Founded in 1994, the P.C.B.B. aka: Pacific Coast Blues Band, has had many great members join and added to their line up over the years, and today’s line up has never been better... The band is lead by singer songwriter Anthony M.Longo (sometimes called the Tone). Blues music is in him and its got to come out. Born in NY, then transplanted to CA at a young age, he’s been playing harmonica since the late 70’s. Starting with old Rolling Stone and Blues -Rock he went straight to their roots, he was always a blues man playing John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, Muddy Waters, William Clark, Rod Piazza, James Harman, Mitch Kashmar and the Pontiax, the Thunderbirds, and Little Walter songs with every band he joined and lead... Tony has honed his skills on harmonica and vocals, leading the band to create a Rockin' West Coast Swing and Chicago sound. The lead guitar Howard Miller has over 57 years experience playing blues and preforming all over the world in various bands. Howard's music is an expression of the blues from the soul. He played in Europe for over 7 years, and recorded for CBS records. His rock bands played in Hawaii and recorded “It’s a beautiful day” he toured Europe and had a #3 hit song. When he returned he played venues from LA up to Anchorage, and then he settled in Santa Barbara where he’s created his home. He’s friends include playing with Paul Butterflied and Santana, but he is as humble as Humble Pie.  Eric Monteith is the Bass guitarist that make up for 1/2 of the rock steady rhythm section of P.C.B. band. Eric’s been playing music as a professional for over 27 years touring the west coast with a variety of Rock and Blues acts.  Few Bass players come close to his ability to lock in and and keep it tight!At the drums and keeping the beat with hands and feet is Santa Barbara’s own drum teacher and musician Barry Birmingham. He started taking lessons and learned how to play drums at age eleven from many local teachers in the New York and in Southern California area.  By the time he was in junior high and high school he was playing in concert bands, marching bands, jazz bands and playing in local rock cover bands. As a for P.C.B., Eric and Barry are core players that keeps it right, every night! The P.C.B pianist John Leonard started playing piano at age nine and playing professionally after attending S.B.C.C and the Dick Grove School of Music in the late 70s.  John's career took a different path starting in the early 80s.  After 26 years as an aerospace engineer, he retired in 2009 to become a full time jazz and blues pianist.  He has been performing professionally with various groups throughout the south land ever since.

Jon Gindick  was born in 1948 in Hollywood, California. A early memory is listening again and again to harmonica great Larry Adler playing “Rhapsody in Blue” on the family Packard Bell consol.

In 1954, the Gindicks moved 200 miles north to the town of Visalia in the San Joaquin Valley. Although always motivated by art, it was here Jon got his taste of hard work. He worked in the fields, the plums, the peaches, packing house lines, drove forklifts, loaded box cars (and hitched a few as well.)

 In the 60’s, Jon got his first guitar and blues harps and fell in love with “The Beatles,” “Rolling Stones,” “Paul Butterfield Blues Band” and Bob Dylan. Jon attended UC Berkeley, which had a vibrant music scene in Sproul Plaza, in the center of campus. He played harmonica and guitar with many musicians, going from group to group on the music-studded campus.

Graduating from Berkeley in 1970, Jon worked in packing houses and wrote short stories and novels. His hero was John Steinbeck, but in fiction, he couldn’t get close. Playing harp and guitar and writing songs constantly, he started teaching harmonica. In the mid 70’ s he wrote and self published his first harmonica instruction book and tape cassette. He packaged them with a Hohner harmonica and sold the kit for $13.95 in “Rolling Stone” Classifieds. He sold thousands from his living room. Jon became a well-known figure to harp players of his generation.

In 1984, Jon wrote his best-seller ​Country and Blues Harmonica for the Musically Hopeless book and cassette which eventually sold over a million copies. Jon created several harmonica instruction products and sold them in his mail order business. Cowboy harmonica, gospel harmonica, patriotic harmonica--all sounding bluesy in the way Jon taught and played.

Jon’s books and cds were distributed into Cracker Barrel Restaurants, toy stores, mail order catalogs, sold on Home Shopping Network and Jon’s own 800 number cable tv ad. He made a harmonica instruction video with BB King which was distributed by Hohner. These infectiously enthusiastic and funny do-it-yourself products made him one of the most popular and listened-to harmonica players of the era. Part of the fun was the songs he wrote and sang for his students to jam with.

 In 2001, Jon created Blues Harmonica Jam Camp, a harmonica/seminar/ workshop which focused on fundamentals of blues harp and jamming. Now the people Jon’s books had touched were able to spend several days with him learning harmonica skills. To this day, Gindick has put on 67 multi-day harmonica learning events with two more planned for 2020.

In 2010, he met with multi-instrumentalist and producer Ralph Carter, and started honing his material for Carter’s recording studio. In 2010 and 2016, he released his highly regarded Cd of 10-original songs “When We Die, We All Come Back as Music” which was produced and accompanied by Carter. 

Now, in 2019, Jon has released a second Cd, “Love At The All Night Cafe,” a collection of 12 original songs again accompanied and produced by Ralph Carter and a musical team of Pete Gallagher, Franck Goldwasser. Like everything Jon has done, this offering is potent and innovative, creating its own category of blues. Jon lives in Ventura, California.

Serie de dicas de gaita e podcasts sobre a vida de um músico de Blues no Brasil.

Many moons ago I fooled around with impromptu musical ideas and recorded them with the hopes of mixing and recording and rearranging them someday. then along came marriage and kids and life.. and the ideas are still rough drafts. I play harmonica, keyboards, flute and sing with passion. I love creating percussion riffs and  I have listened to everything out there from John Cage to Mozart, Zappa, and the classic rock bands, Beatles, Hendrix, Cream, and the old and new blues players,  heavy metal, jazz greats.. Miles, Basie, Stan Getz, Love James Brown, Prince, Victor Wooten, Satriani, Yngvie Malmsteen, Bob Marley, Pink Floyd, Pat Metheny, Guthrie Govan, Lady Gaga .. and way too many to even think about. All photos are mine.

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