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Pony began playing the Bass when he was eleven years old. A unique playing style,
Pony plays left-handed, with a right-hand bass, turned backwards, flipped upside down
with the G-string on top.
Pony attended High School in Los Angeles, California. He later enlisted in the Armed
services where he continued to play the bass at the NCO club on weekends.
1985 marked the beginning of Pony's professional career, first touring with the Johnny
Otis Show where he played Carnige Hall with Ella Fitzgerald, and Bull Moose Jackson,
he then went on to Switzerland, Italy, France, Holland, and Finland.
Pony joined Hank Ballard and the Midnighters where he toured Canada and played the
Casinos in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Las Vegas, Nevada. Studio work included "Nut
Pony" and "Funk It Up" with Johnny Otis and with Manhattan Transfer/Hank
Ballard and the Midnighters on "Keep the Fat".
He performed with Etta James at the Long Beach Blues Festival and variety of lounges
throughout the Los Angeles area. While with the Phillip Walker Blues Band, Pony toured
the United States as well as abroad. Pony later joined the Ike Turner Revue where
he again performed in Las Vegas, New Orleans, Biloxi and Los Angeles.
Pony is also a talented songwriter and producer. To his credit he has composed several
arrangements, Once Upon a Time, Ticket to Love, Gonna Be There, Move on with your Life,
Checkin Out Myself, and a host of instrumentals and bass solos. Pony's CD's have done
well overseas, i.e Japan, Spain, Italy and Germany.
In 1999 Pony formed his very own record company "Pony Records" with his partner
Patricia Irvin. The record company had been a life long dream of Pony's, it took and
Patricia and Pony together to make his dream a reality.
Pony's band "Final Snapp" play a wide variety of music, Blues, R&B, and
Oldies. Under Pony's leadership the band performs a great deal for the seniors in
the Los Angeles area at facilities such as adult care homes, rehabilitation hospitals,
residential care facilities, adult day care centers, retirement facilities, senior
centers and more. Pony is a true believer in playing the music that the seniors can
relate to and appreciate; he enjoys taking the music to the seniors, especially those
individuals that aren't able to make it to the nightclub venues.
Pony and Patricia have established a program for seniors, "Jam Session" which
allows seniors that wish to participate in music as a means of therapy the opportunity
to do so in a comfortable, safe, friendly, and familiar environment; their center/facility.
An interactive program, Jam Session allows the seniors at various facilities and day
care centers to interact socially with others through music and dance.
Pony provides a few of the instruments; the seniors perform, listen and dance. This
program proves to work amongst the seniors in the Los Angeles area. Pony's goal is
to one day be able offer "Jam Session" at every facility for seniors throughout
the country.
So keep your ear to the gound, and when you hear Pony Records gallop through your town,
come out and say HELLO!
Pony Abrams
c/o Pony Records
P.O. Box 9162
Inglewood, CA 90305-9162
323-753-5385 |
