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Member Info: Jon Riley - Jon Riley |
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Name: Jon Riley
Contact: Available to Members
Focus: Blues
Location: London, United Kingdom
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Past...
Born 1949; given first guitar in 1965 (self-taught from book); 1st gig 1966 (washtub bass in jug band); 66-69, many folk club gigs, on guitar, bass, mandolin, banjo, washboard or fiddle;
1st electric guitar 1969; 1st rock band, 1970; 1st rock gig (with 2nd rock band) 1972 (people danced! unforgettable thrill...); 73-76 folk-jazz group (Django plus comedy numbers); 77-81 jump-jive-R&B band; 1980, began researching music theory and history(still going...); 81-88, various rock bands; 1988, got more seriously into be-bop and modern jazz (on guitar & bass), in workshops and summer schools; 1990s, blues band and various jazz and rock groups.
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Now...
Guitar in blues band; guitar/keyboards/vocals in rock band;
bass guitar in soul/funk band, and in 2 or 3 jazz groups.
Still amateur. (Latin: amator," lover")
Professionally, I have been an illustrator and animator for 20 years; currently unemployed, I'm re-training as web designer and music teacher.
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Musical Influences
• Acoustic: Bert Jansch, Blind Blake, Big Bill Broonzy, Django Reinhardt, Richard Thompson...
• Electric: Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, Jimi Hendrix, Muddy Waters, Billy Jenkins, Bo Diddley, John Parricelli, Hubert Sumlin...
• Non-guitar heroes: Bob Dylan, Howlin' Wolf, Charlie Parker, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Laurie Anderson,
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Favorite Recordings
• Buddy Guy "First Time I Met The Blues" (live track, 1970.); Bert Jansch (debut LP); Blind Blake "Ragtime Guitar's Foremost Fingerpicker"; Memphis Jug Band (any compilation);
• Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares, vol.1; Tom Waits "Raindogs", "Swordfishtrombones"; Miles Davis "Kind of Blue"; Charles Mingus "Ah Um"
• Van Morrison "Astral Weeks"; Beatles "Tomorrow Never Knows", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Revolver"; Bob Dylan "Blood On The Tracks"; Radiohead "OK Computer"; Pretty Things (1st album); Stone Roses (1st album);
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