Like what you hear!? You can download these songs + more from the handy dandy snocap store located directly below myspace player. its only a dollar!my name is John + i am from Rochester, New York (about an hour's drive from Buffalo + 1 1/2 hrs from the Canadian border) where i spent the first 30 years of my life. Yes the crisp snowy freshness of the great white north.. except for that week in July when its 90+ degrees with a million percent humidity and all of New York loses power because suddenly everyone is running air conditioners + fans all at once! or that week in april when it goes from 50 degrees to 0 degrees in a day and everything turns into a chrystaline wonderland or if you're a news watcher "an ice storm". then of course it all melts in one day and there is mass flooding. it is a place of extremes that i come from (i now live in the most peaceful laid back place on the planet in pacifica (it means peace in spanish!), california + the ocean is my backyard! i have actually seen whales + dolphins from my balcony). I am french canadian indian (french canadian/blackfoot native american), ukranian, german, and polish. i am a guitar instructor (11 years teaching - currently looking for students!! hint hint), genuine music lover and love to play guitar (19 yrs.), piano, hand drums, ashiko, djembe, tabla, congas, gu zheng, sitar, harmonica, sing, and dance to live music/dj's with the damn funky beats! i am very very proud of my cousins + their "largest music store in the world" house of guitars! hey, they're my family! my dad was even one of their insane commercials! i love building huge roaring bonfires meditating reading running contemplative deep thought and ultimately, creating/performing live music! i am a vegetarian with the exception of seafood. so i guess that makes me a fishatarian..? after many years teaching guitar, leading my own "groove-rock/jamband" South Central opening for such prolific thought provoking acts as schleigho + gordon stone (who often guested on phish albums playing banjo or pedal steel). also playing major upstate ny music festivals like scottypalooza 7.0, soul flow 2 + 3, and the park ave festival. i decided to pack my entire life into my jeep and drive across the country out here to land's end, california. spent some time homeless + jobless until i moved in with a very kind generous elderly couple in san francisco + started work as a mover. eventually landed an optical technician job in a mall in Daly City by letting my fingers do the walking + selling myself over the telephone! continued pursuing the life's dream of being a successful musician playing solo in coffee shops + open jams + accompanying the very talented Derek Hayward (www.hairwide.com). a little over a year ago i moved into the very same ocean shore apartment i reside today (with my 2 cats hercules + jasmine) in pacifica, california. the glasses guy in the window in the little mall store job ended abruptly after about 11 months. now currently doing precision optical work for tinsley laboratories/nasa/ball aerospace - landed a much much better job January '05 grinding/polishing/cryo-testing beryllium mirror segments for the James Webb Space Telescope (the next hubble - www.jwst.nasa.gov). this is the best job i ever had + quite possibly the biggest challenge i've ever faced. guess that is quite often a package deal.. when the mirror segments are complete the telescope will be sent 1.7 million miles away and we will be able to see further into space than ever before (the equivalent of "almost back to the big bang"). continue to play the music of my heart + soul solo style in coffee shops in San Francisco you can find me at coffee adventures cafe every month! 1331 columbus@northpoint in the fisherman's wharf/north beach area (by the cannery). Check out the new and improved website @ www.coffeeadventurescafe.com. If you'd like to play @ Coffee Adventures you can contact me here. also gigging these days with The American Economy (www.myspace.com/theamericaneconomy) check blogs for shows!American Economy - Red Devil Lounge, San Francisco 12.5.07 br/
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