nickmuso
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Not so much a band, more myself and any musicians I can find to jamb with.Band/artist history
S*d this for a game of soldiers I thought, aged around 14, when I got rapped over the knuckles during piano lessons when I got my scales wrong. I packed them in and from then on I spent all my spare time hanging around the school music room and anytime anyone came in who could play guitar I'd ask them to teach me a chord.
I've been a muso ever since.
When I progressed to college I joined a traditional jazz band called The Clarence Street Washboard Wizards playing banjo, and yes, we did have a washboard player. We also, in the early years, had someone playing a phona fiddle, a one stringed fiddle with an old fashioned gramaphone horn sticking up from it. We made a weird and wonderful sound and what's more we got paid for it. Our main claim to fame was that we had been on the same billing as the Rolling Stones as a support band. Strictly speaking this was true. What we sometimes forgot to mention was that it was an open air concert in Hyde Park and the Stones were playing on the main stage whilst we were about a mile away on the periphery of the park playing on a small bandstand.
The jazz band having finally fizzled out after some great years as members qualified and moved away, I became involved with folk music and used to take my guitar down to the local pub to sing and play where there was an enthusiastic crowd who would sing along and add the harmonies. We always used to sing at the end of darts matches which went down well at most of the pubs we played in except one where they banned our whole darts team, I'm not sure whether that reflected the quality of our singing or was more to do with the fact that one of our team had puked up behind the juke box.
Later I was part of a band in which we spent about 2 years writing our own material and practicing, we finally gigged out about twice but I left the band shortly afterwards as I moved to Hampshire. There I got together with Dave from Lex Elbow and another guy to write our own material. That petered out eventually and since then I have been concentrating on acoustic guitar and have produced some finished tracks, you can hear some of them above. Dave and I are now planning to start writing together again and hopefully will have some new material soon.Have you performed in front of an audience?Not at the moment.
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