J K + Musician in Castleton, IN

SEEKING

ABOUT

I'd like to get together with some well-adjusted middle-aged people in the Indianapolis area and do one of two things:

1. Play some songs, maybe from the following albums: REM Automatic for the People, Out of Time, New Adventures in Hi-Fi, Monster; Tom Petty Into the Great Wide Open, Wildflowers, She's the One; Bob Dylan Love and Theft, Time Out of Mind; Sheryl Crow self-titled second album, Globe Sessions; Wallflowers Bringing Down the Horse; The Choir Free Flying Soul, Circle Slide, Speckled Bird; maybe some old Appalachian standards (Long Black Veil, etc.); maybe a few grunge-era melodic songs; "Get It On (Bang a Gong);" maybe some Beatles stuff that rocks like "Revolution 1;" Lucinda Williams Car Wheels on a Gravel Road; Vic Chesnutt At the Cut, Skitter on Take-Off, West of Rome; Cake Fashion Nugget, Prolonging the Magic; Beck Odelay, One Foot in the Grave, Midnight Vultures; fast-pop Weezer; The Breeders Last Splash; maybe some old Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, etc.; not afraid of country, pop, Americana, noise, ambience, weirdness, or songs with female vocalists, which I usually prefer to male vocalists, anyway, but I like male vocalists, too. It's good if you can really play your instrument so we don't have to be slavish with the original arrangements -- freedom is a good thing.

2. Same kind of thing, except do some weird stuff with the songs, or use some of these songs as a jumping-off point to take the music somewhere else. So if you have an interesting instruments (resonator guitar, pedal steel, Hammond B-3, weird percussion, anything played with a bow, a special approach with pedals or Eurorack units or loopers, NIN-style devices like the Luminist Garden, etc.), that would be as welcome as guitars, basses, drums, keyboards, etc.

I have some pedals that do some cool things that could underpin or enliven something previously shopworn. Reverse delay and reverb, slicer effects, atmospheric effects, etc. I also have the usual rock out stuff -- overdrives, distortion, fuzz, chorus, trem, vibrato, flange & phase, etc. Ability-wise, I can probably hang unless you're wanting to do jazz progressions full of 11ths and 13ths or unless you're looking for a virtuoso speed-shredder. My ear is pretty good, I can read a lead sheet, and if you had a band, I'd be a good utility guy on a few instruments but probably not your featured player.

At age fifteen, I started learning to play by going to a bluegrass circle in Florida, where a bunch of very good old guys played through the old timey songbook every Sunday afternoon, usually with 12-15 people playing together at a time. I'm not a bluegrass player by any means, but I do know how to listen and make space for other players. If you knew of a regularly scheduled guitar circle in the area, I'd be game for that, too.

Screen name:

J K

Member since:

Nov 08 2023

Active within 1 week

Level of commitment:

Moderately Committed

Years playing music:

30

Gigs played:

50 to 100

Tend to practice:

More than 3 times per week

Available to gig:

1 night a week

Influences

post-Green R.E.M., post-Full Moon Fever Tom Petty, late 90s/early 2000s Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams, Vic Chesnutt, Beck, Bitches Brew (aspirational), shoegaze period The Choir

Instrument experience:

Rhythm Guitar:

Expert

Acoustic Guitar:

Expert

Background Singer:

Moderate

Lead Guitar:

Intermediate

Bass Guitar:

Intermediate

Keyboard:

Intermediate

EQUIPMENT

Telecaster w/ Extensive Pedalboard (all varieties of dirt and modulation, two dual delay-reverb units, Whammy, etc.)
Fender Amps
P-Bass
Wurlitzer 200 Electric Piano
Takamine acoustic-electric guitar
Yamaha acoustic guitar
I can play some bass on an organ-style footpedal while playing guitar, and I have one at my house, but it's not portable
I have a pedal steel also, but I’m new to the instrument.