Talking Points: FAT FREDDYS DROP ‘Based On A True Story’ with SAMBORA

Date: November
Guest reviewer: SAMBORA aka Sam Trevethick (Shapeshifter / Peacekeepers)
Featured release: FAT FREDDYS DROP ‘Based On A True Story’
Released: 2005
Link to release: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/based-on-a-true-story/340180839

Featured track #1: RAY RAY
Featured track #2: ROADY
Featured track #3: DEL FUEGO

SAMBORA is a multi instrumentalist and is responsible for the Keys, Guitar & Percussion in the band Shapeshifter – he’s also part of the Peacekeepers.

‘Based On A True Story’ aka BOATS is the debut studio album from Fat Freddy’s Drop, released May 2005. The album debuted at #1 and went Gold on its first release day in New Zealand, and won the band a stash of NZ Music Awards and a legion of fans worldwide. As of June 23, 2016 the album had been in the New Zealand charts for 108 weeks and had gone 9 times Platinum, selling over 135,000 copies