Bio:

LETS GET THIS COMPLETELY STRAIGHT SO NOT TO WASTE TIME... I HAVE THIS PAGE TO PROMOTE MY WORK...

I AM NOT HERE TO BECOME A FAN OF ANY OTHER BANDS PLEASE DO DOT ASK ME TO LISTEN TO YOUR WORK COZ I WON'T I AM HERE TO PROMOTE AND STAY IN TOUCH WITH MY FRIENDS. IF you WANT To Get In Touch EMAIL me at info@jccarroll.com IF YOU WANT TO BOOK ME or THE MEMBERS send an E-mail OTHERWISE ENJOY....... JC

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Member Since:

January 04, 2006

Members:

MY BANDS ARE

JC AND THE DISCIPLES,

THE MEMBERS

THE CHILDREN OF SEVEN

I also Play as an Acoustic Duo with Tony Reeves

MY Website is here

www.JCCarroll.com

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Buy CD's Here

MY chatroom is here

The New Red Lion Music Lounge

 

Influences:

THE SOUND OF THE SUBURBS and WORKING GIRL

I am equally cursed and blessed with having a hit record when I was 24 in the UK. And to a lesser extent a smallish hit in the USA when I was 27. Those records Were "Sound of the Suburbs" in The UK and"Working Girl" in the USA For no matter what I do in the UK I will always be associated with that one record. And in the USA will always be associated with the the other one.

Accordianiste, Folk Musician, Musical Director, PUNK ROCKER

So even though I have played accordian for Marlon Brando and Johnny Depp on film soundtracks, spent many years learning folk and acoustic instruments, producing funky records, psycobilly albums, written musicals, been the musical director of several stage shows, made complicated concept albums and written and collaborated with wonderful musicians around the world, To some people I will always be a punk rocker, a musical neanderthal. some of my best work in on these albums:- The Rock is in the Lapt0p iTunes New English Blues Volume 1 iTunes The Golborne Variations iTunes

TOURING IN THE 80's

I have led a Spinal Tap like existence touring endlessly across north America experiencing the elation of huge shows in New York and Los Angeles to the tragi-comic supporting a fashion show in long island, arriving in Horseheads Elmira to find the venue shut. I have partied with The Ramones and Blondie around the Kidney Shaped pool at the Hollywood motel where Sam Cooke was Shot, I have has an affair with a Go Go, Slept with The Dead Kennedys Manager, I have Partied with Iggy Pop in New York, Tom Petty in the Mid West, I have talked cars and girls with Bruce Springsteen in Asbury Park, been entertained by Mobsters in New York, Played on A Riverboat in New Orleans. I have travelled 35,000 miles across 50 states of the usa in a Ford econoline with four other guys living on marijuanana $20 a day, microwave burrittos and show salads.

Highs and Lows

I have played at Midnight in the Land of the Midnight Sun, I've played at Spring Break in Daytona Beach, I have been locked in a Dutch immigration prison cell, fined by highway patrols, refused entry to canada, threatened by gangsters, intimidated by armed guards, cussed by rednecks, refused service at truck stops, I've been spat at, showered with coins and bottles I've made love to some beautiful women been chased by jealous boyfriends, stalked by transvestites, I've stayed in Plush hotels in Paris and cockroach infested immigrant dives in Southern Texas.

Experience

I've played Irish music round camp fires in Monaghan, punk in Basements in London (With Dee Dee Ramone), Accordians with Rumanian Gypsies in France , sang rasta Hymns with Jamaicans in the BBC television centre, Hi-Life and Kweala, Zydeco, Cajun, show tunes Burlesque , musical Hall, easy Listening, Klesmer, calypso..... I returned to the USA in my fifties and travelled by car plane and grey hound bus from Miami to Toronto playing with pick up bands and solo shows playing blues , Alt. county Punk Rock and reggae. I have supported the Clash and the Police, recorded with The Members, Sex Pistols, New York Dolls, and Guy Pratt who even thought he has played Pink Floyds for 15 years, recorded with Michael Jackson and Madonna will come down and record or play with me at the drop of a hat.

WORK and MONEY

I have played weddings, funerals, Fashion Shows, shop openings, restaurants, car launches i have made $$$s on a 30 second supermarket commercial and nothing on a rock opera. I have busked in a subway for pennies I have been paid next to nothing for working an a major movie. I have begged for work and then begged to be paid... So the CV Looks OK... But Names are just Names and Music is Music, the fame game is a matter of luck, payola an/or hard work paying your dues knowing the right people being in the right place at the right time... I prefer to be judged by my work and pray that my best work is ahead of me.

INTERNET COLLABORATIONS WITH STRANGERS

Some of my best work has been done with complete strangers and unknowns on the internet. You can find that on this Album... Strangers and Fiction iTunes

I am a conduit for the music of generations of musicians before me

I'm still go out and do gigs the The Members for money,sometimes I play for charity and tonight i will sit in with the 13 year olds and 60 year olds at the local mixed ability blues jam. Why, because I have a vocation to play music, an obsession, . Its either that or I am a born show off.

Sounds Like:

JC Carroll

Record Label:

SMASH THE SYSTEM recordings