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John Swank

About Me

Acoustic, Electric, and Slide Guitars --- Lead and backing vocals, Frontman, all styles --- Duo, trio, band --- Acoustic Solo - using looper for multiple parts ----YOU PAY IT, I PLAY IT! - AC/DC to Duke Ellington to Hank Williams to Skynyrd to R.E.M. to Grateful Dead to Green Day to Beach Music to Blues to Country to Bluegrass to R&B to R&R to Funk and all points in between.GIGS - hotel pool decks-cruise ships-restaurants-concerts-nightclubs-bars-pubs-Soft Music-LOUD MUSIC-Love songs!-hate songs!-bands, solo, duo, trio, whatever-USA and Abroad BASED in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA. Legendary TKO band, fronting 14+ year house gig at 2001, Myrtle Beach - TKO named "SC Entertainers of the Year" by the Governor of SC - The Beachcombers at Ocean Annie's - Joy Buzzer! - Crazy George and the Good Time Band - "IRIE!" the Love Mussels - The Zassoff Boys - The Austin Cayce Band - The Tony Blunt Project - The Crashers - The Southside Band - Marsha Morgan Band, and just about every live music venue in town, etc - etc - etc ROAD EXPERIENCE - Denmark - England - Holland – Norway - Germany - Sweden -Switzerland - Finland - St. Maarten-St. Martin, N. A - US Virgin Islands - Jamaica - Italy - Sardinia - Spain - Greece - Crete - Turkey - Japan - Okinawa - Korea - the subways of Paris - Hawaii - New York City - Lower Broadway, Nashville - New Orleans - Conway, SC – Gilbert County Frog Jump - the Faeroe Islands - Iceland, K-mart, AND Myrtle Beach, SC! - etc - etc - etc Some choose to dream all of their lives; I choose to live all of my dreams Always into anything musical as long as fun is allowedI edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 30/10/2006
Band Website: Myspace.com/Johnswankguitar
Influences: Frank X. Brittingham, Frank Smoak, Steve Morse, Brian Stoller, Dickie Betts, Ricky Hirsch, Duane, Ry, Charlie Snuggs, Brian Mackenzie, Bradley Roberts (yeah, I know...), Mike Salley, Scott Ashley, Ron Johnson, Marty, Springsteen, Steely Dan, REM, Eric Johnson, Steve Van Zandt, Nils Lofgren, BB King, Albert King, Mike Campbell, Keef, Mark Knopfler, JJ Cale, Elliott Randall, Albert Lee, etc. etc.
Sounds Like: Bar Band music for Grownups, you pay it, I play it, yeah, I know that song, tip your bartenders and waitresses.
Record Label: Big Scary Records; Forevermore Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

A Celebration of Life, Love, and Music for Gary Craddock.

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From MB Weekly Surge, 6 March 2008

John Swank, a guitar virtuoso and a 25-year veteran of the Grand Strand music scene disappears for months at a time. When I discovered that he had parlayed his considerable talents into extended solo ...
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