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Get Wind

About Me

G et Wind were created in May 2005 by 3 guitarists (Jason, Jim and Nick) all because of their love of the electric blues. At first it was just a studio project, but things started to get serious when first two songs, "Jungle Boogie" and "Savanna Blues" started getting rave reviews on Greek websites. And this was just the beginning...

T he bass guitar and drums for those first demo recordings where all MIDI. This wasn't right, not for a blues band anyway, so the talented Manos Kontopoulos and Sterghios Moschos were kind enough to donate their time and effort to turn the tracks into bona fide blues numbers. And so it moved on with tracks being recorded, mixes being mixed and jams being jammed until October 2006 when the site that brought the guys together Kithara.gr decided to organise a festival. Of course Get Wind had to be there...

A nd so they were. With George Kalantzopoulos substituting Nick on the guitar, the guys boogied the venue like no other. And this was just the beginning... November was just around the corner and so was their second gig. Utilising the voice of Paris Michailidis and with Yannis Madesis and George Palaitsakis taking over the bass and drums respectively, Get Wind rode again! December finds them preparing for a show back at 5/4 Club, the site of their first triumph. But as always Get Wind remain in a constant state of change. Jason, Jim and Yannis keeping the body tight, while Alex Rempelos takes over on vocals and Sterghios Moschos returns to torture those drum skins once again!


T he new year finds the band writing and recording new material... Prepare to Get Wind of something big!!!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 21/12/2006
Band Website: http://music.kithara.gr/bands/10
Band Members:

Line-up:
Jim "Clapton" Mersinias - Lead & Rhythm Guitars

Jason "Arg0" Kaldis - Guitar Synth & Rhythm Guitars, Vocals

Yannis "Isnogood" Madesis - Bass

Guest Members:
Alex Rebelos - Vocals & Guitar

Nick "Boogieman" Lymperakis - Lead & Rhythm Guitars

George "Dramiolas" Palaitsakis - Drums

Sterghios Moschos - Drums

Paris "Parlats" Michailidis - Vocals & Guitar

George Kalantzopoulos - Rhythm Guitar


Influences:

Jim:

Eric Clapton, Richie Blackmore, Pat "Guitar" Murphy

Nick:

Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Page

Jason:

Muddy Waters, Al Di Meola, Mick Box

John:

J.S. Bach, Steve Harris, D. Tsoukalas

Sterghios:

Mark Zonder, Mikey Dee, Nicko McBrain, Billy Ward
Sounds Like: The Blues Brothers jammin' with Eric Clapton, SRV, Carlos Santana, Richie Blackmore and Rory Gallagher...And that's just our instrumentals... ;)
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Synchopitation - A Swan Song?

As you may have noticed we have uploaded a new track to our Myspace page.We are not in the habbit of uploading demos, preffering to offer you the listener a full image of what we have in our minds. An...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:22:00 GMT

Next stop 1st Acoustic Festival Kithara.gr

Remember that show we mentioned before? Well it's time you learned the details... Get Wind will be appearing as special guests at Kithara.gr's 1st Acoustic Festival.The site that got us together in th...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 06:20:00 GMT

X-mas comes but once a year! Sterghios on the other hand...

It is that time of year and I don't mean Christmas... Sterghios Moschos our resident out-of-town drummer was back in Greece for the hols. This gave us the chance to work on a song you may have read ab...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 02:49:00 GMT

Just an update...

Hi, just informing y'all... We're feverently rehearsing for an upcomming show. Details about this (when, where, how much) will be posted soon... We're working on the old favourites but we'll be adding...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:30:00 GMT

Getting Wind on the airwaves!

What a weird title, I hear you saying? Well as you may or may not know one of our drummers, Sterghios, is also a very successful scientist who was recently interviewed for a show on Athens Internation...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 03:54:00 GMT

Back! With a vengeance and a new line-up!

The boys are back in town! It 's been  a hectic three months and a lot of stuff has changed... First of all we're proud of Nick "Boogieman" Lymperakis who's decided to tie the knot! We'd like t...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 03:51:00 GMT

Takin' a break

Well... It's been a hectic couple of months... We' re pretty all dried out from working or studies so we've decided to take it a little slower for now... It don't mean that Get Wind are breaking up or...
Posted by on Tue, 08 May 2007 13:46:00 GMT

Started recording again

We're recording again! Last night we started recording again. We laid down some tracks for "Driving Down to New Orleans" and we also got the chance to work on a new song which is probably the heaviest...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 09:15:00 GMT

One more for the road!

As the title implies we've got one more song! It's probably goin' to be entitled "Driving Down To New Orleans", but for now the working title is "Dio Metra Ap' Tin Tzamaika" (Greek for "Two meters/bar...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 08:30:00 GMT

New song!

We've got a new song! One of the first we've written with lyrics... Inspired by Jim's old guitar, no wonder it's working title is "My Old Guitar". It's pure blues but with a bit of Get Wind magic thro...
Posted by on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 08:47:00 GMT