Geoff Putnar Bass
I was fortunate enough to be born just at the right time to appreciate what I believed was a golden age of music...the 70's!
I grew my hair and wanted to be Nottingham's answer to Geezer Butler, so I saved and spent £30.00 on the worse bass I have ever touched, a Zenta Semi acoustic which I got from a mail order catalogue.
Apart from being the most un cool bass on the market, it sounded worse than it looked, but it got me through my first 12 bar and the addiction to the instrument became life long.
I played my first gig at the Teachers Training College in Clifton at the age of 17 and managed to get booed off stage after the second number! It was several months before I dare show my face after that, but I learnt a very valuable lesson...don't gig until you can actually play something!
I played with several bands after that, the best being Rhino, which didn't last long but that time became the most precious in my young life and I miss some of the friends I made then.
I then had a 25 year layoff whilst discovering the practicalities of life, buying a home, earning a living and all the other mundane but necessary stuff until my girlfriend Sarah, bought me a lovely bass and suggested I take it up again.
I did, and have been happy ever since, as it revitalised my love of the bass guitar and the thrill of live music and I am looking forward to many years of gigs with this new version of Bad Whiskey
I was fortunate enough to be born just at the right time to appreciate what I believed was a golden age of music...the 70's!
I grew my hair and wanted to be Nottingham's answer to Geezer Butler, so I saved and spent £30.00 on the worse bass I have ever touched, a Zenta Semi acoustic which I got from a mail order catalogue.
Apart from being the most un cool bass on the market, it sounded worse than it looked, but it got me through my first 12 bar and the addiction to the instrument became life long.
I played my first gig at the Teachers Training College in Clifton at the age of 17 and managed to get booed off stage after the second number! It was several months before I dare show my face after that, but I learnt a very valuable lesson...don't gig until you can actually play something!
I played with several bands after that, the best being Rhino, which didn't last long but that time became the most precious in my young life and I miss some of the friends I made then.
I then had a 25 year layoff whilst discovering the practicalities of life, buying a home, earning a living and all the other mundane but necessary stuff until my girlfriend Sarah, bought me a lovely bass and suggested I take it up again.
I did, and have been happy ever since, as it revitalised my love of the bass guitar and the thrill of live music and I am looking forward to many years of gigs with this new version of Bad Whiskey
