joe nickerson

Bio:

I compose, arrange, play guitars, bass, keyboards, rap, sing.. I just do my thing.. I played in the well known SF bay area fusion band CLOUDS in the 70s.. and before the days of all this bling I spent 2 years in the late 70s with THE DAVID LA FLAMME BAND touring the states.. sex drugs rock and roll.. had it all.. EVERYTHING.. but I wouldn't trade for what I got now.. my own way.. my own music.. my own thing.. an award winning composer of chamber music with university honors and published and recorded compositions, I am a jazz musician.. I've played with, among others, woody shaw, jon hendricks, julian priester and mike nock.. I'm no longer a classic cover tune or mainstream jazz artist, rather a jazz musician who believes in world music as trane did.. seeking to blend many genres into a fresh and innovative style of jazz.. after many years on the axe I've finally done 2 CDs showing my style.. RAPSTER GUITARS IT.. 1 and 2.. original songs and collabs featuring syntopia, redeyeC, margot du bois, TLT50, big daddy cee and brian mattson.. order both my CDs here direct: http://cdbaby.com/jnrapster thanks for your interest in my music :-) joe nickerson aka rapster aka nicky quick.. you can hear most of my 100+ songs on www.soundclick.com/rapster..

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COMMENTS: (thank you most kindly) :-) "G..Day Brother.... All the best to you! You are definitely a musical mastermind.....with an ingenius sense of melody & crazy mad skills on the guitar!" - norman goodman, songramp "Incredible guitar playing, solos are out of this world! Blows my mind...great production and excellent song. You have taken things to a whole new level...." - norman goodman, songramp "THE DUKE.. what gets me is your guitar playing..MAN i wish to meet you one day and have you Line-Me-out on the guitar lines. Online would not help me, have to be in person. I hope to have the money one day to come see you, shake your hand and play some music with you. I think your the best guitar player online! AWESOME PLAYING BRO!!!!!!!!!!" - dace, mixposure "just wanted to stop by cause your so damn cool! your riffs and runs are legend in my book. the most creative song structures ever, brother just dont stop!" - his life for mine, IMW "You are obviously one of the best musicians and songwriters at IMW. You ( your playing eg songs like Flashin' ) remind me of Joe Satriani meets Living Color with Django Reinhardt reincarnated as Joey! And you have flair for pop songs & ballads too. Kudos on all fronts bro--it's extremely inspiring to listen to your music and art." - mri (dar), IMW "So, I think I now know what it is about your songs Joey that sets them apart. They..ve got an element of "Danger" about them because they..re daring to go places a lot of people don..t go to, including me too most of the time. You..re like a pioneer striving for a new genre :-)..Kudos.." - margot, IMW ..
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Member Since:

June 28, 2006

Members:

rapster... margot... and all my collaboration friends... Syntopia, Syngularity, Lil Drizzy, D-Form, Tom King, Dace, TLT50, Emocion, JDK, RedeyeC, Valkir, Brian Mattson, RWK, 3D, DJ Dino, Robin James, Yerrickl, Texas Jake, Uncle Fester, Ratman, Main Pie, Zeropage, Teecee, Big Daddy Cee, MarkC, Sin, Atrophy, Artificial Earth, Zest, 6-String, Stephen West, Karnal Echo, Ensoniq, Global Trancemission, Sait Koray, Mark Mayhem, Nicky Quick, Future of Hiphop,

Influences:

JB, Sly Stone, BB King, Grateful Dead, Beatles, Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Sons of Champlin, Big Brother, Quicksilver, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, JOHN COLTRANE, McCoy Tyner, Miles, Bobby Hutcherson, Julian Priester, Wes, Pat Martino, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Woody Shaw, Weather Report.. Jaco.. Grand Master Flash, Melli Mel, TUPAC, Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, LL Cool J, Jay Z, Dr. Dre, Snoop..

Sounds Like:

new music.. innovative.. cross-genre.. catchy..

Record Label:

Unknown Indie