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simon

GUITAR PLAYER,SURFER, CYCLIST

About Me

STILL GOING STRONG, CURRENTLY WORKING WITH MY OWN BAND;SIMON AND THE BAR SINISTERS;[WWWSIMONCHARDIET.COM] or [www.myspace.com/simonandthebarsinisters]IM also a session bass player for:JON SPENCER"S HEAVY TRASH ,and THE SUPERTONES[SEE US ON MY SPACE] Dave hillyard quartet(soul jazz,swing blues)and Mike Mok(rockabilly)3 bands im on guitar,1 upright bass and 1 electric bass. AS ALWAYS IM TEACHING PRIVATE INSTRUCTION IN GUITAR BASS READING HARMONY AND COMPOSITION I PRIDE MYSELF ON BEING AN "OLD SCHOOL" TEACHER I.E. READING METRONOME PRACTICE :ETC IF YOU REALLY WANT TO IMPROVE YOUR SKILL AND UNDERSTANDING E MAIL [email protected]

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

People who are passionate about real music art literature cycling surfing etc . I want to use the blogs to rant and rave,and appreciate all responses!!!also to shoot the shit with music lovers world wide and dialog with people who listen to simon+the bar sinisters the slackers jon spencer+matt vertaray[heavy trash] the supertones

Music:

BACH, CHARLIE PARKER, LINK WRAY, GENE VINCENT, JOHNNY THUNDERS, MOTORHEAD, COUNT BASIE Rockpile Sir douglas Sahm Sonny Stitt Nrbq Tito Puente Mickey Baker James Burton Sol Hoopii Cachao Carlos "patato Valdez" Archangelo Corelli Hound Dog Taylor Silvius Leopold Wiess the Flamingos The Moonglows the Ravens Andre Williams willis "gator tail Jackson Arnett Cobb Domenico scarlatti....too many more

Heroes:

fdny,sandinistas zapatistas black panthers ANYBODY WITH THE GUTS TO FIGHT GOVERNMENTS AND BIG BUISINESS

My Blog

more big cold waves

Big waves!8-10 foot faces,at 5 seconds-storm pulse-no lulls-I made it out caught 1 BOMB but then spent half an hour trying to get out again...too much whitewater.I’m lucky I caught one wave it w...
Posted by simon on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:33:00 PST

Surfing cold ass water...biking with no brakes...teaching guitar in public school.

Got out Friday,it was a nice 4 foot NO wind(my favorite and very rare in Northeast)no leashon board,so 4or5 cold swims stayed in 3 hours water is 42 degrees-been back into riding,my old track bik...
Posted by simon on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:49:00 PST

I cant believe...

That people actually read my fucken blogs!!wow!!!now my ego will be even MORE bloated and Napoleon-like!!Working on fixing up all this old equipment,its been quite a process-went into the studio to do...
Posted by simon on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:38:00 PST

Surfing in the dead of winter

Its my 11th year surfing all winter.January was flat,then the morning I left for Japan,thre were good waves arond 6 foot,but I had a plane to catch..however,Monday I spied sone NICE ONES rolling thru ...
Posted by simon on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:26:00 PST

New Developments

Japan tour was awesome!my first time!I will try to put photo links etc up,but computers are not a priority with me,just my 3rd hobby behind surfing and my bike.I saw mount Fuji!!Rode the shinkansen (b...
Posted by simon on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:11:00 PST

new years eve-my first gig playing SALSA!!!

I played my first Latin gig ever.the band was incredible-i had never played with most of them before-they tested me by starting off with "all the things you are"one of the most evil hard to follow tun...
Posted by simon on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:47:00 PST

up cat,down cat...

I,m gonna tell you right now its up again-down again in this racket.got back from my tour of Puerto Rico(Puerto Rico me encanta!!)and back here in the big bagel,it wes pretty slow...a couple of lesson...
Posted by simon on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:39:00 PST

Busking reduxx

well ive been busking for a year now,its not where i want to be,but what else can i do but play rock n roll rythm and blues rockabilly,jazz country and classical music???the only other profession i ev...
Posted by simon on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:00:00 PST

Busking Blog

since last november,i saw the coming trend of massive flame-out-lame out in the world of the working musician-and decided to try and make a (very)few extra $$$ busking-centralpark in warm weather-subw...
Posted by simon on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:04:00 PST

HAHAHAHA-A SMALL MEASURE O,REVENGE

LETS GO DO THE HOP1so,no trains to rockaway ,it just runs from one end of rockto the other,then you got to take this fucked up bus to the airport then you can catch the A train-yesterday i had a 2 pm ...
Posted by simon on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 07:46:00 PST