SEEKING
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I can cover many guitar and vocal styles in the rock and folk vein.
A possible live project could be
The Lone Wolf Trio/Quartet slightly softened jazzy arrangements of an eclectic mix of material. Our stylistic potential would range from SRV to The Dead to Mahvishnu, STP, Santana, ZZTop, Steely Dan, Floyd, Zeppelin and other iconic groups. But we would tweak things here.
I play guitar and can handle most sorts of lead vocals but would be happy to share the singing responsibilities and enable harmonies.
Two oh three, seven two five, six seven four oh is one way to find me.
Also, I am very interested in jamming and partying with good musicians on weekends. If something clicks, well, that could be another story.
I am currently interested in playing only with serious, skilled, and experienced musicians of professional calibre. I've paid my dues in the late-night bar circuit and now want mostly to do concerts, high end clubs, and pricy party gigs.
The trio gigged pretty regularly.
I play all the guitars and lead vocals in the attached recordings.
Also, I wrote the last two songs and did all the vocals and instruments and the "engineering." One is a reminiscence of the Vietnam era and the other a depiction of an emotional landscape after a fanciful shipwreck on Mars (written in 1997, long before the film, "The Martian"). I've got lots more originals, recorded and not, and in a variety of styles.
Okay, I know that this intro is pretty long, but if you read it you will be able to get a pretty good sense of who I am and what I'd be like as a bandmate.
I see this as a kind of a business -- a fun business, but a business nevertheless. I like my bandmates to be people whom I can think of as my friends, but I also treat them as business partners, with all the respect and consideration for their time that a business relationship implies.
I play lead and rhythm guitars, harmonica, and some keyboard if pressed (pun intended).
I sing lead and backing vocals.
I have a good stage presence.
I play electric and acoustic equally well, both six- and twelve-string, and can solo as an acoustic act, fingerpicking, flat-picking, hybrid picking, and singing. But I am a solid and inventive electric player, too, lead and rhythm. Cell number is two oh three, seven two five, six seven four zero. Or send message to christop dot cole at sbcglobal dot net, no spaces.
I would prefer to work with pretty polished performers, or people who are close to that and aspiring to get there, and who are able to get there without lots of delays and excuses. (I just don't have time for that anymore!) You'd need to be able to handle anything from Stevie Ray to Steely Dan. A little pretentiousness is okay if you can soon live up to the image.
I'd still be interested in mixing it up with other musicians, though, jamming, collaborating on songwriting ventures, and doing studio work. I keep expanding my musical vocabulary. I am always happy to meet good musicians. Say hi, anyway, and maybe jam with me sometime. You never know....
- Screen name:
- cdarwincole
- Member since:
- Mar 12 2008
- Active within 1 week
- Level of commitment:
- Very Committed
- Years playing music:
- 40
- Gigs played:
- Over 100
- Tend to practice:
- More than 3 times per week
- Available to gig:
- 1 night a week
- Most available:
- Nights
Instrument experience:
- Vocalist:
- Expert
- Rhythm Guitar:
- Expert
- Lead Guitar:
- Expert
- Acoustic Guitar:
- Expert
- Background Singer:
- Expert
- Harmonica:
- Advanced
EQUIPMENT
My equipment list is subject to occasional changes -- esp. overdrive pedals and acoustic guitars -- but the standards are high and the foundations are well established. The following is what I have at the moment.
ELECTRIC GUITARS
I have done my own electronic customizations on my electric guitars. Each has pickups selected to suit woods and body type. Those with humbuckers have serial / parallel / single coil and phase switching. Vintage Ibanez guitars are perfect platforms for this sort of modding. The results are as good as the best boutique guitars. I use military spec PIO capacitors and other exotic spices and tweaked tube amps to get the tones I seek.
* 2005(?) Engel 14" solid body
* 1985 Ibanez AR-300AV Artist Super Edition, WCR Godwood pickups
* 1984 Ibanez AR-300 Artist, Sheptone Betts Set pickups
* 1990 Ibanez Artist, WCR Godwood pickups and Graph Tech Acousti-phonic system
* 1995 Ibanez AM205 with WCR bridge and Sheptone neck pickup
* 1981 Ibanez AS100 (Scofield) with Guitarforce (neck) and Sheptone (bridge) pickups
* 2006 PRS Custom 22 with WCR bridge / Sheptone neck pickups; Wudtone tremolo
* Strat assembled by me with carefully selected top-shelf parts (e.g., Fred Stuart Black Guard pickups, padouk/pau ferro neck)
* Schecter TSH-12 12-string electric, customized with Vintage Vibe HCC AlNico II pickups, custom wound for me, and a Rickenbacker harness
* usually a few project guitars under construction...
AMPS
* Fuchs ODS (100 watt)
* Tone King Sky King (35 watt)
*Tone King Imperial MKII (20 watt)
* Carr Mercury V (15 watt)
* Fender Blues Deluxe with Fromel mods (40 watt)
* Line 6 Matrix Pro
* Fender Bassbreaker 15 (15 watt) - my usual small club amp
* various custom speaker cabs
PEDALS (often in flux...)
* Rivera Sustain Shaman Compressor
* Wampler Euphoria
* EH POG
* 3Leaf Audio Proton Envelope Filter
* Lovepedal SuperSix
* El Mo
* Wampler Plexi-Drive
* Bearfoot Honey Beest
* Foxxtone clone (Fuzz/Ocatavia)
* UA Starlight Echo Delay
* Analogman Mini-Chorus
* Red Witch Violetta delay
* Mooer Tender Octaver
* Wilson Effects Ten Spot Wah
* Moollon Signal Boost/Buffer
* Roger Mayer Voodoo Vibe TC
* Goodrich H-120 volume pedal
* self-built, dovetail jointed pedal board / case(s)
* Line 6 G50 wireless relay system
ACOUSTIC GUITARS
* Taylor 356ce Grand Symphony 12-string
* Larrivee LV-03RE 6-string
MICS
Live performance
Shure SM-57LC
Shure SM-58 Beta (main vocal mike)
Sennheiser e906 (amp mic)
Hohner Blues Master harp mic
Audio Technica Pro 5
Recording
Neuman TLM103
Electro-Voice RE20
Shure SM-7B
HARMONICAS
* the usual suspects and bullet mic