Goof Rock ?Jonathon Richmond his his brain removed and is dropped off at The SF Zoo!


August Dog Print

  For the one that put the beautiful in BC, she left on  'Patricks Day' this is my attempt
 at like a British band covering American R & B, ... The Faces version of  'I'd Rather Go Blind' 'Lipstick Traces' etc...  feeling for that try...

Just kissed My Baby Goodbye

It was my pitch to Paul Haggis for the theme music to his TV show the Black Donnelly's

The Black Donnelys

had some changes and a pretty good chorus...so got friend Andy Paley to play drums,TC Chan on Psuedo Steel and took HD up north ,where i got to cut vocals , and have E-Roc play Strat,engineer on the hook up at his P.E. Co  farm,  so pretty and fun ! sang w/my fav mics of all time ! these bitchin'antique U47's

The Real World

Went to a fight and a hockey game broke out!'im slappin',pickin' along that robotic prick CP3O on drums!
Thnx Yawny Cash

WANTED MANO

one of my fav Hook songs recorded live at the Midtfyns festival when we played after Living Color ,before Dylan ..biggest crowd I've ever played for ! really fun band
Allyn Robinson drums , Pete Hansen Keys ,Rick Boyd acoustic, Glenn Layne Sax,Mark of Manchester Trumpet,Ray Sawyer vocals ,JPF bassing

Freaker's Ball Y'all -Ray Sawyer

Ray McNeely wrote ,sang ,picked and tinkled on his tribute to his home twn right after Katrina ..we were lucky to get The Crescent City kid, bad ass drummer Allyn Robinson to lay it dwn..
i played upright ,guitar and produced

Gimme' The People of NOLA

jumpin '  little shuffle live at the Midtfyns Festival in Denmark
with The Ray Sawyer Band

Oh Well  Oh Well

cover of  the classic Warren 'The London Werewolf' Zevon's tune that Ms Ronstadt had a number #38 hit with!

Carmelita ,Hold Me Tight

Part of my Seattle set of songs, 'Descent Into Madnesser' haha written & recorded in various stairways, rooms of the house with a Zoom HN1 digital tape recorder.
It has two built in X/Y mics and allows over dubbing but no editing..so I'll get a beat on the app on phone 'Drum Genius' play it thru my blue tooth speaker,
then record acoustic guitar,then over dub acoustic bass,vocals etc
trying to do 1 song a week..

There's A Grrll I Know

Rockabilly, New Country, Roots?A baby's arm holding an apple ?
Part of my Seattle set of songs, 'Descent Into Madnesser' haha written & recorded in various stairways, rooms of the house with a Zoom HN1 digital tape recorder.
It has two built in X/Y mics and allows over dubbing but no editing..so I'll get a beat on the app on phone 'Drum Genius' play it thru my blue tooth speaker,
then record acoustic guitar,then over dub acoustic bass,vocals etc
trying to do 1 song a week..

YOUR GOOD SIDE

sort of No Depression/LA Feel Country Rock? beds were cut at my home studio in Burbank ' The Oven' ( no AC haha get it ? sry ,crickets!)
then Eric Schenkman did some Baritone ,Electric guitar stuff up at the Pro Tools Studio at his Prince Edward Co. farm and then I got Andy Paley to play drums and finished it off at Mad Dog in Burbankia

Out Of State

I never cook with no wine I can’t drink Cherè!
Another one from the sequestered in Seattle sessions cut mom’s laundry room between loads.. Soooo Low Yo! ‘Cept drums .. got ‘em from recording a groove from the drum genius app thru blue toof

SHE'S BACK ONLINE -JPF

JP,  Hatched in Pasadena, CA. Grew up a little bit in Toronto The Good, San Francisco pre Google ,Winona AZ.. when J was a young 'un, he played in the Toronto bands The Other Side,Casual Casual ,The Dead Heroes & The Silver Foxes .. was  playing stand up bass at The Cameron Public House on Queen St E. with the musician,artist Pete Dako,Dai Skuse and Simon Lambert( of The Now Infamous Rent Boys!) 
w/ Casual Casual, doing songs by The V.U.  covers of  Television ,Patti Smith ,George Jones,  sprinklings of Jazz Standards when  then along come Eric Schenkman , virtuoso  guitarist of the NYC Band,The Spin Doctors 
 who he's played music with since grade 6 haha they formed the 'Cow Punkish', Slash records influenced Dead Heroes, along with Guitar-zan Kurt Scheffter( of Alannah Myles ,Black Velvet Fame) &  The infamous, filthy animal of a drummer, Koko Kohler...
J was lucky enough to co -write the song  'More Then She Knows'  which was on The Spin Doctors break out Album, Pocketful Of Kryptonite, tune was also used as the 'Cold Open' for an epi. of the TV show 'Party Of Five'  toured all across Canada with Ray Sawyer ,  Dr Hook's, eye patch ,Cow Boy hat wearing ,gold toothed Leader, who invited JP to move to Nashville. he was 20 ish and got to tour the world, go into the studio in LA , Oslo, Copenhagen  aling with playing festivals ,concerts ,juke joints and for 75,000 Danes at The MytFyns Festival in Denmark.
For 8 years  he played bass and sang with Ray Sawyer
 John Peter got a wicked fun, solid education in the Blues ,Country and Western  scene.. along w/ Southern Culture on the skids! haha 
J P Easy On The Mic got to play with legendary NOLA drummers Karl T Himmel&Allyn Robinson, who have played ,recorded with  Wayne Cochran ,Jaco, and Neil Young,JJ Cale etc
JP left Hook, moved to Vancouver B.C. where he joined rising New Country Star, No Depression act  T.M.Harding, and also played with Fosterchild's guitarist ,songwriter Jim Foster ,  playing all over the lower mainland and western Provinces
 JP then headed south to LA ,where he worked straight gigs  doing 'On Set Dressing' and building sets for film and TV,
where he joined IATSE Local 44 and AFTRA- SAG
His neighbor in Los Feliz, Thomas Chan brought him into the  
 The Naked Trucker & T-Bones Show which
was a funny,popular act, with a great,long 'SRO' run at the original, cool LA Music, Comedy Club, Flanagan's ' Largo'  which was across the street from  the world famous Jewish Deli , Canter's  Kibbutz Rm  on Fairfax Ave.. that lead to Jay Pea co- writing and performing at CBS Television City, for Bill Maher's HBO Show, where they spoofed the dueche bag Toby Keith & his BS,phony, patriotic anthem,the song they co wrote ,recorded, &  performed w/ Bill the next night on HBO
JPF also co-composed the 'Cold Open' to Bob Odenkirk's film 'Lets Go To Prison' which they got to cut at the iconic ,Stacked Records, Capitol Records building,
famous studio 'B' in Hollywood..  along with  co-composing and performing all the incidental music ,the bumpers ,stingers and tags with the theme music, for the Naked Trucker's short lived, Comedy Central TV show..
JP-easy -On- The-Mic aka Mr. Lucky McGraw, also got a fluke guest spot, playing bass in a funny scene,On Freaks And Geeks, in episode 'Carded And Discarded' performing The 'Coop's I'm 18, with Dave 'Gruber'Allen/Mr Russo ,The Naked Trucker.. The Trucker Band played on Jimmy Kimmel 2x's , Conan ( while still in NYC )The Craig Ferguson Show,  and Bill Maher..JP studied Upright Bass with Dick Felix in Toronto ,
Spazz, Aka Johnny Hatton in Los Angeles
 and electric bass and music theory with Happy Roderman in Toronto,Ontario 
  John Peter Fitting is a member of S.A.G. -AFTRA, I.A.T.S.E. Local 44 and the A.F. of M Local 47
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So  cheers 



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