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Bull Halsey

Dress Sharp. Play the Blues.

About Me


"One listen to Bull Halsey throws the rock-n-roll mind into reverse, to a time when young British kids like The Yardbirds, The Animals, and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers were teaching other Brits (and Americans) how much the Delta blues had an impact on rock music. This isn't today's disposable garage-rock re-hash, this is a textbook from Music Appreciation, and class is in session."

- Matt Mertha, The Red Butlers

"...next song up is another hold over request from last week, called the Guv'ness.A man calls after the song ends. He wants me to play it again. I say will do. He says now. I say next week. He huffs and asks, "would you call it Rockabilly, Blues, or Rockabilly-Blues?"And as I wondered what button to push next he said, "It's just real music and that's why you should play it now."

- Excerpt from Vern Smith's Motown Hoedown - CJAM 91.5 FM

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Member Since: 5/5/2005
Band Website: bullhalsey.com
Band Members:
WALLY SCHMID - guitars / harmonica / vocals / handsome devil

GARTH GIRARD - vocals / bass guitar / upright bass / pointed silences

DAVID OESTERLE - drums / wrench turner / low brow beer connoisseur

Influences: Howlin' Wolf, Louis Jordan, Miles Davis quintet (first and second), Muddy Waters, Booker T. and the MGs, Paul Riddick and the Sidemen, The Red Devils, The Black Keys, The Mississippi Sheiks, Thelonious Monk, Cannonball Adderly, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, The Rolling Stones, Chris Knight, Bill Evans, Jimmy Cobb, Chet Baker, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Elmore James, Steve Earle, The Who, Jimmy Witherspoon, Jimmy Reed, Sonny Boy Williamson, Ray Charles, Willie Dixon, Wes Montgomery, Charlie Christian, The Incredible Jimmy Smith, The MC5, Kenny Burrell, Little Walter, The Pete Siers Trio, Dwight Yoakum, Grant Green, Django Reinhart, The Yardbirds, The Beatles, Max Roach, Johnny Cash, the Del McCoury band, Junior Kimbrough, R.L. Burnside, Led Zeppelin, Elvis Presley, Elvis Costello, Flats and Scruggs, Hank Williams Sr., Hollywood Fats, Fats Waller, Cream, John Lee Hooker, Count Basie and Chester Aurthur Burnett.
Sounds Like:
A battle to the death between Howlin' Wolf, Bill Monroe and the MC5.

Record Label: Deluxe Records
Type of Label: Indie

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And so it began...

Bull Halsey, was formed in 2001 when Wally and Dave decided to start a blues band while camped out next to the bar at Garth's wedding reception. They had already been in more than one garage-rock band...
Posted by Bull Halsey on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:35:00 PST