Mike Ellis - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm a musician, music teacher, and author in Dallas, Texas. I have played in and around Dallas for many years and I have taught guitar, bass, banjo, piano, and sitar in Dallas for thirty-five years. I am currently teaching guitar, piano, bass and banjo at Mike Ellis Music Instruction in Dallas, TX, 469-855-6865. New students are always welcome. NEW!! I've opened my new teaching location, Mike Ellis Music Instruction, at 9450 Skillman, Suite 103, Dallas TX 75243. It's a great little studio space with a comfortable waiting area for parents or friends, a drink machine, restrooms, and a view of the student and teacher. Sign up today and learn guitar, piano, bass, and banjo!
Click the picture to visit my page. You can hear a CD by my son, John, and me at www.michaelandjohnellis.com , or listen to four of the songs at myspace.com/michaelandjohnellismusic .
Also, you can learn thousands of piano chords at www.knowchords.com and learn thousands of guitar chords at www.knowguitarchords.com . These methods took years to develop, cutting out the fluff and unnecessary info, and teaching what chord titles mean without note reading or months or years of music experience. You'll find that both methods are the fastest and easiest ways to learn chords anywhere on the planet. Click the links and try them out.I have three wonderful children and a very lovely wife and a house in Lake Highlands in Dallas.
It's great to be on myspace.com and I welcome all friends and visitors.
Mike

My Interests

My interests are all music-based. I love teaching others and I love making music. Nuff said.

I'd like to meet:

Paul McCartney

Music:

The greatest bands in the world are my favorites, starting with the Beatles, going on to the Rolling Stones (just try to argue with their success and longevity), followed by Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Aerosmith, Queen, Bo Diddly, John Mayall, Taj Mahall, Freddie King, B.B. King, and a whole list of others. Mainly I like music and musicians with variety. Take a listen to the CD my son and I did. There's everything from rock, to ballads, to country... variety! And last but rapidly becoming FIRST on my list is the band CHANT!

Movies:

Hook, The Santa Clause, Tombstone, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Dr. Strangelove, ALL James Bond movies with Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan (the others suck!), The Unforgiven, Boondock Saints, Scarface (Al Pacino version), and many others.

Television:

My Name is Earl, Boston Legal, ALL the original Star Trek episodes, 24, and the old classic series shows, with the exception of I Love Lucy (I HATE it!).

Books:

Stranger in a Strange Land, The Jungle Book.

Heroes:

John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, George Martin, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Stevie Wonder, Bonnie Rait, and many more... all music-related.

My Blog

Another great night! I met Larry Carlton!

Well. my son, John, came through again. He's the Sound Production Manager at Sambuca Restaurant in Addison and he set up the backline and helped run the sound for Grammy Award Winner, Larry Carl...
Posted by Mike Ellis on Thu, 24 May 2007 10:55:00 PST

The Exiles are BACK!

The Exiles are back together for a reunion concert. The Exiles are one of the first groups I ever performed with, and we're back together to perform for our 40th High School Reunion! It's ...
Posted by Mike Ellis on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:53:00 PST

Going Country more and more

Well, I love Rock and Blues, I listen to Chant (www.chantmusic.com) whenever they are in Dallas, I teach kids mostly rock tunes, but the last 3 tunes I've written are country-flavored! The last ...
Posted by Mike Ellis on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:04:00 PST

NEW SPACE on MYSPACE THETEACHER_07

Well, I've got my personal space here, but I decided to create another space specifically for my profession, that of a teacher. You can visit or become a friend at www.myspace.com/theteacher_07....
Posted by Mike Ellis on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:28:00 PST

NEW TEACHING LOCATION!

NEW!! I've opened my new teaching location, Mike Ellis Music Instruction, at 9450 Skillman, Suite 103, Dallas TX 75243. It's a great little studio space with a comfortable waiting area for paren...
Posted by Mike Ellis on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:25:00 PST

Stars in Your Eyes

I just posted a new picture of Terry, my wife, and me with Touriya Haud (Vaughan), foreign and American film star and model, and Greg Vaughan, Lucky Spencer - son of the infamous Luke and Laura Spence...
Posted by Mike Ellis on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:54:00 PST

Me and Bob Duvall - addendum

By the way, Bob didn't smoke (anything), drink (not even a beer), or curse (I never even heard a "damn" out of him). He was one of the nicest guys I've ever met.
Posted by Mike Ellis on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 03:22:00 PST

Me and Bobby Duvall

Kirk Dunn, author of the Radical Guitar Method and a former student of mine, was curious about the picture of me and Bob Duvall jamming. So here's the story. When Bob wanted to make the movie "T...
Posted by Mike Ellis on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:30:00 PST

Global Warming - addendum

Okay, my friend, Burt, has a wife who has asthma and the pollution on certain days drives her up the wall. I never said I don't think we should clean up the air, and our cities, and the earth (o...
Posted by Mike Ellis on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 02:49:00 PST

Global Warming

Which part of global warming don't you believe? Well, that's a big question. In the first case, noted meterologist (the late) Harold Taft conducted a five year long study to try to determ...
Posted by Mike Ellis on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 02:41:00 PST