Anyone heard of Jay Hooks?

npminard · Post by **npminard** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 9:10 pm

Anyone ever hear of this player? He's from Texas and combines SRV/Hendrix/Johnny Winter/ZZ Top styles into his own to form some pretty original blues-rock. Just discovered him a few months ago when a friend gave me a copy of his latest album. Great listening, sounds really fresh if you're fed up w/Ashlee Simpson making $$

http://www.grooveyardrecords.com/jayhooks.html

bluefuzzguitar · Post by **bluefuzzguitar** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 8:16 am

Yup, heard of him. Even shared the bill with him. He's fairly popular here in Holland. Personally I don't think he's all that great. There've been much better players to come out of Texas.

Mike

npminard · Post by **npminard** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 9:00 pm

That's right, I remember someone saying he's very popular in Holland, so popular that someone thought he was from Holland.

Trigger · Post by **Trigger** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 6:10 pm

bluefuzzguitar wrote:Yup, heard of him. Even shared the bill with him. He's fairly popular here in Holland. Personally I don't think he's all that great. There've been much better players to come out of Texas.

Mike

You forgot to write that you totally blew this guy away, Mikey! I remember this story of his manager going nuts and saying "Who is the goddamned main act here?! We are! Get these guys offstage!"... Right?

npminard · Post by **npminard** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 10:36 pm

bluefuzz, do you have any recordings/albums of you/your group?

Trigger · Post by **Trigger** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 11:29 am

(O.K., I'll answer this one since I'm in The Mellotones with bluefuzz Mike...)
Five albums to date, new one being released early next year! www.nubluz.com or www.mellotones.com

npminard · Post by **npminard** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 1:48 am

Very cool, thanks for the links! I'll check those out tomorrow, if you guys smoked Jay Hooks...I'm definately up for a listen

npminard · Post by **npminard** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:12 pm

Those are some great Fender tones...King of the Jam is great. You guys are excellent in my book

Trigger · Post by **Trigger** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 4:31 pm

Thanx! We used 7ender Super Reverbs indeed, but also a lot of stuff you're hearing comes from a Marshall Super Bass. All strat tho.
Wanna buy a pre-release copy?

npminard · Post by **npminard** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 6:54 pm

Yes, I would be interested in purchasing a copy from you

(seriously)