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Jerry Wilkinson Solo Acoustic

About Me

I started playing guitar my freshman year at Rutgers in New Brunswick New Jersey, quite a place to be in the late 70's and a great place to meet people/musicians that helped me along with my guitar playing and performing. I loved the Beatles back then, still do but as the 70's rolled on and the chances of a renunion faded, I started looking at other artists. By the end of my freshman year at Rutgers I met a girl and fell in love. She had been playing guitar since she was like 7 years old and had a small body Gibson acoustic with a satin finish, okay her name was Yasmin, very sweet girl! She taught me alot about playing. I was only playing about 6 months when we met and she was always very supportive, thankyou Yaz! We were sittin in her dorm room and she put on Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush" I heard the first song "Tell Me Why" and that was it for me. I told her, that's the type of music I want to play! Within a half hour she was playing it and I was writing the cords down on a piece of paper.Neil Young was on my brain and the winter of 79-80 was when Rust Never Sleeps and Live Rust came out. I was in a friends dorm room, a picture of Neil playing his old Les Paul with his hair blowing was up on the wall. Live Rust was playing, I think it was Powderfinger playing...we had just smoked and had a few beers that night. I looked at the picture of Neil on the wall and without thinkin just said " Man he is a genius" Need I say more? ...that was 27 years ago and Neil has never let me down! You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor !CURRENT MOON

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/30/2007
Influences: Neil Young, ..Tom Petty, Crosby Stills Nash, Simon and Garfunkel, Eagles, America, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd...
Sounds Like: Neil Young with a little Tom Petty mixed in there.
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Song Notes - Maybe Tomorrow, Maybe Today

I have wanted to start posting some thoughts on where my songs are coming from. My new song Maybe Tomorrow, Maybe Today is about all those conversations that a person thinks about but might not ever h...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:47:00 GMT