Roy Brooks
These are some things I recorded with my drummer friend Keith a couple years ago. We recorded in Keith's apartment. I played a Dean Stylist Standard archtop straight into the board on all of them but "The Mummy". On "The Mummy" I am pretty sure I played a Gibson Flying V that I sold a little while back. It was also into the board with some kind of electronic gadgetry between.
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
I started playing in 1975 and have been a working musician ever since.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
I gig pretty regularly with different cats in and around Charleston, SC.
Your musical influences
Bill Frisell, Jimmy Bryant, Joe Pass, Glenn Phillips, Curt Kirkwood, Lenny Breau, Marc Ribot, Nels Cline, Chet Atkins, Hank Garland, Blind Blake, anything with lap steel or pedal steel on it, rockabilly, surf, bebop, early acoustic blues, Henry Kaiser, Sam McGee, Ry Cooder, David Lindley, Phil DeGruy, Joe Pass, Art Tatum.
What equipment do you use?
I have alot of guitars. These include a 1956 Gibson ES-175D, Heritage H575, Heritage H137, Gretsch Country Classic, Gibson Firebird V, Japanese Tokai Love Rock copy of Les Paul Junior TV, Fender 52 reissue Telecaster, Peavey T-60, Danelectro Hodad, Brownsville Thug, Harmony Rebel, Electra Vulcan MPC with overdrive and phase shifter modules, Art & Lutherie AMI parlor guitar, 1935 Supertone archtop, Kay solidbody with extender nut for slide, Alamo solidbody, Dean Stylist Standard, Takamine F307S, 1920s Stromberg-Voisinet-made Oahu Hawaiian/parlor guitar, Fender lap steel, National lap steel, Airline lap steel, old no name mandolin, Gibson Ripper bass. My amplifiers are a Tone King Meteor II, 1971 Fender Deluxe Reverb, late 60s Ampeg VT-40, Fender Vibro Champ, Fender Pro Junior, Marshall JTM30.
