Geoff Everett

Geoff Everett playing live at 'The Doghouse' Guernsey

Geoff Everett is a rock-blues guitarist, vocalist and frontman from South East England, United Kingdom. He is best known as an experienced electric guitar player and for his musical improvisation. Everett also plays slide guitar, harmonica and mandolin.

Early years

The Chicago Line Blues Band posing in Gravesend, Kent ~ Geoff Everett, far right

Everett started playing guitar and singing when he was thirteen, playing at parties and local dances with his first group The Reminiscents. This band was formed with fellow school mates Lee Abbott (who later played with Magna Carta), Gary Pantry and Rob Jones. In 1967 Everett joined the Chicago Line Blues Band, a semi-pro band mentored by Mike Vernon and his brother Dick. They played venues such as the Eel Pie Island club in Twickenham, London. The Chicago Line Blues Band supported and occasionally jammed with musicians such as Keef Hartley, Art Wood and Ritchie Blackmore.

In 1969, Everett joined a band from Earls Court, London but left soon afterwards to commence a project with Alan Lancaster who in turn would move on to concentrate on his work with Status Quo. Later on the members of the Chicago Line Blues Band became involved with the songwriting partnership of George Young and Harry Vander from The Easybeats.

1970s-1980s

Gerry McAvoy (right) and Brendan O'Neil (left) when not playing with Rory Gallagher, joined Everett (middle) in a three-piece band called The Mosquitoes.

During the early 1970s Everett travelled around UK and internationally with country bands, also making money when at home by teaching classical guitar. In 1978 and still needing to fulfill his musical ambitions he formed the funk blues band Blind Eye with Tony Ellis from the Screaming Lord Sutch band.

In the early 1980s, more UK and Scandinavian tours followed and Everett was asked by Tony Ellis to join The Cafe Racers which included rhythm guitarist David Knopfler, following the departure of his brother Mark Knopfler.

At this time he joined Gerry McAvoy and Brendan O'Neil from the Rory Gallagher band in a three piece band called The Mosquitoes and played informal rhythm and blues gigs in pubs and clubs around London.

1990s to present day

In the early 1990s, Everett formed a rock funk outfit called The Absolute who attracted a large following. During the late 1990s he toured with "A Band Named Sioux", The Cruising Mooses and The Rob King Band. The Mosquitoes also reformed as The Fabulous Mosquitoes. He also began to perform with his own Geoff Everett Band, which includes bassist Pete Shaw, also various drummers including Paul Robinson who has worked with Paul McCartney and Sam Kelly who played a short stint with Gary Moore.

During 2009 and 2010 the Geoff Everett Band performed in the UK, Greece, France and the Netherlands. During 2011 the band released the album Adult Show and kenttv.com broadcast an earlier concert recorded in Meteor, Greece.

In 2014 The Geoff Everett Band finished recording a studio album The Quick and The Dead which featured guitarist Albert Lee, drummer Brendan O'Neil and vocalist Mollie Marriott (daughter of Steve Marriott), fiddle player Dave Swarbrick, keyboardist Tim Hinkley, harmonica player Alan Glen and saxophonist Gary Barnacle. The album was mastered by Jon Astley and released in the same year.

2015 saw the release of Geoff Everett's studio CD album "Cut & Run".

Also in 2015 the song "Bad Bad Man" from the album "The Quick and The Dead" was included on the Sci-Fi Horror film Tremors 5: Bloodlines released by Universal Studios. The song is used as incidental music^[1][2] as Burt Gummer is flying into the exotic location of South Africa to scenes of wild African animals in order to fight a new batch of Graboids.

Associations

Everett appeared in the line up of Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages (after the departure of Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page).^[3] Other associations include Alan Lancaster, David Knopfler, Bob Henrit from The Kinks, Sam Kelly, Jim Russell, Carl Palmer, Gerry McAvoy and Brendan O'Neil from the Rory Gallagher Band, Jim Leverton, Kim Beacon from String Driven Thing, Ian Paice, Gordon Huntley and Bobby Millar an early member of Supertramp.

Collaborations

He wrote the song "Satellite Blues" for the Rhythm and Blues band Nine Below Zero's album Off The Hook (1992) ^[4] and The Other Side for The Herbs, a band which featured drummer John Keeble and guitarist Dean Howard.

Instruments

Everett is known for playing a rare Fender Stratocaster pre-CBS 1964 version and also two eighties models, using one for playing slide and the other for more robust playing. Other guitars used by Everett are a 1964 Gibson SG Junior and various makes dating from the 1950s. His main amplification is an early 1980s Music man guitar amp.

Notes

External links

• Geoff Everett webpage
• "Texas Blues Cafe". podomatic.com.