I'm a bass player/guitarist/serial abuser of assorted instruments, and have performed in a plethora of minor bands for the last 23 years or so, including "Mind The Gap", "The Backroom Blues Band", "Moonsister", "Manhattan Project", "WildGeese", "OG", "The Prodigals", "The Tattie Bogles", amongst others too fleeting to recall.
My one claim to the merest speck of 'fame' came in 1994, as a member of the Edinburgh-based prog-rock band "Citizen Cain" for the "Somewhere But Yesterday" album, where I played bass, a tiny bit of flute, and painstakingly re-created the sound of a garden wall collapsing.
On another front, I used to do regular short comedy slots on Radio Scotland back in the late 90's ("T.G.I.F." with David Sillars, "LeftField" with Dougie Vipond), but the less said about that, the better...
"Wood, Water, Stone" is my first proper attempt at solo recording, complete with bum notes and misplaced chords (for that 'authentic', 'no overdubs', trio-improvising-live feel. Either that, or simply sheer laziness).
Otherwise, most of the tracks here are by the "OG" trio, who shared responsibility for the "Electric Motion" album in 2001.
The guilty parties involved were:
Martin Lennon : Guitar Loops, Chapman Stick, and all the artwork
Louisa Kallonas: Electric Violin and Keyboards
Andy Gilmour: Fretted & Fretless Basses and Keyboards
Thanks to Mr. Lennon, there's also the track "OG go jazz" - yet another improvised, 'live' recording, but this time from a session which featured the locally-legendary Edinburgh saxophonist Bill Innes
Finally, as a nod to my past life in pub/function bands, there's a tune set from an old "Prodigals" demo. I'm on bass, Jon Bews is on fiddle, George Stott on electric guitar, 'Eccles' (Joe) on acoustic guitar, and Mike Purnell on drums. Apologies for the poor sound quality - in spite of Reuben's rescue job.
I also make sporadic efforts at landscape/panoramic photography.
Some great products/people that I wish I was paid to endorse:
Burrell Guitars : The most amazing 'twisted' guitars from West Virginia
Bassix Electric Double Basses : Carbon fibre-composite instruments
Newtone Strings : Hand-wound, custom-gauge, round-cored strings
Stringz : Expert instrument repairs, modifications, and more
p.s. Sorry, but I'm not the Andy Gilmour who plays bass for "Hundred Reasons". I did, however, once have an entry published as "Chord of the Month" in Making Music magazine (an "unpleasantly difficult" G7b5sharp9, since you didn't ask), who said I was "clearly a sadist of some description".
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