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Bill Bois's Interests
General
Music (Duh!), travel, software, painting and photography, coffee, dogs and pub crawls
Music
I grew up on old school punk but art rock, techno and pop rock are my guilty pleasures. In alphabetical order, I like:
311 801 Adam and the Ants Bad Brains The Beatles Beck Ben Folds Five Bjork Bow Wow Wow David Bowie Brad Paisley Catatonia Chemical Brothers Cibo Matto Cornershop Crizzy & The Punx Dead Kennedys Devo The Doves Elastica Faces Faith No More Garbage George Gershwin Green Day Husker Du Jane's Addiction Knowing Stu Lucious P. Slugworth and the Burning Seeds Orchestra Minor Threat The Monkees Motherface Nine Inch Nails Kongar-ol Ondar Les Paul Pretenders Psycho Rags Rancid The Raspberries Seasons of the Wolf Secret Machines Sex Pistols Carl Stalling The Sugarcubes Swallowed Talking Heads The Vegetables Ana Voog The Who X Takes The Square XTC Yeah Yeah Yeahs Yes Frank Zappa
Movies
Blazing Saddles
I Was A Male War Bride
The Kids Are Alright
Monty Python and The Holy Grail
North By Northwest
Silver Streak
Sweet Movie
Young Frankenstein
Zardoz
Television
Late Show with David Letterman
Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Top Gear
Books
Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe by Douglas Adams
Homegrown Democrat by Garrison Keillor
A Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Many Years From Now by Barry Miles
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by Buckminster Fuller
Heroes
John Entwhistle Buckminster Fuller Mahatma Ghandi Hildegard von Bingen Martin Luther King, Jr. Lennon/McCartney Claude Monet Les Paul Pete Townshend Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Frank Zappa
I play 4, 5 and 8 string, fretted and fretless, and am learning upright after all these years. I have lots of stage and studio experience. If you have an opening, contact me and let's talk.
I freelance in VB 6.0, MS Office, SQL Server, MySQL, PHP, Perl, HTML and some others as well. If you have an IT project in any language, please contact me. If I can't do it, I probably know someone who can.
I have a lyricist partner and am pretty good with words myself. I like doing instrumental and soundtrack work, too. I'll write songs to order and can get it recorded for you too.
Bill Bois had two great nights playing out with J.C. Andersen and Auto Defiance, but is now looking forward to getting to bed early.
J.C. Andersen and the band performing "Missing Me" on April 8, 2008. It's the one song we did entirely acoustically, and the first time I've played upright bass on stage.
My soundtrack for the New Lineage Games release Catalyst is now available for digital download! The soundtrack contains longer versions of the songs heard in the game, as well as a bonus track that isn't in the game at all.
Get the game at New Lineage Games for only five bucks, and get my soundtrack for 99 cents a song or $4.49 for all five at bandVillage.
OK, now that that's out of the way, here's a bit about me. I've been playing bass for longer than I care to admit, and joined J.C. Andersen's band in 2006. I'm totally stoked about it.
Upcoming J.C. Andersen Shows:
No confirmed gigs at the moment, but stay tuned!!!
I also play with Seasons Of The Wolf and Auto Defiance, and am available for freelance studio or live work. Got an open slot? Let me know.
My studio project is called X Takes The Square and its first CD is called Goddess Of Cool. It features me, singer Dana Victoria and 18 of Tampa Bay's finest musicians.
I also write software and Web pages. Check out one of my clients, bandVillage for music CD's and more.
Who I'd like to meet: ...anyone needing a bass player for:
live or
studio work
I also compose music for:
movies
television shows
video games
or anything that needs a backing track
I freelance as a software developer too, so drop me a note if you need:
Hey Bill its 12.45am & I cant sleep...oh well at least I havent got work tomorrow (though Ive got enough at home to keep me going!) Oh & Im sure we'd love you're country band at our reception but maybe you could convince Seasons of the Wolf to come & play too! Hope you're ok love Jackie xxx
