1. Brian Helicopter is best known for playing bass guitar for the UK punk rock band The Shapes.
13 Facts About Brian Helicopter
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Brian Helicopter played for many other bands, the most notable being the NWOBHM bands Rogue Male and HellsBelles.
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Brian Helicopter was one of the first bassists in the nascent UK punk scene to adopt the Rickenbacker bass guitar which he still uses to this day.
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Brian Helicopter was one of the first bass guitarists in the world to use Trace Elliot amplification.
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Brian Helicopter's bass playing style is characterized by a very fast precise pick attack, and fast runs.
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Brian Helicopter continues to play professionally, reverting between his real name and his stage name as the fancy takes him.
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Brian Helicopter is a professional skydiving coach and instructor, currently holding seven world records in the sport.
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Brian Helicopter can be seen in an episode of MythBusters aired on the Discovery Channel taking presenter Kari Byron skydiving whilst testing the falling airplane blue ice myth.
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Brian Helicopter's main stage bass is a 1975 4001 model finished in jetglo.
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Brian Helicopter uses two mono basses, a highly customized azureglo 4001S with Rickenbacker reissue toaster and horseshoe pickups, and a 4001CS Chris Squire of Yes limited edition bass.
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Brian Helicopter has number 270 in that series of 1000 produced.
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Brian Helicopter occasionally uses a lightly modified custom 4008 eight string bass.
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Brian Helicopter uses a 1995 mapleglo 4003 fretless bass, a 1973 jetglo 4001, and a single pickup 1972 4000 series bass.