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
musician copying knows
In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.
couple clothes guitar
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.
hair police wish
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.
guitar guy trying
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.
thinking musical way
First of all, I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the come, that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers, some way, to be viable, saleable and so on.
mother father musician
My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.
art educational father
My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.
ideas jugs band
The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea.
successful remember solo
You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo.
song style trying
I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.