In chronological order of effect: Rush, Yes, Van Halen, Jaco Pastorius, Stanley Clarke, Queen, Living Colour, Jane's Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Grateful Dead, Morphine, Twang Bang, Tom Waits, King Crimson, Fishbone, Primus, Ulele, Phish, Leo Kottke, Keller Williams, Les Claypool, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Michael Hedges, Stuart Davis, Chris Cornell, Audioslave, Wellwater Conspiracy, anyone who ever stood for anything, and was willing to pay for it.
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That "loud-guitar guy" down the hall, after 30 years of trying to get it right...
I have lived in a quiet suburb of Chicago my whole life, which started in 1969. Having been a depressed kid who wasn't as smart as his parents wanted to believe, I found music was a great sedative. Unfortunately, my late teens also brought new, exciting sedatives into the picture.
Fourteen years of general wastedness later, I cleaned up and made a CD, called "Vice Verses". One song from the CD was nominated by wwwJustPlainFolks.com for Best Lyrics in the Male Singer/Songwriter field, and I was ranked by their discriminating judges as one of the Top 5 Best Live Performers in the USA (out of about 15,000 participants). Also, at one point, www.AmericanIdolUnderground.com rated Whatever Remains in the top 50 most popular songs in its class.
In the following year, I formed a trio and played most major venues in Chicago, including the House of Blues, Schuba's, Cubby Bear, and more. The trio lasted about two years, before the players left for other interests. In 2003 and 2004, I went twice around the UK with the Chicago Music Explosion, and in 2004, I had a great tour through the Eastern US. I continued gigging pretty regularly around Chicago when, in 2005, I got my Jeep broken into after a show, and lost ALL my gear, and lot of other stuff, amounting to about an $11,000 loss. I still had an acoustic guitar, and spent the next year and all my money rebuilding what I had worked so hard to build up.
Meanwhile, I got asked by Chris Steinmetz of Stonecutter Records to be part of a project called Acoustic Chicago, which now features lots of great Chicago-based "acoustic" talent. Through Chris, I worked with drummer/percussionist Ernie Adams (Al DiMeola, Ramsey Lewis, MANY more), 7-string bass guru Bill "The Buddha" Dickens, and drummer Vance Okraszevski. This CD/DVD collection is now available for purchase, and is selling like ice at the equator! :-)
GET YOUR COPY TODAY... (Watch "Infinity Grooves" video below!)
As for my BAND... I've got my "Rock Rig" up and running again (and sounding better than ever), and also a new drummer, Ryan Aiello. We're called RIGHT RONGLY, and we will rock you OUT. Like Soundgarden, Primus, and Keller Williams in a belnder on "puree", we shatter the "novelty act" paradigm int he first ten seconds of every show... I'll still be playing my "So-Low Acoustic" shows, but less and less over time, as I will be focusing more and more on RIGHT RONGLY.
We've got the website (www.rightrongly.com) bought and paid for, but until it's up and running (not even close), you'll have to settle for our MySpace page...
Haha Scottish, Dentist??? Well when your ready. You have a couple of weeks, not unless you got the super shot. Lol. Sign up will begin at 7pm Thursday Sept 10(every other Thursday after that) and the open mic will start around 8pm going til'11. Scottish it's the typical 3 song/15min performance time.Make sure to bring any promo material, demos(we'll be passed on to Elbo Rooms talent buyer for future show considerations), biz cards, merch, to give away or sell too. Its going to be a fun night and the vibe is always a good one at The Elbo Room in my opinion. We look forward to hearing you there. Please read the info in our page for specific equipment details involving instruments and percussion. If you have any more questions feel free to let me know.
What's Happening? Bless my eyes this morning! Wanted to turn you on to a new site where you can upload your music, listen to new music for free and vote for your favorite independent artist! You can win Cash Prizes. Its awesome. Our song "Gold" is currently in 4th place! Check it out on OURSTAGE.COM Also, I would love to share with a fresh little jam that I just came up with.
Thanks for the kind words - it's funny, that song is what got me to start playing live in the first place. Have fun at your show on wednesday, rip it up! - Zach
That would be awesome to see you out there again..hopefully my uncle dave, my brother and I (uncle nephew) will be out there again soon too. I checked out your band and stuff, bery cool. See you soon man.
Genral Patton & His Privates are playing this Fri. May 22nd at The
Gallery 2020 N. Oakley 60647. This is a FREE Peace Fest party to let
people know the Peace Fest is a later date (June 19-20-21 / 2009). in
Lincoln Park just South of the Zoo, 1700 N. Stockton. Also s FREE show
in our City Park to see 30 bands.
So come on out to the Gallery this Fri and pick up some fliers for the Peace Fest.
10: Violet Vicious and The Vagabonds
11:Genral Patton & His Privates
12: ON WE
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