J.Everson - lyrics, arrangements, rhythm guitar, lead guitar (now and again), lead vocals, backing vocals, mouth trumpet, and is responsible for all the dreams anybody ever had of playing lead guitar properly someday.
Joel Shawn - lyrics, lead guitars, rhythm guitar, keyboards, Eukele, lead vocals, backing vocals, production.
Sparky (aee also Boogie Sue) - lead guitars and bass.
Ken O'keefe - percussion.
Bruno Shakir - Bass, vocals and treatments.
Other contributors: Gavin Palmer - bass; Stefan Gerhartz - honorary member, pianist and spoon player. Anyone who contributes in the future.
GURU MONKEY - humanity, spirit, essence, subconscious, intuition, infinty, eternity, meditations, wandering and drifting, finding ourselves, incense, coffee, whisky, junk food, plant life, insomnia, psychic powers, magic, ESP, telekinesis, UFOs, the Loch Ness Monster and all kinds of weird shit that nobody can explain, or that exists and makes people uncomfortable because physics says it shouldn't.
Influences
All of it, whatever and wherever it may be.
Sounds Like
Neil Young on acid sings Dylan ... or so someone said ;o)
Guru Monkey started from a few songs written a couple of years back. The songs were written with no intention of ever recording them until J met Joel in Cork Head's bar, Tsukuba, Japan and Joel offered to record 'Let's Be Reasonable About This' CD through Nexist: the first project.
Guru Monkey are a 'workshop' band. This page is dedicated to their second project album ... Cause And Effect.
J and Joel write the songs and sets the chord arrangements, while Joel embellishes the tracks and produces. Sparky (from Boogie Sue) plays lead guitar and bass. Ken O'keefe plays the drums. Bruno Shakir has also played bass, added treatments to the music and sung on a few of the tracks on the up coming CD.
If you'd like to purchase "CAUSE AND EFFECT" by 'Guru Monkey', please contact us here by leaving a comment or message, or send an email to japwe@hotmail.com with a request. CDs will be available directly by post for 6 GBP, $12 US or 1200 Yen + 3.00 GBP P+P. Or, if you have a paypal account just click on the buy it now button below. Or, find us on Soundclick.com. Thanks :o)
Please feel free to join our related sites - Jason and the Guru Monkey, J and J Dylan Tribute and Joel Shawn's Dark Way Home profile. All may be found in our top friends below.
Guru Monkey would like to thank Emiko Horikoshi-Walker, Stefan Gerhartz, Sue Norton, Steve Kelly, Oldtoad Gil, Ken O'keefe, Gavin Palmer, Bruno Shakir, and .... Yuri Shevchuk and DDT, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, Ray Davies and The Kinks, Steve Earle, The Beatles, George Harrison, The Traveling Wilburys, Hilton and Germaine Valentine, Eric Burdon, The Animals, Alan Price, The Byrds, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers, all the blues men ever to have walked the earth, for their astounding influence, plus everyone else who's shown sincere support since the project began.
World be at peace, says the Guru Monkey.
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Hey sexy badger it's Jimmy The Fingers! If you haven't seen this video please take a peek... This is me singing my song "Grace." If you buy one mp3 this year make it a jimmy! BUY NOW – CLICK HERE!!!!!
sorry for the blatant plug but if i don't plug it, no one else will innit!
What's goin' on Guru Monkey? May you always have stables of horses to service your needs. I love your eyes, I know they can stare through my thoughts. You are dressed with filaments and people take pains to make you fully incandescent this evening. How beautiful is the snowshine in your eyes, so directly current from the static in your mind. Your eyes show as many deep and full shades of fire as a thousand supernovas. Your hair sends forth a sheen remniscent of golden sunlight winding through shadows. As the bliss slowly rises in my incandescent eluxulator, your mere presence has a euphoric effect upon me. I relentlessly desire cotton candy lollipops. I find your eyes to be a wondrous amusement park filled with neo-plastic pleasures and turkish delights. In your absence I am forced into finding other forms of amusement while thinking about you. Your sweet voice is like the application of aloe vera upon a sunburnt back. Your beauty is multiplexed in contemplation of your multidimensional effervescence.
The perfect background to your daily pleasures (...) Melody-filled, ethereal and very rich; it's a soundtrack to an imaginary adventure with romance, drama, chases and a happy ending piped in from the 60s.
This years festival is headlined by Billy Bragg (Friday), Seth Lakeman (Sunday) and Peatbog Faeries (Saturday) with many more top artists also performing incl the award winning The Demon Barbers.
Hello Jason , you've just caught me before I go off to bed - actually I've been dozing in the armchair for the past four hours or so !!!!
I haven't been around much on-line until the past month or so.
And as is the way of the world I'll now be away for the next week or so - Wednesday onwards - although I may have access to a PC during my travels to see family and friends in Essex.
Oh, and I've got a new song up - Shooting Star - a song that seems to be on the point of cracking up until the weight of its own fragility .... or something like that !!!!
Hey GM I loved' Cosmic Curtain' so much I added it to my list of best favorites from Myspace and Youtube - my list has been getting a lot of good buzz - check it out and repost it anywhere you like:
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