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The
Winter 2003 edition included:
SANTANA
- Every time Carlos Santana
comes to Sydney, he makes it a habit
to go to the zoo. He goes in search of
the black panther. He is inspired by
how, unlike the other animals, the beast
never lies down or feels defeated. He
never seems bored. Says Santana, every
time he looks at the panther's eyes,
he sees jazz legend Miles Davis. It also
reminds him never to get bored.
FRENZAL
RHOMB - Fancy having
your pants pulled down on stage, being
head butted or knocked over by your vocalist
and being gaffer taped to your mattress
by your drummer after you've been drinking
until 5am? It's all in a day's work for
new boy Tom Crease, bass player from
Frenzal Rhomb.
JOHN
BUTLER TRIO
-"Yeah
I've got about three albums worth of
material already written for the next
album!" exclaims the softly spoken
Butler. "And it's going in a direction
towards more of a groove and roots based
record. I'm really into the roots music
and country stuff at the moment so I
want it to be more stripped back. And
I want to try to infuse those two styles
together as well as separately, concentrating
more on the 'upbeat' of each particular
style to give it more of that 'skank'
feel".
THE
DATSUNS -
After a much-scrawled-about slot on the
annual music biz convention South By
South West in the US, New Zealand outfit,
The Datsuns, hit the UK. And then things
snowballed. Topping off a remarkable
12 months for the band, they scooped
the pool at this year's New Zealand Music
awards taking home four gongs: Album
of the Year, Export Gold Best Group,
Outstanding International Achievement
and Breakthrough Artist of the Year.
Gear road tested in the current
edition includes:
-
Cort M Series M800 Guitar
-
Radial Tonebone "Classic" &
"Hot British" Guitar Pedals
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MusicMan S.U.B.Bass Guitar
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Hughes & Kettner, Edition Blue Amp
-
Jose Ortega JCE Rafael Classic Guitar
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Electro-Harmonix
Small Clone 4600 Chorus Full-Chorus Pedal
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Mastertone vHO & Spa Pickups
