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About Me

History/hilights: YOUTH IN ASIA - early 1980s - released one record - Pulling Out The Plug, appeared several times on The John Sauders Cable TV Show, several shows at CBGBs, recorded a few demos, played a bunch of gigs, hung out with Judo Joe Black; THE KRITES - mid 1980s - appeared on The Uncle Floyd Show, recorded a few demos, played a bunch of gigs; FALCON - late 1980s - recorded a few demos, did a bunch of gigs; NO BANDS/NO GIGS from late 1980s-early 1990s; SOUL'D OUT - early 1990s - recorded a demo, did a lot of gigs; BAREWIRES - early 1990s - 2008 - recorded a bunch of demos, did a zillion gigs, jammed with various members of Crack The Sky and got to finish off with some good jams with Ronnie from Overkill; NICK CLEMMONS BAND - mid 1990s - recorded a few demos, contributed to the Paul Revere & Raiders Tribute CD, played a ton of gigs, toured with Clarence Clemmons, jammed with Billy Joel sax-man Mark Rivera; FUZZY ROB'S BAND/GLYNNYS COBB BAND/RVB ALL-STARS/PULLING TEETH - 2001-2008 - tons and tons of gigs, opened for Walter Trout; CROOKED TIES/EYES FROM THE ASHES -2001-2006 - recorded a few demos, played a few gigs, did some cable TV. On my own contributed a song to the HarmonyCentral.com Open Jam II CD, did some studio work here and there, some fill-in gigs, some acoustic gigs; the usual. Currently taking a break...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/25/2005
Band Website: barewiresnj.com/
Band Members: Credits for - BabyDoll and Mercury Poisoning Blues - Dave DeSantis - drums, me - guitar, bass, voice; I'm soley to blame for guitars, bass and stuff on all other 4 track and PS02 demos with the click tracks and such.
Influences: buddy holly, gene vincent & the bluecaps - cliff and johnny, chuck berry, link wray, rock n roll trio, roland janes, elvis w/scotty and bill, ritchie valens, james burton, roy orbison, buck and don, jeff beck, hendrix, pete townshend, rory gallagher, ritchie blackmore, eric johnson, van halen (roth era), scorpions (uli roth era), ufo, michael schenker, frank marino, danny gatton, greg ginn, brian setzer, junior brown, George A. Romero, Karl Freund, Tod Browning, James Whale, Terrence Fisher, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko
Sounds Like: sed a give
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Bare Wires Youtube.com videos

Looks like Markus put some videos from the Recher show on Youtube.com.  The show was pretty good and the video/audio quality are excellent.  Raul's wife videoed the entire show from floor so...
Posted by jim on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:51:00 PST

drummers at the Barewires Ricks gig

Thanks to the drummers who came up at Ricks on 4/25 following Doug's injury which placed him on the 2 set disabled list: Joe - and extree thanks for the vocals on that Beatles song! Dan M - Dr M to yo...
Posted by jim on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:42:00 PST

12/29 Recher Theatre Townson MD -Crack The Sky/ Barewires stuff

Just wanted to thank Crack The Sky for having Barewires open the show and to thank everyone who was at the Recher and made it such an amazing night!  I hope we can get back again soon - thanks ag...
Posted by jim on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:54:00 PST

Buddy Holly would have been 70!

Sept 7...
Posted by jim on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:29:00 PST

FISTACUFFS 7/21 - THANKS

Went to see Fistacuffs on saturday to see Ronnie and the band and next thing I know the were minus a guitar player.  So, I ended up as a fill in for the last set and had a great time.  Just ...
Posted by jim on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:26:00 PST

(mainly) INSTRUMENTAL 4 TRACK 'DEMOS' FROM A LONG TIME AGO

I found a box of cassettes the other day while cleaning up.  Turns out the tapes were demos from1989 and 1999 - two years I either owned or borrowed a 4 track recorder for a few weeks. The s...
Posted by jim on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 07:31:00 PST

yoy

ok, there a a few blues rock cover songs and a couple original rock songs currently up.  i may buy some kind of 4 track recorder and put up all sorts of stupid shit but then again i may just use ...
Posted by jim on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:48:00 PST

New batch of songs

Thanks for listening to the old songs that were up. The new batch is made up of two Eyes From The Ashes songs written by Jeff: Distant Runaway from the first EFTA demo -and a song that got some c...
Posted by jim on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:18:00 PST

more music more music

OK, so Kelly and I are looking for a drummer and a bull fiddle player to play rockabilly. It's the music I grew up with and what I  love the most.   I know to some it's a fashion statem...
Posted by jim on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 05:44:00 PST

bare and other wires

looks like barewires' reunion is on hold. due to broken shoulder dave is on injured reserve. kelly and i were/are looking for a bull fiddle player and drummer to play some wanda jackson/rock n roll tr...
Posted by jim on Wed, 10 May 2006 10:58:00 PST