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Johny444 + Musician in Montreal, QC

Johny444
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SEEKING

Band to Join, Vocalist, Vocalist - Bass, Vocalist - Baritone, Vocalist - Tenor, Vocalist - Soprano, Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Drums, Keyboard, Piano, Background Singer, Flute, Vocalist - Alto, Upright bass, Accordion.

ABOUT

Exploring Montreal for the autumn (while studying online). Seeking casual home jams and bar sessions/mics: any practice vibing with a solid acoustic guitarist is always worthwhile for a guy like me trying to hone everything else.

Still, I'd be equally keen to gig with a committed partner, and could prep nearly full-time for a week or two.

For set lists I especially revere folk trads wth no known composer, and roots standards (i.e. songs too often covered to leave any one studio track the definitive version). I consider an original perfected when listeners ask me who wrote it... as if it evokes pedigree at first-listen. Most of the rest of my book is underplayed B-sides and deep-cuts; I bore easily covering karaoke-type nostalgia hits, but I'm game to cover the odd post-70s pop or classic rock/country tune, IF we can rearrange 'em to transcend the original release, e.g. strikingly strip-down and unplug to folkify.

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

Influences

Canadiana... QC included.

Let's reference 'folk' as music that seems older than living memory; 'roots' does not mean Americana as we aren't American; 'country' does not mean suburbanite soft-rock. Plenty of acoustic-guitar pop is not at all folk music (guitar crooners e.g. Passenger, Ed Shereen, etc); electric folk can and does exist (Fairport Convention).

Pandering to nostalgia for radio pop within living memory (i.e. post-60s) would be Oldies music not Folk music.

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:

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

EQUIPMENT

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

bodhran (jumbo, tunable)
tambourine, shakers

MUSIC