Member Since: 19/01/2007
Band Website: ianbramble.com
Band Members: Ian Bramble: Hammond, Piano, Synth, Guitar, Slide Guitar, Vocals.Dave Allen: Fiddle, Mandolin, Vocals.
Canadian player of international renown, having played with many big names.
Known for his love of performing, brilliant fiddle playing, and ability to add that Je Ne Sais Quoi to the moment.Rich Hoy: Guitar. Banbury guitarist of no questionable ability. Known for his sensitive guitar lines and machine gun solos.Jeremy Carroll: Bass.and Sometimes the legendary John Coghlan Status Quo founder member and drummer
www.johncoghlan.com
Influences: Always into stuff that pushes itself to the limit, driving you up that hill and just when you think you are slowing down at the top, flings you right over the other side. Crashed Ma's car once listening to FreeBird. Guitars, bend, rain and car all hit each other at the same time. Spun it, rolled it and eventually it landed the right way up, which I was glad about because I wanted to hear the end of the solo.The Rubettes could do that with a song, brilliant musicians and singers.
Lynyrd Skynyrd. Freebird with more than one peak experience in it. T for Texas foot stamping screamingly brilliant; Call Me The Breeze; beautiful Tuesday's Gone etc. If you ain't got the live One More,, get it.
Status Quo before the later more commercial stuff. Brilliant long boogie solos like Somethings Going On. Can you stay still when Down Down kicks in?
Sabbath. Listen to Sabotage, an album so heavy you can't keep it upstairs.
Ozzy too, excellent, especially the first album Blizzard of Oz.
Hawkwind were definite influences. Long riffing songs and sounds pulling and pushing until you went out in a trance an bought another album. Supertramp; required listening for a hammond player, and great songs.
The Stones, entertainment. Jumping Jack Flash, and that's just one song.
Queen, precise, brilliant.
Led Zep with Vol 4 in your top ten.
Jimi especially the abandon of Voodoo Chile.
Neil Young. Tom Petty, even Dylan.
George Thorogood's and The Destroyers is the one that gets bought the most because it keeps getting worn out. Back of a Cortina, large roll up, The Destroyers playing Delaware Slide. Top ten.
Johnny Winter because he just plays, and plays, and plays. Great slide.
Freddie King, he could move your feet and go YEAH, along with the others.
Mick Pini, my old blues brother. Some nights he would just seem to get into a mad trance, and the songs would steam along powered by the most blistering, screams of solos, and when you're playing keys with him you get right on that train and hurtle along into the night with him.
Of the newer era, it probably started with the Stone Roses. Like Thorogood, what a debut album. Nirvana...
Diesel Park West and John Butler, great songs.
Radiohead, Coldplay,,, it's almost an endless list..........
Sounds Like: Indie Blues and Rock. George Thorogood meets Stone Roses meets Neil Young and the Byrds, and all of the above.
60's tower blocks and a Ford Cortina with Mary, Mungo and Midge in the back.
Record Label: Looking for representation and label/publishing
Type of Label: Indie