John Sebastian
John Sebastian
John Benson Sebastianis an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, harmonicist, and autoharpist. He is best known as a founder of the Lovin' Spoonful, a band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000; for his impromptu appearance at the Woodstock festival in 1969; and for his #1 hit in 1976, "Welcome Back"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth17 March 1944
CountryUnited States of America
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We found our heaviest users were using it every day all over their house, whether there was an odor problem or not.
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To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists.
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We were trying for that very hard, but part of the credit is due to Eric Jacobson, whose real talents as a producer were considerable and still are.
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I get everything form what you might expect like a club date to the city of Boston inviting me to do a concert during the Tall Ships Ceremony.
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When I left the band I said Look, I am ready to move on. I was interested in playing with some of the other people that I had bee a studio musician with.
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You're seeing it go down to more moderate homes.
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Now, I was the Summer Concert guy. I played every Summer concert there was.
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Before the Spoonful, I had a successful career as an accompanist, and a lot of my contemporaries were starting to have their own success.
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...after using your stuff on a jug band full of instruments, all I can say is Thank You Dr. Duck !...
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I certainly hear the Trombones Unlimited version of 'Daydream' in a lot of elevators.
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In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.
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But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush.
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Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music.
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I'm seeing and hearing lots of B to B instruments, and everybody isn't, you know, using them... a lot of these guys are trying to do it on conventional guitars, although that has its own sound, and maybe its okay.