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John - Moo - Mooy

Tour Manager/Guitar tech/Artist Relations

About Me

HOME "DISHWALLA" FOR THE NAVY
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THE MOST AMAZING TOUR I HAVE EVER BEEN A PART OF.... TO THE CREW OF THE TEDDY ROOSEVELT - CVN71 - AND THE NIMITZ - I WILL NEVER FORGET!!!

Tour manager Crosby Loggins 08 / Various and Sundry 07 / Toad the Wet Sprocket 06 / Karla Bonoff 06 / Jim Messina 05-6/

I have been a guitar tech for over twenty years and have teched and/or toured with Weezer, Nickel Creek, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Kenny Loggins, Crosby Stills and Nash, Jimmy Messina, Loggins and Messina reunion tour, Karla Bonoff, The Cars, Todd Rundgren, Jackson Browne, David Crosby (CPR), Jeff Pevar, and a ton more! I love my job!

While Tour managing Toad the Wet Sprocket, I was interviewed by one of my favorite websites! Check out my Interview with Roadie.net!!! http://www.roadie.net/portal/html/modules/news/art


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Member Since: 1/8/2006
Band Website: roadie.net/portal/html/modules/news/art
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I was born and grew up in Santa Barbara Ca. Not one of the rich kids, but the third in a family of eight kids born to a hardworking High School Teacher and his harder working wife. After 20 years in Colorado, Santa Barbara is again my hometown. And I am thankful every freakin' day for it too......! I live like a king on a shoestring..... SB is expensive to live in, but it's worth the price of admission. But as is what happens as we get older, I also have my heart in Hana, Hanalei, and Colorado.

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Influences: Most everyone in my friends list is a musician and/or artist
They are ALL influences in my life in some way or another. So please search through my friends list, give a listen, and discover some amazing music!!
I have guitar teched and tour managed so many great artists through the years - Toad The wet Sprocket 06' - Karla Bonoff/Rita Coolidge 06' - Crosby,Stills,Nash, - CPR (feat. David Crosby) - Kenny Loggins - Loggins and Messina reunion tour 05' - to name a few.

I also am honored to know and work with most of these folks personally.... Jake Shimabokuru, Jesse Seibenberg, THE SAMPLES!!, Havilah Rand, Kris Delmhorst, Kathrinn Shorr, Wasis Diop, Megan Slankard, Suzanne Paris, Crosby Loggins, Vince Chafin, Glen Phillips, Eddie from Ohio, Brett Dennen, Nickel Creek, Jeff Kranzler, Whispertrip, Ona, Animal Liberation Orchestra ( ALO ), Kenny Edwards, Gina Villalobos, Nicola Gordon, Lucy Kaplansky, David Wilcox, Stacey Earle, Dougie MacLean, Zack Gill, Jonathan McEuen, Nathan McEuen, more to come

I have also been VERY fortunate to mix sound for Zach Gill (ALO), Ellis Paul, HAPA, Makana, David Grier, Bill Frissell, Peter Fingers, Tony Furtado, Adrien Legg, Laurence Juber, Muriel Anderson, Kenny Loggins, Jim Messina, Glen Phillips, Lucy Kaplansky, David Wilcox, Stacey Earle, Patty Larkin, Laura Love, Darrel Anger, Julie Wolf, and so many more great artists including the folks on the first list.....God I love my job!!!!!!

Recently I have begun working with L.R.Baggs acoustic guitar pick-ups as their Artist Relation representative!! I am so very honored to be working with these great folks!
Sounds Like: I recently added a tune called SNOW that was released on my album entitled "Columbine" in 1989. Columbine after the state flower of Colorado and the little street I used to live on in East Vail Colorado... not after the High school incident. Snow was recorded on a Fostex 4 track cassette deck with my old friend Craig Dobbin doing the string parts on an older Juno8 synth. I recently transfered all my old stuff to ProTools, so this is my first remastering/cleaning up/ and adding some cool things via Reason.

Gramps tune was a piece I wrote for my Grandfathers 100th birthday. All the guitars were recorded live - no punch-ins! My amazingly talented brother - Jim Mooy (conducts orchestras, big bands, teaches music at a college - ya know, the TALENTED one in the family...) added the strings and killer penny whistle. (Is there really a killer pennywhistle?)

Hana sunrise was written by complete mistake! The tuning - D Wahini was discovered while I was NOT paying attention and mistakenly tuned the guitar wrong. I later learned from the great Hawaiin artist, Barry Flanagin (Hapa) that this is a very traditional tuning. I wrote this for my lovely bride Liz. It was recorded direct off off the piezo pick-up and NOT mic'ed. All pick-ups are the L.R.Baggs Element. Yup even in the ukeleles! (The ukes are down in this mix, but will be brought to the front a bit more on the next! ) These pick-ups are THE best! Both of these tune are unmastered-unmixed-and still have mistakes that I have'nt got around to editing yet....so enjoy.... --------- oh yea---------- This is what I do when I am not FIXING everyone else's guitars!!!!!

I can play too ya know!
Record Label: Chrome Home Recording
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

This is what REAL music is - music is NOT a competition!!!!

Music House Lets Musicians Play And Socialize At Private Home Posted: January 21, 2008ASEVILLE NC (AP) -- The door to Nelia Hyatt's garage swings open and a lively bluegrass tune spills out into the n...
Posted by John - Moo - Mooy on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:50:00 PST

What I did on my summer vacation 2007 - frequent flyer miles rule!

This is where I have been since June - starting with the wonderful Various and Sundry tour with Glen Phillips, Luke Bulla, Sara Watkins, Sean Watkins, Grant Lee Phillips and Benmont Tench.... seems li...
Posted by John - Moo - Mooy on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:19:00 PST

Dan Fogelberg

Dan Fogelberg passed away today. He was a good man and one hell of a skier. Unfortunately he will be remembered for his schmaltzy hits instead of the epic music that filled his records. Thanks Dan.......
Posted by John - Moo - Mooy on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:19:00 PST

GratefulDead Roadie Passes

Lawrence 'Ramrod' Shurtliff: 1945-2006 Mainstay of Grateful Dead crew dies -- 'he was our rock' - Joel Selvin, Chronicle Senior Pop Music CriticThursday, May 18, 2006 He was a psychedelic cowboy who ...
Posted by John - Moo - Mooy on Thu, 25 May 2006 05:44:00 PST

Neil Young recording session - an inside look from FREEBO!

This is am Email from my friend Freebo. Freebo played bass for Bonnie Raitt and many others over the years and is now a great singer/songwriter.... If you love Neil Young - read on my friends!!!! Here...
Posted by John - Moo - Mooy on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:08:00 PST

New Music added at the Guitar Tech!

I have added some music that I wrote to my sight. Gramps Irish Reel was a piece in DADGAD tuning that my amazingly talented brother Jim added strings and flute. He also teaches ProTools at Santa Barba...
Posted by John - Moo - Mooy on Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:30:00 PST