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Simon McAllister Southampton, UK |
Site Updated: 4 Feb 2008 |
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aka '3 Stix'
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| www.VanJammers.co.uk |
Welcome to my Home Page! |
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No MySpace, Facebook, Bebo or whatever... I just have a plain ol' simple web page about ME !! :D Thanks for your visit, if you wish to get in touch please send an email to:
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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....
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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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My School Pic's |
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| These are all the school photo's I have (apart from my own mug-shots!), which you are more than welcome to download. Over the years, some of you have contacted me for the large picture taken in 1988 of Hamble School, which I scanned into 4 sections. You can download each section. Thanks to Louis for the loan of his copy, it was 1m long! | ||||||
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Hamble
School Reunion We had a huge turn out at The Grange/MillHouse in Netley. Was great to see you there. |
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S.E.T.A.
Southampton Engineering Training Association: This is where I spent my 1st year of my Engineering apprenticeship |
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Hamble
Comprehensive School Aah, memories! What a great laugh we all had eh? |
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Glenfield
1st School So long ago, but I remember so much about this school and my classmates. I left this school because we moved from Bitterne to Bursledon... |
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Thanks for Visiting |