Pete McGregor is a well
known full time professional jazz and rock bassist and band leader.
Pete has been involved in the Entertainment business since the age of
6, and professionally involved since the age of 13 when as a youthful
bassist he started working Friday and Saturday nights in dance bands
in his home town of Tauranga. In his late teens he was hired to perform
3 nights a week in Rotorua backing touring floor shows. He moved to
Auckland in 1969 to pursue a professional musical career.
During periods out of the entertainment industry Pete has been (among
other things) a goat farmer, a war games paint ball site manager, a
sewing machine retailer, a car dealer/importer.
Returning to full time musician Pete formed his own rock covers band
Beats
Working and
his jazz band All
That Jazz and his swing band Prima
Swing Riot.
He is also first call bassist for many of Auckland's top jazz band leaders.
He usually performs 3 - 4 times weekly.
|In 1998 Pete started Pete
McGregor Entertainment, this operation now occupying much of his
busy weekly schedule along with his 2 staff.
More recently Pete started his other business Pete McGregor Music Double
Bass Shop
Both businesses are operated out of large premises at his Auckland residence
Pete is married to Yvonne and together the have 3 children and 2 grandchildren
Equipment:
Pete currently uses a circa 1870 Saxony manufactured curved back
carved solid wood bass. He favours Thomastik Spirocore Weich strings,
and a Kolstein adjustable bridge.
For amplification Pete uses & loves his Wilson adjustable bridge
pickup and Pete now uses and endorses Acoustic Image Coda Plus amps
on his jazz gigs.
Pete's circa 1870 saxony bass " Zelda"
