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George San

About Me

Hail to thee friend,After a very busy stint in Grace and the MAgic Roots as a mandola player I have returned to my prime directive. I am currently working on bags of new solo material and have some concerts booked and being booked, to take place in Leicester.Keep watching this space as I am recording, yet Im waiting till I can get the sound I am striving for before posting. SOme of The stuff on here is kind of old, I have lots of new material I will play at the forthcoming gigs, expect stuff a little different, and watch this spaceHeres a link to download my 2006 album Millsongs; completely free! http://www.megaupload.com/?d=N2ZGNFSM

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Member Since: 13/04/2006
Band Members: George sings and plays a Martin 00-15 mahogany lectro-acoustic, he also has a mandola for accompaniment and solo. Has been known to play bass, mandolin, fiddle, drumkit and hand drums. The Paisley Tooth Tigers change with the wind, but George says once a Paisley Tooth Tiger, always this shall be. So much love goes to Christian Dyson; Sax, guitars, percussion, vocals, Simon Harris; Bass guitar, vocals, Tom Harding, guitars, vocals, Chris (cassettes), drum kits, Andy (druid) studio vocals, percussion, electric instruments, Also Andrew Hough, percussion. Also has played in a not always paisleytoothed way with the lovely Grace Capper, Jenny , Tom Stratton Jade Tom Mike Kate ..kingsleySam Root and Lawrence Brown
Influences: Comus, Euros Childs, Incredible String Band, Bert Jansch, Marrissa Nadler, Syd Barrett, Nick Drake, the Pentangle, loads more stuff,
Sounds Like: a frayed green ribbon in a red roomProfile Edited by MPS MySpace Editor 2.0 Profile Edited by MPS MySpace Editor 2.0
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Swans are coming to attack me!!

This is a song I wrote back in 2005, recorded in 2008 and just got the recordings back off Sam!Its refers to an event when swans attacked on the river wye, we were canoeing an the thing followed us an...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:11:00 GMT

review of my spot with devendra

I played on stage with devendra in 2006 and got included in a write up of the gig; ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------- Theres something mysterious in his(Deve...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:53:00 GMT

Camera EP

i been recording little videos of new songs on my camera, and ripping the audio. Im putting them together on a nice little 3 track EP, called Camera EP. Just a quaint little bedroom record. If you wan...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:51:00 GMT

Poema

Waters can listen and vibrant is he who goes around as frogeater of fires disposer of madnessa lilloping backwater eye slice foreverspy piece on minnows world roots and bird tail, slimy is he and awak...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:44:00 GMT

new show at firebug

im playing upstairs at the firebug this sunday, its part of an art exhibition of free smiling cool people. not got much information on it yet, but ill be playing my most freeform improv style, and per...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:38:00 GMT

Gig Postponed!

well sorry everyone but the lovely chaps at the loaded dog postponed my gig till end of march because theyd rather show a football match. bummer, but ill book some more
Posted by on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:44:00 GMT

new videos

2 new videos - nice little home recordings on new camera. Hard Times is a new one im working out.
Posted by on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:53:00 GMT

url change to paisleytoothgeorge

yes like it says above, this is now myspace.com/paisleytoothgeorge
Posted by on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:41:00 GMT

new cd for sale

well yes i did the sessions in the mill with andy, more like one long session lasting 3 days and 2 nights, surviving on toast, tea, coffee and herbs, freezing my feet off, and the mill is widely repor...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:04:00 GMT