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Member Info: Morten Sickel - It runs in the family |
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Name: Morten Sickel
Contact: Available to Members
Focus: Other
Location: Drøbak, Norway
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At last my turn
My father used to be a Tuba player, one of my uncles (on my mothers side) has been playing the bass in various bands since the early 70'ies, a cousin of my father is a professional (classical) double bass player...
I have been playing piano off and on for nearly 30 years and guitar for more than 20 years, but I've always wanted to go down to the bottom.
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Barracuda jazzbass copy, Trace Elliot Commando 100W, Cimar defretted P-bass copy |
My turn!
In the summer 2004, I started to play together with my brother and my bass playing uncle, and after a while I borrowed his approx. 1970 MIU Fender jazz bass, and indeed, to play the bass was as fun and interesting as I thought, so I started to look for my own bass, and soon I came across the Morgan AB-05ce, shown at the picture together with my Alhambra C3 classical guitar from approx 1990 and an Ibanez 310TV that I once got from a friend who quit playing guitar. Later I've bought two second hand p-bass knockoffs. One Big Sound 1982 and one Cimar Electric Bass, the later was defretted as I bought it and is now strung with D'Addario Flatwound 050 - 105 strings.
In 2006 I bought Thor Iversen's old Tech21 Landmark 60.
New amp and bass: Second hand Trace Elliot Commando 100W and a Barracuda Jazz bass copy, the later bought new in Quebec.
The technical parts
I have been interested in electronics since my early youth and music for as long as I can remember, also being a bass player personality, perfering being in the background doing the important jobs, it should not be any surprise that I have been working as a sound technician. My experience is running PA systems for a choir and a rock band and being a radio technician at a local radio station in Oslo for a number of years.
More on myself
In case anybody should care...
I was born in Oslo, Norway, the year after Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released. Now I am living in Drøbak, a small town at the fjord a bit south of Oslo, having two daughters, an old house and a quite big but not too well-kept garden.
I am working at the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority among other things on overseeing dismantlement of old Russian nuclear subs. Having worked as a math teacher for a while, I apologize if that should show up during any fretbuzzions.
I also have a family Homepage (mainly) in Norwegian.
A jam session with my brother at a party:
To make sure the low end is kept down also in the future, my daughter has started to play cello:
When I'm having to little to do and no bass handy, I resort to image manipulation. For some reason, much of what I've done is bass-related
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Musical Influences
• Tom Waits,Bob Dylan, The Waterboys, The Beatles, Odd Nordstoga
• Patrick Pfeiffer, through Bass guitar for dummies...
• All other good music
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Favorite Recordings
• Too many and too often changing to make a meaningful subset. Cf the influences...
• Now Playing: Marc Ribot
• Also playing: Oscar Peterson, Night Train
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