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Jakey Graupner

About Me

It's about time I updated this site....OK, back to the more mundane stuff: me and music
I had a quite crappy '08 with health issues. the hair loss (over £1,500 raised, thanx!!!) was a mere coincidence with my big 5-0, and then very poorly indeed over Christmas, seeing recovery patterns kicking at the time of writing (Jan 16 2009)
So what are my musical plans this year?
Firstly there is truth2tell, the Christian kick-a55 rock band I front. Based in Bristol, UK, but steadily taking over and rocking God's world. More details to be found on www.truth2tell.net and our truth2tell MySpace site
The other materialisation of my music is, and will again be, my solo work. This had taken a bit of a back seat with my involvement for a couple of fun years as Bluehorses axeman, then truth2tell, plus having a proper poorly Mrs Jakey to help and support.
BUT there are new songs in the pipeline - for me AND truth2tell, AND last November Lizzy (ex-Bluehorses) and I performed a 15 minute set for our old mucker and road engineer extraordinare, Stan. 'twould be fun to do some more, mayhap...?
Please feel free to be a Friend and gently tell me what you think of the music I tried to create.....when it it posted. In the meantime, a couple of snippets from an unfinished project that I worked on a couple of years back with ex Marmalade, Groundhogs, Hawkwind drummer Mick Kirton...
God Bless, Jxx

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 31/07/2006
Band Website: www.jakey.co.uk
Band Members: 1) Mostly myself :)
Influences: Manifold influences.... but here goes:

For myself, hugely inflluenced by the Alice Cooper Group
70s rock. Bizarrely enough for a solo acoustic 12string strummer
Jimmy Page's acoustic side
Marc Bolan
Martyn Joseph
The coolness of a great drop-D band,,,
Plus, of course, many rock guitar gods, from Ritchie onwards; my ultimate fave has to be the Satch. So cool, even Coldplay nick his stuff...
...should I say "allegedly" here?

It is fair to say that there are too many too list, in reality... just replace the above with *MUSIC*
Sounds Like: 1) Various styles - Depeche Mode, Genesis, Jan Hammer....
2) Various other styles - Turkey meets AC/DC, Hawkwind....
3) A 12string singer-songwriter with very strong Christian leanings....
Quite a mix, quite unique :)
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Jakey gets his head shaved

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8VdeFLDGJQ Nov 16 2008. I got my head shaved for Children in Need (it was nearly down to my bum...). After the countdown, my good lady Lhina had the first ...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Nov 2008 05:19:00 GMT