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Seth Horan is a touring singer/songwriter. And there are thousands of those. He left RCA band Vertical Horizon in 1998, right on the brink of that bands multi-platinum success, and decided to play his songs alone on his bass rather than pick up the traditional six-string acoustic guitar hailed as the universal standard for songwriters. He did this to push the envelope of modern songwriting and performance; he did it to see how far he could go while still being accepted by the mainstream; he did it to explore a new sound in a market that becomes more homogenized every day. But most importantly, he did it because he has been a bass player since he was twelve years old, and he really, really, really sucks at guitar.
Originally hailing from Buffalo NY, he has been touring the USA (literally) since March of 2002, building a sizable following and turning heads with his blend of fingerpicking, slapping, tapping, harmonics, and chording to accompany his voice. To say that Horan plays the bass like a guitar is a vast understatement. More to the point, he plays it like a dulcimer, a drum set, a harp, and a xylophone all at the same time.
This quote from the Ocean City Beachcomber sums it up: "He plays solo bass guitar like Victor Wooten, sings songs like John Mayer and Ani DiFranco, and performs with the intensity of Martin Sexton. Hes a freak of nature, and hes phenomenal."
After a two year relationship with (now defunct) Benchmark Records, culminating in the 2004 release of "Conduit", Horan went independent once again, releasing the five-song EP, "Happenstance" in 2007, and has just released his first DVD, "Between Two Oceans", which documents his career from 2001 to the present. For more information on Horan, his albums, and future tourdates, surf to http://sethhoran.com
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Member Since: 6/17/2004
Band Website: sethhoran.com
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My Blog

Produce my next album. Yes, I mean you. No experience necessary.

I got some really interesting feedback from my last post about the future of (my) music. In that post, I made mention of how I'm going to make this new record... with you.This is to explain how that w...
Posted by Seth Horan on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:21:00 PST

The future of (my) music...

(Yes, I am in Germany at present, and yes, there will be a blog about it... sit tight and read this in the meantime! :)No matter what you think of the state of the music business, you prob...
Posted by Seth Horan on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:06:00 PST

Live nude girls.

Ah! Would you look at the size of this blog? All nicely laid out with oodles of cool info and links for you to check out... One might ask:...why don't I do this more often?Actually... I do! Less th...
Posted by Seth Horan on Mon, 26 May 2008 10:09:00 PST

the wizard behind the curtain.

Some of you may have this DVD I've been peddling, "Between Two Oceans", and even if you haven't gotten your copy yet, you may have seen the cover art all over my various web pages:But what you might n...
Posted by Seth Horan on Mon, 12 May 2008 01:34:00 PST

"Something Pretty" has been transcribed...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXZFsJxje0Y ...by Will. Will's fifteen years old, and first posted this on YouTube last year. He's just posted this updated version. Will's been completely ...
Posted by Seth Horan on Tue, 06 May 2008 11:31:00 PST

Im in the finals on OurStage.com... so why am I so pissed?

APRIL 28th UPDATE:Well, my songs maintained a strong presence in the Top 10 for the Newport Folk Festival competition for FOUR DAYS STRAIGHT......and then, suddenly and inexplicably, both dropped to 1...
Posted by Seth Horan on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:40:00 PST

iLike it aLot.

In my latest emailer, I encouraged everyone to check out the new iLike Sidebar. I’m entirely sincere in my endoresment of it -- I think it has a leg up on internet services like Last.fm and Pand...
Posted by Seth Horan on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:46:00 PST

Euro-Euro-COIN, yall...

...it really doesn’t have the same ring to it as that bygone hip-hop call of the 90’s, does it? No. But get used to it, my fellow Americans. The USA has itself a receding economic ha...
Posted by Seth Horan on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:17:00 PST

...telling lies about the Jewish or the Scientologist...

How pathetic and disturbing.My song, "Keep To Myself", has enjoyed a degree of popularity with those who profess to enjoy my music.I realize that not everyone listens to song lyrics with a careful ear...
Posted by Seth Horan on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:51:00 PST

On the benefits of noise-cancelling headphones, and knowing the way to San Jose...

February was a fun month.I did my first corporate gig in a very long time a couple weeks ago, and then I went and did a mini-tour through Upstate New York, which I haven't done in ages. Both exp...
Posted by Seth Horan on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:11:00 PST