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Artist
Mike Murphy aka Dubmeister
3+ albums
dub reggaedub
about
Also under names of DJ Wallypants, Big Mikey Dread or just plain Mike Murphy. Mike grew up surrounded by music in Nashville Tennessee in the late 60's early 70's, his dad, an Englishman from Eltham Kent had ended up getting involved in the early Traditional American Folk scene in the early 60's. His mum or should that be Mom, a "Southern Belle" from Alabama married the old sod and before too long ...... well..... there he was. With musicians turning up at the house all the time, and music leaking out of the most unlikely orifices, it was just a matter of time ! They moved to England in 1976 and a few years later Mike was playing the piano badly and having lessons with a scary double bass player from the womensTrinidadian military band. Well that was enough to make him give up, go buy an electric guitar and play it without an amp for a year,...... boy was he shit ! Later when he got an amp the police would pop round and tell him to turn it down, it wasn't long and he was wigging out to Hendrix \ Hawkwind \ Led Zep \ early ZZ top, old blues, trippy music, rock music, two tone.... you know the score, ANYTHING BUT 80's SHITE !!!!!! Later he got a band together called the Purple Frizbeez that played and did well locally, but no one really understood what he wanted to do and the other band members didn't really like him telling them (in no uncertain terms) what he wanted, get the picture...... yep petulant git,... that's right. It wasn't long before he realised that making musi
