{"id":8422,"date":"2018-09-26T20:30:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T03:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?p=8422"},"modified":"2018-11-27T15:45:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T23:45:36","slug":"phil-gates-following-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/phil-gates-following-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Gates \u2013 Following Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bluesmen have been lacing up their walking shoes and relocating to Europe for generations. The list is extensive; Memphis Slim made his home in Paris the latter part of his life, and Champion Jack DuPree lived in Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, England and Germany. Harp player Hook Herrera still lives in Scandanavia and the late Frank Frost once said he loved being in Italy because the people there \u2018treat me so nice.\u2019 <\/strong>So, when L.A.-based guitarist Phil Gates packed his bags in 2016 and moved to the Swiss countryside, he was just following in the footsteps of a long-standing blues tradition.<\/p>\n

\"Phil
Phil Gates in the moment.<\/span> Photo courtesy Bimar Press<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The question remains, why Switzerland<\/a>? \u201cI had been to Switzerland a few times on tour.\u201d<\/strong> Phil says. \u201cAnd I liked it a lot. A few years ago I met my wife, who is from South America but was living in Switzerland. We dated long distance for a few years, but I decided to move there when we got married.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Are you playing a lot? \u201cI\u2019ve been playing as much as possible. I have a really good band that I\u2019ve put together. The current line-up is Tom Wagener on drums, Uwe Rodi on keyboards, and Stephan Hug on bass. They\u2019re great cats.\u201d <\/strong>He adds. \u201cI also have an amazing booking agent that has been getting us really GOOD gigs in nice venues and on big festival stages. <\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve played a lot in Switzerland, and have had dates in Austria<\/a>, some fun places in Germany, Greece, and Romania. It takes some time to get known in every country on this side of the pond, yet it\u2019s been a good path. As the talent buyers get to know you and what you do, they also see how we are on stage. You have to win country by country here, not state by state like in the U.S. It\u2019s tough enough getting known around America, but here you have to add different languages and different cultures. That said\u2026 that\u2019s exactly what makes it so fun! Being here for a few weeks or a month on tour is different than when you\u2019re living here. There\u2019s a different mentality to it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

You said you played at a few blues festivals this year? \u201cYes, we played the Dichis\u2019n\u2019Blues Festival in Tulcea, Romania. It was awesome! They have such great fans and organizers. We even did a boat cruise down the Danube River<\/a> to the Black Sea with a jam that included all of the bands from the festival and even a few players from the audience! <\/strong><\/p>\n

We also played the PG Bike Festival in \u00d6blarn, Austria and the Gossau Rock n\u2019 Blues Nights in Gossau, Switzerland. We\u2019ve been fortunate enough to perform at some great club dates too. We did four nights in Athens, Greece at a place called the HalfNote. We have so much fun at the Blues venues because we bring a combination of musical genres with our show that really seem to resonate with the audiences.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

I get the impression that you truly enjoy your time performing. \u201cAbsolutely, what I like about it is that one of the most comfortable places in the world for me is onstage. And when I get onstage it\u2019s like, it\u2019s my living room. It\u2019s like, hey come on in and get yourself a glass of wine or a beer, have a seat, let\u2019s have some fun, man. We\u2019re just going to chill out and have fun. Because I love being onstage and interacting with the audience. I\u2019ve played everything from small clubs to the halftime of the Super Bowl and ALL of them are fun.\u00a0 Whether it\u2019s a small crowd or large crowd it only takes a couple of people to have a great time.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Have you always had an appreciation for multiple genres; jazz, blues, rock and R&B? \u201cAbsolutely, I don\u2019t bag on any kind of music unless I can play it really well and have an informed opinion about it, and then go, \u2018Yeah, I like it\u2026 or not!\u2019\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

Gates says his earliest influences were jazz… \u201cColtrane and Parker and those cats, but also a heavy dose of Roy Buchanan, Carlos Santana, Tommy Bolin, Hendrix of course, a lot of those folks. What I try to do is learn a lot of different kinds of music so it\u2019s like spices in the kitchen. I can go okay, \u2018I want a little more spice today or a little less,\u2019 and then the way I mix it becomes Phil Gates.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do you have a process when you write? \u201cYeah, it\u2019s mostly about, I\u2019ll come up with a pocket first. A little riff or something like that, that\u2019s just kinda\u2019 fun that emotes a certain kind of emotion. And that emotion will dictate how that makes me feel\u2026 and that dictates the story line. And then I\u2019ll start going down that path. If it makes me feel sad, well then it\u2019s probably going to be a relationship song about breaking up. But if it\u2019s a funky pocket song, it\u2019s probably going to be a club song.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n

Do you always write with the guitar? \u201cActually I write almost by hearing. What I\u2019ll do sometimes is I\u2019ll have drum loops on CD\u2019s and I\u2019ll just lay down in bed and I\u2019ll just hear different drum loops and a line will come to me. I almost want to hear stuff in my head. There\u2019s one song that I wrote that came out, I don\u2019t know four or five records ago, called \u2018Querida\u2019 and it\u2019s a salsa tune. And I mean I heard the WHOLE song <\/strong>(snaps his fingers) like that. The horn parts and everything like that, so my approach is varied.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"CDYou released your 9th<\/sup> album \u2018The Twelve Rhythms\u2019<\/em><\/strong> before you left the States\u2026 \u201cYes, and following up that CD is going to be a task because that was a really good record. It was my last record with my L.A. band. That band had Larry Houston on keys, Ron Battle on the bass, Keith Williams on drums and rhythm arrangements.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

You had some friends sitting in as well? \u201cSome great guest artists.\u201d<\/strong> Phil says. \u201cElizabeth Hangan on back-up vocals and vocal arrangements, Kenny Neal on harmonica, Eric Gales on guitar, Rob Mullins on acoustic piano, Tre Balfour on percussion, and Poncho Williams on saxophone. Amazing!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now that you\u2019re settled in Switzerland, are you still recording? \u201cAbsolutely I\u2019m recording!\u201d<\/strong> Phil says. \u201cNew fun stuff! For the first quarter of next year, I\u2019ll have two new records out with this new band I have here in Europe. One is a live record, and the other will be a studio record with 12 new songs. I\u2019m mixing the live record now, finishing up writing the new studio record and trying to figure out the guest artists for this record\u2026 Busy, busy!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Any plans for touring back in the States? \u201cI would love to tour back in the States! I\u2019m having conversations now about a southern East coast & Florida tour. I\u2019d love to come back through Southern California as well. I\u2019m open to the conversations, because I would love to play the new material in the States.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Billy
Billy Boy Arnold & Phil Gates backstage at the S.D. Blues Fest.<\/span> Photo: T.E. Mattox<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So give us the Phil Gates philosophy?\u00a0 Gates just smiles. \u201cI\u2019ve beaten this horse to death.\u00a0 It seems that a lot of the people \u2018in charge\u2019 of the blues, are afraid of it becoming Rock and Roll. The blues started with violin went to acoustic guitar went to a guy on a stool with a dobro and then went to Chicago and got electric. Now if you go, \u2018well if they have a band\u2026 that\u2019s Rock and Roll,\u2019 then you just cut out Muddy Waters. Okay, if you go, \u2018well a guy playing a distorted guitar behind his head is Rock and Roll,\u2019 then you just took out Buddy Guy<\/a>. <\/strong>(laughing) \u201cIt moved it forward! These guys were not afraid to move it forward and I\u2019m excited to see if we can STILL move it forward, or if people are going to say, \u2018Nah, if it doesn\u2019t sound like 1960\u2019s or earlier, it\u2019s not really the blues.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

You are a military veteran. \u201cYeah, I spent five years in the Air Force, working in avionics on F-15 fighter aircraft and then I extended and was involved with the Air Force talent competition. You can be a musician in the military and get signed on as that or the military has a type of Star Search<\/em> or American Idol<\/em> and the winners become what they call, \u2018Tops in Blue.\u2019 And twenty-five people do a stateside tour and twenty-five people do a world tour and I was fortunate enough to be selected for the world tour. We did twenty-two countries and I was on the road for 373 days and we finished by playing the halftime at the Super Bowl. That was a lot of fun. The military truly paved my way, you know? It brands you with responsibility at an early age; it teaches you a ton of things about discipline, about structure and about order. The clearances that I had helped pave the way after that, because I ended up having a great career in aerospace after I got out of the Air Force.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

Quite a career leap from aerospace to Blues\u2026? \u201cBefore I made the change, I thought okay \u2018this is what I can do, but this is what I want to do.\u2019 And music is what I want to do, because if it was about the money\u2026 I should STILL be in aerospace! <\/strong>(laughing) So it\u2019s definitely about the passion for music, it\u2019s about the passion of working with other great musicians, the passion of the fans and the crowds and the whole thing.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stay up to date on all of Phil\u2019s European exploits and get updates on his latest projects and tours by checking out his website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bluesmen have been lacing up their walking shoes and relocating to Europe for generations. The list is extensive; Memphis Slim made his home in Paris the latter part of his life, and Champion Jack DuPree lived in Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, England and Germany. 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