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"It was worth every penny to have live music" - Quote from a recent event |
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Andrew
began learning the piano at a young age and then took up electric guitar
in his teens. His first band, consisting of school friends, was
called Golden Liege, and he has fond memories of playing in school
assembly and at his local community centre in Hellesdon, Norwich. In
2000, he formed Flight To Freedom with keyboard player Andrew Moore, and
played at numerous church functions and other parties around the country.
The two Andrews later formed The Connections with Colin Williams. He has an unhealthy fascination with guitar gear and has owned numerous guitars, amps and effects over the years, although they invariably end up on eBay whenever he fancies something new. His current guitars are a honeyburst USA Gibson Les Paul Classic with Bare Knuckle pickups, an amber Fender American Series Stratocaster Deluxe FMT (flame maple top) and a Japanese Fender Stratocaster, which he's owned for over 20 years. The Jap Strat has been a vehicle for serious customisation and electronic experimentation: the pickups have been replaced three times, along with virtually every other part of hardware. He uses an Orange AD30 valve head with a Marshall 1922 2x12 cabinet. He has a bunch of quality stomp boxes (Fulltone, Xotic, T-Rex, etc) and custom MIDI-controlled switching devices from Wobo Guitar Electronics. This means that he generally spends more time fiddling with knobs, dials and midi programming than he does actually playing his instrument.
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Favourite Guitarists:
Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Steve Howe, Eric Johnson, Alex
Lifeson, Steve Lukather, Steve Morse, Jimmy Page, Joe Bonamassa,
Mike Stern ... (the list goes on and is rather too long to be of
general interest).
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Colin
– I’ve known Colin for a lot of years.
He’s a great musician and a good friend. We've had loads of
fun trips to guitar shops, where we've frequently influenced each other to spend
more money than we can afford.
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Toby
– It’s great having Toby in the band.
He’s a solid performer with a wide understanding of music.
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Stuart
– Stuart and I entered the MTC together in September 1988 and then served as
missionary companions in Barrow-in-Furness.
We’ve kept in touch since our missions and it’s a pleasure to
have him in the band. He’s
a great keyboard player and a great musician.
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| Gibson USA Les Paul Classic with Bare Knuckle "the Mule" Nickel-covered Alnico Humbuckers and Schaller Straplocks | |||||||||||
| Fender American Series Deluxe Stratocaster FMT with Amber Flame Maple Top, Humbucker and two hot-wound Noiseless Samarium Cobalt Pickups, and all the usual Deluxe gizmos | |||||||||||
| Fender Japan Stratocaster (1988) with Fender "Mod Shop" Noiseless Samarium Cobalt Pickups, Mint Green Pickguard and Graphtech Saddles | |||||||||||
| Orange AD30HTC 30 watt Class A valve head with Groove Tubes and JJ valves | |||||||||||
| Peavey Classic 30 30 watt valve combo with JJ valves | |||||||||||
| Marshall 1922 2x12 Cabinet with Celestion speakers | |||||||||||
| THD Hot Plate power attenuator | |||||||||||
| Laney Wedge Monitor |
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| The GigRig MIDI 8 MIDI Footcontroller and amp/pedal switcher | |||||||||||
| Red Onion Solutions A-B Selector for switching between guitars | |||||||||||
| Vox V847 Wah with true bypass modification and upgraded components | |||||||||||
| Korg Pitch Black Pedal Tuner | |||||||||||
| Wobo Guitar Electronics MIDI Looper 4 MIDI-controlled true-bypass looper for switching effects pedals. Three of these rackmounted | |||||||||||
| Wobo Guitar Electronics MIDI Looper. Two of these rackmounted | |||||||||||
| ISP Decimator noise reduction | |||||||||||
| MXR Noise Gate |
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| Mojo Hand Huckleberry fuzz | |||||||||||
| Electro Harmonix Big Muff Pi fuzz | |||||||||||
| Fulltone Distortion Pro | |||||||||||
| T-Rex Alberta overdrive | |||||||||||
| Lovepedal Eternity overdrive | |||||||||||
| MXR Custom Shop GT-OD overdrive | |||||||||||
| Xotic AC Booster almost clean booster | |||||||||||
| Xotic EP Booster clean booster with vintage tone | |||||||||||
| Fulltone Fat-Boost2 fat booster | |||||||||||
| Xotic RC Booster really clean booster | |||||||||||
| T-Rex Tremster tremolo and vibe | |||||||||||
| Jacques Meistersinger BBD Analog Chorus |
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| Electro Harmonix Flanger Hoax flanger/phaser/modulation | |||||||||||
| Mojo Hand Nebula phaser | |||||||||||
| Ibanez AD9 Analog Delay | |||||||||||
| MXR Carbon Copy Analog Delay | |||||||||||
| Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 2 power supply x2 | |||||||||||
| GigRig Generator power supply | |||||||||||
| GigRig Humdinger for splitting the signal between two amps without ground hum | |||||||||||
| GigRig Distributors and Virtual Batteries | |||||||||||
| George L's solderless cable | |||||||||||
| Fulltone Gold Series guitar cables | |||||||||||
| Pete Cornish speaker cables |
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| Quik Lok amp stand | |||||||||||
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| Behringer EP 1500 2x700 watts power amplifier | |||||||||||
| Sennheiser microphones and stand |
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Jim Dunlop Jazz III picks red or black |
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