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Anyone heard of Jay Hooks?
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 9:10 pm
by npminard
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
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 8:16 am
by bluefuzzguitar
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
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 9:00 pm
by npminard
That's right, I remember someone saying he's very popular in Holland, so popular that someone thought he was from Holland.
Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2005 6:10 pm
by Trigger
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?
Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 10:36 pm
by npminard
bluefuzz, do you have any recordings/albums of you/your group?
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 11:29 am
by Trigger
(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
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 1:48 am
by npminard
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
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:12 pm
by npminard
Those are some great Fender tones...King of the Jam is great. You guys are excellent in my book
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 4:31 pm
by Trigger
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?
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 6:54 pm
by npminard
Yes, I would be interested in purchasing a copy from you
(seriously)