Post by cofi on Apr 15, 2008 16:46:05 GMT
Dave Hole
Dave Hole (born March 30, 1948 in Heswall, Cheshire, England) is an Australian slide guitarist well known for his exciting style of playing rock & roll and blues music. Moving to Perth, Western Australia aged four years, he became interested in blues music after hearing a school friend's Muddy Waters album when he was around six years of age. Receiving his first guitar at age twelve he started to teach himself due to lack of guitar teachers being available in Perth at the time, using the albums of Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Blind Willie Johnson, Skip James, Blind Lemon Jefferson. He later continued teaching himself with the albums of Robert Johnson (musician), Elmore James, and Mississippi Fred McDowell.
He broke his finger in a football accident and then though left-handed, he played the guitar right-handed by putting the slide on his index finger and then would hang his hand over the top of the guitar neck. After healing he had gotten so used to the 'wrong' way of playing that he never turned back. He became a professional in 1972 when working with a band in London and returned to Perth in 1974. Then toured the Western Australian pub circuit for twenty years playing in Perth and remote towns. To keep his fans happy he released Short Fuse Blues a tape he financed, produced, and recorded with his band Short Fuse in three days in 1990, which he sold during pub performances. On a whim he sent a copy to Guitar Player magazine in the U.S. The Editor Jas Obrecht, was so impressed with his tape he wrote a praising article hailing him as the newest guitar wizard and comparing him to such greats as Stevie Ray Vaughan and Albert King. Soon a copy was in the hands of Alligator Records president Bruce Iglauer who signed him up as the first non U.S. based artist of their 26-year history.
Critics praised him all over the US, and new fans were exposed to him through radio play on more than 1000 stations. Reviews appeared in Guitar World, Guitar For The Practicing Musician, Billboard, Audio, Spin, The Chicago Tribune, The Denver Post plus other major publications, including The Associated Press. Dave signed a deal for Europe with Provogue Records, with the albums and tours of the U.S. and Europe helping him to increase his popularity worldwide. Later tours of Europe have seen him headlining festival shows in Germany, Denmark, Holland, France and Switzerland with the Leverkussen Blues Festival in Germany televised nationally. He has also performed in Brazil, Sweden, Norway, Russia, Austria, Italy, Spain, Belgium and the UK.
Under the Spell won an ARIA Music Awards (Australian Recording Industry Association) in the Blues/Roots category in 1999. Now having ten albums under his wing, he continues to tour worldwide, but still has his home in the Darling Scarp of Western Australia as his base for the other six months of the year.
If you'd like to hear some of his great Blues, he has four songs posted on his my-space page, "Short Fuse Blues" "Demolition Man" "Jenny Lee" "Purple Haze"
Great sounds,
MySpace URL:
www.myspace.com/daveholeband
Here's a video of "Dave Hole" at the Rockpalast in Germany, November 11, 2005 TV broadcast,
Dave Hole "I'm a King Bee"
youtube.com/watch?v=XDwuEFgZez8
This guy is an amazing slide guitarist, sometimes he reminds me of the late great Rory Gallagher RIP,
You should listen to what sound's he can squeeze out of his guitar playing his own style of slide,
You should definitely go and give him a listen, you wont be disappointed
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