Abe Laboriel, Brian Ray, Paul McCartney, Rusty Anderson, Paul 'Wix' Wickens

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Abe Laboboriel, Jr
Resume: Grew up in Los Angeles, jamming with father and listening to the White Album. Graduated from Berkley College of Music in 1993 and went on tour with Steve Vai, Seal, KD Lang and Sting. He recorded with Hanson, Fishbone, Scritti Politti, Chris Isaac and with Paul McCartney on " Driving Rain".

 

Instruments: Drum Workshop drumset consisting of a 26" bass drum, 12", 14", 16" toms and black-coated snare drum plus Paiste and Signature cymbals. My drumheads are made by Remo and My sticks by Vic Firth.

 

Brian Ray
Resume: Inspired by The Beatles, started playing guitar at age of nine. Right out of high school he replaced another guitarist at an Etta James rehearsal, played another show with her the next night and stayed with her for the next 14 years. Wrote "One Heartbeat" which was a hit for Smokey Robinson in 1987, played, produced and wrote with Rita Coolidge and in 1998 became musical director for Adam Cohen, with whom he continue to write. Most recently have been touring in France with Johnny Hallyday and Mylene Farmer.

 

Instruments: various Gibson Les Pauls old and new, a Gretsch Double Anniversary, a Duesenberg and a '63 Gibson Dove acoustic. Also playing a '70s Guild M-85 bass and a Fender Precision bass and using Electroplex amps, Line Six gear abd assorted effects.

 

Paul 'Wix' Wickens
Resume: Classically trained from the age of six, Wix developed a love of pop and blues which led to a flourishing career in sessions. He has been professionally associated with everyone from Celine Dion to Bob Dylan and has played on over sixty Top Forty records, including six number ones, while producing such hits as Tasmin Archer's UK No. 1 "Sleeping Satellite". He has worked with Paul McCartney since 1989 on two world tours and five albums. His company also produces music for TV, films and commercials.

 

Instruments: Kurzweil PC2X controller keyboard, Yamaha Motif 7 Keyboard, Studio logic SL-MP113 MIDI pedal board, Opcode Studio 5 MIDI interface, Roland JV-1080 synth module, Akai S5000 sampler, Yamaha VL70m Physical Modeling Synthesizer, Novation Nova Synthesizer, E-mu Customer Proteus synth module, Yamaha 01V digital mixer, Macintosh PowerBook G4 Titanium laptop for programming system and softsynths, customer Hohner Student V accordion, customer Allodi Accordion, Alvarez acoustic guitar.

 

 
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