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About Me

Ian Vatet has been a shameless guitar nut since his first S&H Green Stamps guitar in 1970 or so. Grew up in a little town outside of Syracuse, NY, lived in Ann Arbor, MI for eight years or so, and has hunkered down in sunny SOCAL for most of the years since the late 1980's. The Ann Arbor years saw countless gigs with The Urbations, Radio King, Private Sector, Space Heaters, and various other splinter projects as well as studio projects with Lindsay Tomasic and others. A fairly demanding day job has slowed the performing down in recent years, but the occasional gig with Gumbo Ya Ya, Bad Dog, Chet Cannon and the Committee, Tommy Budd and Windy City, and others have kept the cobwebs blown out of the amplifiers, and some delightful and stimulating time in the studio with John Helsley has kept the cobwebs out of my mind. The tracks heard here are all bedroom demos with long time partner in crime Gerry Reba... stay tuned for a genuine studio effort in 2008.

My Interests

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Member Since: 1/23/2007
Band Members: Ian Vatet - Electric guitar, slide guitar, 6 & 12 string acoustic guitar, dobro, lap steel, non-pedal steel, electric bass. Gerry Reba - Drums
Influences: (In no particular order): Danny Gatton, B.B. King, Albert King, George Benson, Larry Carlton, Walter Becker, Eric Johnson, Albert Collins, John Levanthal, Daniel Lanois, Robben Ford, Ry Cooder, Jeff Beck, Duane Allman, Jerry Donahue, John Scofield, Pat Metheny, Kenny Burrell, Grant Green, Bruce Conte, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Sonny Landreth, Ronnie Earl, Pat Martino, Albert Lee, Toy Caldwell, Ralph Towner, Michael Hedges, Steve Morse, Jimmy Nalls, John Mclaughlin, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimmy Nolan, Wes Montgomery, Lee Ritenour, David Lindley, Pierre Bensusan, Jerry Douglas, Roy Buchanon, Shawn Lane, Robert Cray, T Bone Walker, Gatemouth Brown, Jim Campilongo, Leo Nocentelli, Chuck Berry, Lenny Breau, Tony Rice, Derek Trucks, Scott Henderson, David Wilcox, David Gilmore, Billy Gibbons, Charlie Hunter, Bonnie Raitt, Jerry Reed, Kazumi Watanabe, Jimi Hendrix, Jan Akkerman, Amos Garrett, Allan Holdsworth, Greg Leisz, Joni Mitchell, Roy Nichols, Christopher Parkening, Joe Satriani, Richard Thompson, John Hall, Hamish Stuart, Onnie McIntyre, Don Rich, Sonny Lane, John Helsley, Shaun Cooper, Gordon Moore, Dave Randall. Bass: Ray "MOG" Davis, Chuck Rainey, Jaco Pastorious, Franco Rocco Prestia, Jimmy Haslip, George Porter, Alan Gorrie, Stanley Clark, Robert "Pops" Popwell. Music in general: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Pablo Casales, Wayne Shorter, Terrance Blanchard, Dr. John, Chaka Khan, Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder, Sly Stone, Maceo Parker, Louis Jordan, Red Prysock, Jr. Walker, Hadley Calleman
Sounds Like: Larry Carlton would if he had been raised by hillbillies and then kidnapped to be a busboy on James Brown's tour bus
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None