ALVIN YOUNGBLOOD HART'S MUSCLE THEORY UK SUMMER TOUR 2010!!
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JAMMIN' WITH ERIC SARDINAS
(BLUESIANA - VELDEN, 14/10/08)
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W.I.N.D. LIVE AT BLUESIANA MUSIC CLUB, 11/10/08
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ALVIN YOUNGBLOOD HART'S MUSCLE THEORY
feat. Fabio Drusin, Silver Bassi & Anthony Basso
Luzern CH - Blue Balls Festival - 20/07/2008
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Fabio Drusin with Gov't Mule (Warsaw, Poland, 9th of July 2007)
Alvin Youngblood Hart's Muscle Theory live video, featuring W.I.N.D.'s Fabio Drusin and Silver Bassi, recorded at the Blue Balls Festival in Svitzerland with a small digital camera, awesome powerful version of FREE classic "The Worm"
Acustic Jam with Johnny Neel, during a Party
at Mike Cullison's house, Nashville (Tn)
(Video Memorabilia)
The Warsaw show at Stodola Club with Fabio Drusin on Harmonica is
available on MULE TRACKS!
Fabio Drusin with the Mule in Warsaw, Stodola Club, 9/07/2007
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Fabio Drusin with Tishamingo at Mare de Agosto Festival, Azores Islands, 24/08/07.
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This page wants to show the technic side of Fabio Drusin as bass player, singer and composer, it's all taken from some of his interviews and from my work with him live and in the studio, as a friend, producer, and sound engineer through the years.
Stefano Amerio
Fabio Drusin is the bassist and lead singer of the band W.I.N.D., an improv. Rock power trio with the attitude of the Jam Band and the Chemistry tipically used in jazz music, mixed together with the classic rock and blues feel.
Fabio was born in Udine, Italy and soon he discovered his passion for music, writing his first songs at age of 13. He studied several years classical piano and harmony from the age of 9 with a famous piano player at the time. His love for the Soul singers brings passion and pain on all of his songs, with the real dark personal pieces in lyrics and melody lines.
His musical view as singer, songwriter and bassist is very open to different stiles of music."When I think as bass player I can think different of when I think as songwriter or singer, but I feel very confortable singing and playing at the same time, I started in this way. bass and voice are the same thing to me, I mean, musically, the left hand and the heart are the melody and harmony, the right hand and the personality are the rhythm, the groove.
.I always think harmonically, I think melody is the strongest thing in music, melody is key to reaching the higher level of bass playing."
With dozen and dozen of songs written through the years, Fabio writes music for his band and for himself, he collaborated with a lot of different musicians,
his old fashioned big, furry, nasty vintage bass sound captured the attentionsof many American rock acts like Alvin Youngblood Hart, Tishamingo, North Mississippi Allstars, Eric Sardinas, Johnny Neel, Holmes Brothers, Mike Cullison, John Mooney, all artists he sat in with. He got the opportunity to play with his band W.I.N.D. together with USA acts like Walter Wolfman Washington and during these years they opened for B.B.King, Steppenwolf, Yardbirds, Blasters, Gregg Allman and Friends, Marc Ford, Blues Brothers, Tito and Tarantula, Uriah Heep, Animals, Ten Years After, Joe Cocker and many others.
GOVT' MULE's Warren Haynes invited him for a jam in Poland, at the Stodola club last july, where he played the harmonica on "It hurts me too" of Elmore James, and his friends TISHAMINGO choosed him as a bass player for a gig at Azores Islands, Portugal, August 2007. On May 2008 Fabio and Silver toured for two weeks UK, Ireland, Scotland, Netherlands and Germany with Memphis, Grammy award winner ALVIN YOUNGBLOOD HART, with Fabio on bass and Silver on drums. Alvin's MUSCLE THEORY (the name of his power trio rhythm section) will continue the tour with Fabio and Silver between July and September 2008, between Switzerland, Scotland and UK.
He jammed and collaborated with a lot of well known and unknown musicians and two of his future side projects will see Fabio in an acoustic duo with his new partner in music Antyhony Basso and a power trio collaboration with the famous Spanish blues guitar hero Vargas.
"I like to show all of my different taste and views in music.as composer, as singer and as bass player. I like to play different things. the beauty of music is interpreting moment by momentand I like to be a rocker, a bluesman, a songwriter, a soulman at the same time.I listen a lot of Jazz, progressive, psychedelic rock.west coast, Indian and arabic music too. So I like to be involved in different things and put my musical personality in what I do."
IT IS ALL ABOUT TONE, FEEL AND PERSONALITY:
Fabio is a real vintage freak, his love for old Gibson short scale basses comes from Cream's Jack Bruce, Fabio's ultimate hero."Tone and personality are everything to me, I don't like that modern clean bass sound, I like it distorted, nasty, if you go back to listen to any rock record made in the late '60/'70 that was what the bass sounded like. I'm fearlessy uncompressed kind of guy, my dynamics comes from my hands".
His collection of basses include three old Gibsons, one Thunderbird, some Epiphones short scale and some Fenders pre cbs. As amp he uses Ampeg SVT, but sometimes he likes to use old Fenders and Marshalls as well."Jack Bruce, man he was amazingAndy Fraser of Free was a big influence for me too, his solo on Mr. big blowed me away.One of my very first influence was Geezer Butler from Black Sabbath, his solo on the first record of the band was the first thing I learned when I was very very young. the bass players from the "Stax" and "Motown & Atlantic" era, I really love that New Orleans feel also. James Jamerson, John Porter Jr., the bass players of James BrownMingus, Barry Oakley, Jack Casady, Paul McCartney, Michael Henderson from Miles Davis "On the corner".
"I love bass players with melody and strong personality.I have so many influences, but I don't want to sound too much like any of these guys."
SOUL SINGEREMOTION IS EVERYTHING
He definetly loves Soul singers.".Emotion is everything for a singer.James Carr is one of the greatest, unfortunately not the famous one, but one of the best.Otis Redding is my man, he sang all of his sadness, he makes me cry when he sings.Wilson Pickett, Ray Charles, Spencer Wiggins, Sam CookeI'm a soul singers addict.I like Gospel too, blues singers as well.Cats like Howling Wolf, Muddy Waters, Son House influenced me so much.and white singers like Frankie Miller, Gregg Allman, Joe Cocker, Paul Rogers in his Free days. I'm a huge fan of Traffic,Sly and the Family Stone but I love David Crosby also, Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday, Bonnie Raitt.probably she is my favorite female singer right nowIt all comes from the blues and gospel.
"There is a new songwriter I like, his name is Ray Lamontagne, I fell in love with his first record "Trouble".That record is amazing, one of my favorite of the last five years and more.
"I listen a lot of old jazz cats too, Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, Monk, Cannoball Adderly, Charlie Parker.some of their melodies are very interesting for the voice, they was try to singing with their instruments.I love Oliver Nelson's " The blues and the abstract truth" .there are a lot of "singing lines" on that album."
FABIO DRUSIN'S BASS RIG:
His main bass is a 1972 Gibson Les Paul Triumph, called "Mr.Brownstone".
"I love the midrange of my Les Paul, and his distorted sound, anywhere I plug in it sounds great, it's my favorite, it's bad! I got it four years ago, I think he comes from ex Yugoslavia.Looks like he saw the war.and now he is fighting with me!"
His collection of basses include a 1973 EB3, an EBO from '68, a '62 Fender Jazz bass pre cbs, a Thunderbird, an Epiphone "Allen Woody"."He was a sweet heart and a bad ass bass player, I met him in New York, on March 2000. I got it in his memory, after he passed away."
Epiphones: Viola, '65 reissue Rivoli and a Les Paul Standard."I recorded with him most of the tracks of Hypnotic Dream album".and a 1982 Precision Squire, JV, '62 reissue.
His amp rig is an Ampeg SVT with Ampeg 8x10 cabinet or 4x10 and a Mark Bass 450 first series.
He uses Dunlop wha bass pedal and a Tremolo pedal sometime.
Strings: Ghs bass boomers or D'Addario round wound nickel 045/105. He strungs his short scale basses with Maxima (Optima) roundwound chrome strings 045/100 and his Precision with Ernieball Flatwounds 045/105
He likes to mike his speaker cabinet with AKG D12 or a Sennhaiser 421 to capture the natural sound of the bass and tubes distortion, combining a D.I. track (Demeter VTDB-2B or SansAmp)
For his voice, live, he likes to use a Shure Beta57.
He blows on Honer blues harps and Lee Oskar.
