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One oof THE BEST Rock singers I have ever seen. Davey Pattison with Ronnie Montrose was GAMMA. Not sure who is playing guitar now for GAMMA but, He can't replace RM. But I'm sure he/she would be a professional act to be on stage with Davey Pattison. He demands excellence and is quite a showman. You won't ever be disappointed.

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Live Music: Davey rocks up for a gig in his adopted home town of Paisley

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Rock star singer Davey Pattison has played to an audience bigger than the entire population of Paisley.

He wowed a crowd of more than 80,000 fans during a gig at the Oakland Coliseum, in California as lead singer with legendary guitarist Ronnie Montrose’s band, Gamma, in 1982.

Now Pattison is back in his adopted home town of Paisley – population 77,260 – for a gig at The Bungalow live music venue, in Shuttle Street, on Friday.

Paisley music aficionados of a certain vintage will recall Pattison as the frontman for the next-big-thing rock band of the late 70s, Findo Gask and their catchy single Dr Phinn’s Elixir.

But the rest of the world will know him as the frontman and lead singer of Gamma, The Robin Trower Band and playing with another guitar legend, Michael Schenker.

After being headhunted to front Ronnie Montrose’s new band in 1979, Pattison left Paisley for America and spent the next 40 years touring the world performing in concert halls, arenas and stadiums.

Not only is Pattison back in Paisley for The Bungalow gig with the Davey Pattison Blues Band, he’s also living in the town again.

Along with The Bungalow gig, he has lined up shows at The Cathouse, in Glasgow, on May 27; Dreadnought Rock Nightclub, in Bathgate, on June 9; Belladrum music festival, Inverness, on July 27 and Ivory Blacks, in Glasgow, on October 27.

Pattison says: “Although I was born in Glasgow’s Tradeston district, Paisley sort of became my adopted home town, as I married and settled there with a Paisley girl.

“We had a room and kitchen flat in Blythswood Drive overlooking the Fountain Gardens.

“It’s great to be back to where I call home and although I’d been living in America for 40 years, I never thought of myself as American. I’m a Scottish guy and an honorary Paisley Buddie to boot!”

Pattison recalls one get-together he had in his tiny room and kitchen home:

“We had a party in our flat at Blythswood Drive and a lot of music people were there, including Gerry Rafferty and Maggie Bell, from Stone the Crows.

“The drink was flowing and the music was playing, but Gerry spent most of the time in the kitchen talking to my daughter Nicola, who slept in a bed next to the oven.

“Nicola was only about six at the time, but Gerry seemed to enjoy himself more by talking to my daughter all night.”

Pattison first sang in public when he about five years old. He was in the school choir and they were to sing in a Methodist Church, in Paisley Road West, in Glasgow.

“Somebody must have thought I had a decent voice,” he says. “Because I was the one they always shoved to the front – and me with the arse hanging out of my trousers,” he jokes.

But he realised rock ‘n’ roll would be his life when at the age of 14 he went to a Little Richard concert, at the Odeon, in Glasgow.

“I was mesmerised,” admits Pattison. “I didn’t know exactly what it was he was doing up on that stage, but I knew right away that’s what I wanted to do as well.”

Pattison fondly recalls his time with Paisley-based band, Findo Gask and how the band helped launch his amazing career as a rock singer:

“Singing with Findo Gask was the first time I got noticed and realised I could do something in the music business.

“When we were at our peak with Findo Gask we could have been playing seven nights a week along with gigs on a Saturday morning and a Sunday afternoon.

“We also had a record deal with EMI and were being produced by Gerry Rafferty’s producer, Hugh Murphy, who was the man behind the mixing desk for the iconic City to City album and the Baker Street single.”

He adds: “I can’t wait to get on stage at The Bungalow. I’ve got a great backing band and anyone coming along will be blown away with blues, soul and of course, some good old rock ‘n’ roll!”

If you would like to attend Davey Pattison Blues Band gig, visit: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/davey-pattison-blues-band-tickets-492520511107 to get your tickets at The Bungalow, Shuttle Street, Paisley, on Friday, 19th May 2023.

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Davey just keeps on rockin’ at Hard Rock Cafe

PAISLEY singer Davey Pattison has been described by the legendary record producer Shel Talmy as “one of rock’s very best lead vocalists”.

And music fans can hear for themselves how the vocalist earned that accolade when he takes to the stage of Glasgow’s Hard Rock Café this Saturday, (Feb 17) with his new rock and blues outfit, The Davey Pattison Band.

Pattison is best known as frontman and lead singer of Ronnie Montrose’s rock group Gamma, The Robin Trower Band and playing with guitarist, Michael Schenker.

After being headhunted to front Ronnie Montrose’s new band in 1979, Pattison left Scotland for America and spent the next 40 years touring the world performing in concert halls, arenas and stadiums.

He’s even wowed a crowd of more than 80,000 fans during a massive gig at the Oakland Coliseum, in California when he was Gamma’s frontman, in 1982.

Born and raised in the tenement slums of Glasgow’s Tradeston district, Pattison has never forgotten his roots and a fellow-musician once told him that as soon as he opens his mouth to sing the blues, you can hear what his upbringing was like and the poverty he endured growing up.

Pattison got his first paying gig with the legendary house band, The Bards at The Burns Cottage bar, in Glasgow, during the 60s. He went on to sing and play both guitar and bass with other rock and blues outfits of that era like Crusade, Shard, Sunday and Findo Gask, who regularly played at Paisley’s Watermill and the Silver Thread during the 70s.

Bur then a phone call from America changed his life when he was asked to fly to San Francisco to sing with Gamma – the new band being built around the rock guitarist Ronnie Montrose.

Pattison who is now back living in Paisley, said: “I’ll never stop singing and the band I have with me just now, really can rock. They have almost blown the roof off venues all over Scotland when we’ve been performing.

“I must have played most of the clubs and bars in Paisley and Glasgow when I was starting out my musical career and I’m just as excited now for Saturday than I was back then.”

Reflecting on the quote about him from Shel Talmy – who produced The Who and The Kinks among many other bands and artistes – Pattison says: “I really appreciate what he said about me after I’d worked on many recording sessions with him. Coming from someone as respected as Shel Talmy, I’ll take that, thank you very much.”

The Davey Pattison Band is appearing at the Hard Rock Café, in Glasgow’s Buchanan Street, on Saturday, February 17, as part of the Rock ‘n’ Blues All-Dayer along with Kossoff – The Band Plays On; Jason Sweeney Band; Back Street Crawler and Lonehead. Tickets can be bought from  www.tickets-scotland.com  or if there are still tickets available, on the door with the event starting at 2pm.

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Robin Trower: From Pale Rider To Blues Brother

Robin Trower talks about his lengthy career, from pop success with Procol Harum to Hendrix clone claims and solo success

It’s been quite a few years since the ‘broken nosed guitar hero from Southend’ (© Sounds music weekly) blazed his trail, topping the US album chart and selling out stadiums with his dynamic trio, the inventively named Robin Trower Band. At the time, the critics were divided. Some thought Trower was nothing more than a Hendrix rip-off playing fuzzy, bombastic downer rock for the anaesthetised masses. Others recognised that behind the Marshall-heavy riffs there was a real talent, producing exciting and original music, exploring the outer limits of his instrument.

Trower’s Bridge Of Sighs (1974) still remains one of the finest guitar albums of all time: crammed with sublime, tempered playing and the honey-sweet vocals of the late, great Jimmy Dewar; full of gorgeous harmonic changes, brooding intensity and dramatic moods. Unlike albums by many a guitar hero with admirable technique but no direct line to a songwriting muse, it is not a relentless barrage of guitar solos, but a selection of memorable songs – the muscular Day Of The Eagle , the smouldering In This Place , the groove of Too Rolling Stoned – that showcase beautifully the diverse, expansive talent of the group.

It was a breakthrough album and a pinnacle in the guitarist’s career, which they and he never equalled in terms of success and sales. But there’s a lot more to Trower’s career than that record.

“The material on Bridge Of Sighs is very strong,” he agrees. “The combination of beautiful vocals and raw guitar is what sold it. But it certainly wasn’t the beginning and end of the story.”

These days looking dapper and relaxed, Trower generally has the air of someone completely comfortable in their own skin, rather than exuding the air of a bitter and twisted forgotten hero. He does, however, admit that “there have been some tough times in the past. At the height of our success I was badly let down by the management and record company. And today I don’t make any money from some of my most successful songs. But you have to move on. You cannot let that strangle your creativity.”

In fact nowadays Trower is busier than ever, and is currently involved in various projects that includefilm scores, ambient music and an unlikely collaboration with Roxy Music vocalist Brian Ferry.

Trower has also put together a new band – with Davey Pattison (ex-Ronnie Montrose’s Gamma) on vocals, Dave Bronze on bass and Pete Thompson on drums; the same line-up as on his recent Living Out Of Time albums (one live, one studio) and DVD – and has just toured Britain and Europe. Although performing on stage today can be a financial struggle, and not as rewarding for him as the days when he played to packed houses at sold-out stadiums, Trower still feels that for him playing live is a necessity.

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“I have to continue playing live, because I greatly believe if I stop touring I’ll stop being creative,” he says. “It’s getting up in front of an audience which fires up the whole thing.”

Relaxing after a recent DVD shoot, Trower chatted happily about his long and varied career which has spanned a remarkable 40 years, and taken in the heady hysteria of the colourful, poptastic 60s, a phenomenal singles chart success with Procol Harum and, of course, his illustrious solo career.

A down-to-earth Essex boy, his interest in music began with an elder brother’s record collection; the Trower home used to reverberate with the rockin’ sounds of Jerry Lee Lewis, Gene Vincent and Elvis Presley. Initially it was an album cover that inspired an 11-year-old Trower to become a musician, as he recalled: “I saw a picture of Elvis Presley playing guitar and that was it. I asked for a guitar for Christmas and never looked back [laughs]. I seemed to have an ability to play; it’s like I already knew how it worked.”

Southend has always had a thriving music scene, and a few years and a few school bands later a teenage Trower found himself playing with his first professional group, The Paramounts, who immediately embarked on one of the numerous tour packages of the 60s. One of those involved a support stint with The Beatles – who didn’t particularly impress the up-and-coming guitar slinger. “We had the same booking agency as [Beatles manager] Brian Epstein, and we played on the The Beatles’ last tour,” Trower recalls. “They weren’t that good live, but they were nice guys.”

It was The Rolling Stones who made more of an impression on Trower, and were also responsible for giving The Paramounts a much-needed boost: “They were great to us. We supported them when they brought out their first single. They liked us and they recommended us to the all club owners. It was through them that we got our first record deal.”

At this time, around the mid-60s, Trower thought of himself as merely a jobbing musician and had absolutely no aspirations to be a lead guitarist. “I didn’t take playing lead guitar seriously until after I joined Procol Harum,” he says.

While still with The Paramounts, Trower had started to develop a serious interest in the blues, and this inspired him to put together his own band, called The Jam. At the same time, former Paramounts keyboard player Gary Brooker was forming Procol Harum (who would later achieve phenomenal success with the now classic Whiter Shade Of Pale ).

Unhappy with the guitarist and drummer in Procol,Brooker called his former Paramounts bandmates Trower and BJ Cole, both of whom immediately leapt at such a golden opportunity.“Up to that stage I’d just been playing pubs and clubs,” Trower recalls. “ With Procol I went to the States and played venues like The Winterland and The Fillmore. It took it all to another level. I look back on it as my school. It’s where I learnt about recording and proper touring.”

It was during a Procol tour in San Francisco that Jimi Hendrix died. They decided to write tribute to Jimi – Song For A Dreamer – for their next album, Broken Barricades . Trower went about the task of producing some music, as he recalls, to “capture the spirit of the man”. Surprisingly, up until this point he had only heard one Hendrix album: “I only had a copy of the first album, which I loved. When I wrote the music for …Dreamer I listened to all his albums a few times, and that’s when his playing started to seep into my own creativity. The stuff I started to write from then on was very influenced [by Jimi].”

Getting properly acquainted with Hendrix’s music had a life-changing effect on Trower, convincing him that it was time to move on. “ Songs For A Dreamer seemed to open the floodgates, and I started writing more and more for the guitar. And there wasn’t room for that in Procol Harum.”

The first band he formed after his departure from Procol was Jude, which featured powerhouse Scots singer Frankie Miller. Although nothing came of this collaboration, it was through Miller that Trower was introduced to former Stone The Crows bassist/vocalist Jimmy Dewar. Trower regards that meeting as being “probably the luckiest day in my life”.

Deciding to form a three-piece and make the sound more guitar-oriented, alongside Dewar, Trower brought in drummer Reg Isadore. Record company interest in the band was strong and they soon signed to Chrysalis, and shortly afterwards, in March 1973, the Robin Trower Band (although the records were released under just Trower’s name) released their debut album, Twice Removed From Yesterday . As Trower explained, they had a clear vision of what they wanted to achieve: “When we recorded, we visualised doing it live. My favourite albums are live albums.”

The next album was Bridge Of Sighs , in 1974, which remains his career high point. With that superb album and some exhaustive touring schedules, the band began to achieve success on a worldwide scale.

Then came the onslaught of Hendrix comparisons. However, Trower did not take those comments the way most people would expect him to have done.

“Well, ultimately it’s a compliment,” he says. “I mean, if you’re going to get compared to someone, who better than Jimi Hendrix? But eventually it did become boring.”

Reg Isadore left and was replaced by former Sly & The Family Stone drummer Bill Lordan for what was another killer album, For Earth Below , and 1976’s patchy Long Misty Days . By the time Trower released In City Dreams in 1977 Jimmy Dewar was taken off bass (Rustee Allen was brought into the band) and stuck out in the spotlight. As great a singer as Dewar was, ultimately it was an experiment that failed, and by 1980’s Victims Of Fury Trower reverted to the tight-knit trio of the mid-70s.

But all wasn’t well, and although the band were still pulling big crowds Trower wasn’t happy: “I didn’t feel we were getting anywhere,” he says. “We were touring the States and it felt like we were going through the motions. I thought I needed to change personnel, to move forward musically and come up with something that sounded a bit different”.

Which he did, and recorded the album B.L.T. under the banner Bruce, Lordan & Trower, with former Cream bassist/vocalist Jack Bruce in place of Dewar, and Truce in 82 with Isadore in place of Lordan.

Trower seemed to slip off the radar in the early 80s (a combination of a changing musical climate and business problems didn’t help), although he continued to tour and release albums to varying degrees of success. It was during this period that he was approached by Bryan Ferry’s management to collaborate on Ferry’s new solo album Mamouna .

“They asked me to play on some tracks,” Trower explains. “Brian liked my input, and I eventually got to co-produce a couple of albums. He is an amazing person. He’s got a great instrument – that voice.”

Robin Trower’s latest album, Living Out Of Time , released earlier this year, started off as a set of songs he had written for American guitarist Eric Gale, who supported Trower in the US a few years ago. When the project fell through, Trower decided to return to the studio and record them himself.

“I had these songs and I thought maybe I should do them, but I thought who can I get to sing them?”

It was at Jimmy Dewar’s funeral (he died of pneumonia in 2002) that Trower was reacquainted with former bandmate Davey Pattison. “I hadn’t seen Davy since we worked together in the 90s. I asked him to try the songs out, and it went well. And because the last time we worked together we had Pete Thompson and Dave Bronze, it seemed like a good idea to get together again. This really is a classic line-up. We know each so well, it comes out in the playing.”

The album marks a return to form; it’s classic Trower, with all the key ingredients, in a modern setting. While other guitarists seem to discard their past, Trower recognises what his audience wants, and delivers without compromising his musical integrity or authenticity.“I like to think that my music has depth to it, that it grabs hold of people. I don’t think everything I’ve done is great; a lot of it is crap. But the really good stuff, the more you hear it, the more interesting it becomes, and that’s what stops it from dating. Living Out Of Time is a good overview of where I’m at. I feel that I am in the wrong time – and proud of it.”

This was origionally published in Classic Rock issue 95 .

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This metro tour of Russia’s capital and most populous city, Moscow, is your chance to get a unique insight into the beautiful and impressive architecture of the city's underground stations. Admire their marble walls and high ceilings representing Stalin's desire for glory after World War 2, and see first-hand how the interiors change with the rise of new political eras. Your guide will lead you through the complex network, which is one of the most heavily used rapid transit systems worldwide, with over two billion travelers in 2011.

Opened in 1935, Moscow’s underground system, now 190 miles (305 km) long with 185 stations, is today one the largest and most heavily used rapid transit systems in the world. On this Moscow metro tour, discover the impressive architecture of Moscow’s underground stations and learn how they reflect the Soviet era.

Getting around by metro, your local guide will take you through parts of Moscow’s infamous history. Stop at stations built during the time of the USSR (Soviet Union) that are praised as one of the most extravagant architectural projects from Stalin’s time. After World War 2, he was keen on establishing Stalinist architecture to represent his rising regime and a recognized empire. Learn how when his successor started the de-Stalinization of the former Soviet Union in 1953, the extravagancy of the architecture was toned down.

Discover how the unique character of each station reflected several different eras. While stations like Kievskaya and Slavyansky Bulvar have pompous halls and high stucco ceilings brimming with extravagant decorations, those built later, like Volzhskaya, are lightly adorned with sparse furnishings. Architect Alexey Dushkin and painter Alexander Deyneka were just two of the many artists who made these magnificent landmarks possible.

Revel in Moscow's glory days, as well as the years of scarcity, on this fascinating Moscow metro experience. Conclude your tour at one of the central stations in Moscow. If you're lucky, you may even find the secret entrance to the unconfirmed Metro-2, a parallel underground system used by the government -- a mystery which has neither been denied nor confirmed today.

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Moscow metro private tours.

• 2-hour tour $87:  10 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with hotel pick-up and drop-off
• 3-hour tour $137:  20 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with Russian lunch in beautifully-decorated Metro Diner + hotel pick-up and drop off. 
• Metro pass is included in the price of both tours.

Highlight of Metro Tour

• Visit 10 must-see stations of Moscow metro on 2-hr tour and 20 Metro stations on 3-hr tour, including grand Komsomolskaya station with its distinctive Baroque décor, aristocratic Mayakovskaya station with Soviet mosaics, legendary Revolution Square station with 72 bronze sculptures and more!
• Explore Museum of Moscow Metro and learn a ton of technical and historical facts;
• Listen to the secrets about the Metro-2, a secret line supposedly used by the government and KGB;
• Experience a selection of most striking features of Moscow Metro hidden from most tourists and even locals;
• Discover the underground treasure of Russian Soviet past – from mosaics to bronzes, paintings, marble arches, stained glass and even paleontological elements;
• Learn fun stories and myths about Coffee Ring, Zodiac signs of Moscow Metro and more;
• Admire Soviet-era architecture of pre- and post- World War II perious;
• Enjoy panoramic views of Sparrow Hills from Luzhniki Metro Bridge – MetroMost, the only station of Moscow Metro located over water and the highest station above ground level;
• If lucky, catch a unique «Aquarelle Train» – a wheeled picture gallery, brightly painted with images of peony, chrysanthemums, daisies, sunflowers and each car unit is unique;
• Become an expert at navigating the legendary Moscow Metro system;
• Have fun time with a very friendly local;
• + Atmospheric Metro lunch in Moscow’s the only Metro Diner (included in a 3-hr tour)

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Metro stations:.

Komsomolskaya

Novoslobodskaya

Prospekt Mira

Belorusskaya

Mayakovskaya

Novokuznetskaya

Revolution Square

Sparrow Hills

+ for 3-hour tour

Victory Park

Slavic Boulevard

Vystavochnaya

Dostoevskaya

Elektrozavodskaya

Partizanskaya

Museum of Moscow Metro

• Drop-off  at your hotel, Novodevichy Convent, Sparrow Hills or any place you wish
• + Russian lunch  in Metro Diner with artistic metro-style interior for 3-hour tour

Fun facts from our Moscow Metro Tours:

From the very first days of its existence, the Moscow Metro was the object of civil defense, used as a bomb shelter, and designed as a defense for a possible attack on the Soviet Union.

At a depth of 50 to 120 meters lies the second, the coded system of Metro-2 of Moscow subway, which is equipped with everything you need, from food storage to the nuclear button.

According to some sources, the total length of Metro-2 reaches over 150 kilometers.

The Museum was opened on Sportivnaya metro station on November 6, 1967. It features the most interesting models of trains and stations.

Coffee Ring

The first scheme of Moscow Metro looked like a bunch of separate lines. Listen to a myth about Joseph Stalin and the main brown line of Moscow Metro.

Zodiac Metro

According to some astrologers, each of the 12 stops of the Moscow Ring Line corresponds to a particular sign of the zodiac and divides the city into astrological sector.

Astrologers believe that being in a particular zadiac sector of Moscow for a long time, you attract certain energy and events into your life.

Paleontological finds 

Red marble walls of some of the Metro stations hide in themselves petrified inhabitants of ancient seas. Try and find some!

• Every day each car in  Moscow metro passes  more than 600 km, which is the distance from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
• Moscow subway system is the  5th in the intensity  of use (after the subways of Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai).
• The interval in the movement of trains in rush hour is  90 seconds .

What you get:

• + A friend in Moscow.
• + Private & customized Moscow tour.
• + An exciting pastime, not just boring history lessons.
• + An authentic experience of local life.
• + Flexibility during the walking tour: changes can be made at any time to suit individual preferences.
• + Amazing deals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the very best cafes & restaurants. Discounts on weekdays (Mon-Fri).
• + A photo session amongst spectacular Moscow scenery that can be treasured for a lifetime.
• + Good value for souvenirs, taxis, and hotels.
• + Expert advice on what to do, where to go, and how to make the most of your time in Moscow.

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