Dr BenDix
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Hi Dr BenDix from Norway here. We are located in a small town called Fredrikstad about 100 km east of our capital-city Oslo. We started as a 3 piece power-bluesband but now we got an exellent Hammond B3 player. We have 2 cds out "Life Is A Rocky Road 2002" and "White Lies 2004". A thierd one is in my head for the moment, maybe studio in may/june. All music is recorded live in studio.
I am Kjell Bendixen and play guitar, harmonica, vocal and a handfull other instruments.
Drums: Roger Vadset
Bass: Haavard EidsaunetBand/artist history
Dr. BenDix is born (1955) high up north in Norway. His father play the guitar, harmonica and the accordion. Dr. BenDix grabbed the guitar at 7 years of age and he has played in a band since he was 14 years old. He is one of the few guitar players from Norway who has create his own stile and sound, you can simply hear it is Dr. BenDix who is playing.
He says it was not much to do up in the north, and he had an urge for playing the guitar. So the he sat in his room and listening to big names: Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Afther, Jimmy Hendrix, Jan Ackerman, Elmore James, Johnny Winter, Muddy Waters, Rory Gallager etc..
He started in a professional band at 17 of age, touring Norway, Sweden and Denmark. He knows the many styles of the idiom right down to the tones, licks, and equipment. You may hear hints of the great players he has studied, but he does not sound like anyone in particular and has nurtured a style all his own. If you have ever witnessed one of his performances, the first thing you notice is that he packs around at least tree different guitars in order to get the right sound for the song being played.
He started his own record-label in 2002 (Dr. BenDix Music Machine), and released his first CD called "Life Is A Rocky Road" in the spring of 2002. This CD is being broadcasted on air, cable and internet in USA, Europe and Australia. His new cd "White Lies" released in Autumn 2003 will also be sent to a lot of radio-stations. Dr BenDix do hope this new cd will get the same enthusiastic radio sessions as "Life Is A Rocky Road" did.
- Man, keep on rockin, if you give it up youll lose.Have you performed in front of an audience?Yea we love to perform live. We are bounded to our location becouse we also have our daylie job. But we have some plans to take a tour to Australia some day, my friend at Perth bluesclub want us down there :-)
Your musical influences
My music comes from my inside, all my life playing a lot of styles have an influence on my songwriting. I like to do rootsblues, rocky blues, poprock, soul etc.What equipment do you use?
I am using a Gibson Les Paul 3m on my slidetunes, my regulary guitar a Schecter Stratocaster and a twelve-string electric Yamaha guitar for some slide :-)
Amps. Mashall 50 bass 1972 mod and a Mesa Boogie B II Simuleclass 80/100 w.Hi to all..
I hope you will join my music, and I hope that you will take your time writing some words here :-)
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Just checked out your song , and I like it a lot! Nice!