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Marc Cooper -CoopDeVille

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Welcome to the official myspace site of singer, guitarist, guitar synthesist fanatic, bassist, songwriter, producer and engineer, Marc Cooper.THERE IS A NEW VIDEO OF COOP SHOWING THE VOCALIST LIVE PRO TO THE WORLD AT THE NAMM 2008 SHOW IN ANAHEIM,CA CHECK IT OUT: NAMM 2008 - Scroll down the video on the right until you come to Vocalist Live ProTHE NEW CD "SOUNDTRACK FOR AMERICA" IS FINALLY DONE... CLICK ON THE FRIENDS LINK BELOW TO GIVE IT A LISTEN. ALSO THE CD "UNVEILED" IS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE... CLICK ON THE FRIENDS LINK OF PATRICK CURTIN TO GIVE IT A LISTEN.... thanks! A new song from UNVEILED "Stay (A Little Longer)" has now been added, an improvisation featuring Jasmine Kinney on violin and Coop on fretless, percussion and layered guitar. The other five songs cover a variety of styles: Full Throttle: a rocking geetar number , Moollon Bay (featuring Coop's Moollon custom shop overdrive /distortion pedal), From the Garden to Gethsamane (Coop's first recording where he extensively used his guitar synth. Even the intro sounds, birds, water, forest, outside of the sampled voices, was all played on his guitar synth setup). A Battle Cry ( his second recording doing all the violin strings and efx with his guitar synth. Seppo Salminen played drums on those two compositions) and the song BB where Coop played bass and all the guitar parts with Sallaberry playing drums recorded in Sao Paulo, Brazil.Early on Coop has had the absolute pleasure of studying with some of the finest guitarists on the planet: Howard Roberts, Mick Goodrick, Tommy Tedesco, Ron Eschete, Pat Martino, Joe Diorio, Steve Morse, Robben Ford, Don Mock (!)... and participated in classes with Joe Pass, Steve Travato and many others.Coop's career has taken him all over the world performing and exciting audiences in such countries as Indonesia, China, Taiwan, Japan, Hungary, Spain, Germany, Africa, Scandinavia, England, Austria, Brazil, Argentina, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Sweden and throughout the US and Canada. Coop has performed live on stage with Joe Walsh, Steve Howe, the amazing Danny Gatton, pick up designer Seymour Duncan, Michel Cusson (UZEB), drummers Gregg Bissonette (David Lee Roth/Joe Satriani), Carmine Appice (Rod Stewart/Jeff Beck), and Brooks Wackerman (Infectious Grooves), bassist Alphonso Johnson (Weather Report /Santana), , Pat Travers, and Canadian blues artist Rita Chiarelli. In 2007 while on tour in Australia he performed with guitar wizard Brett Garsed . He has shared the stage with Jennifer Batten, Andy Timmons, and many other fine players while doing guitar clinics throughout his global travels. He started CoopDeVille in the early 90's as a blues project which featured a variety of talented musicians from the Toronto area including Jeff Salem on drums and Peter Murray on bass amongst many others. In that time what happened in Toronto at TACF was revolutionary and Coop ended up playing with musicians Jeremy Sinnott and Rob Critchley and too many others to mention here... but the big thing was the Almighty showed up and changed the atmosphere forever!!!In 1996 Coop, as a special guest, toured the UK with Yngwie J. Malmsteen and in 1997 he toured Turkey with drummer Dom Famularo and bassist/guitarist Awesome John where they did TV shows in Istanbul, Ankara, Adana, Ismir, and Antalyia for an audience of 120 million people on the Euro/Sky Network! In 1999 Coop played at EuroMusic Vienna, along with Uli Jon Roth and Milan Polak and others.Coop is the author of 6 guitar instructional books, CDs and for the music publishing company, "MEoW" (Music Education Workshop) and worldwide with Music Sales Corporation. His books and jam along CDs, entitled "The Guitar Vocabulary Series", have sold successfully throughout 15 countries worldwide. Coop has also been providing many companies with his favorite presets that have appeared in: Digitech 2101 and the 2112; GNX series of modeling guitar floor pedalboards, TC Helicon VoiceLive, Powercore Tubifex and TC Thirty. He has appeared in several videos playing through Johnson amps, TC Electronic's G Major and TC Helicon's VoicePrism and the 2005 DVD on TC Electronic's G System. Coop has recently finished a couple of videos for the Vocalist Live 2 and one for the Jam Man on the Digitech website. The NEW VIDEO FOR THE VOCALIST LIVE 4 IS OUT ON THE DIGITECH WEBSITE NOW ---CHECK IT OUT.Coop endorses Addian picks, AXON guitar synths, Auralex Acoustics, Brian Moore Guitars, Body Glove, DIGITECH vocal harmonizers and guitar effects, Evidence Audio cables, The Guitar Wheel, Koch amps, Moollon effect pedals, Musser slide rings, Sibelius scoring software, and WB PICKUPS. .

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Member Since: 9/28/2006
Band Website: coopdeville.com
Band Members: Past and Present:

John Mullen (guitar), Peter Murray (bass), Luke Sinnott (bass), David Rose (bass), Jeff Salem (drums), Seppo Salminen (drums and hand percussion), Mike Hagerty (drums) Sallaberry (drums) Eric Chun (assorted percussion) Jasmine Kinney (violin) Joey Curtin (pianos and synths) Patrick Curtin (acoustic guitars, vocals) Linda Mullen (vocals) Coop (lead vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, synth-guitars, fretless and fretted bass, loops and atmospherics, hand percussion)
Influences: "Human wisdom is so tinny, so impotent, next to the seemingly absurdity of God. Human strength can't begin to compete with God's weakness." St. Paul 39+/- ADBrian Eno, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Bonnie Raitt, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Eric Johnson, Todd Rundgren, Joe Diorio, Ron Eschete, Pat Martino, John Coltrane, Robert Fripp, David Torn, David Sylvian, Jan Ackerman, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Adrian Belew, Peter Gabriel, Henry Mancini, Frank Zappa, Danny Gatton, Beatles, Bill Evans, Miles Davis, Mike Stern, Jaco Pastorius, Victor Wooten, Stanley Clarke, AfroCelt Sound System, John McLaughlin, Imogen Heap, Zap Mama, Weather Report, Robben Ford, Howard Roberts, Lenny Breau, Les Paul, Sonny Landreth, King Crimson, Terry Bozzio, Sting, George Benson, Allan Holdsworth, Mick Karn, Patrick O'Hearn, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Charlie Parker, Tom Waits, Kings X, Bruce Coburn, Rain Tree Crow, Bill Frisell, Larry Carlton, Pat Metheny, Jim Hall, Tommy Emmanuel, Buster B. Jones and too many others to list.CS Lewis, Viktor Frankl, Dave Markee, JRR Tolkien, Ray Hughes, Alfred Sendry, Rimsky-Korsakov,


Sounds Like: All of the above influences have somehow shaped something in my music... and without trying to pretend I'm copping any of their originality or genius, my music retains my own sound but echos my influences in subtle ways.
Record Label: CoopDeVille Records
Type of Label: Indie