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Ben Franz

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About Me

I'm a Perth based bass player, playing around since 1989. Also don't mind a bit of Hawaiian or Western style lap steel guitar. I've played a lot of different types of music in my time, but almost always come back to my love of anything pre 1960. Current bands/projects include swingsters Adam Hall and the Velvet Playboys, psychadelic rockers The Electromen, experimental covers band The Killah Beez, and folksters The Waifs.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/19/2006
Band Members: Me: upright bass, electric bass, lap-steel, guitar
Influences: Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, Sol Hoopii, Joaquin Murphy, Jerry Byrd, Ry Cooder, Tom Waits, T-Bone Walker, Count Basie, Johnny Burnette and the Rock'n'Roll Trio, Joe Clay, Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West, Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian, Bob Dylan, Moon Mullican, The Stray Cats, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Los Lobos, James Brown, The JB's, The Meters, Professor Longhair, Dr John, Wynonie Harris, Tiny Bradshaw, Sly and The Family Stone, Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys, Wayne Hancock, Sun Session Elvis, Johnny Cash, Donald "Duck" Dunn, James Jamerson, Willie Dixon, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Beatles, 1950's/Atlantic era Ray Charles, Pretty much all 50's-60's Atlantic/Stax R+B, All things old and Hawaiin and steel guitar, The Cramps, Modern Jazz Quartet, Bill Frissell, Ben Weaver, Jimmy Rogers, Emmett Miller, Erin McKeown, Wilco, Barry Adamson, Donny Hathaway, Fiona Apple, Jon Brion, Francoiz Breut, Gillian Welch, Hank Williams, Merle Travis, Kelly Joe Phelps, Mr Bungle, Early Primus, Steve Earl, Buddy Miller, Low, Celebration
Type of Label: None