Dan Mansfield, You Am I / The Gin Club / The Honey Sliders

Dan Mansfield is a Queensland Australia-based musician who plays in a diverse range of musical outfits, including five years with iconic rock band You Am I. As you’ll hear, Dan covers a huge range of genres and also loves repairing Hammond organs and Leslie speakers. There’s also some decent Pink Floyd and Beatles chat.  Lots in the episode to check out, no matter where you’re based. To listen / watch: * Audio-only: click on the play button in the audio player above, or: * Video: watch the embedded video below or check it and previous episodes out on our YouTube Channel Discussion topics covered during the show (links will open in new tab):   Playing gigs with George Golla, Kevin Hunt and Don Burrows as a teen John Paul Jones as keyboard inspiration The Gin Club in action live – ‘You, Me and The Sea’ Dan playing live with You Am I  The Drones – Taman Shud You Let My Tyres Down – TFS Letting one’s freak flag fly Joining The Gin Club Don Walker live On falling in love with Hammond organs  Kula Shaker live The fragility of Leslie speaker units and repairing / restoring Hats off to Lachy Doley Dan with The Honey Sliders – https://youtu.be/l6oj1-9ayN8 The Honey Sliders play The Beatles Rooftop concert – with a health dose of discussion on the ‘Get Back’ movie Lots of Hammond talk including the evil of the Calculated Leslie Switcher Dan’s train wreck story Dan’s love of Kurzweil keyboards Thoughts / tips for younger players Tag a keyboard player: Jon Carin Desert Island Discs: Animals – Pink Floyd, A Nod Is As Good As A Wink.. To A Blind Horse  – Faces, Caravanserai – Santana, Peasants, Pigs and Astronauts – Kula Shaker, Amorica – The Black Crowes (Don’t forget to check out all our guest’s selections on this page) Thanks to our supporters for this episode: Brother Paul Brown, Midnight Mastering, Tammy Katchur’s Musical Stew, Musicplayer.com forums, and Radio Grande Key links: Buy some keyboard related merchandise Drop us a line via the website,