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  • Genre: Blues / Funk / Rock

    Location Melbourne, Victoria, Au

    Profile Views: 91082

    Last Login: 4/10/2012

    Member Since 5/30/2006

    Type of Label Major

  • Bio

    ............ .......................... .......... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ............Its been a long and beautiful journey so far. I was 13 when I did my first gig, and that was a little while ago now. I started my career as a guitarist in Brisbane, and had already toured up and down the east coast in an original band for several years before I moved to Melbourne in 1983. It took awhile to get settled in my new home town, but before long I found myself playing in cover bands for the first time, and I ended up in a band called ....The Nazz...., which was kinda like Cold Chisel doing 60's covers on nitrous oxide, but without the class. We worked that poor old horse into the ground for 5 years, until I eventually said "enough!".. ..One of the great things to come out of that band was a lifelong friendship and working relationship with keyboard giant ....Michael Caruana..... When I said I was leaving The Nazz, he said he was coming with me. We weren't exactly sure what to do, so we put together a band with his brother ....Nicky Bomba...., and a young singer named ....Tony Kopa...., and we called ourselves ....The Truth..... An ironic band name, because we all used to bullshit A LOT. One thing lead to another, and we woke up one day to find that ....Triple J.... were playing one of our songs. The interesting thing was that we hadn't sent it to them. Still, that's Rock'n'Roll, and that's how it generally happens.....(?).. ..Next thing we started getting very busy. We signed to Mushroom, and released our debut album, and seemed to be getting a lot of commercial radio airplay. We became everyone's favourite support act (always the bridesmaid...) and found ourselves on an endless merry-go-round of touring, with the likes of ....Bryan Adams, Roachford, Baby Animals, Diesel, Hunters & Collectors, Bon Jovi ....and some other guys as well. We were poor, but we didn't care, we were living the dream, but without the sleep.... One of the highlights was a gig in Sydney where ....Living Color.... turned up, and got up and jammed with us onstage for 45 minutes, doing Stevie Wonder tunes and basically anything other than "Love Rears its Ugly Head." We were ready to play it, but apparently they didn't know it. Fortunately for me, Vernon Reid was back in his hotel room....It was good... ..Anyway, we split up... ..That's when I started my new career as a sideman. Basically, I was willing to play with just about anybody. But I was blessed to work with some real fine ladies and gentlemen. It started with a brief promo tour with ....Jon Stevens...., which lead to some work with ....Ross Wilson.... and ....Daryl Braithwaite...., who must have spoken to ....Tina Arena...., because she offered me a tour through Europe which included a show at ....Wembley Stadium...., supporting the ....Bee Gees..... I said yes. When I got back to Australia, I was working with both Ross and Daryl when I got the call to do a tour with.... John Farnham..... I said yes to that too. The tour saw us also working with ....Human Nature, Kate Ceberano, James Reyne, Ross Wilson and Merril Bainbridge...., and yielded the ....Live At The Regent.... album. I remember that the tour bus was very full and that we laughed a lot. Then John very kindly sang one of my songs, ....The Way...., on his ....33 1/3.... album. He sang it real nice... ..These days I'm still working with ....Daryl Braithwaite...., and I'm currently putting together a band called ....The Geoff Wells Experiment...., with keyboardist ....Phil Turcio...., drummer, ....John Corniola...., ....Jason Vorherr.... on bass and a monster of a singer in ....Jimmy Cupples..... We'll be doing the stuff that made me want to play guitar in the first place........Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Free, Hendrix, Jeff Beck,.... that sort of thing. Onward and upward.......... .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .... .... .. .. .. .. .. ..

  • Members

    ........The Geoff Wells Experiment...... ......Geoff Wells.... - ..Guitar.... ....Phil Turcio.. - ..Keys.... ....John Corniola.. - ..Drums.... ....Jason Vorherr.. - ..Bass.... ....Jimmy Cupples.. - ..Vocals............ ......Daryl Braithwaite Band........ ......Daryl Braithwaite.... - ..Vocals.... ......Geoff Wells.... - ..Guitar.... ....David Collins.. - ..Acoustic.... ....John Corniola.. - ..Drums.... ....Mark Amato.. - ..Keys..........

  • Influences

    ....JEFF BECK.... ....JIMI HENDRIX.... ....PAUL KOSSOFF.... ....RITCHIE BLACKMORE.... ....PETER GREEN.... ....DAVID GILMOUR.... ....BILLY GIBBONS.... ....IAN MOSS.... ....ROSS HANNAFORD.... ....MARK PUNCH...... ....& THE MELBOURNE.. ....GUITAR MAFIA................ ....EQUIPMENT LIST........ ....GUITARS........ ....1968 Fender Stratocaster.. ....Stewart Male Custom Strat.. ....1978 Ibanez Silver Series Strat.... ....AMPS.... ....Ulbrick Venue 30 Verbovibe .. ....Fender Super Champs (x2) .. ....Rock Bender 100w Combo.. ....Marshall JCM900 4101.... ....PEDALS.... ....Ulbrick 12AXE.. ....Landgraff DO.. ....Lovepedal Eternity '06.. ....Paul Cochrane Timmy.. ....Hermida Zendrive.. ....Jetter Gain Stage Purple.. ....Teese RMC 1 Wah.. ....Teese Picture Wah.. ....KR Megavibe.. ....KR Gypsy Fuzz.. ....FoxRox Octron 2.. ....Retro-Sonic Chorus.. ....Retro-Sonic Analog Delay.. ....Korg G4 Leslie Simulator.. ....MI Audio Boost'n'Buff.. ....Ibanez DE-7 Delay.. ....Loop-Master Triple Loop........

  • Sounds Like

    ......Something dirty, but somehow intriguing................

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