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Steve (ricplayer)

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About Me


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I am happily married to Bobbi we have been together for 17 years and have 4 kids (Debbi, Stevie, Scott and Stuart) and 2 dogs. In the words of the mighty Joe Walsh 'Life's been good to me so far'

My Interests

I play guitar and bass.Basses I have are a 5 string P-bass, a Rickenbacker 4003, and a Yamaha BB404.My guitars are a Rockinbetter 330/12, a Stratocaster and an acoustic.I play bass through a Peavey Basic112 and guitar through a Marshall G80RCD.

I'd like to meet:

Musicians nearer to home to jam with.I would also like to meet Bruce Foxton, Paul McCartney and Ronnie Lane (maybe one day in another place) as they are the reason I gave up guitar to play bass.The guys over at GuitarVoice.com

The Jam - Town Called Malice

Music:

I like music mainly from the 60's, Small Faces, Kinks, The Who, The Hollies, Searchers, the Beatles and so on. Also like some music from the 70's like Elvis Costello, Squeeze (good to see them back together again with J.B. back on bass)I have been a Paul Weller fan for a long, long time now and I am into the Jam, some of the Style Council work and his solo stuff.70/80's mod revivalists Secret Affair and The Lambrettas.I also like Tamla Motown and Atlantic Soul.More recent likes include Snow Patrol, the Arctic Monkeys to name but a few.Ohh and I am also A BIG Eagles fan.

Movies:

A good music biography, a comedy or a kick ass martial arts movie

Television:

Don't watch a lot of TV and certainly none of the stupid reality shows, much prefer my music

Books:

Just finished reading some Biographies Midge Ure, Eric Sykes, Roy Chubby Brown, Ronnie Woods biography was a laugh.

Heroes:

My wife for putting up with me.

My Blog

The Eagles at the O2 Arena

We went to see the Eagles at Hampden, Glasgow when they were on the Farewell 1 Tour and said that if they came back to Britain we would go see them again. Well we got tickets for the O2 for Saturday 2...
Posted by Steve (ricplayer) on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:52:00 PST

The Searchers

We went to see the Searchers again on Sunday night, although there wasn't a brilliant turnout (the theatre must have been about 1/2 to 2/3rds full) it was the best concert I have been to. The atmosphe...
Posted by Steve (ricplayer) on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:19:00 PST

Talon the best of the Eagles

Went to see Talon last night, an Eagles tribute band and they rocked. They done 2 x 1 hour sets with a 20 minute break inbetween. If you get a chance you should try to see them, as musicians they were...
Posted by Steve (ricplayer) on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:25:00 PST

Photos and slide show

I've added some gear photos to my page and also added a slide show, thanks to Dark13 for giving me the push to get my act together. They are older photos but I will get some newer ones soon.
Posted by Steve (ricplayer) on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:11:00 PST