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

This is how it ended up. It wasn't a question of ReMixing it, because there's only a keyboard and a guitar track- 2 trax- and I could have used 8, but it sounded full enough last night, and the guitar sound is almost about right. Never mind, it educated me...

Justice (final, 3rd Remix)

The 2nd part of the longer original, with different guitar/vocal effects

Shoot To Kill (remix) 2nd Single Version

Been Down Too Long LP songs 1 to 7

Another mix for this epic track, but there is a lot of static etc in the background, unfortunately

Justice 4th mix

STILL LOVING YOU

I just sang how I felt into the mic. I came up with a song. The backing music is wallpaper...

PEACE AND LOVE...a prayer for a war-torn planet

STATE OF GRACE (Shoot To Kill, remix 5)

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

I took the Prayer For Peace vocal, and revamped the music completely...very pleased with this

WAR AND PEACE

A Sort Of "For The Love Of God Stop Fighting!" Piece Of Music.

War And Peace (remixed)

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

WAR & PEACE (remix 2)

Shoot To Kill (part one)

Slow, long, drawn-out and Painful...it's @ArtistSignal...Beaten only for Frustration, Bad Design and Boredom by @Facebook.!!!

@ArtistSignal Blues..."Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?"

Something I wrote when I was in the Orgasmatrons with my good friends Mike Brown and Paul Venn in about 1983...redone tonight 30 years later

Listen To Me (Hear What I'm Sayin)

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

AS THE WORLD TURNS by s john

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

6-string Blues

Keys and guitar; derives inspiration from the Bible.

The Beast She Rides

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)

Some lyrics I scrawled down after a lengthy dream this morning.

War In Heaven (Cowboy Hat)

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).

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

SIMON "GUITAR" JOHN