As the bassplayer in Shakatak i have been asked "where's your web site"? Well here it is warts an all. I hope this gives you some information regarding my basses , equipment etc.

Well... where shall we start ...I was born in 1958 and got into music from playing the trombone in the school orchestra. It quickly dawned on me that i wanted to play bass guitar, this gave me the buzz for music. I got my first bass at 16 and set about learning it, at that time i was interested in soul and funk music, and locked myself in my bedroom practising and learning all the bass lines i could .

Influences at the time were pretty diverse i would listen to Louis Johnson, Larry Graham , Wille Weeks , Chuck Rainey ,through to Chris Squire and Andy Fraser,(still one of my favourite players listen to his playing on 'Mr Big' damn funky ) i would listen to anything that grooved regardless of genre. Then one day i heard a player that sounded like no other. Jaco Pastorius truly the greatest bassist ever period ! He rewrote the book, elevating bassplayers to the fore as soloists, but he did it with such style and musicality .

It was an exciting time for bassplayers,(aah the 70's & 80's !) where once they were seen as simple background boys, they were suddenly propelled into lead hero superstars. These included players like Jaco ,Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller etc.