In the 60’s he played Central Florida POP clubs and night clubs through out Florida. In the late 60’s he performed Motown and Standards at venues in DC. In the early 70’s Gary traveled extensively throughout the US doing chart work Tenor Sax & Bass and opened & backed many Big Name Groups, In the mid 70’s chart work small TV show Minneapolis backed guest artists. Late 70’s Show Band gigs New England area & on call studio work jingles and commercials. In the early 80’s music major for 2yrs U.L. upright bass, and in the mid 80’s lived and played with Gatemouth Brown members in Louisiana doing short tour in the mid 80’s and his last with them opened for Dionne Warwick. 1995-1997 he played with the Native Tongue Band Gary then took 10 years off from playing before joining the Paul Stott Group. the
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RICHARD GALBRAITH PLATE
Harmonica player and vocalist RICK PLATE sites the harp blowing styles of Little Walter, William Clark, and Paul Delay as well as singers Bobby Blue Bland and Etta James as some of those who have influenced a style that has become his alone. He has been in many successful Orlando based bands thorught the years and prior to moving to Orlando Rick’s Colorado band ‘Driving Sideway’ opened for many national headliners.
grew up on the south side of Chicago where his two older brothers taught him to play guitar in the current 1970's rock style of music. He moved to Jacksonville Fl in the late 1970's where he found the upcoming southern rock bands in the area help influence his style of playing. He was invited back to Chicago by his brother Greg who had formed a ska-blues- rock band which was touring in the Chicago area. This was a great influence on his style of playing.. Chicago blues ! Paul owned a blues bar in Ft Myers Beach Fl for many years -this is where he honed his guitar playing with many fine players such as Sean Carney, Tina Tucker, John Cook and John Allendar.
Paul competed in the Orlando Guitar Center King of the Blues contest winning it 2 years in a row and in 2011 was a judge for the competition.
He formed the Paul Stott Group in 2010 and performed in the Bonita Blues Festival and the Daytona Blues Festival and in 2011 the Orlando Blues and BBQ where they opened for Buddy Guy!
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Growing up in the Mid-West in the late 50s and 60s, Joe listened to the big bands of the 40s, as well as the current music of Elvis, The Beatles, Ray Charles, Herb Alpert, Trini Lopez, the British Invasion groups, The Ventures, Beach Boys, and so on. Joe eventually found himself playing with adult musicians in nightclubs, while still a High School Freshman! A jazz gig at Disney's Magic Kingdom dropped in Joe's lap, while he was still a High School Senior. Jazz would eventually lead to Blues many years later, with numerous genres played since that first Blues lick captured his attention, Joe is an attentive student and teacher of the Blues, as well as, a staunch proponent and aficionado of this uniquely American art form.
