smirkingjake

smirkingjake

Playing Music and Having Fun
  • From : Bourbonnais, United States
  • Joined : Sat 23rd Nov 2019, 4 years ago

About Me

I am songwriter, poet, guitarist, and vocalist. I'm not great at any of the above, but I have fun creating music.

Instruments I play

Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Lap Steel Guitar, I also sing

Software I Use

Audacity

Hardware I Use

Listening To Right Now

Tom Petty & The Heart Breakers - Damn the Torpedoes
Gordon Lightfoot - Gord's Gold

10 Favourite Albums

Led Zepplin - IV
Guns 'n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Van Halen - Van Halen
AC/DC - Back in Black
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Alice in Chains - Facelift
Prince - Purple Rain
Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band
Alabama - Feels So Right
Judas Priest - British Steel
Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced Lynyrd Skynyrd
Staind - Staind
Eagles - Hotel California
Bad Company - Straight Shooter

My Influences / Fav Artists

Led Zepplin, AC\DC, Black Sabbath, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Pink Floyd, late 70's/early 80's country (Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Dolly Parton, Ronnie Milsap, Alabama, Eddie Rabbit), 80's New Wave, 80's Hard Rock/Metal (Van Halen, Scorpions, Judas Priest, Tesla)

My Music Sounds Like

bluesy hard rock, with a heavy dose of 70's/80's, none of that out-of-tune yodeling junk. It's 3 cords, some tasteful distortion, and a smooth baritone vocal that is in tune

In My Other Life I ...