SLAPJOHNSON From North Yorkshire United Kingdom

From : North Yorkshire United Kingdom

Joined : Thu 7th Jun 2007

Last Logged : Thu 2nd Jul 2009

Sex : M

Birthday : Unknown

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Hi, I’m a professional musician working in the U.K. I’m passionate about music and love writing and recording songs both instrumental and lyrical. I teach woodwind and guitar as a day job as well as gigging evenings and weekends with the band Jump the Q. I have had loads of live and studio experience including, live television and radio broadcasts. Music! It’s my life.

Saxophones; selmer mark 6 & P.Mauriat 66rul tenor, selmer mark 7 alto, Yanagiswa baritone & soprano, pearl flute, Le Blanc Clarinet,Les paul studio and heritage electric Guitars, yamaha CPX 700 acoustic,Yamaha APX 700 acoustic for the slide work Lee oskar & hofner harmonicas.yamaha clavinova piano Yamaha bass & Yamaha QY300 sequencer.

I'm using Ableton 5.1 and this software is brilliant!!! It's got loads of effects and so simple to use I've been running this for 2 years and i'm still finding new stuff, it has truly blown my mind, and helped me be so creative.

Line 6 tone port ux2. This box rocks, the sounds for guitar are fantastic, and the presets for vocals and saxophones ect are awesome! I also have a line 6 flextone 3 stereo amp, this thing is monster, the sounds you can create on this amp are wonderful, www.line6.com for details on this kit.

Candy Dulfer, anything played by the first lady of sax. The Beatles ( all of it , it's all awesome). Jellyfish ( great band great songs).
The Zutons, Stan Getz ( the man ). Damien Rice.Amy Winehouse ( What a voice).
Journey ( amazing songs, what a band)
songs from this site, it's great to listen to new songs and be inspired..

Tom Waits- The heart of Saturday night (Listen and learn the art of songwriting).
Hank Mobley- Soul Station
Giant steps-John Coltrane
Bitches brew- Miles Davis
In a silent way- Miles Davis
The Beatles- Rubber soul
Led Zepplin- IV
ACDC-Back in black
The pretenders-Greatest hits
The Clash- London calling.
Prince- Sign of the times.
David Bowie- any album (the man's a god)
I know there's more than 10 but the list is endless.

Anything and everything influences me, rock, pop, soul, funk, RnB, Latin the list is endless, as long as it’s played well and sounds cool I like it. I’m a big jazz fan being primarily a saxophonist, Stan Getz, Sonny Stitt, Charlie Parker, Andy Sheppard and Snake Davis being big influences on my style. I love Les Paul guitars and good old rock n roll, favourite guitarists Slash, Gary Moore, Neal Schon and of course Les Paul. Favourite song writers are;Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Paul Weller, Sting, Paul Simon, Curtis Stigers, Linda Perry you get my drift.

Natural samples of real instruments turn me on because they don't date the music as much. I only use drum and percussion samples in my songs, everything else you hear is played. Some of the earlier Jump the Q songs are live recordings with the band set up in the studio. All the recent songs are using Ableton and the tone port download some and let me know what you think.

sleep!