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Spiderjames
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- Bronson, Fl. (Gainesville area)
I grew up and spent most of my life in Orlando, bought some property in Bronson Fl and moved there in 2022 to have a more rural life.
I play sax, guitar and bass guitar. Sax was my first instrument. Decided on tenor sax after seeing the sax man from Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids on a TV show playing his tenor upside down!?!
Started playing bass in a neo prog rock band way back in 1978. In the 80s I gigged mostly as a bassist. mid 90s on I did it part time focusing on original music and had a career in Optical. In the early 2000s I started doing sax gigs and refurnishing saxophones/guitars.
My hope is to semi retire from optical and craft some stringed instruments that I have designed over the years and start rebuilding saxes again and get my chops back on sax and guitar and maybe play some odd gigs, sell some instruments and see where it leads. I play mostly tenor, some alto. Right now my tenor is in need of some attention so I'm playing alto for now.
Music wise on sax I prefer The swing era guys and west coast (Paul Desmond, Stan Getz) over bebop.
Growing up, I listened to mostly prog rock ( Genesis, Yes, Van Der Graaf Generator, King Crimson, Kansas, Hawkwind, Pink Floyd etc...) so, David Jackson, Ian McDonald, Mel Collins, Dick Parry, Elton Dean, Wayne Shorter (Weather Report).
Also non sax stuff like Mahavishnu Orchestra, Brand X, Stanley Clarke, Al Di Meola
As far as musical projects go, I wanting do sort of an instrumental funk rock/fusion thing with sax (C melody?) and synthesizer (EWI?) as the lead
I play sax, guitar and bass guitar. Sax was my first instrument. Decided on tenor sax after seeing the sax man from Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids on a TV show playing his tenor upside down!?!
Started playing bass in a neo prog rock band way back in 1978. In the 80s I gigged mostly as a bassist. mid 90s on I did it part time focusing on original music and had a career in Optical. In the early 2000s I started doing sax gigs and refurnishing saxophones/guitars.
My hope is to semi retire from optical and craft some stringed instruments that I have designed over the years and start rebuilding saxes again and get my chops back on sax and guitar and maybe play some odd gigs, sell some instruments and see where it leads. I play mostly tenor, some alto. Right now my tenor is in need of some attention so I'm playing alto for now.
Music wise on sax I prefer The swing era guys and west coast (Paul Desmond, Stan Getz) over bebop.
Growing up, I listened to mostly prog rock ( Genesis, Yes, Van Der Graaf Generator, King Crimson, Kansas, Hawkwind, Pink Floyd etc...) so, David Jackson, Ian McDonald, Mel Collins, Dick Parry, Elton Dean, Wayne Shorter (Weather Report).
Also non sax stuff like Mahavishnu Orchestra, Brand X, Stanley Clarke, Al Di Meola
As far as musical projects go, I wanting do sort of an instrumental funk rock/fusion thing with sax (C melody?) and synthesizer (EWI?) as the lead
