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Alan May

Go out and get it!

About Me

Classical-Practicing Well, Playing Bach, VillaLobos, Sor, Barrios, and the standard repJazz-Going strong, Working Patterns, composing ii-V7 chordal resolutions book, moving back to alternate picking, writing another book of trio arrangements. Commisioning a multi string solid body guitar from EER Guitars in Washington state that is in process! I cannot wait to show this baby off.Country-Playing lead with Texas County Rhythm. Finished a 4 hour set list book of transcribed solos, intros, endings and fills.Getting divorced is a great way to get more playing time.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/11/2005
Band Website: n/a
Band Members: Alan May- Solo Guitar (so far); w/ Texas Country Rhythm Brad Mosely, vocals/rhythm guitar, Bill Williams vocals/pedal steel/violin
Influences: derek bailey, ken vandermark, don cherry, dolphy, pat metheny, ben monder, bill frisell, wes montgomery, kenny burrell, allan holdsworth, django reinhardt, early schoenberg, villa lobos, stravinsky, mahler, john scofield, miles, jaco pastorious, mike stern, wayne shorter, sonny rollins, sonny stitt, clifford brown, debussy, satie, freddy hubbard, clint strong, jimmy wylbe's literature, jimmy smith, steve swallow, thelonious monk, charlie parker, dizzy, jeff beck, herbie hancock, chick corea, the mothers of invention, bill evans, steve vai, art tatum, paco delucia, j.s. bach, robert johnson, jim hall, ed bickert and all the applause from the audience. Oscar Castro-Neves, Scott Henderson, Ted Greene, Jimmy Raney, Howard Roberts, Gary Burton, Egberto Gismonti, Oz Noy, lionel louke, Jack Peterson, Grant Green, Charlie Byrd, Bill Frisell, Dave Weckl and Vinnie Coliuata, Matt Garrison and John Patitucci. 9/24/08 Roy Nichols, Tony Rice, Redd Voelkaert, and Jimmy Bryant.
Sounds Like: I'm multi tasking well these days and pushing my playing in forward in several directions daily. Need to go to the studio soon...
Record Label: n/a
Type of Label: None

My Blog

clubhouse spinach salad

I have been on a spinach kick lately, and my new favorite thing to eat is the Clubhouse Spinach Salad from IHOP. It is so good I can eat one in 5 minutes flat, I put on quite a show. It has green...
Posted by Alan May on Wed, 28 May 2008 06:58:00 PST

Renewed License!

yeah, big news if you knew me. A few years back I would get a ticket and think, oh well, just sit it out any old time. I don't feel like giving my hard earned money away to satisfy a job where you cha...
Posted by Alan May on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:49:00 PST