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Jill Tessman

i will not be frightened.... i've been enlightened

About Me

music is the only thing in the entire world that allows me to be me!! believe me i've tried everything and anything to make me feel complete!! i love grabbing a pen and getting lost in my mind and going to the places that i wouldn't be brave enough to go on my own.... but somehow that little ink producing device makes all the messy mixed up mazes in my mind more manageable!!! i love sitting down at the piano and just sitting there for hours playing and trying NOT to play a song!! it's kind of hard because my fingers want to play something... i know it's already been played before so i purposely try to make it sound as obscurely wrong so it's at least original!!! and it's a pass-time making finger paterns on the guitar since i usually have no clue what notes i'm really playing anyway..... and just finding a neat sound and then later on finding out it's an F or something!!!! but most of all i love closing my eyes and playing music with people and just getting lost and then finding yourself over and over and over again!!! it's like they say.... you drink yourself sober!!! that's what playing music does to me!!! that's the best part!!!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/15/2006
Band Website: under construction.... so give me a minute or two!
Band Members: i am currently auditioning guitar, bass and drums to join my band called "the holy buckets"
Influences: well, this could take a while!!! When i was a kid I listened to all of my dad's old records.... Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Jim Croce, The Monkees, The MaMas and the PaPa's & Willie Nelson..... among others, so I've always loved classis rock.... the doors, the beatles, jimmi hendrix, bob marley, led zepplin, pink floyd, the who, joni mitchell, janis joplin, the allman brothers, the grateful dead, prince, madonna among many many more!! They're real to me and i like to hear things that are original. the first inspirations to turn my peotry into music were dave matthews, alanis morissette, ani di franco, and fiona apple. i just fell in love with these artists and i really connected to their lyrics and their music. i associate certain times in my life with certains songs and so many songs have gotten me through so many rough times or happy times. i want to share my music with people and hope that someday others will say the same thing about me!! but lately my biggest inspirations are my friends..... maesyn and the marsh!!! they give me permission to be myself and to not hold back!!!
Sounds Like: folky-bluesy-jazzy-classic rock-with-a-reggae-country-twist!!!
Record Label: jilted records
Type of Label: Indie