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Andrew Stockdale
Stockdale performing with Wolfmother on 5 May 2007 at the Beale Street Music Festival
Background information
Birth name	Andrew Stockdale
Born	20 July 1976 (1976-07-20) (age 33) Australia
Genres	Hard rock, neo-psychedelia, stoner rock, heavy metal
Instruments	Guitar, Vocals, Bass guitar, Keyboards
Years active	2003–present
Labels	Modular, Universal, Interscope, Island
Associated acts	Wolfmother, Beck, Slash
Website	http://www.wolfmother.com

Andrew James Stockdale (born 20 July 1976) is an Australian musician best known as the singer and guitarist of Wolfmother.

Early life

Stockdale was educated in Brisbane, Australia, at Ashgrove State School, Wimbeldon Middle School, The Gap State High School and Kelvin Grove State High School, and lived in Ashgrove and Wimbledon Village, London as a child.^[1]

Styles and Method

Stockdale's influences are most commonly cited among late-sixties and early-seventies hard rock and heavy metal guitarists. Vocally compared to a "cross between Robert Plant and Ozzy Osbourne" by Allmusic,^[2] his guitar antics and stage persona are commonly traced to Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi and Jimi Hendrix, while his style can often be compared to progressive rockers Pink Floyd.

Equipment

Stockdale plays Gibson guitars, primarily a 72' SG standard with a Bigsby vibrato tailpiece in vintage sunburst. He has also been seen using a 61 Reissue Gibson SG. Other times he uses a Gibson Dot Studio ES-335, a white Gibson Flying V and an alpine white Gibson EDS-1275 with golden hardware. For the recording of the Wolfmother album he used a borrowed Gibson ES-355 through a 60's Marshall. When playing live, he uses a Vox AC30 and a Marshall JMP. In the past Stockdale has been noted to use Orange amplifiers and cabinets. Stockdale also states to use a Fender Stratocaster, though he prefers the Gibson guitars. In recent times he has also started using a Hohner Blues Master Harmonica microphone for some vocals.

Stockdale's current pedalboard consists of a Boss TU-2, Radial Tone Bone, Fulltone Clyde wah, a Fulltone Supa-Trem, an Electro-Harmonix Microsynth, an Electro-Harmonix Small Stone phaser, an AC booster, and a Digitech Whammy I (locked into place and set for a high octave.) All are patched into a true bypass looper/switcher array and are powered by a Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 2+.

Solo Appearances

• On September 4, 2009, Beck announced his second Record Club covers album, Songs of Leonard Cohen. Stockdale will contribute, alongside MGMT, Devendra Banhart and Binki Shapiro of Little Joy.^[3]
• Andrew Stockdale performed on RocKwiz, shown on SBS on October 3, 2009. He played the Wolfmother song "New Moon Rising", then the Stevie Nicks/Glenn Frey song, "Leather and Lace" as a duet with Holiday Sidewinder from Bridezilla.
• Andrew Stockdale performs on Slash's first solo album Slash & Friends to be released in February 2010. He played a show with Slash on November 22 in Los Angeles, performing an upcoming song off the album written by Stockdale, "By The Sword". Stockdale also performed the hit Wolfmother song "Woman" with Slash's band.

References

1. ^ [1]
2. ^ Allmusic.com
3. ^ http://stereokill.net/2009/09/04/beck-mgmt-banhart-cover-leonard-cohen/

1. ^  Browne, Sally, "On Wolf Patrol", The Courier Mail, 23 April 2006.

External links

• Andrew Stockdale's Photography Website
• Andrew Stockdale's Twitter
• Wolfmother official website
• Wolfmother at MySpace
• Wolfmother label page
• Wolfmother discography at MusicBrainz