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Joe Schmidt |
Alan Pettit |
Chris Garland |
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Born |
Leicester
1963 |
Weston-Super-Mare,
1950 |
London
1954 |
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Day
Job |
Computing/ Project Management |
Computing / Software Development |
Computing/statistics |
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Instruments |
Fender
Stratocaster, Fender Mandolin, Irish Tenor banjo |
Guitar
(Harmonica and Mandolin a bit |
Bass Guitar, Piano, Cello |
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First
Gig Played |
Leicester (at a friends 16th birthday party), circa 1979....a
glorious disaster. |
Weybridge
Youth Club as a 16-year-old |
Contern,
Jan 2004 |
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Previous
Bands/ Projects |
The R&G Band, The Weedkillers, Turn the Hare, The Zeda Band,
The Whiskey Chasers, Bad Penny. |
Various
local bands as a teenager |
Voices
International |
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Musical
Influences |
Rock, Punk, Irish Folk, Stage Musicals |
Beatles,
60's and 70's Rock, Blues |
Bach,
trad jazz, pre-1980s rock |
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Favourite
Artists |
The Who, Diesel Park West, Men They Couldn't Hang, Levellers, Saw
Doctors, U2 |
Beatles,
Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Albert Lee, Chet Atkins |
James
Jamerson, Oscar Peterson, Stones, Joni Mitchell |
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Most
Memorable Gigs / Concerts |
U2, Leeds
University, 1983 The Who, Stafford, 1979 The Levellers, Leicester 1993 The
Who, London Forum, 2004 |
John
Mayall with Eric Clapton,(circa 1966), Cream, Pretenders, Jeff
Beck, Albert Lee |
The
Vibrators, Birmingham 1978 |
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Desert
Island Discs
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·
Quadrophenia
- The Who ·
Left
Hand Band - Diesel Park West ·
Les
Miserables - Complete Symphonic Recording ·
Achtung
Baby - U2 ·
Levelling
the Land - The Levellers |
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Bluesbreakers
- John Mayall ·
Beatles
for Sale ·
Crisis
What Crisis - Supertramp ·
Wish
You were Here - Pink Floyd |
· 40 Motown Classics ·
Joni Mitchell 'Court and Spark' ·
Bach 'The Art of
Fugue' ·
The Commitments ·
Rolling Stones
'Jump Back' (Greatest Hits) |
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Favourite
OT cover |
The Night Before |
Come
up and see me (Make me Smile) |
the
ones in my head probably... |
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Claim
to fame |
Attended
the same grammar school in Leicester as David and Richard
Attenborough and Jon Lord of Deep Purple (though not at the same time obviously). |
Supported
Fleetwood Mac once (when it was Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac) Played
Ron Wood's bass |
Was
at same school as Ben Elton |
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