During the mid 70`s to mid 80`s there was the 3 piece "Chicken Fisher Band" that toured all through Ireland.

Martin (Chicken) Fischer: keyboard, bass pedals & vocalist from London
Dave Prim: guitarist from Kilkenny
John Forbes: London / Jamaican drummer

Chicken, as he was nicknamed, took Organ Pedals and added electronics that produced the Bass sound functioned by a Minimoog. He then built a light switch to the Bass Drum Pedal that triggered the impulse to the Minimoog, the Minimoog which one could then determine attack and release of the bass sound. The bass pedals would play the note and the bass drum the syncopation which produced a unique drive within the band, a system and idea that had never been done before at that time. Nowadays one has the easy method of solving such with Midi.

Dave Prim, was well known at the time from the "Dave Prim Band".

John Forbes, he was the only black drummer around in 1978, to the astonishment of many and he also played as such !

The band later became a 4 piece with Owen O'Neill on bass who used to play with Moving Hearts.

See Dave Prim Band

Thanks to Martin Fischer © 2006