Abdee Negara

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Genre = Rock
Blues
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Years_active = 1990 - Present
Label = Slank Records
Associated_acts = Slank
URL = [http://www.slank.com www.slank.com]
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Notable_instruments = Extreme Telecaster
Fender Telecaster

Abdee Negara (born June 28, 1968, Donggala) is an Indonesian guitarist, back vocalist, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as Slank's guitarist with fellow guitarist, Ridho, and also has played with many national and international guitarist, including Paul Gilbert. Besides working with Slank, his main band, he is also a producer of another Indonesian band, Serieus. Since the beginning of his career, Negara has presented a rock-blues style of playing.

Career

Before Slank

In the 1980s, Negara moved from Palu to Jakarta to pursued his dream to become a professional musician. His earlier musical experience was to join a band with Ecky Lamoh, Gideon Tengker and Henky Supit, all are Indonesian guitarists. In 1988, Negara entered ILW, a school of music in Jakarta, to gain his musical formal education, since he had his earlier knowledge just by learning autodidactly. In this stage, he met Ivan, who later became a fellow member in Slank.

With Slank

Kaka and Bim-Bim recruited three new members, Ridho, Ivan and Negara. Initially, the fans were not very satisfied with the appearance of new members as Slank has had six albums with the ex-members. Surprisingly, when they released their seventh album, called "Tujuh" ("seven" in Indonesian), the popularity increased dramatically and the albums sold broke the record of Slank's other albums. Nowadays, with his audio engineering skill, Negara is in charge of Slank's sound engineering and created many songs with Slank. Since he joined Slank in 1997, they have released seven hit albums in Indonesia and some Southeast Asian countries.

Producer

Negara is also a producer of another Indonesian rock band, called Seurieus.

Equipment

Most of the time, Negara uses Fender guitar brand for recording and live performances. Two types of Fender that he commonly uses, Telecaster and Stratocaster. Not so long ago, a guitar company, named Extreme offered him to use their guitar. Then Abdee agreed to use Extreme guitar as his main gear, however, since he loves Telecaster so much, he wanted the same guitar model as Fender Telecaster to this company. [http://www.gitaris.com/Abdee.p]

Discography

* "Tujuh" (1997)
* "Mata Hati Reformasi" (1998)
* "Konser Piss 30 Kota" (1998)
* "999 + 09 1" (1999)
* "999 + 09 11" (1999)
* "Ngangkang" (2000)
* "Virus" (2001)
* "Virus Road Show" (2000)
* "Satu Satu" (2003)
* "Bajakan" (2003)
* "P.L.U.R" (2003)
* "Slankisme" (2005)
* "Since 1983 - Malaysian Edition" (2006)

ee also

* Slank
* Fender Musical Instruments Corporation
* Telecaster

External links

* [http://www.slank.com Official Slank website]