1966 Fender Stratocaster Foam Green (s/n 186111) I bought this guitar in Perth, Western Australia in the mid 80s from someone who had just brought it into Australia from the USA. Not sure of the correct colour name, it was already re painted this colour when I got it. The…
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All the gigs from 2015 Date Artist City Venue 29/12/15 Mental As Anything Macksville, NSW Macksville Ex Services More information 28/12/15 Mental As Anything Evans Head, NSW Evans Head RSL More information 27/12/15 Mental As Anything South West Rocks, NSW South West Rocks Country Club More information 26/12/15 Mental As…
O Come All Ye Faithful Melody guitar: 1961 (white) Fender Stratocaster, Echolette, 1963 Fender Reverb Tank, 1962 Vox AC30. Microphones Neumann U-87 & Sennheiser 421. Overdrive Guitar: 1961 Fender Stratocaster, 1964 Vox AC30 – U-87. Vibrato guitar: 1964 Denelectro Baritone guitar, 1963 Fender Reverb Tank, 1959 Fender Vibrolux Amp. U-87…
My Wednesday evening started off with a Mental As Anything gig at Customs House, Circular Quay in Sydney. We had a great view from the stage and the audience just had the band to look at. It was a private party and before we started the organiser comes up to…
This weekend the Mentals had a break, so I had a gig with my band at Lazybones Lounge in Marrickville. We were supported by the Mighty Surftones. They have a residency at Lazybones on the 3rd Sunday of each month – go and check them out. I had Lloyd Gyi…
The latest album, Electric Christmas is now available for pre-sale through the site here with free shipping worldwide. Tabs for Oh Come All Ye Faithful and Jingle Bells have been added to the guitar tabs page. The video for Oh Come All Ye Faithful has been added to the newly created Electric…
Electric Christmas I’ve been very busy travelling with Mental As Anything this year, but in between I’ve been working on my new album – Electric Christmas – an instrumental Christmas album. It’s all done and will be released into shops and on iTunes on the 9th of October. Pre sale copies are available…
This weekend I had a couple of gigs with the Mentals in Queensland at Charters Towers, outside Townsville, and Noosa at the Sunshine Beach Surf Club. The Charters Towers gig was a festival called Towers Rocks. Also on the bill were Daryl Braithwaite, Rusell Morris, The Radiators, Kevin Borich & Wendy…
Had a great weekend at the Gympie Music Muster. Gympie is located approx. 160 kms north of Brisbane in Queensland. I played 2 gigs with Mental As Anything and also played a few ‘surf’ tunes at the Fender Jam early Saturday evening. There was lots of music to be had…
1966 Fender Super Reverb Amp – Blackface (Serial No. 18938) I bought this amp in Perth, Western Australia in the 80s and have had an on / off relationship with it. I’ve had much more success with it in the studio than at live gigs. It has been used on…
1970 Gibson J-160e, Sunburst (Serial No. 631022) The J-160e model is famously associated with The Beatles although this is a later model than they used it still sounds similar. When I bought this I was looking for a guitar for a roving jazzy gig using a small battery amp. It…
1958 Gibson ES125 3/4 (Factory order No. U1423.8) Around 1990 I was hired by a drummer/singer/songwriter to play guitar on some of his songs. These songs were in the early rock and roll / rockabilly style. He had his own large recording studio space with natural reverb and I was…
Fender Stratocaster 1962 sunburst L series (Serial Number L23755) This is a fabulous sounding Stratocaster, all original and with 3 way pickup selector switch still in place. I played it at an Atlantics gig ‘once’. Our sound man came up to me after the gig and said “guitar sounds great…
Burns Marvin mid 60s (Serial Number NA) This guitar has an interesting story. It started out as a left handed model. Some time in the 70s in Perth, Western Australia I saw an ad in the local paper that said something like “Burns Hank Marvin model guitar, left handed, no…