Musical Biography
Well
it all started when a school friend Bob, could not find a bass player,
I was ‘drafted’. This became ‘The Tones’ with Vince on drums. We gigged
recorded a demo and imploded.
Bob went off and did ‘The Zero’s’ I was drafted (again) as Zero’s Manager/Photographer, the Zero’s story could fill another website.
I hooked up with Kev and Phil to form ‘Catch 22’ we recorded a couple of demos and stuff, I enjoyed Catch 22, then pulled the plug, thinking that’s it no more music, wrong.
Fast forward some years I find myself in ‘Rockin’ Bones’ a Northampton rockabilly band, we gigged a lot, could do a pretty good darn show, Stuart was a great front man, Glen was an awesome guitarist, and Paul just go better and better, and Steve on drums was so solid. We did one demo. It was fun.
During the later part I was helping out celtic rockers ‘Rapscallion’ too, it got chaotic. Anyways both of those bands ended.
A buddy of mine gives me an old Apple computer weeks before the software ‘Garageband’ was released. Garageband ‘blew my mind’ totally. I upgraded the hardware. Started tinkering with recording. It was pretty bad to begin with looking back.
The break through was finding other musicians via the internet, the help and encouragement I got was incredible, still is.
Over the following years real friendships and musical collaborations have followed with other artists on a global scale.
A Canadian artist 'BlackLily' helped initially, BL's in depth knowledge of recording and mixing was a goldmine of information. 'Coroprate Geek' with Cincinnatti based 'Lilichi' ended up getting national airplay on BBC Radio One. 'European Grey' found itself on 'David Best - The Milan Car' soundtrack, also 'Euro Grey' was the first zallaz track to get played on American FM Radio (KSVY 91.3) by Blaine Transue on 'Virtual Garage'. Blaine then devoted pretty much a whole show to the first collaboration with Rhonda Boos (Rhonie) the track was 'Questionaire' which went on to be Number One on the voted by listeners chart on the BBC Northampton show 'Weekender'.
'Silent Night' and 'Snowflakes' with John Kane and 'Last Days in May' with Dylan, as well as the solo 'Umbrella Song' have also had airplay on BBC Northampton as well as a session with John Harley who took over Lilichi's vocal duties for a couple of songs.
Then on iCompositions.com the solo zallaz track Going Down A One Way (The Wrong Way) made Number One.
The sheer enthusiasm that continues to this day drives me to one day write ‘that perfect song’ or die trying.
I even started gigging with just me and the guitar, crazy, but it’s fun to be back in a live situation too.
2007 Had the idea ‘what if we tried to play these online songs for real with the artists?’ A trip to California followed to hook up with the musicians involved. It worked, without a doubt the best musical experience I’d ever been lucky enough to be a part of.
2008 'Cobblers By Name (Cobblers By Nature)' debut zallaz release available.
More solo gigs (unplugged) happened in '08 and unexpectedly a 'reunion' gig with Bob from 'The Zeros', also during '08 I talked about unsigned artists on KSVY for six months which was cool.
2009 A trip to Canada resulted in a short movie being made for the Jana Foley aka MissRedd/zallaz track 'No More Blue Skies'
Next? Well as it was stated on the late Joe Strummer’s guitar ‘the future is unwritten’
Bob went off and did ‘The Zero’s’ I was drafted (again) as Zero’s Manager/Photographer, the Zero’s story could fill another website.
I hooked up with Kev and Phil to form ‘Catch 22’ we recorded a couple of demos and stuff, I enjoyed Catch 22, then pulled the plug, thinking that’s it no more music, wrong.
Fast forward some years I find myself in ‘Rockin’ Bones’ a Northampton rockabilly band, we gigged a lot, could do a pretty good darn show, Stuart was a great front man, Glen was an awesome guitarist, and Paul just go better and better, and Steve on drums was so solid. We did one demo. It was fun.
During the later part I was helping out celtic rockers ‘Rapscallion’ too, it got chaotic. Anyways both of those bands ended.
A buddy of mine gives me an old Apple computer weeks before the software ‘Garageband’ was released. Garageband ‘blew my mind’ totally. I upgraded the hardware. Started tinkering with recording. It was pretty bad to begin with looking back.
The break through was finding other musicians via the internet, the help and encouragement I got was incredible, still is.
Over the following years real friendships and musical collaborations have followed with other artists on a global scale.
A Canadian artist 'BlackLily' helped initially, BL's in depth knowledge of recording and mixing was a goldmine of information. 'Coroprate Geek' with Cincinnatti based 'Lilichi' ended up getting national airplay on BBC Radio One. 'European Grey' found itself on 'David Best - The Milan Car' soundtrack, also 'Euro Grey' was the first zallaz track to get played on American FM Radio (KSVY 91.3) by Blaine Transue on 'Virtual Garage'. Blaine then devoted pretty much a whole show to the first collaboration with Rhonda Boos (Rhonie) the track was 'Questionaire' which went on to be Number One on the voted by listeners chart on the BBC Northampton show 'Weekender'.
'Silent Night' and 'Snowflakes' with John Kane and 'Last Days in May' with Dylan, as well as the solo 'Umbrella Song' have also had airplay on BBC Northampton as well as a session with John Harley who took over Lilichi's vocal duties for a couple of songs.
Then on iCompositions.com the solo zallaz track Going Down A One Way (The Wrong Way) made Number One.
The sheer enthusiasm that continues to this day drives me to one day write ‘that perfect song’ or die trying.
I even started gigging with just me and the guitar, crazy, but it’s fun to be back in a live situation too.
2007 Had the idea ‘what if we tried to play these online songs for real with the artists?’ A trip to California followed to hook up with the musicians involved. It worked, without a doubt the best musical experience I’d ever been lucky enough to be a part of.
2008 'Cobblers By Name (Cobblers By Nature)' debut zallaz release available.
More solo gigs (unplugged) happened in '08 and unexpectedly a 'reunion' gig with Bob from 'The Zeros', also during '08 I talked about unsigned artists on KSVY for six months which was cool.
2009 A trip to Canada resulted in a short movie being made for the Jana Foley aka MissRedd/zallaz track 'No More Blue Skies'
Next? Well as it was stated on the late Joe Strummer’s guitar ‘the future is unwritten’