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Marti Bowley - Double Bass

I'm OK - Your OK

About Me

NS design CR5 electric upright bass
5 string fretted Lakland Joe Osborne electric bass
Zeller double bass with a Shadow pickup
EBS preamps/pedals and GK amps.

"Marti's experience is extensive, a veteran of countless gigs around the country with original artists, alongside having worked as a pro bassist in the north and north east and Wales on the club/function circuit. No stranger to the studio either with hundreds of hours clocked up in recording sessions at studios such as Rockfield, Loco and many others.

Live TV performances include Bravo, ITV and YTV, and also live performances on radio 1 and many other regional/online stations including London's resonancefm. His influences are diverse, blending funk, soul, rock and jazz"

Recently he has been gigging on the London circuit with a range of different original artist from experimental dance/techno, blues, pop, funk, heavy rock and folk.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/14/2005
Band Website: freewebs.com/subaudio
Band Members: Email me at [email protected]
Influences: Jaco Pastorius, James Jamerson, Tony Levin, Bootsy Collins, Doug Wuimbish, Mike Visceglia, Dave Mathews Band, James Brown, Peter Gabriel, Sting, Don Henley, Charlie Parker, Hall and Oates (T bone rules), Guy Pratt, It Bites, The Zawinul Syndicate, Pink Floyd, Suzanne Vega, Kate Bush, Joni Mitchel, Damian Rice, Miles Davis, Weather Report, David Gilmore, The Police, John Mayer, Bare Naked ladies, Def Leppard, Counting Crows, Incubus, Led Zepplin, all good music.
Sounds Like: A bit of a mixture of all of the above.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Blury

Wow, so much has been going on lately it's all a bit of a blur, we have been recording some demo's and spent a very full day in the studio, it was quite intense in a very creative way and I felt ...
Posted by Marti Bowley - Double Bass on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:48:00 PST

Im an undergraduate student !

Hey all, I have just signed up for an undergraduate course in arts and humanities and started on the road to finally obtaining a degree. I am not completley convinced  which direction I...
Posted by Marti Bowley - Double Bass on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:33:00 PST

Im OK - Your OK

Read it and change your life for the better for ever, it will cast a ray of light onto your past and past mistakes,and show you how to take control of your own future, like mentall...
Posted by Marti Bowley - Double Bass on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:56:00 PST

Learning to dive

Learning to dive   Over the last few weeks I  have been teaching my youngest daughter to dive, we usually begin our Saturday's together at the pool, and over the last few weeks I have been p...
Posted by Marti Bowley - Double Bass on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:19:00 PST

Dynamic flow Yoga

Last night I attended my first ever Yoga class, it is something I wanted to try for a long time but didn't, I was quite nervous and didnt know what to expect, I was told to just wear comfortable ...
Posted by Marti Bowley - Double Bass on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:32:00 PST

World environment day

We were lucky enough to be invited to play at city hall yesterday  for world environment day, and Marmaduke gave a short speach about the Powerdown events he puts together, in keeping with the e...
Posted by Marti Bowley - Double Bass on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:04:00 PST

suited and booted

  I love bank Holiday weekends, I love only having to work for four days, having three days off, and as I have mentioned before I really feel a difference in the way people behave towards each ...
Posted by Marti Bowley - Double Bass on Tue, 27 May 2008 06:12:00 PST

Reinventing the wheel

This weekend began bright and early and with much anticipation, after much searching and a quite resignation to the fact that I would need to wait for a delivery from the US, I took a chance, woke ea...
Posted by Marti Bowley - Double Bass on Mon, 19 May 2008 03:00:00 PST

Solid

Sometimes it's good to put my foot in it, it is a humbling experience and is life's way of letting me know I'm going off track, and getting up myself a bit too much.   The other evening, and aft...
Posted by Marti Bowley - Double Bass on Tue, 13 May 2008 04:10:00 PST

Magazines

A funny thing happened today, my office is very small and has no windows, and so, able to bare hammering at my computer keyboard no longer I decided to take a break and  emerged squinting and bli...
Posted by Marti Bowley - Double Bass on Thu, 08 May 2008 06:53:00 PST