that rocks a little harder than your typical roots oriented group. This sound was perfected on their first CD release from 2003 - "Come and Get It" (available at www.cdbaby.com/sidewinders) and continues with their latest release - "Snaken Not Stirred" (available at www.cdbaby.com/westsidewinders) which, in 2007, spent several months in the top 100 on the AMA radio charts. Plus, for fans of great guitar, both albums really put the spotlight on Dan’s virtuoso six-string skills.
All three members of The West Side Winders are journeyman musicians who have recorded; performed and toured the world with many Chicago based acts.
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We really like your music as we are big fans of the American music styles that you mix in your songs! Dan Peter's guitar playing is amazing! As you may know we are part of the On Stage Records family, thus we are glad about your forthcoming releases.
damn sorry i missed you guys last time you were at Johnny and Hons..my husband had a gig the same night:( please play again soon! grumpys is sooo far away! xo
