I work on my own for most of my gigs. I use backing tracks that don't have guitar and vocals on them because that's what I do. It sounds to the audiences like a full band.
I also front a three piece band called TALIZMAN. We play similar music to what I play on my own. Please click on the link provided to view TALIZMAN's site.
Influences
Gary Moore, Alvin Lee, Ted Nugent, Leslie West, ZZ Top, Cream, Zakk Wylde, The Beatles, Guns 'n' Roses, Billy Thorpe, Rory Gallagher, Johnny Winter, Steppenwolf, The Allman Brothers, Gov't Mule, Free
Gary Moore, Blues guitarist without equal!!
Alvin Lee, another legendary Blues/Rock hero!
Another Blues/Rock legend in the making
Sounds Like
A cross between all of the above with a heavy bias towards Gary Moore, Alvin Lee and Leslie West
Hi, I'm Jim McAllister. I've been playing the guitar since 1971, starting on acoustic. In 1972, I bought my first electric guitar, a Hofner. I've been into the Blues since before I could even play. I'm unashamedly fondest of the British Invasion Blues artists of the 1960s, including Eric Clapton, Alvin Lee, and early Jeff Beck. I learned of the Blues firstly through the British guys and even though I have an extensive collection of African American Blues music, my heart is still anchored in the formative music that first made me realize I needed to play the Blues myself. "You don't choose to play the Blues, The Blues chooses You" is as true today in my life as it's been in those of everyone who lives and breathes The Blues. That notwithstanding, I also love Classic Rock and I've managed to combine the two genres and develop an individual style that owes equal portions to both.
I have been in and out of bands since 1972, but always worked a day job. I have been a vehicle builder, a spraypainter and a truckdriver, while playing guitar for fun in my spare time and gigging occasionally when my bands could get the work.
From 1978 till 1988, I didn't play in public because there was nowhere to play thanks to disco. My spare time during these 11 years was taken up by doing competitive Powerlifting. I have lifted weights since 1966. Because it's my nature to try to be the best I can be, I threw myself into it and enjoyed a long career, the highlight of which was winning the Australian Drug Free Championship in the 100 kg division in 1986. I was Runner-up in the Superheavyweight division in 1988 and was ranked Top 10 in the World from 1986 to 1989.
I knew if I waited long enough disco would die out, and sure enough it did. I came back playing in a '50's and '60's band, then played lead guitar in the top originals band in Queensland, winning the Sunny Award in 1993. I then formed the good-rockin' James Gang, and gigged sporadically until 1997. After being made redundant from my truck driving job after 15 years, I decided to pursue a full-time career in music. The James Gang broke up at exactly the same time and at the encouragement of my drummer, I went solo.
I've been a full-time professional musician since October 1997. My reportiore consists of songs by Gary Moore, ZZ Top, Stevie Ray Vaughan, George Thorogood, Cream, Deep Purple, and many other classic Blues/Rock artists. I keep it as real and as live as a soloist can, given that I play to backing tracks. Since June 2005, I've also been a member of TALIZMAN, a three-piece band playing much the same music as I do as a soloist. Click on the link below to go check out my other site that features TALIZMAN'S songs and pictures as well as more of my personal pics.
You see me on the horizon, I always come alone.
Traveling the highways, no friend to call my own.
Come into your city, don’t care how near or far.
Hard as nails, a loner, I live by my guitar.
I live my life my way, follow my own code.
Living for my music, and the never-ending road.
You won’t understand me, I walk a different path.
Fire burning in my heart, can’t do things by half.
You ask me what drives me, as if you’d understand.
Never had it easy, never had no helping hand.
People try to shut me down, but I won’t go away.
The Blues and me are partners until my dying day.
Iron in my fingers, and gravel in my throat,
Everything I feel comes out in every note.
Honor in my heart, I’ve paid up all my dues.
Don’t care what you call me, I’m the Black Knight of the Blues.
Gu'day from England, How ya doing Jim? We've got The Ashes back till we play over there. Hope you're keeping well. I've added some new covers to my song list, have a listen and let me know what you think. Off on holiday soon to Spain again (can't wait), sun, sea, cerbeza and rock 'n' roll. Keep rockin' Steve
NAILS IN THE FENCE: Make sure you read all the way down to the last sentence. (Most importantly the last sentence) There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His Father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails Into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all The nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, "You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. But It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound will still be there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one. Remember that friends are very rare jewels, indeed. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed. They lend an ear, they share words of praise and they always want to open their hearts to us." It's National Friendship Week. Show your friends how much you care. Send this to everyone you consider a FRIEND, even if it means sending it back to the person who sent it to you! If it comes back to you, you will then know you have a circle of friends. YOU ARE MY FRIEND AND I AM HONORED! Now send this to every friend you have!! And to your family (they need to know that you love them too). Please forgive me if I have ever left a 'hole' in your fence
Chick Flick return to play the globe this school holiday night, Thursday 24 September 2009. Fellow rockers will include - Triplickit, The Wretched Villains and Ghostboy + friends. For an extra treat the night’s proceedings will include circus action with burlesque dancers, hula hoopers, jugglers and acro –balances performances.
Thanks man! The time I spent in a classical music school kind of made me rebel. So I started listening to all kinds of what the classical school would call inferior music and have started incorporating it into my own thing. I believe no style is off limits! I hope to start collecting all kinds of instruments from all kinds of countries to use in my music.
o yeah about a month or so back I finished my second album Microtrauma. I’ll send one your way when I find some time. I still hope to come over there one day and jam. I have one more year of school. Then I am putting all my connections to big bands and record labels to work and see if I can’t get some kind of tour going in your neck of the woods.
Hey Jim hows things? just dropin by to let you know our online store with our debet E.P and merch is now up and running on our page chat soon Chris OVERFIEND
Hi;
is is departed the project no-profit to do of the "world jam" with some mine friends in myspace.
"Levitation over the ocean" it is the first song that we have played.
The friends that have played in this first song are:
Rob_on (guitar) (New from Zeland), - Jun Spinner Kudo (Guitar) (from
Japan) - Steven Millhouse (Keyboards and guitar) (from Australia) and
me (drums and sequencer) (Italy)
I would be happy if you came in my homepage of myspace to listen this song and to put your comment.
Thanks
Cenovo
Ciao ;
è appena partito il progetto no-profit per fare delle "world jam" con alcuni miei amici in myspace.
"levitation over the ocean" è la prima song che noi abbiamo suonato.
Gli amici che hanno suonato in questo primo brano sono:
Rob_on(guitar) (from New Zeland),-Jun Spinner Kudo(Guitar)(from Japan)-
Steven Millhouse (Keyboards and guitar)(from Australia) e io (drums and
sequencer)(Italy)
Io sarei felice se tu venissi nella mia homepage di myspace ad ascoltare questa song e lasciasi un tuo commento.
Grazie
Cenovo
Online Now!
just dropin by to let you know our online store with our debet E.P and merch is now up and running on our page chat soon Chris OVERFIEND