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| Biography
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| Patrick was about 10 years old
when he first started tapping on the floor with a pair of old
sticks. His mother used to sing with bands and the drummers used to
give him their old sticks when they were past there best. These came
in handy for bashing pots and pans which prompted his parents to buy
hin his first drum kit.
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| At about 12 years old he was
drafted in for his first gig when his mothers drummer went sick. He
did ok and started to get known as an emergency drummer for dance
bands. It was when Pat was about 16 that a bass playing friend at
school (Bill Terry) and a bloke called
Nigel Graham
started a rock band. Pat joined and for a group of young 16 year
olds, got pretty good. The band turned pro but as Pat had just
started work on the railway he chickened out. As he say's "Little
did I know that I would play in the same band as Nigel 32 years
later!". Incidentely, Patrick was born on the 26th of October 1955 -
the day before Nigel Graham.
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| Patrick stopped playing when his
kids came along as do most family men but stated again around 2002
after attending some jams in Cambridge pubs and clubs.
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| Patrick played in a couple of
function bands in Cambridge:-
Tracy's Card
and
The Fast Eddie Band and more
recently he played in a local folk rock outfit called
The Jeremiah Newcombe
Band. He also plays country
rock, featuring in
Flatsville.
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| Pat enjoys playing rock and blues
and say's "This gives you the chance to form the main drive of the
sound with the bass player, and Pete certainly can drive it along. I
also love playing rock / funk which in the band, we break into in
small parts
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