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Hamtramck Mike

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Cleveland is good I'm getting settled in, I've been here since March. I am looking for other musicians to play bluegrass with but between work and my marriage, I can't seem to get out and make musicIF YOU KNOW ANYONE LOOKING FOR A BASS PLAYER, send them my way!!

My Interests

playing music, acoustic mostly. Bicycling riding, gardening and cooking, recovery, especially AA, Its been a good 12 years so far

I'd like to meet:

More pickers!! We could get a bunch of mandolins together and play Led Zep's 'Battle of Evermore' or 'Louie, Louie' I cruise Craigslist for people looking for a band looking a bass player. i'd like to talk shop with some other bass players, too. I have been playing 5 strings for the last 10 years (!) I miss the funky (but overdone) slap and pop jack hammering. I really, REALLY want to meet more steel guitar players, I think I want to get one of those next, a nice dble neck with 8 pedals and 5 knee levers. That's an engineer's intrument! UPDATE:Well, I got an Upright Bass instead!! But I still like steel guitar alot! AND HEARTLAND FANS!!!

Music:

I really love music, listening to it, and playing it. I really prefer music made by musicians, real drummers and real horn players and real singers. And I really dig smart lyrics strung across a good melody. So, all that being said, these are some of my favorites, not in a particular order: The Smiths, Dwight Yoakam, Garth Brooks, Depeche Mode, Cream, George Strait, Grateful Dead, Steve Vai, Shania Twain, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Del McCoury, Joe Satriani, Jaco Pastorious/Weather Report, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jane's Addiction, Metallica, Hayseed Dixie, the Pixies, Led Zepplin, Jimi Hendrix, Junior Brown, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Outcast, Staind. I play bass, both electric and Upright. I'll play with anyone. I can also play some guitar, just don't ask for a solo. I can hack my way around on mandolin. Mandolin is a really fun instrument, its like a guitar you can play on the toilet!!

Movies:

I try not to go but my wife takes me to everything, sci fi mostly but I have a soft spot for movies with talking pigs

Television:

Battlestar Galatica, that's it - I like Star Trek and Stargate. What I like is the mangement style, just imagine if your work place was like these TV shows, people making decisions and making them WORK! WOW!!!

Books:

Biographies, music books, cook books, Bible, AA's Big Book

Heroes:

Bill W. and Dr. Bob, my sponsor Larry, My grandpa Lou, my Mom, Elanor Josaitas from Focus:HOPE, Bill the Steel Player, he's very cool, Ron E, the fiddler, for showing me that I can grow up AND STILL make MUSIC

My Blog

The Simths - 2nd only to the Beatles

The Smiths are the most important band of musicians, second only to the Beatles. Now hear me out, first if you cannot agree that the Beatles are very important to the development of pop music and cult...
Posted by Hamtramck Mike on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:40:00 PST

Summer 2007

Enjoy the new song I posted. Its a total gas! Saltminers -- Mr. Right Now you  gotta love the Tim Pak! We went to Florida. We visited Universal Studios park, that's where I met the Grinch....
Posted by Hamtramck Mike on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:24:00 PST

It was going so well!!

I had joined Heartland, a country band here in Cleveland And we played two good shows in Austinburg, Jewel's Dance Hall, great place, great people. Well, I heard from Jim last night, they are gonna tr...
Posted by Hamtramck Mike on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:22:00 PST

In Cleveland . . .and lost!!

Its a damn cool town I just keep getting lost!! its like Generic America - Generica! where Target, Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Red Lobster are the landmarks and I keep losing my bearinings But C-land is HIL...
Posted by Hamtramck Mike on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:53:00 PST

Look Out OHIO!!

ITS TRUE!! I am relocating to Avon Lake, Ohio. That's west of Cleveland but east of Cedar Point. I am still working for FORD. We have a van plant there, I will be an industrial engineer there. Cassie ...
Posted by Hamtramck Mike on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 01:21:00 PST

Guitly Pleasures!!

Gosh! I can't believe what I listen to when I'm not thinking about it AQUA- Barbie Girl - its classic!!! I supsect I have some repressed fanatasy I cannot recall White Town - I could never be your wom...
Posted by Hamtramck Mike on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:43:00 PST

Class of '87 Reunion - Sterling Hgts and Peck

Gosh, its been 20 years since I finished high school Technically I graduated from Adlai Stevenson in Sterling Hieghts MI, and it was good and all, but it was HUGE class. I remember maybe 30 people fro...
Posted by Hamtramck Mike on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:34:00 PST

Stained!! I can't help it

THe more I listen to Stained the more I like them! Is that sad? That poor guy needs a hug I really would like to give their songs the acoustic treatment Bring your guitar/flute/tuba over and we'll rec...
Posted by Hamtramck Mike on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:37:00 PST

The Ark in Ann Arbor

Open Mic at the Ark was AWESOME! Not just a bunch a folkies! Not just a bunch of college poets! It was really something special! If you like music, live music you got be there. Its nearly the perfect ...
Posted by Hamtramck Mike on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:23:00 PST

Want to hear me on the internet?

I have posted music from 2 bands I was in Touchfreak and Diamondback Touchfreak was an early 90's band, in that Alternative style at that time. I think it holds its own, kinda reminds me of Jane's Add...
Posted by Hamtramck Mike on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 06:13:00 PST