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Bill Davis Audition Page

I am a 73 year old professional musician from Wilkes-Barre, Pa. This page contains performance samples and equipment lists to be used as an online audition. It is not meant to be a public page.  I sing lead and harmony and play guitar, keyboards and mandolin. Also pedal steel, fiddle,  harmonica, banjo, accordion, bass

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Bands I've Been In -click the description to go to their pag

Boots and Bangs

Tom Slick and the Converted Thunderbolt Grease slappers

Tom Slick and the Converted Thunderbolt Grease slappers

Current (Modern Country- Pedal Steel, Mandolin, Banjo, Vocal)

Tom Slick and the Converted Thunderbolt Grease slappers

Tom Slick and the Converted Thunderbolt Grease slappers

Tom Slick and the Converted Thunderbolt Grease slappers

Current:  (50's/60's-Keys, Vocal) 

The East End Vipers

Tom Slick and the Converted Thunderbolt Grease slappers

The East End Vipers

2012-2019: (Trad New Orleans Jazz-Guitar, Mandolin, Vocal) 

Zydecoal

The Cadillac Cowboys

The East End Vipers

1992-2010 (Cajun/Zydeco-Guitar, Keys, Fiddle, Mandolin, Harmonica, vocal) 

The Big Chill

The Cadillac Cowboys

The Cadillac Cowboys

1982-1992 (60's- Guitar, Vocal) 

The Cadillac Cowboys

The Cadillac Cowboys

The Cadillac Cowboys

1979-1982 (Country- Guitar, Pedal Steel, Banjo, Vocals)
 

Soul Congress

Soul Congress

Soul Congress

 1967-1970 (Top 40-Guitar) 

Audio Samples

 mostly originals

Video

With The East End Vipers


With Zydecoal

With Tom Slick

With Boots and Bangs 

Keyboard playing live with Tom Slick 2022

Demos Playing Pedal Steel 2022

Music Video of Cover Tunes

"Walk Away Renee" Bill Davis vocals, 12 string 

 Big Star's "Thirteen"  Bill Davis vocals, guitars 

 Dire Straits "sultans of swing" with accordion, pedal steel, djembe. Mandolin, vocals 

From 1974's "Blue Pine Trees" by Unicorn.  Bill Davis, vocals, some of the guitars and bass 

Pouges classic Christmas song.  Bill Davis vocals and playing banjo and accordion 

The Kinks "Sunny afternoon"  Bill Davis, vocals, guitar, banjolin 

 Green eyed lady. Bill Davis guitar and vocal 

 Tim Buckley's "Buzzin' fly"  

Equipment

Instruments

Taylor 25th anniversary Acoustic Guitar
Fender G5 Stratocaster modeling Guitar
Kaminski custom Telecaster style Guitar
Epiphone Emperor jazz hollow body guitar with voodoo pickups
Fender jazz bass
Fender FV-3 Electric Violin
Fender FM Mandolin
Korg Krome Keyboard
Kawai EP2 keyboard 88 weighted keys
Sho Bud Pro I Pedal Steel guitar

Rickenbacker 360 12 string Guitar
Rouge Resonator guitar with National resonator and bridge
Pearl Cocktail Drum Kit
Korg multi effects preamp
Epiphone 5 string Banjo
Kaminski Uke
Dean 6 string Banjo
1917 Banjolin
Monarch Upright Bass
Dean fretless Acoustic Bass
Camanero 120 bass Accordion
(2) Digitech Vocalist Live 4 Harmonizer   

Backline

Boss Katana 100W solid state guitar amp

Boss Katana 50W solid state guitar amp  

Fender super sonic 60 watt tube amp 

Bugera V5 Tube amp 

Gallien-Kruger backline 210 bass/keyboard amp 

Marshall G50 1-12" 50 watt combo amp 

PA

Mixers

Mackie DL1608 digital mixer 16 channel with 4 Ipads   

                                                  
FOH speakers:
(2) EV Evolve 50 line array system with 2 extra 12" subs
                                                                          
Monitors:
six separate mixes on the Mackie
(2) Electro Voice ZX1A 8" 800 watt powered center fill or monitor
(2) QSC K8's 8" woofer 1000 watts
(11) in ears with Audio Technica ATH-im50 earbuds
 

Microphones:
(9) CAD 95 condenser Microphones on black boom stands
(6) Shure SM58 Microphones on chrome or black boom stands
(2) Shure Beta 58
(3) Shure SM57
(5) Shure wireless SM58
(1) Shure PGA98 Sax mic
(5) Shure PG1 wireless lavileers
(1) Rode NT1000 large diaphragm condenser
(2) Samson CO@ small diaphragm pencil condensers
(1) Audix cymbal mike  
(1) Shure beta 52 kick
(6) Direct insert boxes                                         
 

Lighting:
(4) battery powered PAR 64 LED instruments 

Recording

I can record your project with unlimited tracks of hard disk recording  (up to 8 tracks at once) using Cakewalk Sonar X3 64 bit  software, Waves VST's,  Behringer UMC1820 interface, ART Pro Channel  tube preamp,  Rode NT-1000 large diaphragm condenser microphones, CAD  condenser and dynamic drum mikes, Audix drum mikes, and Shure dynamic  mikes.  A full range of house instruments is available. I have 8  tracks of wireless headphone monitoring (3 separate mixes) on Yamaha and Sony  headphones or monitor with Alesis M1 studio monitors.  

All this is done in a comfortable 20 X 30 room with skylights (NOT a basement) in Wilkes-Barre. 

Production Credits

Producer, Performer, Composer:  

East End Vipers "Eaton and Orange" Pelican Records 2015
East End Vipers-"Jazz Band" Pelican Records 2011

Zydecoal "Where you got them shoes" Pelican Records 2004
Zydecoal "Show us your originals" Pelican Records 2007
Zydecoal "Seedy" Pelican Records 2002

Zydecoal "Where there's coal, there's fiyo" Pelican Records 1997
 

Producer, Performer: 

Tom Potsko "You know why" Pelican Records 2008

The Grain- HMN Records 2005

Tom Slick-Live at Halloween 2022     


Producer, Recording Engineer:   

Live from the Chicory House compilation CD Pelican Records 1998 

 

Recording Engineer:   

Selections from Four Shillings Short "Dodging Lodging" 2000
 

Soundtracks- Producer, Composer, Performer: 
Save on Software: World of Trains, World of Space, World of Planes, Digital Tours of the USA, Pandemonium Island 1 -4
 

Graphic Artist:
Tom Slick and the Converted Thunderbolt Greaseslappers-2009
 

Live Sound Engineer: 

Billy Kirchen 

The Voodudes 

Tanglefoot 

Amy and Jennie 

Kim and Reggie with Magpie 

Bob Crosby's Bobcats Big Band 

Royal Swing Big Band 

Janis Ian 

Street Beat 

Magpie 

Midori Brothers Big Band

Tom Rush
Harlem Gospel Choir

David Lieberman Jazz Quartet 

Simple Gifts 

Livingston Taylor 

Arrogant Worms 

Bix Biederbeck all stars 

Chicago City Limits improv comedy 

Rob Schwimmer 

Stan Kenton
Bucky Covington 
Paula Poundstone
Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks
Elizabeth Von Trapp
Bucky Pizzerelli
Emily Asher's Garden Party
"All Hands on Deck" musical theater
"A Celtic Christmas" musical theater
Almost Queen tribute band
cast of Beatlemania - Beatles tribute
Tusk - Fleetwood Mac tribute
Who's Next tribute band
Draw the Line - Aerosmith triblute
Wailing Jennies

  

House Sound, Live Recording, Booking - Chicory House concert series 1993-2009 

Whirligig  

Chris Smither 

Modal Men of Mona's 

Susan Werner 

Martin Simpson 

Dave Van Ronk 

Chulrua 

Bowery Boys 

Eric Andersen 

Burns Sisters 

Cheryl Wheeler 

An Cre'

Robin & Linda Williams 

Tanglefoot 

Guy Davis 

Ceoltoiri 

Four Shillings Short 

Fiddlin' Around 

Ian Matthews 

Woods Tea Company 

Clandestine 

Jay Smar 

Salamander Crossing 

Bob Franke 

Linda Waterfall 

Broadside Electric 

Simple Gifts 

Paul Rishell and Annie Raines 

Mad Pudding 

Geoff Muldaur 

Vance Gilbert 

Kim & Reggie 

Magpie 

Terri Allard and Peter Keane 

Artisan 

Chaskinakui 

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer 

Garnet Rogers 

Nightingale 

Amazing Incredibles 

Michael Smith 

Anne Hills 

Kick at Heaven 

Harmonious Wail 

Tamarack 

Joel Mabus 

John Roberts & Tony Barrand 

Jem & Ariane 

Pint and Dale 

Kelly Joe Phelps 

Silk Road 

Jive 5 

Lisa Moscitello 

Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem 

Brooks Williams 

Louise Taylor 

Silk City 

The Strawbs 

Richard Green 

Cara

Slide
Teda
Fishtank Ensemble

My Sweet Patootie


House Sound Tech

Mohegan Sun Casino 2008-2019

Misericordia University 1998-2020

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Bill Davis

(570) 301-3810

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