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Mike Estes

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About Me

MyGen Profile GeneratorI’m Mary, Melissa and Jamie’s Daddy. I’m Davis Michael and David Fulton’s Grandaddy. I’m George and Laurrie’s son. I’m a songwriter singer and guitar player. I’m a decent card player and a better fisherman. I like warm weather, drop top Mercedes Benz cars, Harley Davidson and custom Bikes, American muscle cars and classic cars, Gibson guitars, any old guitar, Fender and Marshall amps, and bass fishing. I am happiest when a good song is finished. I play in a band called Skinny Molly with some good friends of mine. We play in the States and Europe. You can see my band at www.skinnymollyrocks.com or at www.myspace.com/skinnymolly. I have a bunch of good friends in the States and in other countries. I mighta oughta shoulda been a lawyer, and my favorite TV shows are law related. "Law and Order" and the Andy Griffith Show. I’ve probably learned more from the latter. I probably should have played piano instead of guitar. I love Larosa’s Pizza and Skyline Chilli. Some days I don’t like to work out all that much but I do it anyway. I lose my keys and guitar picks at least once a day. Sunglasses too. I’ve gotten better about not losing my cell phone.My home is in the sticks in Tennessee. Love it there. I have found a new location for my studio and rehearsal space close to my home. I also live on the road half the time, or in Florida. Or, when my mom is ill, in Southwestern Ohio. I guess I’m half gypsy. I have had the good fortune of playing with some great musicians, famous and not so famous. I also figured out you can be both at the same time. Tennesse is home, but I have been on a working vacation lately. Hell, I mostly am always on a work vacation these days...CONSTANTLY on the road. I am late in the game on myspace. My daughters told me about it YEARS ago. They said it was gonna be huge. They were right. I wasn’t. Oh, yeah, almost forgot. I used to play guitar with Lynyrd Skynyrd. You can read my "official" bio at www.skinnymollyrocks.com but the above is a short (?!)of who I am. The music on my site here is stuff that I did with Brave New South, or my acoustic band, Horsetraders. Both were/are, a for lack of a better term, Southern Country Rock... The Skinny Molly CD is dang near done, and is NOTHING like the stuff on here...It rocks A LOT harder trust me. P.S. Be sure to check out my goofy videos...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/1/2007
Band Website: skinnymollyrocks.com
Band Members: Since the Spring of 2004, my main musical priority has been Skinny Molly. I started that band with Dave Hlubek of Molly Hatchet, and Kurt Pietro. (Dave, Kurt and I had also played together in my band Brave New South previous to this) Dave has since went back to Molly Hatchet, (with our blessing of course) Nowadays, Chris Walker plays guitar along with me, and Luke Bradshaw plays bass. You can check out www.skinnymollyrocks.com for the official skinny, so to speak. I also do acoustic shows overseas with Chris Walker that are kind of an Americana thing.
Influences: For one, my parents. Musicans and writers: Ed, Allen, Ronnie, Steve, KEEF RICHARDS, Dave, Steve Earle, Townes VanZandt, Waylon Jennings, George Jones, Merle Haggard, Gram Parsons, Paul Rodgers, Ronnie Hammond, Robert Earl Keen, Joe Ely, Lyle Lovett, Craig Reed, Eddie Leahy, some new rock, some old country, some old rock, no new country, (EXCEPT some of the new country stuff I have heard on myspace I like) Guitarists: Gary Richrath, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Richard Bennett, Jimmy Page, SRV, Barry Bailey, Jerry (no relation to Craig) Reed, Don Rich, the guys in my band, and about a million more .
Sounds Like: A strange mix of all the above. But with my sorry ass singing.
Record Label: Southern American Recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Bout damn time

Well, I haven't proven to be great at writing blogs. Let's see. I recently got back from a tour with Jay Johnson from England. That was cool! Thanks to Dave and his lovely wife Sandy for all their hel...
Posted by Mike Estes on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:27:00 PST

Funny

Senator Clinton was on a plane to Texas and finds herself seated next to anolder, weathered man in a western snap shirt, faded jeans and a cowboy hat.Thinking herself above the old cowboy, the she dec...
Posted by Mike Estes on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:56:00 PST

Hell, I don't know

Just a note to telll everybody that gives a damn that Jay Johnson (formerly of Blackfoot, Rossington Band) has joined Skinny Molly. Jay is an welcome additon. He and I are als...
Posted by Mike Estes on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 01:35:00 PST

...and home again...

Back home from Mexico. Weeeeeew. Left a wake. Got sunburned after a scuba diving attempt, narrowly escaped arrest at imigration, detained for a day, got my phone stolen, played some fun gigs...
Posted by Mike Estes on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 12:15:00 PST

Back home and gone again

Well, I made it back home from a brief run to the UK. Went by pretty quick, I must say. Great to see and play with Chris, Ash and Mark as always... Gotta thank Mr. G, and Three Non Blondes for getting...
Posted by Mike Estes on Mon, 14 May 2007 04:04:00 PST

Enough Already!

Could you morons that don't know that guns are for self-defense and hunting, PLEASE leave them in your gun cabinet, go out and get some friends and a life, and quit going and taking your frustrations ...
Posted by Mike Estes on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:18:00 PST

VA

I'm sure y'all know about the bullshit that went on at Virginia Tech. Please pray for the familes affected by the shooting.
Posted by Mike Estes on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:06:00 PST

The new blog

Well here it is. The first mikeestesmusic myspace blog.  I STILL don't even know what the word means. Not true. I know what a blog IS, but where does the word blog come from? It sounds like ...
Posted by Mike Estes on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:10:00 PST