SEEKING
Band to Join, Accordion, Acoustic Guitar, Background Singer, Bagpipes, Banjo, Bass Guitar, Cello, Clarinet, DJ, Dobro, Drums, Electronic Music, Fiddle, Flute, Harmonica, Harp, Keyboard, Lead Guitar, Mandolin, Other, Other Percussion, Piano, Rhythm Guitar, Saxophone, Steel guitar, Trombone, Trumpet, Ukulele, Upright bass, Violin, Vocalist, Vocalist - Alto, Vocalist - Baritone, Vocalist - Bass, Vocalist - Soprano, Vocalist - Tenor.ABOUT
I’m a bassist as well as a mandolin player interested in stringband pickini and Irish music. I’m also a street artist w/ 6 yof my art posted in . I played percussion in school and like my father, I started a band with my friend ego played guitar when I was 13. And b my friend was 27. It was 1984. After 5 years of searching for a god bass player who could improvise Al the way we wished, I shed having taught myself the bass guitar and keys, all by ear, I wanted to be that bass player but my friend wanted me on drums. I ended up leaving the band, a bad mistake followed by decades of poor living and bad decision making ss i l didn’t have and active involvement playing music anymore. I finally got back to it after my marriage and divorce. 4 years ago I decided to make an instrument bucket list, and I had gotten a banjo to play Irish music on. But the moment ki started learning it I immediately felt compelled to get a Mandolin and I have taught myself to play it to the point of wanting to find other musicians to play with. I love Irish and bluegrass but I also love playing bass with a surf 60’s garage punk / pixies like style and I also love playing old classics. My friend and I had started collaborating on a dozen or so songs v ranging from Beatles, monkeys, Hermans Hermits, , Tommy Row, And even a couple originals. We switched off between us on acoustic bass and guitars.
I have also taken up the fiddle and can play accordion, tin whistle, Irish rhythm bones¿x I want to play music and there’s always music coming out of me from somewhere. I’m 52 and just want to start sharing it before I’m done on this world :D
- Screen name:
- Dharma Ghost
- Member since:
- Jan 13 2023
- Active within 24 hours
- Level of commitment:
- Very Committed
- Years playing music:
- 40
- Gigs played:
- 10 to 50
- Tend to practice:
- More than 3 times per week
- Available to gig:
- 4-5 nights a week
Influences
Early original Pretenders, Buddy Holly, Lou Reed / Velvet Underground and v every unknown i60’s garage band recorded. The z music Explosion’s “”A Little Bit of Soul”
Luke Kelly, Declan Hunt, The Oh Sees, The Pogues, The Buzzcocks, Kim Deal, Galaxy 500, East Indian Bhajans and Hindustanii, Derek Warfeield and the Young Wolfe Tones.
Instrument experience:
- Rhythm Guitar:
- Advanced
- Lead Guitar:
- Advanced
- Bass Guitar:
- Advanced
- Keyboard:
- Advanced
- Other:
- Advanced
- Mandolin:
- Advanced
- Upright bass:
- Moderate
- Electronic Music:
- Moderate
- Vocalist:
- Moderate
- Vocalist - Bass:
- Moderate
- Vocalist - Baritone:
- Moderate
- Acoustic Guitar:
- Moderate
- Drums:
- Moderate
- Other Percussion:
- Moderate
- Piano:
- Moderate
- Flute:
- Moderate
- Harp:
- Intermediate
- Background Singer:
- Intermediate
- Harmonica:
- Intermediate
- Banjo:
- Intermediate
- Vocalist - Alto:
- Intermediate
- Accordion:
- Beginner
- Violin:
- Beginner
- Fiddle:
- Beginner
- Bagpipes:
- Beginner
EQUIPMENT
Silver tone Electric Bass,Acoustic guitar, Cordoba Mini Acoustic Bass ,Ibanez Mandolin both with pick ups. I just got paid position playing bass in a gospel group every Sunday and am currently in the market for an electric bass.
