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Julie Slick

Julie Slick began playing bass at eleven years of age. In 1998, at age twelve, she joined the Paul Green School of Rock Music, and soon became the school’s first All-Star bassist. This led to an appearance in the award winning documentary, Rock School, as well as a role in several tracks on the movie’s soundtrack. By age sixteen, she had already performed across America and Europe with legendary musicians like Frank Zappa alumni Ike Willis and Napoleon Murphy Brock, Jon Anderson of Yes, Stewart Copeland of the Police, Ann Wilson of Heart, and Alice Cooper.

Three years after graduating the School of Rock and while a junior at Drexel University working toward a degree in Music Industry, she toured the UK with Philadelphia icon Chuck Treece, founder of McRad. But her big break came six months later, in March of 2006, when she was invited to join Adrian Belew on stage with her brother, drummer Eric Slick, at the Knitting Factory in New York City for an impromptu version of Frank Zappa’s “City of Tiny Lites”. Little did she know that Adrian had been searching for “the perfect rhythm section” and that this chance meeting would lead to the formation of the Adrian Belew Power Trio.

In May of 2006, Adrian invited Julie and Eric to his studio in Nashville to audition, and after two days of rehearsals, the trio were already out on tour by June, 2006. Since that time, they have toured four continents, recorded two CDs, and continue to wow crowds internationally.

Along with being an accomplished bassist whose influences include John Entwistle, Jack Bruce, John Wetton, Tony Levin, Chris Squire and Paul McCartney, Julie also graduated magna cum laude from Drexel and has produced several bands, including Cheers Elephant, The Jangling Sparrows, Sweatheart, Love Gravy as well her own projects.

In their short existence, the trio has collaborated and shared the stage with several luminaries. In 2006, they found themselves trading licks with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones and Umphrey’s McGee. In 2007, the ABPT was named “Best in Show” at the Festival d’Êté in Québec City, and were invited back for two performances in 2008. For the second show, they were billed as “Friends of the Crimson King” and shared a set with the California Guitar Trio, featuring Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto on bass and drums. Primus followed, and the ABPT’s mini set concluded with Levin, Mastelotto, Claypool joining them on stage for a monstrous rendition of the Crimson classic “Thela Hun Ginjeet”. In 2008 and 2009 the trio also performed at the King Crimson Festival in Moscow, featuring Adrian Belew, Levin, Mastelotto, Eddie Jobson, Greg Howe, Ric Fierabacci, and Marco Minnemann.

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Despite a sudden explosion of female bassists--from Aussie Tal Wilkenfeld (Jeff Beck, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea) to acoustic bassist/singer Esperanza Spalding (Joe Lovano--assessing them on the basis of gender would be wrong, since every one of them easily stands beside their male counterparts. The same can be said for Julie Slick, still on the shy side of 25 and with a remarkable number of high profile credits in the progressive rock world, including King Crimson guitarist Adrian Belew's Power Trio, ...

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Renowned Bassists Julie Slick And Marco Machera To Play Select East Coast Shows With King Crimson Drummer Pat Mastelotto

Renowned Bassists Julie Slick And Marco Machera To Play Select East Coast Shows With King Crimson Drummer Pat Mastelotto

Source: Glass Onyon PR - William James

jny: Asheville, NC - Having met through the Three of a Perfect Pair Music Camp in 2011, bassists Julie Slick and Marco Machera started collaborating in April 2014, when Julie flew to Italy after her Crimson ProjeKCt European tour, to play a short run of shows in Tuscany. The rehearsal went very well, and very spontaneously, some brand new songs were written and in turn, played to some very appreciative Italian audiences. The impromptu ‘bass duets’ ended up being so ...

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