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Simon McAllister aka '3 Stix'
Drummer |
UNDER CONSTRUCTION (Kind of...) Site Updated: 4 Feb 2008 Southampton, UK |
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My Musical Path... |
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Some of you that know me may remember that I spent a lot of time messin' around with music on my various computers. Thankfully, those days are over (!) but it was something I just had to do :D as it led to many things I have been lucky enough to enjoy....
Here's how I started out: |
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| 1972 | Er.. I was born! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1978 | I stuck a cushion inside a Quality Street tin and started to hit it with Mechano to music! Yeah, I know... but I was only 6 years old! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1985 | I bought a SpecDrum add-on for my ZX Spectrum 48k lol | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1988 | My Yamaha DD10 drum machine (8 small finger pads and 2 foot pedals) helped me learn some co-ordination. By this time, I've played drums a few times on the school kit after hours lol | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1989 | Commodore Amiga 500 which I later used to mix samples using OctaMed in the early 90's | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1995 | At long last, the PC's music capability starts to become useful, so I invest in one and continue my sampling hobby using FastTracker. 1996 I've moved to London, Docklands... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2000 | Back in old blighty in 1997 and a Dad by 2000! My Son, Lucas pop's out! Nothing to do with music but I had to mention it, of course :D | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2001 | I move from FastTracker to a range of mixing products named eJay | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2004 | I join mates calling themselves The Van Jammers where I help out with their jammin' sessions using a Boss DR-3 drum machine.... At last my fingers can tap away to people who don't actually mind (over the years I found it's not that popular in the office :D) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006 | I bought a Yamaha TD-3KW electronic drum kit with an ambition to fulfil my obvious passion for drums. At the age of 34 (gulp!) I took it seriously and practiced like mad to catch up! I started a website for The Van Jammers to expose some of their music | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | I purchased an acoustic drum kit and The Van Jammers start gigging! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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That's it !! Thanks for Visiting :D |