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DAVE PLOTEL: After a childhood spent listening and learning to appreciate many different kinds of music, especially Jazz, Dave's career as a guitarist began in his mid teens backing American Soul Artists (Ben E King, Arthur Conley, Percy Sledge, The Platters, Jimmy Helms etc.) on tour in the UK and Europe - he schlepped up and down motorways in the time-honoured fashion. Guitar player with the real thing for three years, He was with them when their first No 1 hit broke (You To Me Are Everything) left to pursue a solo situation.In his time he has has been involved with Gospel music scene. Involved in a lot of session work both live and in the studio - including a song with Stevie Wonder on Charlenes single Used to Be.Running Salvadors Jazz Club in Notting Hill, London, Dave booked some of the UKs top players, including Alan Barnes, Dick Pierce, Jim Mullen, Kathy Stobart, NYJO, and old acquaintance John Ethridge...After a spell of writing and recording and a brief flirtation with the pop chart, with pietro dinzee .The 90s found him playing Jazz Duos, and spending time in Miami Florida.Back in England he played on Josie James album Candles , produced by Nigel Martinez, and backed her at her UK appearance at the Jazz Cafe. At the same time he was beginning to write and record ambient music, which has been very successful and is sold all over the world.In the noughties he has been found playing in Paris France (the famous Duc de Lombard club) and around London while developing the ideas which became the Red Hat album.A eureka moment suddenly came with writing his own compositions, with such eclectic influences he managed to fuse it all together,and continues prolifically, RED HAT being the first installment
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Member Since: 5/6/2006
Band Website: redhatband.com
Band Members: dave plotel guitars, vocals and all instrumentation, mike parlett on sax and wind synth, rick laughlin keyboards, shiobain corsie backing vocals, sid gauld trumpet.: I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)
Influences:My influences are so eclectic. Safe to say the majority of the time I listen to the CD collection and will play what my mood predicts. At the moment a lot of Pat Metheny, then tomorrow it will be the Isley Brothers, Donald Fagen/steelydan , Wes Montgomery, the Brecker Bros. brandenberg concertos, Abinonis oboe concerto in C, J horovitz, Alan Holdsworth. Frank Zappa,Hank Garland. Stevie Wonder, Larry Carlton, George Benson, Lee Rittenour, Johnny Smith, Keith Jarret ,Jimmy Smith, Joe Pass, Luther Vandross, Shalamar, Beach Boys, Lyle Mays, Jim Bruno , Django Rienhardt, Toots Theilimans, Pat Martino, Swingle Singers, The Four Freshman, Tower of Power, Jimi Hendrix, Eric gales, Albert king, BB king ,Harold Pinter, Mervyn Peake, The Famous Five, Rupert the Bear, Rider Haggard, Patrica Cornwell, the Goons, Steve Vie, Paul Jackson jnr Eric Gale, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, Monty Pythons flying circus, norman wisdom, arthur haynes, max wall, billy dainty, charlie drake, tony hancock stanley unwin. mozart, wagner, faure, Finzi, leonard bernstein, john williams, chick corea, bill evans.

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Record Label: rosie boggin records
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Just finished this Cd , its taken nearly two years, give or take a week.it has been a hard process, purely because of its diversity!, crossing genres, it does your head in.Anyway Check out , SEAN FRE...
Posted by dave plotel on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:10:00 PST

Dave Plotel Marina Beach

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls9Ouhp5L0o ...
Posted by dave plotel on Sun, 25 May 2008 11:34:00 PST

sour grapish but a bit pertinent

daves thought for today,Frank Zappa: "All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff...Basically what people want to hear is: I love you, you love me, the leaves turn brown,...
Posted by dave plotel on Fri, 16 May 2008 09:51:00 PST

Artist Review: Pat Metheny -"Innovator"

I happened upon Pat Metheny rather late, becoming aware of his musicality ten years ago. The introduction to his platform was the album 'we live here' played to me by a friend in a studio, after I had...
Posted by dave plotel on Tue, 23 May 2006 07:16:00 PST

On Donald Fagen and Morph the Cat

Isn't it a strange thing. It's a mystery, how one listens to an artist/band that one is quite familiar with from previous endeavours, and never really quite sure if your gonna dig it again with the se...
Posted by dave plotel on Tue, 23 May 2006 07:12:00 PST