Ian Pellow, a common name for a common person ? No, not even close. The name may be common but the man surely isn't.
Ian had hidden talents which have creatively surfaced a couple of years ago with this brilliant freshly released debut CD as a r [+]Ian Pellow, a common name for a common person ? No, not even close. The name may be common but the man surely isn't.
Ian had hidden talents which have creatively surfaced a couple of years ago with this brilliant freshly released debut CD as a result.
Born in Montreal in 1961, he was a nice cute kid (as his mother will proudly confirm). He grew up influenced by the music his older brother Boyd was listening to - Chicago, Zappa, the Allman Brothers, Ella Fitzgerald, Joni Mitchell, Jaco Pastorius... to name but a few of the extensive list of quality musicians/songwriters who helped to shape Ian's musical style and direction.
His father was a concert musician who played 1st Viola at the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore and San Antonio Symphony in the States before becoming a music teacher back in Canada.
And what do you do when your father is a music teacher... you learn music as soon as you can reach the keyboard of the piano or your
fingers can curl around the neck of a guitar...
Ian started off with the piano at the age of 6, followed by the trumpet
2 years later and persisted with that for 10 years. At 15 his interest in bass was born after getting a Mansfield driftwood bass. Having Peter Cetera -Chicago- as his example, he taught himself how to play bass.
A couple of bass guitars further...
... in 1980 a nice tax refund cheque dropped through the mailbox and it was spent on a B301AF Guild fretless bass. It was money well spent !
Ian toured Montreal with his brother and local bands but when Ian started working, employment took up all his time and the music was
put on the shelf. It kept lingering ... as any true musician knows. Around 1997 he acquired a Rhodes piano, a Yamaha 4-track, a cheap Casio keyboard to play the drums and started writing music but his heart was not in it.
In 1999 life took a turn in an unexpected direction.
Ian met his Belgian life mate. With just his fretless bass and a suitcase, he plunged into the unknown and has since emerged, 5 years later, having moved to Scotland, happy, writing, performing and recording as never before.
The move to the beautiful Highlands has proved a very inspiring and creative one. The Yamaha 4-track was replaced with the Boss BR-8
and then again by the
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