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Punk Pappa

8 Trak Soul..."One Bad Mickey Fickey...."!

About Me

Punk Pappa, Session Bass Player, Guitarist, Songwriter, MOBO Award Winner and Producer/Artist, His musical credits include: Beehive, Shaun Escoffery, Iain Archer, Clare Evers, Soulpersona, Goldie Harrison, RAMP, Jocelyn Brown, Oliver Cheatham and Nude Continuum (to name a handful) Plus 10 years of Gigging/Touring/Studio Sessions with some of the UK's finest Bands/Musicians & Producers.... The music on this page is a selction of grooves produced and played by Punk Pappa, if indeed you like what you hear, Bass, Guitar, Arangements/Remixes or Production, please don't hesitate to message me as I am a working musician and producer for hire. Always into collaberations for soul, funk, hip hop, broken beat, soulful house, etc etc Look forward to groovin' with you.
Nick Van Gelder- Choose Music...Album Launch..

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/1/2006
Band Website: digisoul.co.uk
Band Members: Punk Pappa: All Instruments, Main vocals, Productions & Fast Paced Whistling.1:Clare Evers: Backing Vocals & Good Vibrations...OTHER SUPERSTAR PLAYAS: 2: Herbie Foster: Keys On Lo-Fi Love Affair..3: DOING THIS 4 YEARS/LYRICAL ENLIGHTENMENT: BROTHER DRE ROCK...4.CINNAMON & DIG THE DIRT: Drums, Keys & Horn Section/Productions, James Higgins (Nude Continuum)
Influences: Larry Graham, Bootsy, James Jamerson, PRINCE, Francis Rocco Prestia, Tower Of Power, The Funk Brothers, Pino Palladino, Me'shell Ndgeocello, Will Lee, Randy Hope Taylor, MUTRON III's, Mama MOOG's, B3's, Original Clavinovi/Clavinet, Wurli's "N" all things Gurly, Family & Good Folk/AKA Friends, WaH Bass'd Intrumentation, Sonny T, Lawrence Cottle, Gamble & Huff, Quincey Jones, Leon Ware, Bernard Wright, Funkadelic, Parliament, Joni Mitchell, Strings, Love a bit of Classical, Anything beyond me, Good times, Men that can bench press 2 ton lorries, James Brown (RIP), Mizzell Brothers, RAMP, Cameo, Don Blackman, Jaco Pastorius, Spanish/Latin Vibrations (Clever Work), Small Pony's, HAy, Combine Harvesters, Hamsters, GOLD, Shoes, Anger/Love/Passion/Blatant Honesty, Shit that helps you forget the regrets, Freddie Washington, The Brothers Johnson, Marcus Miller, Earth Wind And Fire, Dwele, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, D'Angelo, Slum Village, DJ Premier, Marvin Gaye, Wah Wah Watson, The Beatles, The Police & Everything 80's (Within Reason) "LOve Come Down Is The Benchmark"..! Small Faces, Beach Boys, The Stones, Led Zep, Bob James, Anthony Jackson, Otis Redding, B.B.King, John Coltrane, Paul Jackson, Miles Davis, Betty Wright, John Martyn, Jimi, BB.King, SRV, All Blues Music! Curtis Mayfield, Stevie, Jay Dilla (RIP), Sting, Talib, Mos Def, Blackstarr, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious 5, Sugar Hill Gang, Nick Drake, Big Daddy Kane, Crosby Stills & Nash, Incognito, MJ, Lalo Schifrin, Herbie Hancock, Charles Mingus, Chaka & Rufus, Charlie Parker, Aretha Franklin, Cole Porter, MC Serch, Stanley Clarke, The Commodores, Nicolay, Level 42, Roy Ayers etc, And Or Any persons with funk/soul engraved in their genes....
Sounds Like: 8 Track Soul Whilst Riding Bare Back On A Large Mole
Record Label: None
Type of Label: None

My Blog

MY NEW BANDS TUNE "GETCHA"...! BY WONDERLUSH...

PROBABLY SAID ENOUGH IN MY PREVIOUS SCRIPTS BUT AM DIGGIN THIS HERE TUNE...MORE IN DEPTH VERBAL ON THE WONDERLUSH SITE...WHICH YOU SHOULD CHECK IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY....! SHEEESH...! :0)BIG LOV...
Posted by Punk Pappa on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:10:00 PST

NUDE CONTINUUM NEW TUNES/GOODNESS & PUNKPAPPAS CONTRIBUTION...

My wonderfully clever pals James & Lija of Nude Continuum fame to be asked me to jam a few ditties on the old Bass Gitar a while back...As musicains and artists they are superb, and as pals even bette...
Posted by Punk Pappa on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:35:00 PST

HOW IT BEGAN......Clare Evers & PunkPaPPa.....

...3 months ago.....two crazy Funk Soul luvvin' warriors decided to get together via myspace to discover if they could create a 'new sound'......After many trials and tribulations, up's and downs, the...
Posted by Punk Pappa on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:47:00 PST

BOOTSY & ME...! FUNKASHIZZLE...

Just found an Old Skool pic of Beehive (The Band I was In for years) myself and the ledgendary hero of funk Bootsy Collins...Check me out lookin chubby, No I didn't have a chubby, although I was overw...
Posted by Punk Pappa on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:56:00 PST

GREAT ARTISTS BELOW IN MY FRIENDS LISTINGS..CHECK IT!

HAVE TO SAY AFTER MANY YEARS OF SEARCHING FOR THE RIGHT PEOPLE TO TRUST AND COLLABORATE WITH, I HAVE NOW FOUND MANY, MOST OF WHICH I INTEND TO GET ON MY ALBUM IN DIFFERENT FORMS...THEY ARE ALL TRULY T...
Posted by Punk Pappa on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:02:00 PST

SOULSHINES NEW EP....

You may or may not have guessed that Soulshine is the flipside to what I do on this page...It's got Soul and moves as freely as I can get it too...Feel free to check it out as it's highly likely I'll ...
Posted by Punk Pappa on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:54:00 PST

"A PIECE OF PAPPA"?

Session Musician, Songwriter, Producer/Arrangements...Yes I'm guilty of these, it's come to a New Year yet again and I'm offering my professional services to anyone who may need them, studio, live wor...
Posted by Punk Pappa on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:05:00 PST

PLANET EARTH VOL1

Hello to all..Been a while since the Biog special fingers came out for a run on the keys..This tune like a few I'm working on are all works in progress with my ideas and melodies changing constantly. ...
Posted by Punk Pappa on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:25:00 PST