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John Christopher Lyerly |
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| Blues Cats at the Grog & Tankard, March 1999 | With Freebo, March 2002 |
Current Projects Biographical
Information| Began playing Bass Guitar after hearing Jack Casady with Jefferson Airplane. Some genius at RCA had hit upon the brilliant idea of mixing the bass up enough on their first album so that I could actually hear it on my cheesy plastic teen-age record-player. I was hooked. My desires were compounded when I saw the Silvertone instruments at the local Sears store. The biggest, meanest-looking things there were the electric basses, with heavy-gauge flat-wound strings that looked like suspension-bridge cables. I had to get one. A couple of years before, I had seen A Hard Day's Night and wondered why Paul's "guitar" only had four strings... |
| Graduated from Woodrow Wilson Sr. High School in Washington, DC. Both Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen went to Wilson some years before. By the time I got there, they were, of course, the stuff of legend.... |
| Graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, with a double major in Ancient Greek & Latin (which is why I work for a software company today). While there I kept my chops up by playing bass and guitar in various folk and rock groups in the Central/Southern Pennsylvania college circuit. |
| Joined Meretrix with Gene Dawson (see Meretrix page), my first paying gig - the training wheels are off. Although I had been playing bass and taking formal lessons for years, I learned more about real bass playing under "live-fire" conditions in my first year with this band than in the previous ten... |
| Co-founded Big E and the Blues Cats with Gene Dawson as an electric Chicago-style blues quartet. The band was named for the low E string on my bass... |
| Bass "Master Class" with Jack Casady at Fur Peace Ranch in Pomeroy, OH. This is a fantastic place to learn Electric and Acoustic Blues styles on all instruments from the best in the business -- the members of Hot Tuna (with special guest instructors)! |
| Co-founded Blues Cats with Gene Dawson (from the remains of Big E and the Blues Cats.) |
| Co-founded The Dawson/Lyerly Band with Gene Dawson (from the remains of The Blues Cats) as a core blues & rock duo - but easily expandable for various venues and styles. |
| The Dawson/Lyerly Band opens for Freebo at DawsonHouse Concerts. |
Contact Information
Contact Me:
jclyerly@hotmail.com
Phone
240-277-8719
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