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Johny444 + Musician in Montreal, QC

Johny444
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SEEKING

Band to Join, Vocalist - Bass, Vocalist - Baritone, Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Upright bass.

ABOUT

Newish to Montreal, seeking casual home/park jams and partners for pub open-mics: any practice vibing with a solid acoustic guitar is always worthwhile for a guy tryin to hone everything else, as I am.

Equally keen to open to gigging with a committed partner. For set lists I revere roots standards, i.e. songs too often covered to leave any one studio version definitive. I consider an original tune perfected when listeners ask me who wrote it, as if it evokes a similar old-timey pedigree at first-listen. The rest of my tunes are mostly underplayed deep-cuts a superior can really own. I avoid covering karaoke-style nostalgia hits, but I'm game to cover the odd pop or classic rock/country tune IF we can re-arrange it to contrast the original, e.g. strip-down unplugged, or conversely, electrify a tune known best as acoustic.

Screen name:
Johny444
Member since:
Oct 11 2014
Active within 1 week
Level of commitment:
Very Committed
Years playing music:
40
Gigs played:
50 to 100
Tend to practice:
2-3 times per week
Available to gig:
2-3 nights a week

Influences

Let's define 'folk' as music that 'seems older than living memory;' so revels in explicitly local references. 'country' should not mean suburbanite soft-rock. Plenty of acoustic-guitar pop is not at all folk music (guitar crooners e.g. Passenger, Ed Shereen, etc); but electric folk can and does exist (Fairport Convention).

I love:

Spirit of the West, Be Good Tanyas, The Paperboys, The Duhks, The Waillin' Jennys, Basia Bullat, Kathleen Edwards, Neko Case, Jason Collette, Joel Plaskett, Great Lakes Swimmers, K.D. Lang, Whitehorse, Viper Central, Joy Kills Sorrow, Cowboys Fringants, Vent du Nord, Rankins, Barra McNeils, Barr Bros, Sarah Harmer, Jill Barber, Lynn Miles, Steven Fearing, David Francy, Corb Lund, Prairie Oyster, Blue Rodeo, The Hip, Feist, Cowboy Junkies,
The Band, Neil, Joni, Gord, Bruce, Ian, Stan, Stompin' Tom...

Springsteen, Dylan, Simon, CSN, Fleetwood-Mac, The Dead,
Van Morrison, Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Counting Crows...

Mipso, Solas, Dervish, Skippinish, Lake Street Dive, Chris Thiel, The Civil Wars, Laura Marling, Maya de Vitre, Aoife O'Donovan, Sara Jaroz, Gillian Welch, Mandolin Orange aka TheWatchhouse, OCMS, Lord Huron, Fly My Pretties, Brandie Carlisle, Molly Tuttle, L Florence+TheMachine, Bon Iver, etc

Instrument experience:

Vocalist - Tenor:
Expert
Background Singer:
Expert
Mandolin:
Advanced
Fiddle:
Advanced
Rhythm Guitar:
Moderate
Acoustic Guitar:
Moderate
Other Percussion:
Moderate
Harmonica:
Moderate

EQUIPMENT

fiddle (w/ pickup)
mandolin (w/ pickup)
acoustic guitar (w/ pickup)
harmonica full set, collar-rest

bodhran (jumbo, tunable)
tambourine, shakers

MUSIC