Johnny

I started playing piano when I was 7 years old. My father is a keyboard player and my mother teaches flute at a music school. We had an electric piano in the house and I took lessons for a while, then I switched to several other instruments. At that time I wasn’t really interested in music because I was so young and I had better things to do ( hanging out with friends :D ). So the time passed by and when I was 12, I tried again. This time with the bass guitar. I got a Jim Harley P-bass and took lessons at a music school and soon discovered Stuart Hamm and my life was changed forever. I’ve never heard a bass played like that before. I got Stu’s Radio Free Albemuth album and listened to it all the time. At that time I got into bass very seriously and practiced a lot. Soon I discovered Gary Willis, Jeff Berlin, Allan Holdsworth and some other cats. I remember one day when my father had shown me a videotape he owned. It was Chick Corea Live In Madrid. There’s where I saw John Patitucci. I was floored again…plus I saw him playing acoustic bass. From then I went to music school to play double bass and study classical music, where I graduated elementary and secondary school, specifically for classical music. While I was in secondary school I had some bands (playing blues, progressive, etc...) where everyone was older than me. Not only that – they were better musicians and I learned much from them. Soon I got the awesome opportunity to share what I had learned in those years. A guy from the official Fender dealer in Slovenia called me and asked if I could play bass at the clinics they were doing that year. Those were the gigs where the bass was played the way I wanted a bass to be heard and spread the way of non-traditional bass playing. Since then I play at clinics almost every year. At those gigs I met also Matjaz Sterze who is my good friend and one of the best rock guitar players in Slovenia.He asked me to record bass for him (for the band Wellblott) – I did – and was truly honoured, because that guy was truly a legend for me. I saw him on TV totally smokin’ the guitar when I was 13. Soon I got a call from my good friend and drummer Reby to join the group of one of the Slovenian legends of rock – Pero Lovsin. I didn’t hesitate. Since then, I've played with him and have a great time. Pure Rock and Roll:) There I play what bass is meant to be… A bass… But in my “free” time I constantly think about making a record of my own, playing the ideas I came up with in all those years, recording them and waiting for the right moment in my life to make them see the light of day…STAY TUNED!