Artist description This multi-instrumentalist has been traveling the world for the last 10 years absorbing the many different musical influences.

Music Style World, Blues, Rock, Jazz, Psychedelic, Funk, Semi-Classical, Mixture

Musical Influences The Spirit of Life, All I See and Hear

Similar Artists Piccaso, Dali, Man Ray, Mattise

Artist History "When I was just baby, my mother used to leave her baritone ukulele in my baby crib. I would plunk on it until I fell asleep. When I could reach the keys of my mother’s piano I started plunking on that, too. I always found it easy to pick out the melodies of the songs I heard in and around me. When my mother felt I was old enough, she sent me to piano lessons. This didn’t work out so well because I drove the teacher crazy. She would say, "now read these notes and play them." I would look at the little dots and lines and see the designs they made like art, but they made no sense to me other than that. So she said, "It should sound like this ..." and she would play it for me. At that point it was easy! No matter what she would play, I would play it right back at her like a recording! She kicked me out. Mom sent me back again but, the teacher begged my mother to "please let him FAQuit." I play lots of other instruments; of course, all the keyboard family, most stringed instruments, woodwinds, but I never got my lips to play horns (i.e. trumpet, trombone, etc.) I learned about synthesizers from the ground floor, back when they were analog, on the ARP 2600, and I also explored what could be done with tape recorders; echo loops, and recording on one and playing it back while playing along with it onto another. Multi-tracking! But, the guitar was always my instrument of choice. I wanted to play it because all the music I loved was based mainly around the guitar. It’s also a very tactile, "hands on" expressive instrument that can really speak to the soul. I got my first guitar for Christmas when I was 12, a "Decca" acoustic, I think my mom still has it. It’s not playable now, somebody stepped through it at a party. Then I got my first electric guitar, a Japanese copy of a "Telecaster". Now this is when I really started having some fun! This meant I could play in bands! I used to drag my amp and guitar down to the park Sunday afternoons where I’d meet up with some friends (Boo Boo and Casey Clarke and some other names I can’t think of right now) and we would jam on "funky soul music" until it was too dark to see. "Sly and the Family Stone", "the Temptations", and of course, the blues. Somebody also had an electric piano, so we would exchange our instruments all afternoon. Some years later, I met Wallace Jenkins who really gave me my solid foundation in the blues. I only got to visit with him a few times but they were power packed and full of inspiration. These days, I’m playing a lot of slide, and lapsteel. I’ve always enjoyed slide guitar, it’s really fluid and expressive like the human voice." . Excerpt from an interview with JAZZ HOT magazine, Paris 1999

Group Members Lance Harrison

Instruments Guitar, sitar, sruti box, violin, synthesizers, bass, drums, piano, organ, various percussion, flute, and most anything he could touch! etc.

Albums "Travels in Sound", "Bill the Lizard", "4TrackWhack", "Square Dancin' in Florida", "The Termite Queen", "The Eye",

Additional Info After 10 years, we're still out here traveling around in a camping-car somewhere in this old world!

Location Nashville, Tennessee - USA

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