A Phil Brodie Band
Tribute Page
Joe
Pastrami
Electric Bass & Multi-Musician
We
have known Joe Pastrami a few years now, seen him struggle with so many
ideas to find direction ~ his direction. Along side his love of music
and a mind full of fresh ideals, there is a spark in this talented young
musician which sets him apart from many of his contempories. On the
many roads he'll travel, this will make all the difference, this extra
burning spark he possesses, plus talent, will see him through the pit-falls
to acheive success
as
a musician
and
reach his goals there
after.
THE
START
Joe
Pastrami
North
of England bass player Joe Pastrami is still only 18 years old but has
been around the rock and blues scene for many years now. Hailing from
Stanley, near Wakefield, the tall teenager plays regularly on the Northern
pub and club scene with the Gold Star Agency band Rock Legacy. Joe started
his career jamming with tribute bands in West and South Yorkshire. His
musical taste is wide and varied playing Rory Gallagher material with
Raw Gallagher, ZZ Top material with The Fandango Brothers, through to
AC/DC with Optic Nerve.
FIRST
DREAM
Walter
Trout (left) and Joe Pastrami on bass
At just 14 years of age he
had accomplished his dream of performing on stage. As a pupil of Outwood
Grange School he played in both the school band and the percussion only
Samba band, but rock and blues were his musical heartland. His passion
for playing blues was satisfied by playing bass on a number of occasions
with the Blues Matters recording artist Danny Bryant. By the age of
17 Joe had played alongside the American blues superstar, Walter Trout
pictured above, and in 2005, he repeated the enviable task by playing
at Nottingham's Rescue Rooms with the hugely experienced Bluesman.
INFLUENCES
Joe
Pastrami on drums
Joe
cites The Blues Brothers classic cult movie as a great influence and
often quotes Elwood's famous statement "We're a 106 miles from
Chicago, we've a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes. It's dark
and we're wearing sunglasses.......HIT IT! "
Influenced by his parent's wide taste in music, (his father being a
rock/blues music journalist), Joe was bound to take the "rocky"
road in his musical career and so he joined Rock Legacy permanently,
after a temporary stint as a stand-in on rhythm guitar and bass guitar
(although not at the same time!). The band's high standing soon brought
Joe's curly hair and rare Silvertone Apocalypse bass trademark to the
attention of other musicians on the rock scene. Joe counts members of
Saxon and T Rex among his friends. Original drummer with T Rex, Paul
Fenton, and present T Rex vocalist Rob Benson invited Joe to jam in
2005 after seeing him at the Bootstock Festival. Yorkshire guitar superstar
Graham Oliver of Saxon is another of Joe's jamming colleagues as well
as the New York guitar player Adam Bomb. Joe turned down a European
tour as Adam's bass player in August 2005, being fiercely loyal to his
Rock Legacy colleagues. Young Pastrami is a multi-instrumentalist, dabbling
in keyboards and guitar, but Joe is also an accomplished drummer, owning
a Premier 5 piece acoustic kit and a Roland V Drums electronic kit for
practice. Joe regularly plays drums during the Rock Legacy showcase
encores!
Joe
Pastrami with his Silvertone Apocalypse bass
This young musician has many years ahead of him
on the live music scene and is proud to be associated with The Phil
Brodie Band Website
and wishes to thank Phil Brodie for the Fender machine heads that Phil
so kindly gave him for an old Stratocaster that Joe was refurbishing..
(Thankyou Joe, our pleasure) But Joe himself
is no stranger to the internet as he built the Rock of the North website,
the Rock Legacy site, and is an ICT Technician during daylight hours
~ We are all wishing Joe the greatest of success which we know he will
acheive in
the
sometimes sadly traumatic, sometimes overwhelmingly gratifying career
as a musician.
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