A fine selection of the best tracks from the ZOOM 8-track this year. It's New Year's Eve 2013 as I write

HIGHLIGHTS...The Best of 2013ad...SIMON GUITAR JOHN

Simon Guitar John - Best of 2014 AD

45 minutes of different things from about 20 years ago, I sang, and played the instruments...there's a few tunes by other artists, such as the Stones, Dylan, VU, Paul Simon etc.

Not For Sale

Not For Sale...LP by Simon guitar John...covers and things.

STATE OF GRACE (Shoot To Kill, remix 5)

STATE OF GRACE PT 2 (Prayer For Peace remix 2)

2nd remix for this one. 2 more guitars. Whole thing is in stereo this time...

WAR & PEACE (remix 2)

Dedicated to my Facebook Fiends. Some old tunes I found on a c90, dolled up a bit with echo and stuff.

Lo-Fi Acoustic/Vocal Songs (All Originals) by SGJ

99 Doves - Six Short Acoustic/Vocal Songs Rec'd in West Wales

I plugged in my guitar and played to the sound for 10 minutes.

Ambient Solo Electric Guitar #1

Soundtrack from Jazz Street, which u can find on my Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/simonguitarjohn 

JAZZ STREET Remix

RAINFALL - Remaster (New)

a jam for an online friend which is a remix of the soundtrack, on Vimeo and Youtube

BLUES FOR STARLA

moon landing

it just gets better and better every night

CIRCLES mix 5

Lost In Cyberspace

moody...takes the occasional wrong corner 

Aftershock mix 4

Aftershock Mix5

If I had a "GREATEST HITS" lp this would be close to the beginning...

STATE OF GRACE Rehashed

Drumbeat with rhythm guitar, 2 more guitars, then added bass. Hadn't recorded for a while, but it came out ok. I like the mood I achieved on it.

Silence Blues (Earn Your Keep)

Different mix of a track I put together the other day...

Silence Blues (remix)

Mainly my own things, but with a few Dylan songs. It's from one side of an old c90, that I added some reverb to, and I also boosted the sound a bit using Audacity software.

Acoustic Lo-fi 20-Year-Old Simon Guitar John Tape

I wanted to include this excellent version of The Singer as it was recorded almost exactly 30 years ago onto stereo cassettes from the original 4-track tapes. 1990 was a very productive year for me as a musician, I was going through very much a purple patch. The rest of the side has some of my instrumental and vocal things, I haven't double-checked it yet, but I'm pretty sure it might just end well if I'm lucky...

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Games For May...The Singer Entertains

Just a bit of the stuff John T and I have been cooking up lately in back yard jam sessions.

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Simon Guitar John with J G Thewless - Jam

I was driven here by insomnia...it's a drum and guitar track, followed by a little bass, polished off with another guitar. I used a Les Paul type, and a 335 type, and a Precision style bass.

Reality Show

Got a Light?

About 15 or 20 different tunes, about half of which I wrote myself.
There's bits of Dylan, U2, Beatles etc. 
I recorded the tape (one side of a C90) many years ago, but only just added echo and evened out the sound tonight. 
Enjoy...

Simon John, Guitar & Vocal

Simon John, Guitar & Vocal - Brand New Antiques

Swirling rhythm from a Yamaha organ with added effects, plus piano and guitar

AS THE WORLD TURNS by s john

9 songs from May 1990, my brother Pooch plays drums on track 2 the instrumental track. Very clear mix, for quality stereo listening.

Cold Coffee

A pretty good version of 3 and a bit songs from more than 30 years ago, preserved all that time on a tape cassette, digitalized and then given phaser, reverb etc. My brother Jon Gregory played the excellent drums on the first track.

April 90 FX

Singer, Sundial, Harmless Melody, Intro

Backyard recording of Dylan's MAN OF PEACE from his INFIDELS lp; transformed into an acoustic blues...

6-string Blues

A better mix for this track. Keys n guitar epic.

Justice Remixed

Otherwise known as "State of Grace" and "It's A Crime"...I recorded this late last night. It's July 2013

Shoot To Kill (1st mix)

Simon Says...
ARTIST BIO: Started playing guitar young, also piano, bass, drums and singing, also harmonica. Began tape recording and taking Classical Guitar lessons in Gamlin's Pianos music shop in the centre of Cardiff, capital city of Wales. Began to write songs and go to gigs aged 13 or so, also to jam frequently around town. I was given a reel-to-reel and took some jazz lessons, continually jamming guitar and bass and going out drinking. Got me a steel-string and a four-track...not much changed ever since! I'm now 42 years old and a lot wiser, which means I don't drink much...fell ill a couple of years ago and emerged with Nerve Damage (painful) to the left arm, also the bicep, forearm and shoulder muscles had wasted away. Undaunted by the negativity of some experts who said I was henceforth stuck unable to play guitar ever again, I received physiotherapy here in West Wales where I now live and worked hard to redevelop the muscles and feeling in the left arm and, especially, left hand. But the Doctors were half-right. Because I can't turn my arm at the wrist properly or move the hand up and down the neck, I've had to develop a capacity to play over-the-top of the neck, as opposed to underneath, with my fretting hand. It ain't easy! But I love music, and hope to make sounds for the rest of my life.


Yo, I'm Simon Guitar John, and I Love Good Music, and Mine is usually a kind of keyboard-and-guitar based blues-rock, sometimes Acoustic, often Psychedelic.. I had many different influences, mainly British and American, and very diverse, taking in everything from Romantic Classical to Punk Rock. I grew up listening to British Radio, and watching British TV.

The "Guitar" in my Name is just to identify me, there's a few different "Simon John"s on the web who play music. I'm not especially fast or fluent on the guitar, there's thousands of people who can play better than me, but at one point in my life, when I'd just come out of a Coma, one of the Doctors said "Son, you'll never play again" so I've been busy proving the guy wrong ever since. My Guitar-playing is limited, but I always give it my best shot, same when I'm playing Bass, or Piano, or Singing, even Harmonica. 


I get rhythms from a Drum Machine, play a bit of Piano Keyboards, play a little Bass, I can write Lyrics and Sing with various Guitars, and Record it all myself. 43yrs old.. 6ft tall, weighing in at 27 stone. Raised in South Wales UK, I started playing guitar, piano and harmonica at an early age; also recording, too. There are a variety of styles here; my music is multi-genre. Despite all this. I've only recently gone Digital...I bought an 8-track machine a few months back.
Check out my other sites, especially my Youtube channel simonguitarjohn (AshTrayTV).

Jump right in...

SIMON "GUITAR" JOHN

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