Musician Profile

Ian Thomson

username: ian thomson
age: 29
AOL screen name: gatofrito1
Carrboro, NC

My Bands

Space Dock 1

Background

I've been making music for over 20 years. I started on piano and played trombone through middle and high school. I also started playing the electric bass in the middle school jazz band, and thus began my study of improvizational music. I began the upright acoustic bass at age 15, and continued to play until present. I now play fretless electric 5 string, upright, guitar, piano and drumset, along with a little brass. I would like to learn the clarinet.

Influences

Everything from post-bop to classical to cool school punk. I love Jaco Pastorius, Charles Mingus, Ellington, The Pixies, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Count Basie, Al Green, Bach, Holsinger, Marching band music, Shakira, Green Day and NOFX. Etc.

Gear

I play a Keith Roscoe fretless 5-string electric bass and a Martin guitar. Somewhere in mexico I have an early model Kay upright bass and a custm made cuban guitar (made by a student of the infamous "El Grillo"). I also have a chilean charango from Valdivia.