Bio
Andy Hewett is a fire tested international touring and recording artist. He is a multi-instrumentalist who has recorded and played bass, guitar, mandolin, harmonica and keyboards in countless venues and various music situations.
Playing bass Andy has performed across the U.S., Japan, the Caribbean, and even Africa. Andy has extensive experience writing, recording and performing a wide range of genre's namely Metal, Hard Rock, Pop, Rock, Motown and even Country.
Currently, Andy is playing bass and singing back up vocals with the legendary LONDON an American Band, Japan hard rock band CALAVARAS and re-emerging 90's Bay Area Rock Band ALLIED NATION.
Recent past projects include National touring artist Six Gun Sal; LIVE Nation - International Artist Sergio Michel and Vietnam based Yeti Valhalla.
Additionally, Andy has toured with legendary Night Ranger and Three Dog Night vocalist Gary Moon. Andy played Bass and sang all the backing vocals including the "Kelly Keagy" lead parts in the Night Ranger portions of the set list. The band toured on the East Coast, Midwest and Southern California sharing the stage with Kix, Vince Neil (Motley Crue), Firehouse, and Dokken.
After cutting his teeth playing bass in the blues bars of Chicago, Andy picked up and moved to California to tackle hard rock/metal music. Upon arrival he started working as a bass tech for legendary bassist Glenn Letsch (Montrose, Gamma, Journey, Robin Ford and a whole host of “musically who’s who”) before joining the modern rock band Evolution Eden (EE).
EE's first CD garnered international success with regular plays in more than 26 different countries and a top ten and a top twenty single on the Australian World Indie chart resulting in a music contract with BluePie records.
Additional recording projects had Andy and Evolution Eden working with A-list producer Beau Hill (Winger, Warrant, Ratt) as well as legendary producer Andy Johns (Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones) shortly before Johns' untimely passing.
Andy has shared the bill with the who's who of "Vintage Rock" bands - Namely: Mr. Big, Blue Oyster Cult, Y&T, Cinderella, The Baby's, John Waite, Lynch Mob, Jack Russell's Great White, Carl Palmer (ELP), Winger, Warrant, Ratt...to name just a few...
Andy plays: fretted and fretless custom 5 string Modulus Basses (RIP); Vintage Gibson Thunderbird and Explorer Basses; Vintage Fender Jazz and Precision's; Mesa Boogie; AMPEG amplifiers and speaker cabinets; DBX compressors; Sure wireless; Tech21 Bass Fly Rig; Taylor acoustic guitars; Collings Mandolins; D’Addario Strings; Earth quaker devices; InTunGuitarPicks; LM Products; Quantum Industries; TKL Cases; Ultimate Ears; Gould Music; GoGo Tuners; EBS Base Equipment: SURE Wireless: CFG Cable Free Guitar; xWire monitors.
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