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Profile GeneratorI've been playing the bass since 1992 and freely admit that I am not as good as I should! I first picked up the bass after I heard largely 'Another One Bites The Dust' but all of Greatest Hits II. Before I got GHII as a Christmas present, with my first CD player, I can’t remember ever hearing the low end. Something that I have made up for ever since!My first band (which came right at the beginning of my playing career) was with 2 mates from Senior School called Dean Fearon (Guitars & Vocals) and Francis Glover (Drums). I met them in Miss Tann’s music room in our Upper School during my very few and certainly not repeated, bass lessons; they came up to me and asked if I wanted to join their band. I have seen Dean a few times but I last heard that Francis was in the Birmingham area. This band, which never really had a name but did have its fair share of singers ended abruptly in the summer of 1995, when we all finished our GCSE’s moved on.Between then and 1997 I honed my craft and picked up more from Mr Deacon aswell as being introduced to James Jamerson, Bernard Edwards and Jaco Pastorius aswell as the numerous, often unbilled, jazz/blues bassists of the 1930s-1950s. I even had a very small stint in a band with my cousin, Mike and one of his mates. Then in 1997, I met a great girl, Lin, at university whose boyfriend, Mark Cooper, was in a band called Cottonmouth. I caught one of their gigs then in Prenton on the Wirral and remember thinking that the bassist sounded very much like Stuart Zender, ex of Jamiroquai. When the bassist left I was asked to go along and try out. We had changed names (Engine and Flagsmasher!) and style along the way, gigged all over the country and released an album in 1999 called ‘If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now’. Sadly, all good things must come to an end and by early 2004, ‘The Flag’ had folded for various reasons including the demise of the Metal scene in the UK.Several months later Robo came us and said that he worked with a lad called Gary Turnock who was in an acoustic song writing duo with Barry Waring and did we fancy. We jumped at the chance to get together. This meeting brings us right up to date as these two clusters merged to form Daywalker. Since, the rest of my musically career has been tied with Daywalker. The rest, they say, in history.Sadly, around Christmas 2006, Gary and Mark decided to leave. Since then Rob Morris has joined as rhythm guitarist and Caz Moss on drums and percussion. In September 2007, we finally released our debut album, 'Against the Natural Order'.
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