Dard Alley Ways - by James Graff (beautiful girls in bikinis)

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I recorded the whole song on my Korg Triton. It stands by itself as an instrumental but it isn't really finished yet: I want to add vocals and other instruments - like guitar and sax. "If you were dedicate the rest of your life to easing suffering on the earth - now and in to the future - what would you do?" "I am a musical slut: I will play ANY INSTRUMENT, in ANY STYLE, with ANY one for ANY amount of money (to go completely to charity)" Please check out: http://www.myspace.com/jamesgraff The James Graff You Tube Page/Channel (graffjamie): Over 2,048,000 hits!!! OVER 130 VIDEOS!! LIVE and MTV STYLE, COVER AND ORIGINAL, MUSIC VIDEOS!! Go to http://www.youtube.com and search for "graffjamie" or click any where you read "graffjamie" James Graff's Official Website http://www.jamesgraff.com Thanks! I started on piano at three and have now taught myself - with plenty of help and an extensive, music library - to sing and play ALL musical instruments - strings (plucked and bowed), woodwinds, brass, percussion, etc. - and know well over 400 pieces in EVERY style: 100 Originals, Baroque, Classical, Jazz, Ragtime, Blues, Country, Soul, Pop, Rock, Funk, Ska, Reggae, Disco, Hard Rock, Metal, Punk, etc. I just finished touring Europe opening for the WASP WORLD DOMINATOR TOUR. "I am a musical slut: I will play ANY INSTRUMENT, in ANY STYLE, with ANY one for ANY amount of money - to go completely to charity!!" ALL INSTRUMENTS! BAROQUE, CLASSICAL, ROMANTIC, RAGTIME, STRIDE, DIXIELAND, SWING, BEBOP, BLUEGRASS, FOLK, COUNTRY, BLUES, ROCK, METAL, REGGAE, DISCO, FUNK, POP AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN! I have sang and played in front of tens of thousands of people in bands with memebers from: Marilyn Manson ("Sweet Dreams", "the Beautiful People") The Frank Sinatra Orchestra ("My Way", "New York, NY"...) Extreme ("More Than Words", "Get the Funk Out") Creed ("Higher", "One") Steve Vai ("Bad Horsie") Steve Morse Band ("Tumeni Notes") The Classics IV ("Spooky", "Stormy", "Traces of Love") The Platters ("Only You") Expose ("Seasons Change") Jeff Scott Soto (Singer for Journey, Foreigner) Bertie Higgins ("Sailing Away to Key Largo"...) and MANY more... Opening up for: Marilyn Manson, The Beach Boys, The Romantics, Jefferson Starship, Modern English, Quiet Riot, The Guess Who, Ted Nugent, Mountain, Molly Hatchet, Richie Havens, Ace Freely, Wasp, Dave Barry, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Steinhardt Moon Project (Kansas), Marty Balin (Jefferson Starship), Melanie, Arlo Guthrie, Kathleen Madigan, Saigon Kick, and MANY, MANY more... I write, sing, produce, and perform. Here is how it all started: I have been playing keys since I was 3 years old, woodwinds since I was 8 (they showed my a bunch of instruments and I picked the badest, coolest one: the long ALL BLACK one with SILVER METAL on it - a CLARINET!!! - and I ended up getting out of class to study music in a room full of "chicks" - I was the only boy!!! BONUS!!! - and all that clarinet study led to the later discovery of my ability to play the Sexyphone ...and flute (Jethro Tull!!)...so...). I started to play guitar at about 10 when my brother threw his new acoustic guitar down saying - as he did of eveything: "This SUCKS!!" (Later he and my other brother got jealous - i.e. fed up with my incessant practicing they ended up smashing the guitar to itty, bitty pieces - with a loud: "El Kabong!!!") Now I play: lead/slide guitar, banjo, mandolin, pedal steel, 6 string electric violin/viola/cello, flute, clarinet, alto and tenor sax, blues harp, bass, drums/percussion, charanga, etc. HISTORY: I have: ==== PLAYED TO OVER 5000 PEOPLE AT: MIAMI AMPHITHEATRE, THE DAVIE ARENA, THE WEST PALM BEACH AUDITORIUM, HURRICANE ANDREW RELIEF CONCERT, THE LYRIC THEATRE, LITTLE WOODSTOCK II, HOLIDAY ISLE TIKI BAR, BAR ANTICIPATION, THE BUTTON SOUTH, etc----- PLAYED WITH: -----MOTOR Voted Best Hard Rock Band and Nominated for Best Cover Band in Florida (Population 16 million) by XS Magazine Readers, CD ?Screaming Bloody Motor? Sold thousands of copies, Videos for the singles ?Reptile? and ?Pedal to the Metal? are still being played on cable television all across Florida and received airplay in the US and Europe -----Kirk Kelsy-producer/live sound engineer for CREED: ?Arms Wide Open?, ?Higher? -----Kenny-A.K.A. "GINGER FISH" Drummer for MARYLIN MANSON: ?Sweet Dreams?, ?The Beautiful People?, ?The Dope Show? -----Mike Mangini-Drummer for STEVE VAI, ANNIHILATOR, "World's Fastest Drummer" - Mike holds five Guiness World Book of Records -----?Drum? Phil-Producer/live sound engineer for THE STEVE MORSE BAND -----Lead Saxophone Player for FRANK SINATRA (I don?t remember his name but he was the best horn player I have EVER heard!) -----Dennis Yost-Singer/Songwriter for THE CLASSICS IV: ?Spooky?, ?Stormy?, ?Traces of Love? -----BERTIE HIGGINS: World-wide Smash Hits ?Sailing Away to Key Largo?, ?Casablanca?: Key Largo blew a hole in the U.S. charts. When it reached number one in the nation, the world took notice and it went on to become an international hit. Other hit singles followed like Just Another Day in P aradise, Casablanca and Pirates and Poets. Casablanca became song of the year in all of the pacific rim and the album hit double platinum. Bertie Higgins became an international recording star literally overnight. He is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland and the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in Macon. -----THE HATTERS signed to Atlantic Records with Adam Hirsh and Adam Evans with special guest Blues Traveler's John Popper -----Lori Miller-Singer/Dancer for EXPOS?: Top 10 Hit ?Seasons Change? ----Jamie ?King? Colton-Singer/Song Writer, Saxophone/Keyboard/Guitar Player: Recorded and toured with DION and wrote the Top 40 Hit?Here Comes The Judge? ----Robbin Fox: ?I See Stars?----- ----"Drum Man" Nat Barouch [http://www.drumman.com] multitalented songwriter/singer/drummer (and website designer) for Nobody's Fault, Mad Hatters, Signal Zero, Higher Ground, Rockstreet, etc. ----Gary Schutt [www.garyschutt.com]--songwriter/ virtuoso--working with Jeff Scott Soto[www.jeffscottsoto.com] who was the real "voice" on the soundtrack of the movie "Rock Star" (My Brothers Nickname for me) OPENED UP FOR: -----THE BEACH BOYS: ?Surfin? USA?, ?Kokomo?, Etc. -----TED NUGENT:?Cat Scratch Fever?Etc. -----THE ROMANTICS: ?What I Like About You?, Etc. -----THE GUESS WHO-?American Woman?, Etc. -----JEFFERSON STARSHIP: ?Jane?, Etc. -----MARTY BALIN FROM JEFFERSON AIRPLANE: ?Don?t You Need Somebody to Love?, Etc. -----ACE FREHLY KISS: ?(I Wanna) Rock ?n? Roll All Night?, Etc. -----QUIET RIOT: ?Cum On Feel the Noise?, Etc. -----MODERN ENGLISH: ?Melt With You? -----ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION: ?Imaginary Lover? -----MOLLY HATCHET: ?Flirtin? with Disaster?, -----MOUNTAIN: ?Mississippi Queen?, Etc. -----STEINHARDT/MOON PROJECT KANSAS: ?Dust in the Wind? -----WASP: " I Wanna Be Some Body", "Animal (F*&% Like a Beast)" .... my band HOUSE OF GAMES is the official support band for WASP's 2006/2007 WORLD DOMINATOR TOUR -----AT WOODSTOCK II in Florida: -----JANIS JOPLIN`S BAND THE HOLDING COMPANY: ?Me and Bobby Magee?, Etc. and -----RICHIE HAVENS: ?Freedom?, Etc. and -----THE DIXIE ALLSTARS including members from BLACKFOOT, MOUNTAIN, LYNYRD SKYNYRD, ALLMAN BROTHERS ------SAIGON KICK: "Love Is On the Way" ------At the HURICANE ANDREW RELIEF CONCERT in the West Palm Beach Auditorium (We helped reaise millions of dollars and met Lawton Chiles the Governor of Florida and more importantly Mrs. Florida!!): -----ARLO GUTHRIE: ?This Land Is Your Land?, ?Alice?s Restaurant? -----MELANIE: ?I?ve Got A Brand New Pair Of Roller Skates? -----THE MONKIES: ?I?m a Believer?, Etc. -----Comedian KATHLEEN MADIGAN from Saturday Night Live AND -----DAVE BARRY: World famous Comedian, columnist, and best-selling author and film screenplay writer-He wrote BIG TROUBE-, etc.------ ------ NUNO BETTENCORT ("Flight of the Wounded Bumble Bee") is my friend and old drummer Phil Giantsidis cousin through marrige: NUNO - with EXTREME ("Get the Funk Out") - has played with Jeff Scott Soto (who played with my bandmate Gary Schutt) and Mike Mangini (friend from So. Fl.)---it's a small world after all!! Doug Blair - guitarist/vocalist for WASP 2006/2007 WORLD DOMINATOR TOUR (opening act, our band: HOUSE OF GAMES) - and for Signal2Noise: "Guitarcross" and drums DUO - Doug invented the "Guitarcross": a 8 string guitar and bass in one (5 string guitar, 3 string bass) - used to open up for EXTREME before they were signed - he was there the night they were signed! ------ Jim Hamilton (http://www.hamiltone.com/hamilto used to work on all 15 of my guitars - he built the guitar - with STEVIE RAY VAUGHN'S signature inlayed into the fretboard - for VAUGHN that is featured in his "Cold Shot" video ------ Tim Karcher - my cousin from Sayreville - owns the studio where BON JOVI's "SLIPPERY WHEN WET" album/cd was mastered!! ------ Jon Hochberg - my cousin through marriage - has been Jon Bon Jovi's personal physician for years: It is rumored that one time Jon Bon Jovi - returning from a tour of Japan - came into Jon Hochberg's office utterly dismayed, saying that his career was over - that everyone that was depending on him - the band, the label - would be completely let down: he had completely and permanently lost his voice - Jon Bon Jovi could no longer sing anymore. Doc "Hoch" said: "Don't sweat it...it's only syphillis..." gave him and the rest of the band a shot and...."Love is just a SOCIAL DISEASE..." and "BAD MEDICINE" were later recorded and dedicated to "DOC HOCH"!!! ------ Ellen Hochberg - my cousin married to Jon Hochberg - is a senator in NJ. ------ Allan Karcher - my uncle - ran for governor of NJ and served as the speaker of the house of NJ. ------ Harry Graff - my father - ran Harry Graff Inc. a highly successful advertising company on Madison Ave: He developed the central hub shipping system for FED EX - now used by virtually every shipping company in the world!! Produced all of the "It's sure cold outside...but inside Jack La Lane..." and "This is what ten pounds of fat looks like..." television comercials (he was good friends with Jack La Lane - one of my personal heros:"If man made it: DON'T EAT IT!!" He also wrote a novel about his vast experiences in CUBA before and after - and involved with - the Fidel Castro regime. He was also friends with various Manhattan cognocenti...like Norman Mailer...He also published GROUP TRAVEL a travel industry trade magazine, and MANAGEMENT ALTERNATIVES - an expensive newsletter helping business to save and make more money - while my father was in "retirement". When he was in WWII, he was given the mission of commandeering and delivering a French ship from the European theatre to the Pacific theatre. (Oui, oui...not an easy task!!) ------ Evelyn Graff - my mother - saved countless lives - and sanities - from her unparralleled efforts as the head of her AA chapter!! (Several of my own friends tribute their still being alive soley to her efforts on their bahalf!) She also served in numerous other charities at the same time. (If you want more...you masochist...please check out the various BIOGRAPHY links and pages on my website - I also made my website myself so I appreciate all the feedback I can get - THANKS!: http://www.hot.ee/graffbands/biog http://www.jamesgraff.com EQUIPMENT!!!!! ELECTRIC GUITARS: Flame top GIBSON Les Paul Standard - Serial # 9 09xx or '94 TOM ANDERSON Drop Top Classic, KAHLER (Floyd Rose Licensed) or '90s FENDER Am. Std. Stratocaster or '05 GRETSCH Brian Setzer - BIGSBY or '72 IBANEZ Destoyer with Seymour Duncans or '70s "Frankenstrat" FENDER Stratocaster body, BOOGIE Neck, FLOYD ROSE and EMGs:SSH or... PEDAL STEEL GUITAR: '66 EMMONS D-10 - vintage collectable, "The '50s Les Paul Gold Top of pedal steels" - Bobby Seymour - push-pull, double neck, pedal steel guitar ELECTRIC 6 STRING VIOLIN/VIOLA/CELLO: 2006 MARK WOODS Viper - 6 string electric violin/viola/cello, sunburst, exotic burl ACOUSTIC STRINGED INSTRUMENTS: TAKAMINE 12 String Acoustic/Electric YAMAHA SPX-90 Acoustic/Electric Guitar MARTIN Sigma DR-28 Acoustic Guitar MICHEAL KELLY acoustic/electric "Legacy FS" Mandolin DEERING "Maple Blosom" 5 string resonator banjo!!! KEYBOARDS: KORG Triton Pro, 76 keys YAMAHA SY99, 76 keys ROLAND JV1010 ROLAND D70, 76 keys TMK Midi controller, 88 keys, 7 pounds (4.5 kilos)! Two 3 tier ULTIMATE stands with mic booms Countless other stands WOODWINDS AND BRASS: '66 SELMER Mark VI Tenor Sax '30s MARTIN Alto Sax '57 BUFFET R13 Clarinet '70s ARTLEY Clarinet PEARL 775 solid silver flute BACH STRADIVARIUS Trumpet Countless wind instruments: Dozens of Harmonicas - LEE OSCARS, HOHNER Melody Makers, HOHNER Marine Bands and Marine Band Deluxe, HOHNER Chromatic Harmonica, HOHNER XB40 Harmonica, Penny whistle, Romanian ocarina, Peruvian recorder, Estonian Reed flute, etc. PERCUSSION/DRUMS: ROLAND HDP-15 Handsonic DRUMKAT ROLAND Pad80 Four custom made drum pads 2 DW-5000 Foot Pedal/triggers One Hatkat foot pedal Countless Percussion Instruments: Tamborines, Shaker, Cowbells, Castinets, Pringles cans, tables, chairs, etc. (The universe is one big percussion instrument) AMPLIFIERS: '99 MARSHALL TSL 2000 2x12 Combo - 100/50 Watts '80s MARSHALL 2555 Sliver Jubilee 100/50 Watts '66 FENDER Blackface Twin Reverb 2x12 - 85 Watts