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Beaner Bass Player

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Hey, I am a 4 stringer/songwriter/guitarist/novice producer living in Upstate New York near Saratoga Springs with Sharon, my wife of 15 years, and my two beautiful children Aidan & Ashlynn. I have been a musician (mainly bass guitar) for over 25 years having toured the Northeast sharing the stage with several major acts including Skid Row, Dirty Looks, Joan Jett, Zebra, Rick Derringer, Frehley's Comet, Precious Metal, The Outlaws, Herricane Alice, Plasmatics and Jake E. Lee just to name a few....and of course all the countless cover bands! Available and ready to rock with like minded artists. *ABOUT THE TUNES* Several of you have requested these older Trivia / DoWnFoRcE demo tracks so here they are, like 'em or not! DOWN FORCE - "Back To Paradise", "Only You" & "Gimme Gimme Gimme" were produced/written by myself in the early 90's and recorded at Fozztrax Studio with the help of The Fozz, C.T., Dave Brennan, Kevin Noonan and the late Gerald Munroe. Special thanks to Larry DeVivo/SilvertoneMastering.com for reviving my ancient DAT tape and for the awesome editing/mastering job! Also, the above "Trivia Theme" by TRIVIA instrumental demo was written waaay back in the mid 1980's and re-recorded in 2006 with my old Trivia band/school mate Mick Biddi (Keys/Guitar/engineer) near the cold Canadian border. I also run (more like crawl!) Rock Palace Productions / Rock Palace Records. I'm in the very slow process (this techy home recording stuff is killin' me...urgh!) of recording new tunes and re-recording some old gems right now and plan on a CD release in the future...maybe even on another planet! Stay tuned for Snocap downloads as well. *Please look at my BLOG for a list of MUSICAL GEAR, VIEWING PLEASURES, FAVE TEAMS, HOBBIES/INTERESTS if interested * Thanx for the look, have a fine 09 and ROCK ON everyone!


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 03/08/2007
Band Members: Down Force is a studio project headed by Jonathan Bean - Bass, some Guitars, a little Vox & other; Aidan Bean - Guitar, Vox; Ashlynn Bean - Keyboards, Vox... plus several of my musician friends to the rescue! Hopefully some new tunes as well as some old gems will be recorded in 2009, they are way past due. Watch for upcoming releases on Rock Palace Records and Snocap downloads on Myspace. Rock Palace Productions is also looking for bands/artists and are welcome to contact me and submit material. I'm also a novice producer, not a "knob twister" per se, more of a visionary. Songwriting is my strong point and I offer writing help as well. I might be able to help out your band/recording project...or not. Available rock bassist for like minded original metal slash melodic hard rock signed/managed artists or likewise. Gear list is in blog & pics sections.
Influences: UFO, Journey, Aerosmith, Todd Rundgren, Rush, Van Halen, Cheap Trick, Nugent, Kiss, Thin Lizzy, Y&T, Sabbath, Zeppelin, Scorpions, Starz, Boston, Guns 'N' Roses, Megadeth, Testament, Anthrax, Metallica, Dream Theater, Deep Purple, Tesla, Triumph, Starship/Airplane, Girl, Skid Row, L.A Guns, Saxon, Maiden, Priest, Leppard, Crue, Butch Walker/Marvelous 3, Bryan Adams, Rick Springfield, Europe, Babys, John Waite, Bad English, Eddie Money, Styx, Alliance, 3, Joe Bonamossa, Gov't Mule, The Tubes, Heart, Bad Co., Free, REO, Montrose, Gamma, Sammy Hagar, April Wine, Tobruk, Angel, BOC, Ratt, Dokken, Alice Cooper, Foreigner, Stan Bush, Tygers Of Pan Tang, Loudness, Blue Murder, Riot, Saga, Asia, Honeymoon Suite, Foghat, Pink Floyd, Uriah Heep, Lita Ford, White Lion, Warrant, Autograph, Whitesnake, Icon, Rough Cutt, Killer Dwarfs, Bon Jovi, Loverboy, Aldo Nova, Benetar, Kansas, Streets, TNT, Kix, TT Quick, Survivor, Toto, Santana, Chicago, Elton John, Faces, MC5, Iggy/Stooges, CCR, Neil Young, Eagles, Steely Dan, McCartney/Wings, Beatles, Stones, Kinks, The Who, Johnny Cash, Waylon, Dion, Tom Petty, J. Geils Band, Doobie Brothers, Steve Miller, Bob Seger, Billy Joel, Joe Jackson, The Police, Ramones, The Fixx, Ian Dury, Dire Straits, Duran Duran, U2, Sly & Family Stone, War, EW&F, Frank Zappa, Love/Hate, Accept, Zebra, Foghat, AC/DC, ZZ Top, Blackfoot, Skynyrd, Outlaws, Allmans, Porcupine Tree, Hawkwind, Cars, XYZ, Nightranger, Queen, Armored Saint, Merciful Fate, Savatage, TSO, Schenker Brothers, Frank Marino, Chris Caffery, Les Dudek, Nils Lofgren, Hendrix, Rory Gallagher, Slash, John Norum, Gary Moore, Robin Trower, Neal Schon, Pat Travers, Mike Slamer, Steve Vai, Walter Trout, Ross Valory, John Paul Jones, Geddy Lee, Glenn Hughes, Steve Perry, Jorn Lande, Shadows Fall, Lamd Of God rocks!, Exodus, Godsmack, All That Remains, Frontline, The Darkness, Nickelback, Alter Bridge, Papa Roach, 3 Days Grace, 5FDP, The Wildhearts etc... All Classic Metal, 80's HAIR METAL, Bay Area Thrash, NWOBHM, Classic Rock, 50's-60's Oldies, Southern Rock, Blues, 70's Jazz Fusion, Prog Rock, 70's Funk/Soul, old school country, most New Rock, Jam Bands, most FRONTIERS RECORDS/ESCAPE/MTM artists... the list goes on and on....and rap sucks
Sounds Like: PREVIOUS BANDS include: Trivia (early 80's), Suite 16, Rampage, Signals, area favorites Virgin (late 80's), Valentine, Dream Legion (90's), Frankly Scarlett (90's), The Orphans ('06), Meltdown ('06) Down Force and too many others. I endorse the following quality musical products:
Record Label: Rock Palace Records/Rock Palace Productions
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

** VIEWING PLEASURES ** - FAVORITE MOVIES, SHOWS & CHANNELS

*SHOWS*  A&E, History, Travel, Comedy, Discovery, Speed Channel's shows, VHI Classic, Studio Jams, Nascar Sprint Cup, Truck & Nationwide (Busch) Series Auto Racing, Weeds, Cops, Cheaters,...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 01:42:00 GMT

**AMPEG/FENDER, WHAT MORE DOES A FOUR STRINGER NEED? HERE IS A LIST OF MY MUSICAL GEAR **

**AMPS** Rack Ampeg SVT-4 PRO, Rack Ampeg B2RE(Backup), a BBE B-Max Pre-amp (sometimes run parallel with the Ampeg), MESA 4x10 Road Ready (Powerhouse) bass cab, (2)1x15 Fender Cabinets, 8x10 Ampeg cab...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:04:00 GMT

* HOBBIES / INTERESTS *

I have way too many but here I go: Of course music, my family (when they are behaving!), collecting guitars & basses, songwriting, producing bands, Record/8 Track/CD/DVD collecting, watching music...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:08:00 GMT

* FAVORITE SPORTS TEAMS *

Oakland Raiders, Boston Red Sox, Boston Bruins, Boston Celtics. Richard Petty-Tony Stewart-Mike Skinner-Jamie McMurray (in NASCAR).and of course The A-Team!
Posted by on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:52:00 GMT