Mundell Music Presents
Davey Pattison Band
Events
Oct 11 Fri
Davey Pattison Band8:00 PM
All Ages
Davey Pattison has returned to his homeland after 40 years of performing at the top-level Stateside and on World tours as the vocal powerhouse fronting Gamma, Ronnie Montrose, The Robin Trower Band and recording two highly successful albums with German guitar ace Michael Schenker.
Davey served his apprenticeship in Blues, R&B and Soul in Glasgow’s sixties dance-hall scene and treaded the same boards as future members of Average White Band, Stone The Crows, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band and others in renowned venues like Picasso, Electric Gardens and Maryland. He was at the forefront of the burgeoning Pub – Rock scene with the highly respected Findo Gask who narrowly missed the big – time after being spotted and recorded by Gerry Rafferty’s producer the late Hugh Murphy.
Davey’s big break arrived when the legendary Bill Graham was tipped off by Bill Lordan and the late James Dewar that Davey was the ideal man to front the new band Gamma for his client Ronnie Montrose. Davey accepted Graham’s invite Stateside and wasted no time getting down to co-writing songs with Ronnie as the band prepared for the recording of their debut album which spawned the hits “Thunder and Lightning” and “Razor King” Successful stadium and arena tours followed paired alongside AC/DC, Santana, ZZ Top, Journey, Toto, Foreigner among others.
Davey served his apprenticeship in Blues, R&B and Soul in Glasgow’s sixties dance-hall scene and treaded the same boards as future members of Average White Band, Stone The Crows, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band and others in renowned venues like Picasso, Electric Gardens and Maryland. He was at the forefront of the burgeoning Pub – Rock scene with the highly respected Findo Gask who narrowly missed the big – time after being spotted and recorded by Gerry Rafferty’s producer the late Hugh Murphy.
Davey’s big break arrived when the legendary Bill Graham was tipped off by Bill Lordan and the late James Dewar that Davey was the ideal man to front the new band Gamma for his client Ronnie Montrose. Davey accepted Graham’s invite Stateside and wasted no time getting down to co-writing songs with Ronnie as the band prepared for the recording of their debut album which spawned the hits “Thunder and Lightning” and “Razor King” Successful stadium and arena tours followed paired alongside AC/DC, Santana, ZZ Top, Journey, Toto, Foreigner among others.
Davey Pattison Band
Davey Pattison is a Scottish-American singer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Pattison started his career in 1969, and it took off after arrival in the United States in 1979, on invitation from Bill Graham, to front the rock band Gamma, formed by Ronnie Montrose.
DAVEY PATTISON BLUES BAND
MISSISSIPPI NIGHTS
Windmill Studios
As the first track kicks off,I know this album is going to be one of those exactly as it says on the tin, which for me is no bad thing. Driving beat, boogie piano, harmonica and some stella guitar playing, wrapped around some classic vocals. Have a Look At Yourself is the up tempo first track that takes you by the hand and has your fingers tapping and your ears looking forward to what's coming next. Davey then tells a wonderfully slow story of the title track, Mississippi Nights where I feel like I'm there, looking up at the stars on the edge of the big river, drinking beer and squashing mozzies on my neck, that’s one of the joys of music I love, it can transport you to a different time and place, from Essex to the deep southern delta. Next track,Daydreaming keeps me there, without any fanfare, the keys on this song are so well woven with the guitar and vocals, it’s as if they're one instrument. Hitting the fourth song, Feel Like Screaming I'm completely under the spell of this story being told, as the slide guitar cries, I can feel the anguish, I take back what I said about being exactly as it says on the tin. Davey and the gang are more complex than that, I’m getting from the songs that he went from heartbreak to desire as the next two tunes, I Got The Hots For You and Pretty One suggest a newfound love. Houston Street Blues is a swampy song that fits in very nicely and my only regret about it is, it's not longer and I feel the same about the album as there's only two more tracks to go, nine in all. This album is easy to listen to, this is good, old-school blues.
BARRY BLUESBARN HOPWOOD
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DAVEY PATTISON BLUES BAND
MISSISSIPPI NIGHTS
Windmill Studios
As the first track kicks off,I know this album is going to be one of those exactly as it says on the tin, which for me is no bad thing. Driving beat, boogie piano, harmonica and some stella guitar playing, wrapped around some classic vocals. Have a Look At Yourself is the up tempo first track that takes you by the hand and has your fingers tapping and your ears looking forward to what's coming next. Davey then tells a wonderfully slow story of the title track, Mississippi Nights where I feel like I'm there, looking up at the stars on the edge of the big river, drinking beer and squashing mozzies on my neck, that’s one of the joys of music I love, it can transport you to a different time and place, from Essex to the deep southern delta. Next track,Daydreaming keeps me there, without any fanfare, the keys on this song are so well woven with the guitar and vocals, it’s as if they're one instrument. Hitting the fourth song, Feel Like Screaming I'm completely under the spell of this story being told, as the slide guitar cries, I can feel the anguish, I take back what I said about being exactly as it says on the tin. Davey and the gang are more complex than that, I’m getting from the songs that he went from heartbreak to desire as the next two tunes, I Got The Hots For You and Pretty One suggest a newfound love. Houston Street Blues is a swampy song that fits in very nicely and my only regret about it is, it's not longer and I feel the same about the album as there's only two more tracks to go, nine in all. This album is easy to listen to, this is good, old-school blues.
BARRY BLUESBARN HOPWOOD