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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. |
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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. |
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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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