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Specializing in slide and blues-based rock guitar, Jack plays slide in a style similar to Ry Cooder, David Lindley, Sonny Landreth, Joe Walsh, Duane Allman, both bottleneck and lap steel. A big part of his style is using slide and frets at the same time, and “fretting behind the bar.” For slide E major tuning is his favorite, also open G and dropped D, plus slide in standard tuning. Non-slide styles are greatly influenced by the big 4, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Hendrix, and Jimmy Page, with a lot of Stevie Ray, Albert King, Santana and Billy Gibbons thrown in.A native San Diegan, Jack has been a full-time musician since age 16, when he played guitar and keyboards in bands that played mostly military bases. Soon he joined the local Musician’s Union 325 and switched to bass to play in a house-band gig with local legend guitarist/bandleader Jerry Raney (who much later went on to form The Beat Farmers). With Jack back on lead & slide guitar, this band became the legendary Glory, widely regarded as San Diego’s hardest rockin’ 70’s original act. As house band at the Palace (later known as JJ’s), Glory opened shows for ZZ Top, ELO, James Gang, Howling Wolf, Canned Heat, and even Steely Dan on their first tour. Through the 80’s Jack played with lead singer Paul (West Coast) Shaffer in Bratz, by far the top drawing and wildest club act of the era. A deal with A&M Records soon soured, but not before A&M convinced them to change the name to Private Domain. Later record deals with MCA and Priority also went bad, so it was time to come back to San Diego to play more clubs. So Jack and Paul are still together as Private Domain, holding down yet another house-band gig at Dick’s Last Resort in the GasLamp since 1992, every Wednesday as an acoustic duo, and many weekend nights as a full rock band. Private Domain’s latest CD Great Leaders is available at gigs, from iTunes (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum ?playListId=192594803), and from CD Baby (http://cdbaby.com/cd/privatedomain2) and an earlier CD Big Time Love is available here:(http://cdbaby.com/cd/privatedomain).