Heath Haberlin
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| Member Since | 1/17/2008 | | Band Website | myspace.com/heathhaberlin | | Band Members | Recording band:
Heath Haberlin- vocals, guitar
Chris Chaney- bass
Gary Novak- drums | | Influences | Heath Haberlin-His singer-songwriter style is influenced by the Beatles, Elliott Smith, Jeff Buckley, Ryan Adams, Damien Rice, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Chris Whitley, Ray LaMontagne, Neil Young, Bert Jansch, Nick Drake | | Sounds Like | Heath Haberlin was inspired by and has respected many artists and styles. His favorite music includes:the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, AC/DC, Rush, Scorpions, the Police, U2, Radiohead, Coldplay, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith, Nirvana, Sound Garden, Pearl Jam, Guns & Roses, the Rolling Stones, Green Day, Snow Patrol, Metallica, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane’s Addiction, the Meters, Johnny Cash, Bob Marley, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Motown records, Bob Dylan, Ryan Adams, Damien Rice, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Ray LaMontagne, Neil Young, Nick Drake, Bert Jansch, Iron & Wine, the Swell Season, Ani DiFranco, Aimee Man, Fiona Apple, the three King’s(BB King, Albert King, Freddie King), Albert Collins, T-Bone Walker, John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy, Guitar Slim, Grant Green, Robben Ford, Bonnie Raitt and Luther Allison | | Record Label | Indepedent | | Type of Label | Indie |
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HEATH HABERLIN-BIOGRAPHY
Heath Haberlin was born in San Francisco(born Jauary 8, 1970)and raised in Mill Valley. Heath was born on Elvis Presley’s birthday almost a month late, "My mom is the biggest Elvis fan in the world so I am convinced she held me in until the King’s B-Day". He currently resides in both San Francisco and Mill Valley. Heath is San Francisco-based guitarist, singer-songwriter and musician. He is also a producer, arranger and author who also teaches guitar, bass, piano and songwriting. Heath sings and in particular excels at guitar playing(electric, acoustic and slide), songwriting, arranging and producing for which he has been hired as a professional in the studio and on stage for nearly 20 years.
Heath Haberlin’s unique upbringing in the San Francisco Bay Area around a both musical and artistic enviornment exposed him to a wealth of great music, musicians and artists. Heath was raised in a self-proclaimed "musically rich neighborhood" where members of the Grateful Dead, Carlos Santana, Janis Joplin, Bonnie Raitt, Grace Slick, and Sammy Hagar all lived in close proximity. Heath recalls a summer evening when Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead were jamming in a neighbors living room across the street from his childhood home when the local sheriff broke up the jam for being too loud and the party too big. The Mill Valley native also lived on Mt. Tamalpais just blocks away from pop-culture mecca, where some of the "Ewok Village" scenes were filmed for various Star Wars productions such as Return of the Jedi and his high school's gym was used for scenes in George Lucas' 1973 film, "American Graffiti". He attended Tamalpais High School, in Mill Valley, California, with late rapper Tupac Shakur, Chris Chaney the bass player of Jane’s Addiction as well as a member of Alanis Morissette’s touring and recording band from 1995 to 2002 when she sold an astonishing 30 million records worldwide, actress Courtney Thorne-Smith and MTV VJ China Kantner daughter of Jefferson Airplane’s Grace Slick and Paul Kantner.
Heath’s guitar playing career began at age thirteen with a guitar and lessons. He started playing professionally as a 19 year old kid in the coffee houses of Mill Valley, San Anselmo, Fairfax and Bolinas house parties. He began playing professionally as a teenager in Marin and San Francisco, in local clubs, at festivals, and at private events. He was a music major at both College Of Marin and UC Berkeley before receiving a baseball scholarship at the University Of San Francisco. He not only became proficient at the acoustic, singer-songwriter, folk, slide and rock styles of his time but he also crossed deeply into the field of blues music as well. Haberlin says he was "addicted to the blues", as a young man. Heath has come to know and understand the blues idiom through his extensive studies and teachings of Stevie Ray Vaughan, the three King’s(BB King, Albert King and Freddie King) as well as Jimi Hendrix, T-Bone Walker, John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy, Guitar Slim and Grant Green. Heath’s most important early blues influence was the 1973 movie, "Jimi Hendrix", in which, Hendrix performs, "Hear My Train A-Comin’", acoustically on a stool(which was later action off on E-Bay) on a acoustic 12-string guitar. The movie also includes interviews with childhood friend Liberty Ellman’s mother Jenifer Dean . She was Jimi Hendrix’s roommate with Hendrix and his girlfriend Devon Wilson.
Mill Valley’s legendary Sweetwater Saloon had a profound influence on Heath's musical upbringing. Heath's childhood friend was the late Tro Patterson, son of Jeanie Patterson Sweetwater's original owner. Heath fondly recalls sneeking into Sweetwater underage and seeing live blues for the first time-blues icon John Lee Hooker. He also recalls playing pool and talking about Willie Mays and the San Francisco Giants with John Lee Hooker downstairs, backstage at the Sweetwater before gigs and on set breaks. Mill Valley’s Village Music also had a lasting musical influence. John Goodard would direct and advise Heath on "real" artists and their music. Also seeing live performances by local blues musicians such as Joe Louis Walker(with whom Heath performed), Bonnie Raitt sitting in at the Sweetwater Saloon and the late Luther Tucker who Heath would see regularly at the Fouth Street Tavern in San Rafael had a lasting influence.
Heath is a known musician at Mill Valley’s legendary Sweetwater Saloon. The nightclub has featured Jerry Garcia, Elvis Costello, Bob Weir, Ry Cooder, Santana and John Lee Hooker. Local prominent artists include Bonnie Hayes, Heather Combs and Storm. Heath has played there with San Francisco Lilith Fair winner Noelle Hampton, Storm of the telvision show "Rockstar-Supernova", Heather Combs, Dean Del Ray, Cole Tate, and Vince Converse bands. He played at Sweetwater’s enviornmental monthly benefits concert and the "Soundwood Jam Series." He has played with the Allyson Paige & Lynn Asher Bands featuring Raz Kennedy and bassist Bobby Vega at their Sweetwater and Great American Musical Hall gigs. Heath was also in the Sweetwater Saloon’s houseband for up and coming singer-songwriters as the ’67 Satellites.
Heath has played countless gigs for the last 19 years with the Tommy Castro Band, Chris Cobb Band, Allyson Paige, Leah Tysse, Joe Louis Walker, Freddie Roulette, Finis Tasby, Joyce Garcia, Cathy Lemons-Johnny Ace Blues Band and the Dave Workman Band featuring iconic Monterey blues vocalist John "Broadway" Tucker at well known San Francisco/Bay Area blues venues such as Lou’ s Pier 47 S.F. and the "Saloon" in North Beach(Haberlin has been performing in the Saloon bar in North Beach for 16 years. It’s a classic San Francisco dive bar, the oldest bar in the city, going back over 125 years. When you enter, you get the feeling some of the original inhabitants(ladies of the night, drunks, musicians and Beat poets)are still hanging around. Heath has also played at the North Beach Festival with the Chris Cobb Band featuring blues vocalist Allyson Paige as well as headlining at the Saint James Gate in Belmont. Heath has opened shows for Tommy Castro at Slims on several occasions as well as Eric Martin of Mr.Big at Santa Rosa’s Last Day Saloon, the Mother Hips at San Francisco’s Last Day Saloon(at the club’s 25th anniversary celebration) and at the Edge in Palo Alto and blues great Linda Tillery at San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall.
Heath has preformed at many Bay Area clubs including Great American Music Hall, Bimbo’s, Slims, the Sweetwater Saloon, the Boom Boom Room, the Last Day Saloon in San Francisco and in Santa Rosa, Lou’s Pier 47, the Saloon in North Beach, Moe's Alley in Santa Cruz and the Edge in Palo Alto to name a few. He has also played at some of San Francisco most historical landmarks such as the De Young Museum, San Francisco’s City Hall, the Old Federal Building and the Log Cabin in the Presidio. Heath has preformed at many Bay Area Festivals including the North Beach Festival, the Union Street Festival, the Muir Beach Fireman BBQ and nationally at the Lake Tahoe Blues Festival with such artists as Bobby Blue Bland, Maria Muldaur and Chris Cain.
VINTAGE GUITAR DEALER-
Heath is a vintage guitar expert. Heath works at San Francisco’s oldest and most well known Vintage Guitar store called Real Guitars-http://www.myspace.com/realguitarssf. For the past three decades Real Guitars has worked with rock and roll’s biggest and brightest stars. Heath has been the manager at Real Guitars for 16 of the store’s 22 years. He is also an avid vintage gear collector of guitars, basses, amps, pedals, keyboards, mic’s, autographs and rock/blues memorabilia.
Real Guitars’/Heath Haberlin’s client list read like a who’s who list of rock royalty; Metallica Rolling Stones Kurt Cobain Nirvana Green Day Foo Fighters Santana The Grateful Dead Jerry Garcia ZZ Top Joe Satriani Slash of Guns & Roses/Velvet Revolver Ben Harper John Entwistle of the Who Bonnie Raitt Counting Crowes Black Crowes Bob Dylan Willie Nelson Dick Dale Neil Schon of Journey Chris Chaney of Jane’s Addiction/Alanis Morissette Dave Navarro of Jane’s Addiction/Red Hot Chili Peppers Pearl Jam Neil Young Tom Waits The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame The Estate/Family of Duane Allman Stone Temple Pilots Blind Melon Smashing Pumpkins The Killers Eminem 4 Non-Blondes Linda Perry Tracy Chapman Mazzy Star David Byrne of The Talking Heads Producer Daniel Lanois Robben Ford Eric McFadden Jefferson Airplane Jefferson Starship Paul Kantner Chris Isaak Devendra Banhart Mother Hips Tim Bluhm Jackie Green Chuck Prophet Carlos Guitarlos Dean Del Ray Marc Ford of the Black Crowes and Ben Harper Actors Richard Gere, Keanu Reeves and Peter Coyote SF Giants Barry Bonds, Barry Zito and Jason Schmitt Steve Kimock of Zero Bobby Vega of Zero The Paladins Vernon Reid of Living Color Buckethead of Guns & Roses GE Smith of Saturday Night Live Richard Thomson Chris Duarte Albert Collins Hole Courtney Love Joe Louis Walker Tommy Castro Debbie Davies Wilco Ben Kweller Pavement Brendan Benson of The Raconteurs Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac Photographer Jim Marshall Tesla Alvin Youngblood Hart Death Angel Los Lobos The Go Go’s Jetboy Rancid Third Eye Blind Primus The Matches Arcade Fire The Hives Brian Jonestown Massacre Red House Painters Sun Kil Moon Michael Bloomfield SF Chronicle Critic Joel Selvin Lyle Workman of Beck, Sting and "Forty Year Old Virgin"movie soundtrack Bret from HBO's "Flight Of The Conchords" Doyle Bramhall of Eric Clapton’s band Ian Moore Kim Wilson of the Fabulous Thunderbirds Derek O’Brien Denny Freeman Ronnie Earl Eric Gales KRON Celebrity Chef Joey Altman Jim Campilongo Al Anderson of NRBQ Adam Levy of Norah Jones Martin Luther of The Roots and star of the Oscar, Grammy and Golden Globe nominated movie"Across The Universe" child prodigy Julian Lage Grammy performer and documentry subject of the Academy-Award nominated film"Jules At Eight" Joe Gore of Tracy Chapman and PJ Harvey Jude Gold of Guitar Player Magazine Art Thomson of Guitar Player Magazine Buckethead of Guns & Roses Henry Kaiser Martin Medeski & Wood Vernon Black of Mariah Carey Tony Tone Toni George Winston Train all of whom have shopped there for years.
GUITAR TEACHER-
Heath Haberlin is one of the most in-demand guitar teachers in the Bay Area. Heath is an San Francisco-based guitarist, singer-songwriter and musician. He is also a producer, arranger and author who also teaches guitar, bass, piano and song-writing. He currently teaches in both San Francisco and Marin. As a teacher he has over 100 guitar students in the Bay Area ranging in age from eight to eighty-eight. His teaching roster includes celebrities, Grammy winners, Bay Area musicians and the average Joe alike. He teaches several well known guitarists such as Grammy winner Adam Levy of Noah Jones, Martin Luther the Roots’ guitarist and star of the Oscar, Grammy and Golden Globe nominated movie, "Across The Universe", guitar lessons to bassist Chris Chaney (Alanis Morissette, Jane’s Addiction, Robben Ford)who is also a Mill Valley native who has graced the cover of Bass Player magazine and Sonoma child jazz prodigy/Grammy performer Julian Lage. Julian Lage was also the subject of, "Jules at Eight", Mark Becker’s Academy-Award nominated documentary in which Heath is in (jamming with Julian) and has two featured original songs titled, "It’s Muddy in the Water", and, "It’s A Minor Thang". He is currently writing a book entitled, "It’s All About The Song-A Songwriters Guide For The Guitarist", for Backbeat Books/Hal Leonard in San Francisco, editing another book entitled, "The Beatles Bible-For The Guitarist", and writing a bay area guide to oyster tours book.
STUDIO-
"Ugly Truths And Beautiful Lies", was written, produced and arranged by Heath Haberlin. This recording will showcase the other side of Heath's musical talents as a singer/songwriter as well as an arranger and producer. Heath Haberlin’s recording band includes himself-singer/guitarist/producer/arranger Heath Haberlin(Chris Chaney, Gary Novak), bassist Chris Chaney (Alanis Morissette, Jane’s Addiction, Robben Ford) and drummer Gary Novak (Alanis Morissette, Robben Ford).
Heath Haberlin's sessions for his debut album, "Ugly Truths And Beautiful Lies", were recorded at Sonora Recorders in Los Angeles. The CD was engineered by Richard Barron(Elliott Smith, Aimee Mann, Rancid, Los Lobos, Jakob Dylan, Brian Setzer), who is also co-owner of Sonora Recorders. Dan Hoal was the second engineer. The vocals and guitars for the album were overdubed at Heath's childhood friend Greg Haldan's studio In the Pocket Studio in rustic Forestville, California, which is an hour or so north of San Francisco in the middle of a 300 acre redwood forest with resident engineer Jonathon Chi. Michael Scully was the second engineer. Additional overdubs were done at Berkeley's famed Fantasy Studios with engineer Stephen Hart(Santana, Stevie Ray Vaughan). Keyboard sessions were done in New York by Rob Burger(Lucinda Williams). Work on the album will continued through the summer of 2008 and sometime in the fall will be the album's official release date.
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