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are: Sid Griffin vocals, guitar, mellotron, harmonica & mandolin, Pat McGarvey bass, vocals, viola & banjo, Neil Robert Herd guitars, pedal steel, six string bass & vocals, and Dave Morgan drums, programming, post-production & percussion. |
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| Western Electric - Five Way Street: A Tribute To The Buffalo Springfield | |
| The newest music from Western Electric is found on Five Way Street: A Tribute To The Buffalo Springfield on Not Lame Records (USA). Western Electric turn in a startling version of the ultra-rare Buffalo Springfield track 'So You've Got A Lover'". Further info: http://www.notlame.com/buffalospringfield.htm | |
| Western Electric - When You Find Out | |
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“I have known Peter Case over
a quarter of a century and he is in my top five all-time fave musicians
along with McGuinn, Aretha, Sir Doug and Magic Sam. The fact the greater
world doesn't know about him only proves to me that the flaming media
hoops you gotta jump through to become rich and famous are not the kind
of challenges a noble, talented, dignified artiste such as Hamburg,
New York's finest son seeks, knowing full well (as Peter does) that
the greatest achievement is in the creation and the love of creating
and not, not ever, in the selling or the marketing or the merchandising."
-Sid Dave Morgan, M.B.E.-drums, sampling, mixing; Pat McGarvey-bass, classical guitar, arrangement, lead vocals; Neil Robert-pedal steel guitar, guitar, vocals; Sid Griffin-Rickenbacker 12-string guitar, guitar, vocals; produced by Pat McGarvey & Dave Morgan; recorded by Esther Mae Griffin in London, England |
| Western Electric hope to have their second album out by the summer 2008. Low key sessions have yielded seven songs so far, or as Sid says, "six good songs...Esther Mae's Butterfly Hearts is the best one". Two new Western Electric songs have appeared on compilations in 2006. One compilation is a tribute to Sid's dear friend Peter Case (see above) and the other is the Buffalo Springfield tribute CD Five Way Street (Not Lame Records, USA). | |
| Pedal steel guitarist and ex-standup comedian Neil Robert Herd is part of the team which won the Academy Award for Short Film in April 2005 for the film Wasp. This success has slowed Neil editing both concert and behind the scenes footage of the month long Western Electric tour of the USA and hopes to have something to present the public with in 2007. Herd, seen below on far right in typically bemused countenance, was also the Long Ryders tour manager on their summer 2004 State Of Our Reunion Tour. | |
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