- Abdee Negara
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Name = Abdee Negara
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Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
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Alias = Abdee
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Genre = RockBlues
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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 TelecasterFender Telecaster Abdee Negara (born
June 28 ,1968 ,Donggala ) is anIndonesia n guitarist, back vocalist,songwriter andrecord producer . He is best known asSlank 's guitarist with fellow guitarist, Ridho, and also has played with many national and international guitarist, includingPaul 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 toJakarta to pursued his dream to become aprofessional 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 learningautodidactly . 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
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Slank
*Fender Musical Instruments Corporation
*Telecaster External links
* [http://www.slank.com Official Slank website]
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