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About Me

I love music! I truthfully can say I like all types of music. One week I'll be playing double bass in a bluegrass band, the next I'll be playing jazz guitar in a trio, then playing rock originals then the orchestra! In the last 30+ years I have played the Drums, hand and drumset, Clarinet, Trombone, Guitar, electric and acoustic double Bass didjerdoo, the list goes on. Currently I play Boris, My Romanian Double Bass and Olive . my '53 gibson ES 175 guitar, predominantly. Call me if you need a groovy drummer, cause I aint really a drummer . I'm a groover , if you know what I mean. I play an old Yamaha "Ringo Starr" Kit with some nice Zildian cymbals.... I play or have played in oodles of different bands ranging from Blues, rock, punk, indie, emo, jazz, country, bluegrass, folk, experimental, improvisational, hip hop, soul, Noise, grunge, Symphony Orchestra!!!Ann Taylor, Reintarnayshun, Lynne Wilkins, Wires and Wood, Dak Jandals, Slippery noodle trio, King Vitamin, Cro magmen, The Altered 4, Nebraska Bushpullers, Carrie Clark, Kat, The Multatuli trio, Mukilteo Outrageous Jazz Orchestra (MOJO), Faith Beattie, Faith and Lott, Craig Flory, That looney English chap Bar Bowen, Pauley Ethnic, Craig Williams, Waikato Symphony Orchestra, Heff Pike and *Lott*, Julian Harris, Bill Wolfords Head, Charlie Spring, *Lott*Potato Trio, T.W. dsl (Tea double yew deezle), Richard Leschen, Martha Louise, Oxygen Ensemble, Crack Sabbath, James Whiton, BFL ensemble, Sheila Jordan, Frank E. Evans band, Peter Neumegen ....... and more, sorry if I left you out, I will update!Currently, I am playing with the Slippery Noodle Trio, Guitar , Double Bass and drums trio.. Reintarnayshun, an eclectic quartet featuring Guitar/mandolin, banjo, cello and double bass. F3 (Fickle Finger of Fate) a duo with Paul Symons.. Lily..I play regularly with a host of singer songwriters.Keep your ears peeled for the Mingus tribute! Charles Mingus is my favorite jazz composer and I've been gathering together a small jazz orchestra to perform nothing but Mingus compositions!I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

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Member Since: 4/15/2008
Band Website: geocities.com/lott_potato_trio
Band Members: Which one?
Influences: Solomon Alamo Sequoia Larson, Miles Davis, Ted Wald, hendrix, Brad Houser, Jaco, mingus, Bukowski, Henry Miller, Rumi, Lightning McQueen!, Mrs Rice, Colonel Bat Guano, Baloo The Bear!, Michelin Man, Chainsaws, BSA motorbikes, Honeybees, Fresh Herbs, Herb, Ted Wald,, A good deep kiss, Yoga, earthship mentality, organica, Chickens, A certain Cello player, double meanings, palindromes, spoonerisms, Surfing, the ocean, fresh fish, peanut butter and honey on toast, marmite and avocado on toast, toast, Any day not working for someone else, growing your own broccoli, a hard frost, freshly picked peach, Herbs out the back door, Did I mention Ted Wald, Ms Viola Johnson, Sonny Rollins, Saxophones, Boris, Silver gelatin images, Grant Redshaw, Mickey T, Joel Tudor, 18 second interval swell with light offshores, Sea mammals, Ahmad Jamal, Oh yeah, Ted Wald.....................
Sounds Like: Discography,The Lott Potato Trio "The Lott Potato Trio" Oxygen Ensemble "Live Oxygen" Faith "Faith" Nebraska Bushpullers "Nebraska Bushpullers" Bill Wolfords Head "Exposure to living" Oval League "Cheeseburgers and religion" Carrie Clark "Release the butterfly" Multatuli trio "In a circle of Chalk" Anne Taylor "Simple" Lynn Wilkins "Beads of Glass" More.........
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Recording with Julian Harris

Whew, 'Ol Julian is a very heavy pianist! Bob Clarke and I just spent yesterday afternoon and into the next morning, (3 AM!) recording jazz standards and complete improvisiations,, I...
Posted by *Lott* on Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:38:00 PST

Loopedy loop!

I've just been working with a looping device,! I always wanted to pay guitar with a Bass player that played like me! Now I can ! Keepyour eyes and ears peeled, soon you'll be able to...
Posted by *Lott* on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:15:00 PST

Typical morning

OK! I'm a dork, I checked in this mornng an somehow ended up on Courtney Loves page.. She mentions this natural perfume company that offers scents like , "Cannabis" or "se...
Posted by *Lott* on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:22:00 PST

Barred Rock Cafe!

Yes! The Barred Rock Cafe! Its my ongoing mastermind project.. I'm turning my humble abode into a backpackers ( thats Kiwi for Hostel) for travelling musicians.. Th...
Posted by *Lott* on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:25:00 PST

Palindromes..

Well its 4 in the mornin so I thought I would do something completely useless. Here is a list of palindromes ( they read the same forward as backward) off the top of my head! A man...
Posted by *Lott* on Mon, 12 May 2008 09:40:00 PST

Boris is almost done!

Well, Boris, (My double bass), broke his neck a few months back and the luthier I took him to decided that a new neck was the best remedy. could have glued it, but the instrument would have beeen de v...
Posted by *Lott* on Thu, 08 May 2008 10:18:00 PST

Soul sucked no more..

I officially just started my first day of non work in 8 months, I was employed @ a very soul sucking place and am currently taking stress leave in order to find more suitable employment, or get ...
Posted by *Lott* on Wed, 07 May 2008 03:09:00 PST

{Living} in a paradise.

Well Its certain. I do live in a paradise, I've always had a garden, typical items, tomatoes, lettuce, carrots, spinach, and even asparagus, but I've always been used to a week or so wait ...
Posted by *Lott* on Sat, 03 May 2008 02:54:00 PST

Bloody Wwoofers

Yeah, so I live here in NZ, on a 2 acre farmlet, lotsa work, being organic and all,, had wwoofers from Denmark last week, they were fabulous! Straightened out my garden real goo...
Posted by *Lott* on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:42:00 PST

Blog Virgin!

G'day, Yes my first blog post... Lessee, I'm waiting to get my bass back, It shouldn't be too much longer, must thank Bryan Christensen for the generous loan of his fabu...
Posted by *Lott* on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:48:00 PST