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About Me

Got a guitar after hearing one played while I was ill with dysentry in Espalion, France, and started playing the blues like everyone else in the Thames Delta. And Dylan. Was given a fiddle in Belfast by Simon Lloyd (Ice House) and dragged to a traditional Irish session by Andy Dickson. Found a banjo (5 string) under a bed, and learnt to play it properly after moving to Aberdeen. Got bored with the banjo, and moved sideways into strange tunings and setups on the guitar. Went through an oud phase but hardly wet my toes in what is a very deep pool. Still haven't really come to terms with the fiddle, so it continues to fascinate. After several years doing bedroom recordings with various bits and pieces have gratefully taken to Garageband.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 09/04/2007
Band Members: Bernie Stocks (plucking, scraping and plonking)

Guitars - Japanese Lowden, Gold Tone Weissenborn Copy, Mexican Telecaster
Fiddles - Pedrazzini copy (Peter Boardman 1996), a couple of Maggini copies, a home made trapezoidal jobbie, and a frame practice fiddle (also Peter Boardman) with a Fishman pickup
Banjos - Liberty Backstep Cindy, home put-together fretless.
Ouds - a Nazih Ghadban plus two cheapos: a decorated job from Cairo, and a Pakistani one
Recording Gear - lots of lash ups in the past, but have settled on Garageband plus a couple of mikes (Shure SM58, AKG C1000).
Studio - kitchen, unused bedrooms.
Influences: In no particular order - Dianna Boullier, Andy Dickson, Dermy Diamond, Ray Stewart, Country Blues guitarists, Old Time banjo players and fiddlers, Oud players (esp. Hamza El Din), Gordon Turnbull, Doug Patience, Neil, Bobby, J,P,G and R.
Sounds Like: I dread to think.....
Record Label: Rushfield Recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Fiddle

New fiddle (Ebay) has arrived at home! A Maggini copy to go with the other Maggini copy so I can easily swap between different tunings (GDAE and AEAE) for the Old Time stuff. You need fiddles with the...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:03:00 GMT

Archive.org

I have recently, while searching for information on Phil Lesh, stumbled across Archive.org which has a virtually inexhaustible supply of digital STUFF (esp. live music, transfers of 78s and wax cylind...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:58:00 GMT

Hunting The Snark

(In search of the perfect whatever.......)Easter Tuesday. Usual haunt given over to a private party ("We are normally shut anyway", "We didn't know how to let you know"). Waited for Ciaran and Deirdre...
Posted by on Wed, 09 May 2007 01:30:00 GMT

The Oud

I first came across this instrument on the CD Barzakh by Anouar Brahem (a promo copy from a shop in Nicholson St. Edinburgh - no label) after looking for stuff with percussion, violin and some sort of...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:59:00 GMT