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The Dangerous Brothers |
Meet The Band |
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Singer |
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"Calamity Wayne" - Miller |
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Peter Hill |
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This chap has been playing loud rock guitar for over 30 years, not always in loud Rock Bands though. |
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| Equipment | Manufacturer | Model | Comments | |
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Steinberger
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GM4TA |
"Strat
Shaped", headless, TRANSTREM, Active, Composite neck(Graphite, Fibre
Glass, Epoxy Resin and Kevlar!) .
Fitted with a red-dot laser sight. Also recently fitted are bright blue LED dot position markers. Currently away for a revamp (Sept 07) |
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| Guitar | Steinberger | GM2T |
Same as above but in White with black binding. No lasers or LED's - YET This Guitar is HOT |
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After much research I have come to a conclusion. The Mesa Boogie DC5 is louder on its own than when accompanied with the Marshall 50-50. This, of course doesn't seem possible as 150 of the Queens Watts are being produced as against a mere 50. I do however have a theory. The DC5 on its own has the same effect on those in front of it as a shaped charge on a T72. Devastating. It's much more piercing and direct. When all together, more air is moved but it isn't as "live". Another conclusion, Randall Smith must be a liar. It must be more than 50 Watts!!! In early July 2007, the Twin Neck Steinberger was sold to a nice chap in New York, with a replacement Steinberger GM2T arriving in England as part of the deal. This is to become my main instrument as Mad Dog hacks at the blue thing to make an "Explorer"
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| Amplifier | Mesa Boogie | DC5 |
50 Watt, all
tube, twin channel combo.
Fully Re-Valved on 5th October 2007 with the following from Watford Valves 6 x HARMA DR250 ECC83/7025 2 x 6L6GC SVETLANA / WINGED CRYO What a sound -WHAT A SOUND, Sorry, I didn't catch that! |
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| Amplifier * | Marshall | 50-50 All Valve rack power amp. |
This new baby will power both cabs leaving the Boogie to concentrate on its
built in speaker. This boosts the power to "ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY" of the queens watts |
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| Speaker Cabinet * | Edgar Custom | Angled 4 x 12 | Now fitted with Celestian G12's. This thing will blow your godamn head off (Shit Casters) | |
| Speaker Cabinet * | Marshall | Straight 4 x 12 | This cabinet has had a long life and is still in an "almost" showroom condition. On 8 October, I transferred the 4 x 12 Speakers from the Edgar Custom. This cab now gives out a very dark sound under the harsh sound of the Edgar. After 1 gig, I decided casters where not only desirable, but a necessity. (Shit Casters) | |
| Effects | Morley | Bad Horsie | "Steve Vai" endorsed switchless Wah Wah pedal | |
| Morley | Little Alligator | "Steve Vai" endorsed Volume pedal | ||
| Digitech | Whammy |
Ho Ho Ho, just added this when Wayne joined.
I like it |
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| Transmitter | Samson | Airline | UHF "bug" guitar transmitter and pedal receiver. (Not bad, nice idea but a bit flimsy and although the transmitter takes only one AAA battery which lasts a couple of gigs, the receiver also takes a PP3 which lasts about the same time) | |
| Tuner | Boss | TU2 | Stomp Box tuner. Excellent, no problems. | |
| Other | - | - | Stainless steel microphone stand mounted drinks holder. This keeps the beer where the action is. It's also the only decent use that the microphone stand gets!!! | |
| Microphone & Stand | Sennheiser | E845 | Probably my biggest waste of money yet (although claims this mantle goes on the guitars - titter). 67 of the Queens Pounds for rare backing vocals. At least I can't blame the microphone any more! | |
| Acoustic Guitars | - | - | NONE | |
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Lee Illingworth |
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Lee is pictured here sporting the guitar that has been in the family for many, many years. It is still in its original condition with just 5 replacement necks and 3 bodies. Both Lee and Peter have been seen playing this type of instrument although Peter's had thicker strings. He kept his out in the yard! |
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| Equipment | Manufacturer | Model | Comments | |
| Lee's Guitar Shop | ||||
| Guitar | Gibson | Les Paul Standard 2001 in Cherry Sunburst | ||
| Guitar | Gibson | Les Paul Classic 2001 in Translucent Honey | ||
| Guitar | Fender (USA) | Stratocaster Highway 1 in Honey Blonde | ||
| Guitar | Washburn | N4 in railway Sleeper brown | Nuno Bettencourt signature model | |
| Special 1960 re-issue | ||||
| Stratocaster | Apparently this is quite nice | |||
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| Amplifier | Marshall |
JCM2000 TSL60 Head |
All valve Triple Super Lead. Brand spanking new | |
| Speaker Enclosure | Marshall | 1960A Angled 4 x 12 speaker cabinet | The perfect match for the head. Again, Brand spanking new | |
| Amplifier | Marshall |
MG250 100W 2 x 12 |
This amplifier goes up to number eleven on the volume knob! This is now a spare |
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| Effects | Morley | Bad Horsie Wah (Steve Vai) | ||
| Effects | Boss | TU2 | Stage Tuner | |
| Effects | Boss | TR2 | Tremelo | |
| Effects | Ibanez | TS9 | TubeScreamer | |
| Transmitter | Samson | Airline | Wireless | |
| Microphone | Sennheiser | E840 | 5 quieter than Pete's E845 | |
Andrew (Creamy) Wilson |
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18 till I die, I was recruited solely because I share the same name as the previous drummer (the miserable gits had a job lot of CD’s already pressed up, so it saved changing the labels and inserts), and I am the only non-Cumbrian in the band. Hailing from North East Lancashire, my down to earth approach comes in handy at times of stress. In fact, I am often called upon to Lancastrate the others in a crisis. |
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| Equipment | ||||
| Ludwig Classic Silver Sparkle Drum Kit - comprising: | ||||
| 12" x 8" rack tom | ||||
| 13" x 9" rack tom | ||||
| 14" x 10" rack tom | ||||
| 16" x 16" floor tom | ||||
| 22" x 14" bass drum | ||||
| 14" x 5" Black Beauty snare | ||||
| 14" x 5" 400 snare | ||||
| Axis AL-2 Longboard double pedal | ||||
| Speed King pedal | ||||
| Ludwig Hercules and Atlas pedals and hardware | ||||
| Various add-on accessory arms | ||||
| Gibraltar snare stand | ||||
| Roc N' Soc Lardarse Drumthrone | ||||
| Evans EC-2 heads | ||||
| Vic Firth 2BN and Zildjian 2BN sticks | ||||
| 14" A Zildjian New Beat hi-hats | ||||
| 15" A Zildjian New Beat hi-hats | ||||
| 16" A Zildjian Rock Crash | ||||
| 16" A Zildjian Custom Crash | ||||
| 16" A Zildjian Crash | ||||
| 17" A Zildjian Medium Thin Crash | ||||
| 20" A Zildjian Rock Ride | ||||
| LP Cowbell | ||||
| Rhythm Tech Hi-Hat Tambourine | ||||
| Zildjian Cymbal Safe | ||||
| Protection Racket Cases | ||||
| Shure SM57A Beta snare microphone | ||||
| Sennheiser e604 x 4 tom microphones | ||||
| AKG D112 bass drum microphone | ||||
| K & M snare microphone stand | ||||
| Magic Carpet | ||||
| Acme Clip-On Beer Gut | ||||
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Bass Player |
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Graham Goral |
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Gear:
Musicman Stingray 3EQ bass guitar - 2007
JayDee Supernatural Roadie IIa bass guitar - 1985
Trace Elliott GP7-SM 300 watt head
Behringer Ultra Bass 3000T 300 watt head
Trace Elliott 1028H (2x10"+horn) 200 watt cab
Trace Elliott 1518 (1x15") 200 watt cab
Zoom 708II bass pedal
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Craption:
On New Year's Eve 2009 I made a resolution to go out
more, stay up later and drink more alcohol and thus
joined this excellent band of minstrels, hoping I
can fill the large boots of Steve "Mad Dog" Edgar. I've
been Creamy's bass player since 1980 (see Rogues
Gallery) so had already spent many memorable nights on
the receiving end of the Dangerous Brothers' audio
harpoon and woken up the following afternoon with
tinitus and a broad smile. I no longer own a device
to listen to my LP Records, so the best thing I can do
is pick up my bass and continue to play these
unforgettable tracks.
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P.A. |
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God Knows!!!! |
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