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Music for all occasions
Shows, Festivals: Original Instrumentals/Songs
Restaurants, House Concerts and Wedding
Ceremonies: Finger Style Instrumental including
Classical Guitar and Renaissance Lute
Bars, Outdoor parties: Solo Classic Acoustic Folk /Rock, Blues and Rags
Bars, Outdoor parties :Classic Rock With 4 piece Band :Lead and Rhythm Guitars, Drums, Bass
Guitar and Banjo
lessons
Call
John at 973-962-9655
Newest internet sites:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=830322
http://www.imusicscene.com/John_Sheehan/
http://www.reverbnation.com/johnsheehan
http://apps.facebook.com/reverbnation_fb/artist/johnsheehan
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1235204508&hiq=john%2Csheehan
Ceremony and
Cocktail hour Music
Future:
Folk Fest you wont want to miss
http://www.hungrydogproductions.com/
Past: A fun gig:
http://www.chronogram.com/issue/2007/5/Arts+&+Culture/May-Nightlife-Highlights
Thanks for
the airplay:
http://www.studio360.org/yore/music112704.html
http://www.wumb.org/playlists/2008-03-16.html
http://www.upperroomwithjoekelley.com/
Present:
Newest internet sites:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=830322
http://www.reverbnation.com/johnsheehan
http://apps.facebook.com/reverbnation_fb/artist/johnsheehan
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1235204508&hiq=john%2Csheehan
http://www.imusicscene.com/John_Sheehan/
Song for the Month ,'Freedom
Place' Stream:
http://ezfolk.com/audio/bands/70/audio.php?p=2
Three different performances;
'Pearl diving near the Hudson' a WFMU compilation with a
live recording of Freedom Place I did on the Irene
Trudel show around 10 yrs ago.This is perhaps the
best live performance recording I've done, but who knows
where they all are?
Listen and request music to Irene on Mondays 3-6 pm on
91.1 or 91.0
http://www.wfmu.org/
youtube performance from 2001 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jlMzBqHCJ0
Instrumental Solo Guitar:
http://www.johnsheehan.net/CDs.html
Last Months recap: April 4th..Muddy
Waters birthday born 1915
Momentous visit with Tom Doyle
to pick up my guitar which he kindly got done before
my Andres gig that night.
What a fine repair on a problematic classical
guitar! It's not a problem any longer, it sounds
better than ever! New frets with wider tangs brought
the neck back,steammed neck and some planning of the
fingerboard ,nut work and slight shaving of the
bridge has improved the action, greatly improved the
relief,and made the sound way more balanced and
louder.It's like a new guitar.Doyle is a supreme
workman with guitars.
As if I wasn't excited enough he played the guitar
for a half hour demonstrating his arrangements and
playing songs like Django's 'Nuages','Petite
Waltz',recorded by Atkins,'Out of Nowhere','Georgia'
and a bunch of others.
I was the only blessed attendant at this event
...should have brought a friend !Ken Boysen or Jim
Ankrom would've pigged out on this!Tom talked of how
in 1956 he saw Chet for the first time at the
Manhatten hotel.Showed me his very unorthodoxed but
effective thumb up picking!DEVELOPED AS AN ATTEMPT
TO GET A SLAPBACK WITHOUT AN ECHOPLEX. HOW
BIZARRE! Tom also talked of listening to Juke box's
of Les Paul 78 rpm's as a kid.COME ON, THIS IS VERY
COOL! I am getting an education from Tom each time I
see him!
Hopefully Tom will have his 1st Guitar Fest at his
home this fall and he's mentioned getting Lou Pallo
,Jerry Tapinka, Grover Kemble and myself on the bill
as well as others including himself and wife Sandy.
Check out the schedule for the Lafayette House off
rt 206 to see when Tom and Sandy are playing next.
By the way anyone interested in learning to make a
guitar Tom has courses in his shop in Wantage and
this man's got the goods,believe me.Some may not
know but he is also Les Paul's sound engineer every
Monday at The Irridium each week.I think he's worked
with Les Paul for 30 something years.
Andres Restaurant in
Newton... that same night the guitar was
great to play and I performed a three hour set with
a short break to restring a busted high 'E' .. two
Venezuelan pieces by Antonio Lauro for the first
time.'El Negrito' and 'El Marabino'.I just really
dig Lauro's compositions!Beautiful ,extremely well
written solo guitar pieces that are a pleasure to
play and turn folks on to.Originals include the
unrecorded 'E
minor blues for Davy,Ba(e)ders
field,Cliffs of Moher,'The Villain' and others.
John Fahey tunes: 'Brenda
Blues','Some Summer Day','I'm gonna do all I can for
my Lord'...a clawhammer/3 finger guitar fiasco.What
a riot this song is to play ,especially in tandem
with 19th century classical pieces!When the room
gets louder with drinkers ...capoed 3rd fret pieces
with more aggressive right hand picking are in
order!
Fri 11th...Amazing
Grapes with Joe Lobosco on drums.Tried out
a few new ones,Tull's Teacher ,Dylans,Country Pie,an
unorthodoxed All along the watchtower
and the usual requests,Layla
etc.
Rick Merino did a 30 minute
set with Karen Lauber at the end of the night that
was very well recieved by the fun loving audience! I
had a chance to meet a fine couple,Dan and Janna who
gratiously thanked me for the music and praised
Rick,Karen and Joe's contributions.Darcy and
Stephanie of course led the dancing shenanigans up
by the bar.
Sunday 13th Nanuet
Public Library
One Hour set of original
steel string songs and instrumentals and a
little classical guitar .A man named Harold
after listening to 'Cliffs of Moher' cracks 'I
don't know whether I want to cry because the
song is so beautiful or because I can't play
that way'.
A little kid,Colin
Farmer, who was with his mom asked for an
autograph.I gave it to him but I wasn't
flattered as they showed up too late to catch
the show!
Saturday 26th
Lockwood Tavern
Great time with Ambassador
Denny Tilton and fellow singer/songwriters Mef
Gannon and Jack Tannehill.
Each performer doing two
sets of four songs.
Denny started the night
off with his relaxed manner,Mef sang great, i
did two old /two new songs then Jack worked his
turf.
Then we did it all again
with another set each .It was great playing
along with Denny on his tune,'It cant get better
than that' ( think that's the name) and playing
with Mef and Jack on Prines , 'Angel from
Montgomery'.
Don Sternecker was there
and I asked for Woody Manns phone number because
I'd like to do a show with him.
Synchronisity:
My drummer buddy Joe Lobosco
gives my 'ISG' CD to his Mother in law, Lalie
Madreguera ,who gives it to jazz great Gene
Bertoncini, who plays a guitar built by John
Buscarino, who was a good friend of my brother Bill
in high school , who was my first guitar mentor.
http://www.genebertoncini.com/main.htm
Student Activity:
12 yr. old Marissa (guitar) and 13
yr. old Lindsey(bass) had their
first gig at their school talent show.They obtained
a 'hottie' male lead singer and performed 'Knockin'
on heavens door.
Linda is their hero now as she was able to get
Gil Griffith,her boss and CEO of
Wave Digital ,to obtain Jerry Only
(The Misfits) signed posters and promotional photos.
These were presented as Diplomas and certificates
at their next lessons.
Steve Bowie...bartered for a lesson
by helping me split wood donated by Glenn
Fasse ,another student.
Kevin Ronan... bartered a lesson
for a Boss Blues Driver pedal
Past/current students now gigging.Google them if you
know them or are curious.
Rick Merino
Larry Amato
Bob Savarth
John Redden
Ed Yuhas
Jen Simond
Ron Paige ... http://allaccessmagazine.com/vol6/issue03/ronny_paige.html
Thanks for the comment Ron(I think!?)
Fishing report for April 10th
wind from the north...
Went fishing with brother Greg . Fished Green Turtle
Pond in Hewitt about ten minutes away from my house.
Used my little 10' boat. We each caught a 15'
trout.It tasted great last night with potatoes and
Cauliflower.
Greg's rainbow was a fat female.Mine was a hooked
Jaw male rainbow trout with bright orange gills .I
used jigs I tied with bucktail obtained from a
guitar student and Greg had some weird yarn thing he
tied on a Salmon hook .Our creations were
tipped with meal worms and pieces of nightcrawlers.
Greg caught the biggest bluegill a nice bigger than
palmsized bulldog!I also caught 5 nice sized
bluegills and a pregnant fat 13 ' perch.Not a bad
day catching and the weather was great!Everthing we
caught was on white colored jigs ('cept perhaps
Greg's Bluegill)and the water was real clear so we
got down below 6 feet probably to around 10-12
feet.We drifted with the wind over the trout and
perch spot and backtrolled by a bluff for the
Bluegills.All fish were released unharmed except the
unlucky trout which we took for the pans.
BAD NEWS LAST.... you may not want to know:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4336262446047063653&q=The+Fluoride+Deception&total=34&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=4
Hazardous waste Law
exempts Military's contribution :
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is the world's
biggest polluter.Can't recall if Al Gore covered that in
his 'Inconvenient Truth'
http://www.safetyforum.com/mtw/
An intense site:
http://www.threeworldwars.com/
Food/Eating ,that kinda stuff:
http://www.independent.co.uk/environme
nt/green-living/exposed-the-great-gm-crops-myth-812179.html
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/04/01/which-giant-corporation-owns-your-favorite-organic-food-brand.aspx
http://oism.org/pproject/s33p333.htm
A year old take on global warming:
http://www.lindafrum.com/NewsDetail.aspx?newsid=74
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/02/content_7901093.htm
Modern Man,
Modern Problems:
How to cook an egg with two mobile phones
1 Egg
2 Mobiles
65 minutes of connection between mobiles.
Initiated the call between the two mobiles and
allowed 65 minutes approximately...
During the first 15 minutes nothing happened;
25 minutes later the egg started getting hot;
45 minutes later the egg is hot;
65 minutes later the egg is cooked.
Conclusion: The immediate radiation of the
mobiles has the potential to modify the proteins
of the egg.
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