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11-14-2006, 06:00 AM
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Matt is drummer Gregg Bissonette's brother and his work on Gregg's solo albums is sublime. He is extremely musical and plays various styles with ease and taste. He had an album out about a decade ago with a band called The Mustard Seeds that was great psychedelic pop/rock. He recently toured with Joe Satriani and played on some of his recordings. Here's a list of accomplishments from Matt's bio: "Ringo Starr, Boz Skaggs, Gino Vanelli, Julian Lennon, Brian Wilson, Steve Perry, Rick Springfield, Peter Frampton, Johnny Mathis, Phyllis Diller!!, his own band A440, Sheena Easton, Jeff Lorber, Dave Koz, The TV show Friends, The Tracey Ullman show, Disney's "The Weekenders", "Just Shoot Me", David Lee Roth, Joe Satriani, Don Henley, The Michael Thompson band, Evan and Jared, Cristopher Cross, The Captain and Tennille, Kombo, Takashi Utsunomiya, ELO with Jeff Lyne, and various others."
Check this cat out, he's a great player.
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11-14-2006, 06:04 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | Yep he's a great player!
I saw him once with Joe Satriani, he proved himself to be quite the groove machine! I was bummed at not seeing Stu Hamm, but Matt really layed it down. Big thumping grooves, the occasional melodic foil to Satch, very cool!
Mind you, the next time I saw Satch was with Dave laRue. man, that was a show. |
11-14-2006, 06:10 AM
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Owner: Bass Direct | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: UK | | I saw Matt playing with Dave Lee Roth filling in for Billy Sheehan. All I can say was Matt strutted about like a rock god - however his playing was only adequate and he made no attempt to play any of Sheehans great licks  . He did a good job of holding down the bass lines, oh and posing. (as you can tell I was very miffed that Billy was not on the gig  )
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11-14-2006, 08:06 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | I know exactly how you feel (missing Stuart Hamm). However, he comes and plays these gigs, filling the biggest of boots. |
11-14-2006, 09:29 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Ashdown Amps and Sandberg Basses. | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: South Africa | | | I think Matt and Greg also did a lot of the musical links between scenes on "Friends" as well. That's the only work of his I know and his tone on those short clips is great.
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11-14-2006, 01:41 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | I shot him an email question and he mailed me a pick and a copy of his band's CD, Raising Lazarus. It's one that's in constant rotation in my car.
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11-15-2006, 05:34 AM
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Artist: Genz Benz/ AccuGroove/MLP Basses | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: The O-X baby! (Oxford Mi.) | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by TOMANO Matt is drummer Gregg Bissonette's brother and his work on Gregg's solo albums is sublime. He is extremely musical and plays various styles with ease and taste. He had an album out about a decade ago with a band called The Mustard Seeds that was great psychedelic pop/rock. He recently toured with Joe Satriani and played on some of his recordings. Here's a list of accomplishments from Matt's bio: "Ringo Starr, Boz Skaggs, Gino Vanelli, Julian Lennon, Brian Wilson, Steve Perry, Rick Springfield, Peter Frampton, Johnny Mathis, Phyllis Diller!!, his own band A440, Sheena Easton, Jeff Lorber, Dave Koz, The TV show Friends, The Tracey Ullman show, Disney's "The Weekenders", "Just Shoot Me", David Lee Roth, Joe Satriani, Don Henley, The Michael Thompson band, Evan and Jared, Cristopher Cross, The Captain and Tennille, Kombo, Takashi Utsunomiya, ELO with Jeff Lyne, and various others."
Check this cat out, he's a great player.
TOMANO |
Wow man, you his manager or something?!?!????!!?
I dig his playing, but your post sounds like a promo for the guy.
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11-15-2006, 06:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Blackburn Lancashire | | | I met Greg the other week at Music Live in Birmingham, UK. Only briefly mind you. I complimented him on his drum clinic I watched. Did you know that Greg is the voice for Disney's Winnie The Pooh?
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11-15-2006, 09:37 AM
| | | | No, I'm not his manager. LOL.
I got the list from his website to clue some folks in to what he's done.
I also think his compositional skills are great. He wrote the music for Gregg's solo stuff and it's very contagious stuff.
I dig the Bissonette brothers!!!
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11-15-2006, 09:41 AM
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Originally Posted by derrenleepoole Did you know that Greg is the voice for Disney's Winnie The Pooh? | There seems to be some info about this on the net...crazy! |
05-12-2007, 03:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Northern California | | I was watching one of the G3 DVD's with a buddy of mine yesterday, and had a bear of a time trying to figure out what kind of bass Matt was using. Anybody have any ideas? I found this picture of it, though it's a small pic: 
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05-12-2007, 04:16 AM
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05-12-2007, 07:27 AM
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Originally Posted by jnprather  I was watching one of the G3 DVD's with a buddy of mine yesterday, and had a bear of a time trying to figure out what kind of bass Matt was using. Anybody have any ideas? I found this picture of it, though it's a small pic: | look like a bossa to me.
I have a boz scaggs dvd with him on it. Great player!
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