Swete Harold

Myspace Contact TablesAt the age of twelve I started piano lessons, where I only studied classical privately for about eighteen months or so. From there I continued studying theory and started writing original songs. I joined local bands along with my brother and sister and wound up with my own bands, after everyone else quit. I learned other instruments for various reasons: In summer camp I learned to play the bugle, which led to the trumpet and other brass members. I met a bass player who didn't want to learn his parts and didn't want anyone else to play his bass, so I learned to play the bass (double bass), which led to the electric bass. An uncle gave me a conga drum and a set of bongos, so there you go. I wound up buying a set of professional Conga Drums. My parents sent my Brother and me to Townville Music School for trumpet (me) and sax (my Brother) where we would hang around after classes to mess around on whatever instruments were lying around. My first year of college was at Claflin University in Orangeburg, S. Carolina where my roommate and me and another freshman formed a group called The Campus Souls. We were two vocals and I played piano. We won the school' bi-centennial talent show and became very popular. We were asked to open for Major Lance for one of the campus concerts, which pushed me into other off-campus bands. One was playing trumpet and organ with "The Swinging Sharades Band And Show", another was sitting-in on piano with "The Tetrachords" and doing piano/vocal duos sets with a few female vocal majors. I also sang with the University Choir, which traveled. At this point, I know that being a professional musician is what I'm destined to be! My next three years of college were in New York at NYCCC where I was a Graphic Arts Major (Advertising Design/Commercial Arts). I couldn't stay out of the performing arts dept. I joined the school jazz band, "The NYCCC Jazz Band" in school and "The Jazz Liberators" out of school, and as our popularity increased called "Liberation", that wound up doing more gigs off campus than on. I briefly played bass for a group named "The Slaves", a Trinidadian group based in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY. From there I was doing a lot of studio sessions and road tours. I left NYCCC to go on the road with "Gylan Kain and the Blue Guerilla" which also featured "Philipe Luciano", "David Nelson" (former members od The Original "Last Poets") and "Gail Martin", alternating playing organ & bass. From one studio session I joined a band called "Electrified Action", which was formed by the road manager of "Kool and The Gang". This band wound up in the Vegas circuit. Our first studio session produced a hit record (a 45rpm) which was called "Super Soul Music" on the "Delightful Music" Record label which reached the "Top 10" on the charts in Chicago (I heard that it did reach 1 there). "Electrified Action" had an extensive career. After the studio we appeared weekly at the club "Crawdaddy" formerly "Lloyd Price.. Turntable" on Broadway in New York City. From there we became the house band of the club "Cheetah" for a year or so. During this year we also played for Frankie Crocker at his club in the West Village in NY named "The Rasberry Freeze" several times, and at a club on West 57th street, NY, named" La Martinique", we left the club "Cheetah" to back up "Millie Jackson" at the "Apollo Theatre". We then signed a contract with the "Queens Booking Agency", to back up Lea Roberts, Yvonne Fair and Chuck Jackson on the Vegas Circuit. In between all of that we were doing shows, performing everywhere with all the hottest and biggest name acts in the US of A. After I left "Electrified Action", I joined the band "Metamorphose", then a Russian group named "Bubbling Spring/Black Russian" whom had a deal with "Motown Records", and in '79 recorded an album on the same label, then "Inner Circle", then "Spice", then "Kookie Little and the Mixed Bag Revue", then "UXB" (featuring Michelle), then "The New Sam and Dave Revue" (after the break up), "Alexis P. Suter (4 to the Bar)" and now I'm with The Harptones". I am also currently working with Mark Jones in his band called "Long Diztanz", we have reformed the group just recently, Mark and I will both be playing piano and bass. Oh, I forgot a group that I played electric bass with, "Tauhiid", a Jazz ensamble. Many of the musicians which played with Tauhiid are on my friends space now and have become world renouned since Tauhiid. I started playing electric bass with Tauhiid just after leaving "Electrified Action" in Lake Tahoe.I have always been composing original songs...THIS IS A TRUNCATED VERSION OF MY EVENTUAL BOOK. All fine details have been omitted.MT:FlyBy:ZOOM:
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