Member Since: 22/06/2005
Band Members: Paul Boll /
Paulo Bola /
Pablo Bolla /
And of course ...
Two Box Solo
Influences:
Beatles / Zeppelin / Cheap Trick / Devo / Jimmy Page / Billy Gibbons /
Keith Richards / Scotty Moore / Cliff Gallup / T-Bone Walker / Elmore James /
Gatemouth Brown / Jimmy Vaughn / Professor Longhair / Johnny Reno /
Charlie Christian / Barney Kessel / Howard Roberts / Mickey Baker / Jack Peterson /
Bill Ham & Tone Sommers (two local guitarists I grew up listening
to) / the Herb Albert style / Charlie Parker / Miles Davis / Thelonius
Monk / Charlie Mingus / Dave Brubeck / Stan Getz / Bach / Bartok /
Samual Barber / Debussey / Leo Brower / Antonio Carlos Jobim /
Esquivel! / Henry Mancini / Astor Piazzolla / Ennio Morricone / Elmer
Bernstien / Merry Melodies Composers (there are four of them so look
them up) / Los Panchos / Johnny Cash / Buck Owens / George Jones /
Jimmy Bryant & Speedy West / James Brown / Sam Cooke / Marvin Gaye
/ Ray Charles / Beastie Boys / Fat Boy Slim / Air / St. Germain / Robin
Zander / Robert Plant / Linda Rondstadt / Patsy Cline / Etta James /
Sarah McLachlan / Robert Ealey /
Sounds Like:
When I'm playin' the blues people tell me I sound like one of the old
Fort Worth blues guys on Jacksboro Hwy in the '30's, '40's, and '50's
and 60's. That really makes me happy! I'm certified as they say!
Playin' jazz I'm told I have a Mickey Baker / Charlie Christian /
Howard Roberts thing goin' on. I like to play jazz with a rigorous hard
bop style but interspersed with a little hillbilly humor like the
western swing guys or Jimmy Bryant. I think of this style as "Desert
Jazz" or "West Coast Cool".
But the funny thing is what I do best is sort of melodic pop guitar.
It's that Beatles thing in me and this is by far what comes to me most
naturally.
So that's me - a pop guitarist distilled through the rich history of
Fort Worth blues and jazz and all the great guitarists I met and played
with on the road with Johnny Reno's band. Oh, and my North Texas State
experience? I tried to learn as much as I could there with out letting
it screw me up.
Compositionally I'm all over the place. Depends on the project / film /
band.
Record Label: Paean Productions
Type of Label: Indie