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Professor Funk

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Professor Funk is the guitarist wth the Atlanta Soul band, and guest guitarist with The Paul Jeffery Band - visit their myspace pages by clicking on their pictures displayed in "Professor Funk's Friend Space" for more tracks. He is also the Northern England C.C.E. Irish Mandolin champion. Has played a variety of musical styles including, Soul, Funk, R & B, Blues, Rock, Indie, Reggae, Ska, Latin, Jazz, Fusion, Punk, Psychedelic, Classical, Renaissance, Folk, World Music, Flamenco, etc, etc, etc. The Prof studied music at various colleges and universities in the North West of England.
Has gigged extensively throughout his career, and is currently enjoying new musical challenges in traditional music on the Melodeon, Irish Button Accordion, and most recently, started to learn the wonderful instrument that is the Bass Guitar. Previous projects include the playing of flute, gopichand, sitar, whistles, blues harmonica, tabla, African thumb piano, Latin percussion...
Mostly plays a Tobacco Sunburst Gibson ES-335, although much in love with his Quilted maple, custom-built, Chandler-Schecter Telecaster with its "Super-Rock" humbucking pickups, which is now featuring in his work with The Paul Jeffery Band, oh yes! On July 2nd 2008, took delivery of the fabulous Eastwood Airline Tuxedo guitar which will undoubtedly be featured in future live shows and on various session recordings - see slideshow and blog. To hear just a little of the sound the Tuxedo is capable of, listen to the track "Improv - The Thrill has Gone"
A skilled Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic-Programming, and post-Ericksonian Hypnotherapy. Founder-member of the North-West Coaching Circle Group (England), member of the British Board of NLP, the Global Organisation of NLP, and a U.K. member the American Alliance of Hypnotists. Oh, and he also has a qualification for teaching English. (^_^)
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A Slight Modification: The Kill-Switch on the Schecter
Sean Ryan jig - The Nightingale - after only one hour's pratice of learning the tune :-)

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Member Since: 3/5/2007
Band Website: www.atlantasoul.co.uk
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Eastwood Airline Tuxedo Guitar
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Atlanta Soul

Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

My work with Paul Jeffery - and US magazine review of the artist

  I'm privileged to have been asked by English singer/songwriter Paul Jeffery to play guitar with The Paul Jeffery Band at many of his recent gigs. My first engagement (gig) with the band wa...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:47:00 GMT

New Guitar - Eastwood Airline Tuxedo

Yesterday, I took a drive to Rose Lane Music in Liverpool to try out the Airline Tuxedo guitar. I think I played less than 10 notes on it before deciding to buy. :-) The guys at the store have ordered...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:27:00 GMT

Funk, more basses, and the Q-Tron Funk Machine

The story continues... Yesterday, I bought a new bass guitar. - Yamaha BB 614 with active circuitry.  You can see pics of it in my photos section, and on the slideshow (when I've uploa...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:16:00 GMT

New Bass Amp!

Oh deary, deary me! ...and -oh yes, oh yes, oh yes!     Last Thursday, my new Bass amp arrived. I decided on the Ashdown MAG210T 300 combo, with 2x10" speakers, and tweater, 307 watts ...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:04:00 GMT

5-String Bass Added

Bought a used Dean 5-string bass 2 days ago. It cleaned up a treat, and I've fixed a slight problem with the electrics. It sounds pretty good. I've always loved Bass. Now practising hard, because ...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:29:00 GMT

Paulo Soprani B/C Button Accordian

Uploaded some new pics, today, including my Hohners - two Pokerwork models which look identical, but one is a D/G melodeon and the other is a B/C Irish button accordian. You have to change brains when...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:01:00 GMT

Northern Region Fleadh

The C.C.E. Northern Region Fleadh (pronounced similarly to "flar") took place in Bradford, England on Sunday, April 22nd. C.C.E. is "Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann", which roughly translates from Gaelic ...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:44:00 GMT