Justin Ward

SEEKING

Band to Join, Steel guitar, Dobro, Fiddle, Other Percussion, Acoustic Guitar.

ABOUT

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LOOKING FOR SINGER TO DO (DECENT) HOME DEMOS. MSG joachimokeefeATthatthingy
I don't expect a freebie £neg. Maybe record your stuff too.
Ancient, judgmental but not jaded grumpy bloke with small dog in spare room studio writing songs, on audio production learning curve and improving. 7 albums (8th in pipeline) free on sachetsofrelish.
Can't stand the sound of my own voice, most of the time.

Sings, plays guitar and harmonica a bit. Better at Dylan than that Chalamet bloke. I was in a long-and-well-forgotten London band in the late seventies (supported X-Ray Spex, the Stranglers etc. Early Madness and The Pogues (I was their sound bloke a few times, only because I was free)

Screen name:: Justin Ward
Member since:: Feb 06 2009; Active over 1 month ago
Level of commitment:: Very Committed
Years playing music:: 60
Gigs played:: Over 100
Tend to practice:: More than 3 times per week
Available to gig:: 6-7 nights a week

Influences

Cesaria Evora's 'Sodade' makes me cry. So does Little Walter's 'Blues With A Feelin'. I wish Eminem had tried a major key once in a while.

It would be more helpful to list things I try not to be influenced by, as I'm always open to something new of whatever genre. Like everyone else I decide in fewer than 5 seconds. The list of my influences me is too long anyway.

*Don't* like:
Brit School product
'Classic rock' (See 'Schlager musik' below)
Tribute bands (See 'Classic rock' above)
Wedding bands (See 'Schlager musik' below)
Jazz/Funk (I like most jazz, most funk. Jazz/Funk is neither)
The unintelligible, the boring and the predictable (guilty of producing my own many, many times)
Making people pay to go through a gate to sit with thousands of strangers in the holy presence of a self-styled superstar.
Schlager musik
The MacCartney/Costello/Sheeran axis
Taylor Swift and her clones? Heard one song, you've heard 'em all