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My Originals are just me playing all the tracks, except live drums and percussion which were played by Gary Berman.
Influences
Pretty much everything I ever heard. But to name a few:
Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Carlos Santana, Peter Frampton, Tommy Bolin, Rory Gallagher, Neil Young, Greatfull Dead, Allman Bros. Lynyrd Skynard, Charlie Daniels, ZAPPA!!, Robin Trower, Beatles, Miles Davis, Sly And The Family Stone, Steely Dan, Allan Holdsworth, Tony Williams Lifetime,“believe it” , John Scofield, Mike Stern, Hiram Bullock, Jaco.,Delmar Brown, Daryll Dobson,John Mcglaughlin, Return to Forever, Larry Carlton, Steve Morse, Brecker Bros. Joe Perry,Bill Bruford, Brand X, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Eric Clapton, Gary Moore, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Wes Montgomery,Led Zeppelin.
I gotta tell ya, that there's these two guys that were more influential to my playing then anyone I just mentioned. My close friends to this day from Junior High school. Richard Holler and Owen McDonald., Both very talented song writers. What they did for me was to turn me on to the right music to listen to and to stay clear of the assholes that I thought were my friends. You could say, and I mean this, man, They had saved my life and started me on my musical path. Rich was the one that turned me on to Electric Lady land. I still remember that day standing in his driveway, cause I wasn't allowed in his house when his mom wasn't home. Owen turned me on to all his older Brother Stevens album collection,( only Steven wasn't supposed to know that we were all up in his collection). he he he I guess he knows now.! sorry Owen.
Owen, was and still is, an amazing lyricist and writes lyrics as witty as anyone I had ever heard. Owen is a successful writer today and Rich, well HE is /PUPPET TRUTH. He is in my top friends list.check him out when you get a chance.
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Sounds Like
A combination of all my influences. I would say blues/ classic rock is my roots and basis of my playing. But I hear more than that. I can be clean like Stevie Ray, Hiram or Stern or I can be smooth like Carlos, Carlton and Luke. I just try to be Tasty and sing what I'm playing.
JIMI HENDRIX- HEAR MY TRAIN A COMING.
Hello everyone. Welcome to my page. I started playing guitar when I was about 11. My first song I learned was down by the river, Neil Young. Hey, Everyone has a starting point. anyway, Neils cool. I Played in various rock bands in New York during my teens.Mostly not realizing just how good I was. that I would have loved to do this the rest of my life and move in that direction at a young age. I didn't have that drive or confidence back then. Oh, To be young again!. You see, I knew and hung out with some great players after I got out of college and I would compare myself to them. Of coarse, I could never measure up.It seemed I was always a day late and a dollar short.
But that was then, and this is now.And I wouldn't trade it for the world.
Today I enjoy playing when I can and of coarse I still love to write. I am in a dry spell right now. but that will change. So now the focus is on playing as much as I can. With the economy the way it is, I hope there will be places to play!
A couple of these songs on this page are from a few years back when my friend Owen was going through a terrible divorce.
I guess you could say there is a little bit of my own personal shit in there too. I had gone through my own divorce a couple years earlier.
At the time I really was just writing lyrics from what he was telling me over the phone late at night when he couldn't sleep!. Hey, my bro was going through some major shit and I had to be there for him, I wanted to because he was there for me. Thats how it works!
So yeah, you could say he spewed his turmoil, anguish and frustration and living fucking nightmare in one ear and I let it come out through "Fight of my life" and "Lonely". Walked Away and Whore of Satan were also inspired from the pain of Divorce. "FIGHT OF MY LIFE" cracks me up! (Sounds a little like Zappa, ya think he would be proud?) There is life after divorce.
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Wishes you All da Best in 2009!
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