heard of this fella because I play upright bass and a bassist on a board I frequent mentioned being in awe of getting to play with some great musicians.
enjoyed this vid and I'm always happy to see an upright backing up a blues band rather than a slab player.
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When is this guy going to come out with a CD. He really is a UK version of Kim Wilson. Great swing, phrasing etc. The fact he works on harps even make him more credible.
@1847 "i think their is a west weston harp amp made by holland"
I think you may be confusing it with the "Westside Andy Lindeman 4x10" that Holland used to make?
West has done *a* gig with a Holland many years ago, a modded Gibb Droll owned at the time by Pete G Welland.
West's usual amp is his early 90's RI bassman, rewired with an eyelet board to the 59/RI circuit, plus bias pot (done for reliability reasons, rather than pursuit of tonal Nirvana).
He also owns a SF Bassman 50 head that was set up by ear testing certain components...it has more in common with a late brown bandmaster these days, he has just put together a 2x12" cab that sounds great with it.
Touring with Mud this year, he also used a Twin Reverb. As with any regular gigging player, who's work takes him overseas, he has to use a wide range of amps, always pulling a great sound out of all of them.
"the harp has a pure tone classic jt 30 Crystal element" He stopped using crystals for stage work a long time ago, normally using CM & CRs these days...but he has an extensive mic collection, probably has most of the commonly used elements & shells.
The Jools Holland show is next Tuesday 20th and Friday 23rd, BBC2.
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Man, do I dig that first video (actually,I like all his videos.) They have the West Coast sound down better than a lot of players here on the West Coast do. ---------- myspace
I,m hearing some Lynwood on the vocals on the first video What Yall Think?To my half deaf ears,thats what I picked up on.Great player/performer and lets not forget the backbone,The Band.I know this is a harp forum but to me alot of times the Band gets disregarded somewhat,Does anyone remember Shawn Starsky and the rest of the fellas,yes Buckwheat gets mentioned but?Another topic eh?BTW I,m a Huge Jason fan.No dis whatsoever.As far as looking like William,the boy would have to put some serious meat on his bones the compare to Big Bill.
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