Dave Shannon's Dead Cat Bounce

About Me

Formed in early 2005, Dave Shannon's Dead Cat Bounce are on the prowl and looking to make paw prints across the globe!

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Member Since: 3/22/2006
Band Website: deadcatbounce.info
Band Members:
Stuart Dixon (guitar)
Chris Hilliard (drums)
Wolf (bass)
Dave Shannon (vocals and harmonica)
We are sometimes helped by some talented deps, including: Lee Sankey (guitar), Tsukasa Kataoka (guitar), Raul de Pedro (guitar), Adam Roman (drums), Mimi Hajime (drums) and Big Andy (bass)

Influences: Mose Allison, Frank Zappa, Jimmy Vaughan, Big Walter Horton, Charles Mingus, Joni Mitchell, Tom Waits, Kim Wilson/The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Little Walter Jacobs, Gregory Isaacs, Jerry McCain, George 'Harmonica' Smith, John Lee Williamson, Rice Miller, Sonny Terry, William Clarke, James Harman, Paul deLay, Gary Primich, Kate Bush, Scott Walker, Van Morrison, Stevie Wonder, Terry Callier, Howlin' Wolf, OV Wright, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Gil Scott-Heron, Brian Jackson, Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, James Cotton, Little Charlie and the Nightcats, The Doors, Tim Buckley, Lynne Arriale, Misty in Roots, Ernest Ranglin, Miles Davis, Bill Withers
Sounds Like: ...you wanna have a good time
Record Label: When the time is right...
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Jam #5

What a great night! To a man, Dead Cat Bounce felt honoured to have so many fantastic players come and do their thing here at The Crown Hotel. I don't quite know where to start... From Joe's storming ...
Posted by Dave Shannon's Dead Cat Bounce on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:48:00 PST

Jam #4

Jammers were a bit thin on the ground this week, so there were really only three jamming combos. However, they all had a good long play. I just have a few photos this time. You cans see those at www.d...
Posted by Dave Shannon's Dead Cat Bounce on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 06:34:00 PST

Jam #3 Crown Hotel

Announcement: The jam at The Crown Hotel is to be renamed. From now on it shall be known as The Cricklewood Harmonica Festival. In all, we had eight harp players in attendance and some very fine one...
Posted by Dave Shannon's Dead Cat Bounce on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 05:04:00 PST

Jam .1 - 1 Feb 2007

Well, it's taken me two weeks to write this, as I had to rebuild the website from scratch, owing to my hard drive dying. Despite that I am still bubbling over with the joy of starting the jam off so w...
Posted by Dave Shannon's Dead Cat Bounce on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:30:00 PST

Jam .2 - 15 Feb 2007

Had I done enough publicity, phoned enough mates, put enough posters up? Dunno. If I was worried that our second jam might lose some excitement and interest from the first one, I was wrong. So very wr...
Posted by Dave Shannon's Dead Cat Bounce on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:33:00 PST