In no particluar order : Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Roy Orbison, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones, B.B. King, The Kinks, The Small Faces, Procul Harum, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, The Grateful Dead, Peter Green, The Who, Elmore James, Santana, Howling Wolf, The Allman Brothers Band, Paul Simon, Steely Dan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Gram Parsons,The Byrds, Emmy Lou Harris, Dwight Yoakam, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, Ry Cooder, anything Hawaiian.
For over 40 years, under a disguise of many nicknames and aliases, John (JC) Greene has been a part of the music business.
Starting out in 1965 as a guitar player, then bassist, in his native Cornwall he moved to London in the late 60's, played in various bands, lived at the Eel Pie Island commune, helped organise the 1971 Glastonbury Fayre and featured on the Chilli Willi & The Red Hot Peppers album 'Kings of the Robot Rhythm'. After a job behind the scenes as stage crew at the original Rainbow Theater, he swiftly became asst stage manager under the now legendary Michael Ahern.
On the demise of the Rainbow, production company work followed, namely tours with Paul Mc'Cartneys Wings, Santana and the Grateful Dead.
After a move to California in 1972, a brief spell with the Deads lighting crew led to his becoming light designer for Boz Scaggs which, in those days, meant 3 month tours, arena support slots for such as The Allman Bros, Steve Miller, Little Feat, Steely Dan and the occasional huge festival.
In 1975 a stage lighting design company was created and tours with NRPS, Commander Cody, Santana, Van Morrison and The Tubes were interspersed with one off gigs for such as Jefferson Airplane and Stevie Wonder.
Returning to England (exhausted!) in the late seventies John went back to performing and played bass for rock, reggae, folk, jazz, soul, country and r'n'b bands including British Intelligence, Breaking Strings, Jaroma, The Rhythm Doctors and the Dubious Brothers.
By 1994 an increase in his songwriting led to a return to the guitar, solo gigs and recording.
A new album 'West of the Rest' has just been released and is available from all good online stores. See left for free downloads ! Limited Time Offer. Hurry Now !!!
The albums 'Gone West' 1994, 'All This' 1998 and 'Time to Remember', 2005 are also available.
Hey, there have been some great new changes to the official website of Tony King & The T K Connection (one of the UK's top commercial independant bands with a seriously seductive original mix of soul/funk/rock/swing/dance and ballads) We would like to thank you for your friendship here on MySpace and would really appreciate any support we get and we will personally reply to all comments and messages. Thanks for reading. Peace & Love. Tony King & The T K Connection xxx Click here for the official Tony King website
Hey John We played your "Louisiana Bound" on last night's show; airplay on KKCR; the radio station in the middle of the Pacific. Rock on, Den on the I-10
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Thank you for your friendship and Thank you for the add. and rockin' 2009 ! Your great! Love and peace and all good things for the future, Keep rocking @ bluesing @ ballading & & &
Ich wünsche euch allen ein Frohes Weihnachtsfest und ein gutes Neues Jahr 2009
Thank you for your friendship and Thank you for the add. Wish you a merry Christmas and a rockin' new year 2009 ! Your great! Love and peace and all good things for the future, Keep rocking @ bluesing @ ballading & & &
Good to meet you here in virtual land John... Good times in the Jake's! I will never look at a dustbin in quite the same light again ~~~ (ooooo!) All the best, Carey :)>>><
