Simon Guitar John - Best of 2014 AD

Piece Of Rock #4 (mixed)

Shoot To Kill (mix)

An excellent way to spend half an hour. Initially recorded in Cardiff 20 years ago, using 4-track, guitars, bass and a beatbox.

BATTLEGROUND - 2014 REMIX

Bit mad, but not bad. Lyrics on 1st song by A Thomas, and there's a bit of Dylan at the end. Full LP.

SHARP SCRATCH LP Mix 3

3 of my best instrumentals, back to back and remixed. Slim Jim Perkins plays acoustic guitar at the beginning and end of track one, but I did everything else on all three trax, and remixed them just now.

Remixed: TRACK 13, AS THE WORLD TURNS, and BARE BONES

WAR AND PEACE remixed. My best creation from last year, rehashed...

ROAR OF BABYLON

TERMINUS 2 - instrumental

Catfight (remix)

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Musical Form...dolled-up with fx to sound completely wonderful.

Echo Blues (Bare Bones / Something Else remix) mp3

VERY SATISFIED AND PROUD OF THIS. THE BEST I COULD PLAY 2 NIGHTS AGO, STRUGGLING AGAINST A LACK OF PRACTICE AND SLIPPING TUNING...RECORDED ON FILM USING AN OPEN TUNING, REMIXED AND MASTERED TONIGHT USING AUDACITY SOFTWARE. 

LONE SOLDIER - SOLO ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE By SIMON GUITAR JOHN

WAY TO BE #3

Written in 1998, AKA 'Under The Gun', New Mix...

MANIFESTO

E Minor Blues (flac file)EXTENDED REMIX

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

JAZZ STREET Remix

SUPERMOON

SKYLIGHT Remix (New)

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

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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Simon Guitar John - Best of 2014 AD

SIMON "GUITAR" JOHN