Background
Patrick Scales was born in a small town in the Bavarian Alps.
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At the age of 12 he was taking up classical guitar lessons with his teacher Jeffrey Ashton. Foreign his 14th birthday he got an electric bass and because of the recommendations of his teacher Wayne Martin, half a year later he started playing gigs regularly in army clubs with musicians twice his age.
Career
As the town was a recreation area for the American army, there were lots of clubs with live music around. Patrick could often listen to a big variety of music From bluegrass to rock, soul music and jazz everything was present.
1989 Patrick moved to Munich, where he started gigging with bands in all kinds of musical fields.
He was touring with the New York blues guitar player Jonathan Kalb, the avant-garde jazz band Brother Virus (Civil Defense: Live at the Knitting Factory-New New York Enja records-1991), the Brazilian band Coisa Nostra and others
1994 Patrick joined Klaus Doldinger´s band Passport, where he is playing since and has recorded 5 CDs with. 1996 Patrick started teaching at the Music University of Mannheim.
He played bass on the Civil Defense "A new shift" of Pee Wee Ellis.
1997 the Civil Defense Scales Brothers “Our House” was released at Enja Records. 1999 Patrick began to teach at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich. 2000 the Civil Defense Scales “Grounded” was released at Blue Note Records.
2004 the book "A Rhythmic Concept Foreign Fusion / Funk" (Advance Music) by Peter O"Mara and Patrick Scales was released.
Scales has worked with many musicians including: Klaus Doldinger, Pee Wee Ellis, Fred Wesley, Chuck Loeb, Terri Lyne Carrington, Randy Brecker, Johnny Griffin, Benny Bailey, Bob Mintzer, Claudio Roditi, Jay Ashby, Roy Ayers, Peter O’Mara, Joo Kraus, Adrian Mears, Johannes Enders a.o.
