Johnnys-Jazz + Musician in San Francisco, CA

ABOUT

Rail Road Traveler, Hobo Some Time, Play a Free-Style Jazz Eclectic Swing on Everything, Harmonica was my First Musical Instrument, 1954, Took up Guitar, Classical Violin in 1958, Studied at Baylor University, Roxie Hall School of Classical Music, WACO, TEXAS, under Maestro Leno Bartolli, can't remember a thing I learned.

Screen name:

Johnnys-Jazz

Member since:

Sep 07 2010

Active over 1 month ago

Level of commitment:

Just for Fun

Years playing music:

50

Gigs played:

Over 100

Tend to practice:

More than 3 times per week

Available to gig:

4-5 nights a week

Most available:

Days

Influences

Barney Kessel, Tuck Andress, Tal Farlowe, Herb Ellis, Texas Playboys, Jimmy Skinner, Mexican Radio Stations, XERF, Del Rio, Texas, XEG , Monterrey, MX, The Original Carter Family, The Blue Sky Boys, Bob Dylan, George Benson, Billy Benson, EVERY NASHVILLE CAT as memorialized by John Sebastion, Jimmy Reed, Slim Harpo, Albert King, ALL THE WINO BLACK & POOR WHITE TRASH STREET GUITARESTS WHO I PLAYED WITH & WAS ARRESTED WITH FOR PUBLIC INTOX, PICKED COTTON & DID TIME IN SOUTHERN PEA FARMS at $1,00 A DAY to PAY OFF the PUBLIC DRUNK FINES, who TRIED TO TELL THIS TEEN AGED GUITAR AND HARP PLAYER to GO BIG TIME, while we laid in CHAINS listening to the "King Biskuit Flour Hour" in a Prison Farm in Phillips County, Arkansas, and JESUS CHRIST, who was SEIZED FROM A HOBO JUNGLE by "POLICITAL CORRECT, THOUGHT POLICE" and NAILS IN THE SKY! To Quote the LAST & GREATEST INFLUENCE: "WOODROW WILSON GUTHRIE" or "Woody" that WROTE THE BALLAD OF JESUS CHRIST, and Most People Never Even KNOWED "WOODY" was a "BORNED AGAIN PENTOCOSTAL TOUNGES SPEAKING, HOLY GHOST FILLED TRUE BELIEVER" because the "FAR OUT in PERDITION LEFT WING FOLKIE COMMIES hate THE BLOOD OF JESUS, and WOODY Stayed POOR and On The Road, to DIE IN A LUNITIC ASYLEM. I ain't DEAD YET..but I'VE BEEN in a SLEW of CRAZY HOUSES & PRISONS, and "I ACTUALLY PAID THE AUTHENTIC "DUES TO PLAY THE BLUES!" Not some pikininny jerk that never rode a Freight Train, that had Mama to Pay for his Lessions

Instrument experience:

Harmonica:

Advanced

Lead Guitar:

Moderate

Mandolin:

Moderate

MUSIC