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Born: July 10, 1963 Keyboards > Catfish Rising > A Little Light Music > Nightcap > Roots to Branches > Jethro Tull in Concert > J Tull Dot Com > Living with the Past CD > Christmas Album Andrew constructed a wooden compartment for all his electronic concert keyboards that was very popular with Tull fans. The encasement seemed, as Andy has noted, more appropriate to Tull's music. |
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Andrew Giddings Note: written by Andy in 2004 I hated piano lessons, however within a couple of years I was selected
to give public performances to my peers and their respective teachers,
and achieved high grades in My first ever 'group' performance consisted of a couple of school chums on borrowed drums and something that resembled a guitar, and me on my newly- acquired Lorenzo electronic organ. We knew one Gary Numan tune and played it for about 20 minutes to a small collection of uninterested pupils in a our vast school hall. Things did improve though, by the time I was 15 I landed my first job with a band that played 'dance' music in restaurants.
A couple of years later, I found myself involved with a curious cabaret out-fit called Black Cat, that not only had a terrible name but were truly a terrible group. However, we somehow managed to accompany such has-beens, even then, as The Vernon Girls, Mike Berry, Tommy Bruce, Jet Harris, Scott Walker, Terry Deans and assorted Elvis Presley impersonators! Eventually I made it to London, whereupon I met and played with musicians who were actually doing it for a living! Through them I was able to start learning a trade as a 'session musician', scratching around in dimly-lit recording studios. My first 'break' came in the form of a tour with Eric Burdon, formerly of 'The Animals' It was my first experience of playing music abroad, and it didn't take me long to acquire a taste for the rock 'n' roll lifestyle. Several enjoyable years later, I became part of the 'house band' in a short-lived television series filmed in the north of England.
A friend of a friend of mine who played drums with a certain Leo Sayer,
told me of auditions being held for the position of keyboard player for
up coming tours. I went, I conquered, and in the five years I spent with
the organization we toured Australia, the Far East and New Zealand several
times. I am currently enjoying my 10th year with Tull, and time really does fly when you're having the time of your life.
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