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Bird Stevens born in 1971 and started to play bass when he was 18 years old
Together with his soul mate JB Biesmans he started a band called The Jitterbugs one off the first bands that
introduced the West coast style in Europe
In 1995 he joint The Blackbirds a bunch of good friends playing American roots music from the 50’ 60’ what resulted on playing a lot of Big roots festivals and recordings
From 1997 until 99 he also played with the well known Belgium cajun,tex-mex band called Last Call and the blues soul band Blues jungle
At a jam session on the New Orleans festival in Stuttgart 2000 a new band was born and named after the big four beat off the new Orleans music The Big four (swing jazz)
at that same year he was also asked by Otis Grand(UK)to join his band what resulted in several tours in countries like Finland ,Sweden, Spain,UK…
In 2002 Al Copley (USA former Roomful of blues) asked Bird to pick up his upright bass and join him during his European tours for 2 years
In 2006 he joint the band Blues Lee (genuine feel good music) where his soul mate JB already played
As a session musician Bird played in several bands like Rj Mischo , Teddy Morgan ,Sax Gordon , Gene Tailor,Enrico Crivellaro, Nico Backton,Jason Ricci ,
Karen Carroll, Elmore D, T Bird Rhythm ,Big Jay McNeely…
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irds bass playing style is best to be described as “the glue that keeps the whole thing goingâ€
He is the kind of bass player that you only hear that he’s there when he stop playing…just the right touch at the right time
Bird bin influence by bass players like Willy Dixon ,Keith Ferguson (The Fabulous Thunderbirds) , Herb Gordy (Red Prysock), Leonard Swain,…
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ike you could see this guy never sits still today he’s still playing with The Big Four ,Blues Lee, and still doing some freelance stuff…
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ird Stevens gearBasses..
Fender 1970 Telecaster bass
Fender 1964 Precision bass
Fender 1969 Jazz bass
Harmony H22 1961 Bass
Silvertone 1961 dolphin nose bass
1900’ 4/4 upright with a Underwood pickup and Velvet stringsAmpsBird plays Tecamp the best choice for upright and electric bass -----------------------------------------------------------D
iscographyCD 1992 The Jitterbugs (Bug records)
CD 1997 The Blackbirds Rockin’ x-mas wishes (Rentfarm records)
CD 1998 Blues jungle Jungle fever (jungle records)
CD 1998 The Blackbirds (Rentfarm records)
CD 1999 The Blackbirds (Rentfarm records)
CD 2002 The Blackbirds (Rentfarm records)
CD 2003 The Blackbirds Dinner dolls (Rentfarm records)
CD 2003 The Big Four Four strikes you out (B4 records)
CD 2008 The Big Four "The Congregation Sessions" (Tub-Tumper records).
