Member Since: 4/26/2006
Band Members: I’ve uploaded some new tunes by my great funk band "The Big Smoke Family":
"The Movie": Dom Pipkin (Keys), Alex Marance (Bass and Percussion), Myself on Drums and Percussion. "Clap": Dom (Keys), Alex (Bass), Myself on Drums and percussion. The band on Vocals and claps!!. The French Place sessions are recording sessions I do at my studio in Shoreditch. "Smuggled Kisses": Bruno d’Ambra (Piano), Alex Maranca (Bass guitar). "Duke’s Mood": Miles Danso (double Bass), Bruno d’Ambra (Piano).
Live @ The Albany was a show I played with my band Fetish back in 2004: "Pure" Dom Forest (Guitar, BV), Michelle Breeze (vocals), Dino Shopos (Keys), Omer Marantz (Bass).
Influences: Here we go... Jack Dejohnette, Elvin Jones, Roy Haynes, Carter Beauford and Dave Matthews, James Brown (of course!) The Meters, Mark Knopfler, BB king, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Hearbie Hancock, Eric Cartman, Mingus, Steve Gadd, Gilberto Gil, Ice T and Public Enemy, Coltrane, Pearl Jam, G n R, Faith No More, Monk, Art Blakey, Keith Jarret, Michel Petrucciani, Omar Hakim, Ivan Lins, Sting, Manu Katché, Animal, Pick Withers and many many more......
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