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People say that I am:
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I'm a cross between Johnny Carson,and Ensign Pulver and the Blues Brothers. Most of my friends were also co workers in the steel mill.They pretty much said that if it wasn't for me it would be a miserable place to go to everyday. I had the very tough job of entertaining these otherwise miserable people for 8 hrs a day.On top of that they actually expected me to do some work. Sometimes they asked me to work a double. Leno and Letterman have a staff of writers to create their material and then they only have to work one hr a night. I entertained these people sometimes 16 hrs a day by myself.
Hard Work!! I know all about it. Industrial mechanical work doesn't mean you use hand tools like an auto mechanic.Some of the pneumatic (air driven tools require 3 people to operate it.I started out as a laborer with a pick, shovel, wheelbarrow and a 90 lb. jackhammer. Then I Graduated to a swinging a 20 lb. maul for a living. Swinging mauls and Dragging Chains for almost thirty years.Every job in the mill required a team effort to complete because everything was so hugeLots of sweat and even some blood was shed and a couple of bones broken in the process.It wasn't pretty.A steel mill is a real dangerous place to work.The plant I worked in had the worst safety record of any corporation in the country for many years. Not uncommon for fatal accidents to happen.Thank god I got out of there when I did.
My other friends are musicians for the most part. I make them smile because when I show up they know they have a singer that gives it everything he's got.
Some of the people that I jammed with or played in bands with are:
James Cotton Blues Band
Walter Lightninbug Rhodes
( former guitarist, band leader of Wilson Pickett )
Johnathon Burton
( guitarist for The Manhattans )
Guy Phillips
( guitarist for The Comets )
Little Mike and the Tornadoes
Eddie Guitar Burns
Big Boy Henry
Shrimp City Slim
Max Bangwell, drums and Rick Reed, Bass
( former rhythm section William Clark )
Bray Ghelia,
( Former member of The Eagles / Firefall /
plays multiple instruments )
Drink Small ( The Blues Doctor )
Jumpin Johnny Sansone
Saffire, ( The Uppidy Blues Women )
Skeeter Brandon,
( kbd,Clarence Carter, Shi Lites )
Andy Walo,
( former guitarist for Junior Wells )
Big Jack Johnson, ( The Oil Man )
Jessie Anderson and the Steamrollers
and a multitude of other renown musicians in my 35 years on the live music scene.Leading to the forming of my own Band.BLUES-UNCHAINED The Blues Unchained is a band formed through years of research and also consumption of a lot of beer
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Things that have bothered me:
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Nothing
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I am looking for:
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Believe I can do what I say I can do. Thats about it. I can't tolerate negative energy concerning what I want to accomplish. You have to know this up front. Nothing gets between me and the music. It's not an option. I've been at this a long long time.It's something I will never stop doing.
Since I'm a singer they would first have to like what I do and be supportive of my efforts. I'm chasing my dream so they would also have to understand its my goal to chase it to the to the top of the game.Whatever that takes. That will take a very special person.I'm a very patient man concerning the search.Blues is the toughest genre because there is a reality checkpoint/hurdle to cross that other music doesn't have.If it doesn't sound real,you're done.You have to feel the blues and make your audience feel it.If they don't feel it,they're gone right out the door.I would be too.
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My funniest life experience:
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I'm writing a book so I need to write down these things anyway. This kills 2 birds with one stone and its a preview of the book and movie. So here we go
Signing autographs near Hollywood as Russell Crowe was a hoot. I stayed on the Queen Mary,Antique Ship Hotel that looks like the Titanic.It's permanently fixed in Long Beach Ca. I sent my agent down to the gift shop to get me a pack of cigarettes. I gave him 8 dollars. Well he was 12 cents short. While he was there he was throwing my last name around. Explained he was Mr Crowes agent ,Mr Crowe this and Mr Crowe that. So he's got them thinking I'm Russell Crowe. There is a hell of a resemblance and I think I'm related in some way. So he comes back with the smokes and tells me I owe them 12 cents.We were going to eat dinner and on the way I stopped by to pay them.I didn't know anything about what he told them. When I saw the look on their faces when I walked in the store at first I looked behind me back over both shoulders because I thought someone famous was behind me.Then I realized they thought I was him.I had to think fast and act like Russell Crowe.Then my agent says to them. Well don't just stand there give him something to sign get some autographs.So the guy running the store hands me a stack of Queen Mary postcards. I still have some of them. Next thing you know I'm signing autographs as Russell Crowe.
Another one.I was at home and the phone rang one day and for some reason I answered in the deepest voice I have which is really deep.Its kind of intimidating and scarey. The person on the other end of the phone says. Hello, May I speak to the lady of the House? BINGO!! In a deeper angrier and scarier voice, I said YOU'RE SPEAKING TO HER!! Then they hung up on me.
More? We had a machine at work that had an engine on it . They used it to grind the built up hardened grease off the concrete floor. Being a an engine driven machine it took one sparkplug. Well they left the machine right in the middle of where i had to work. Not cool and extra hassle for me. So I removed the spark plug and replaced it with a grease fitting that looks just like a spark plug only the center is hollow. I replaced the spark plug wire onto the grease fitting. It looked perfectly normal. Then I had the people that left it there come down and get it out of my way. When they tried to start it up the compressed air made the spark plug wire fly off. They must have tried to start that thing fifty times.I was cracking up watching them.They never did figure it out.More?.
I was staying in a room at a hotel near Baltimores inner harbour.The room had a window in a dormer.I was sitting there drinking beer and catchin a buzz. I had the window open and heard someone playing music. I stuck my head out the window and looked up and down the street. Couldn't figure out where it was coming from. Then I looked across the street and in a reflection in the windows I saw the guy playing guitar and singing right under my window.I was on the 4th floor. My window was recessed back into the roof so he couldn't see me.BRAINSTORM I folded up a dollar bill,lengthwise, flattened it out and sailed it out the window.It went down floating side to side like a feather.
I was watching the guy in the glass.It came down right in front of him and landed a few feet away He saw it stopped playng,set his guitar down ran over and picked it up. I was cracking up watching this happen in the window across the street.I kept doing it and waited till some people came walking by .Timed it just right too.It floated down just as they were passing him. I must have sent 15 bucks down there and after the first few he was hollering thank you.I took pictures of him in the windows as I was doing it.When you enlarge them you can see him in the pictures.
Here's another one.
I hired a limo to take me fishin on Memeorial day .
The limo showed up .I came out of the house no shoes opened denim shirt with the sleeves missing and a pair of denim cut offs. As I came down the sidewalk the driver asked me if I was leaving.I said yes . He got back in the limo and backed it up.Then he sat there a while and I just stood there. After a few minutes he hollered out the window. Hey I thought you were leaving. I said, i am, I'm leaving with you. He thought I was leaving in my car and he had me blocked in so he moved to let me get out.I figured I'm already acting kind of nuts I mean hiring a limo to go fishin isn't really a normal thing to do so I said to him,Hey man,listen. Tthe guy that you are taking fishing is in the house getting ready. I'm going with you guys. He's a little nutzo but he won't hurt anybody and he'll be right out.He says ok thats cool. So I waited a few more minutes till I couldn't stand it anymore and I told him. Listen man, I'm the whacko guy that hired you to take me fishin. Lets roll. On the way to the fishin spot I had him pull around the corner from a pizza place where I had worked for a little while delivering food. I had my boss come out and around the corner to the limo. Then I put my arm around him and said I QUIT. The expression on his face looked like he just ate a bad anchovie. Then I ordered a box of chicken wings and made them deliver them to the fishin spot.The limo driver looked just like MARTIN LAWRENCE the comedian actor only older.That worked out perfectly and he went along with everything. So we went to the fishin spot about 2 miles away.All I caught was a stick. A little branch off of a tree.I really hooked it and reeled it in. Even got a picture of me laying it on a board about to filet it.
About 15 minutes before the limo was to leave I asked the driver to pop the hood so I could see the engine. He says ok and did it. Then I reached in my back pocket and pulled out a big piece piece of aluminum foil I had folded up and told him. I forgot my grill and wanted to streatch the foil over the engine to cook the fish my friend caught. He helped me do it and I have a picture of him helping me cover the engine and giving me a thumbs up once we had the engine covered.I took pictures of the entire fiasco. I just wish I had a video camera. I intend to recreate one it on video. Make it into a short comedy film.
Limo $150,drivers tip $50, chicken wings $6,tip $6.32 The look on my bosses face PRICELESS!!!I spent the last $212.32 dollars I had to my name and was smiling the whole time and all I caught was a stick. Its bark was worse than its bite LOL The picture of me catching the stick is on my cd cover
The cd is called Eddie Crowe A MAN'S GOTTA EAT. It's now available at cd baby.The online store for independent artists to sell their music.
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Cool Movies:
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The Wizard of OZ. Were those people high or what? The Irish soul band called The Commitments.Watch the movie about them by the same name. I can relate to them in my own experiences in music.They had a trumpet player that toured with Wilson Pickett. I played drums for a great bluesman (Walter Lightnin'bug Rhodes)I met Walter when he was 48.He was a black albino
with very bad vision.Being technically blind there wasn't much chance for Walter to work a traditional job. His mother knew this and when she noticed his interest and talent, encouraged him to pursue a music career. Walter took up playing guitar at 6 yrs of age. By the time he was 11 he was touring making a living playing gospel music. Thats where he met Wilson Pickett. In the early sixties.(62-67) Walter was Wilson Pickett's guitarist and band leader for 5 years. Any good gangster movie or good comedy.I really like watching the A&E channel. Stories about how music careers happened are interesting to me.
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My Favorite Groups are:
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Music caused me to go Broke.It's called paying your dues. Blues, Classic, Southern and british rock, soul, old school rhythm and blues.
The Original Little Feat with Lowell George was one of my favorite American bands.
I sing alot of their material. After that, there are just too many to name but If it lacks soul it isn't for me.I like real music, with real instruments, played by real musicians.The way it used to be.Its time for real music to make a comeback and I think its going to be a blues related sound thats going to break out of the rut american music is in.After all everything good came from the blues originally.
American music needs a kick in the ass. Stevie Ray Vaughan was the last guy to do it reminding rockers about the blues Its time to do it again.Its long overdue in my opinion.
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I am looking for a personality like:
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I'm a singer. I don't get nervous and neither will you.
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Are you willing to compromise in difficult times and situations?
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Sure, I don't c l a i m to have all the answers,although I'm real creative and real good at problem solving. One situation arose and I was absolutely positively and most definitely not going to do it. It was tough giving in and It went against everything in the foundation of a mans character make up and moral fiber and then I even had to act like I enjoyed it.
YEP,
I'M NOT PROUD OF IT
BUT I DID IT.
I WENT SHOPPING. HAHAHAHAHAHHA
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Willingness to meet others from boM:
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Very willing, It's not going to be easy to find someone as a starving artist. I broke 2 main rules. Quit the day job and put all the eggs in one basket.I love a challenge.
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Are you ready to start from scratch?
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I'm ready
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My typical day:
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I'm a starving artist with many years and a small fortune invested in who I am and what I do.I didn't just wake up yesterday and decide to try this.My life could change at any moment.I won't always be poor.I work extra hard on my music career to change that situation. I a i m for the top of the game and I believe I have what it takes to be a star vocalist.I sing many great songs by many great singers but I've developed my voice to the point that I don't really sound like anyone else in particular. When the financial picture changes I will be a better more generous person having been without. I think it builds character to go without luxuries. I'll appreciate them more having been without them.I have come to realize I can live without having much and it's no big deal It could always be worse than it is.There are many people on this planet in worse shape than I am.Although I don't own anything and don't have money right now I also don't have any debt.Not many people can say that.Most people are in debt up to their necks,barely making their huge mortgage payments and spending everything they make living paycheck to paycheck. I used to be in that boat too. Now i'm free of all that stress.HALOFREAKINLUYA!! I live with Family,I'm single, gave up the day job in the steel mill and have all my time to focus on my music career.
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My Wish List Includes:
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I don't have anything but unique vocal talent.I put some LIVE recordings together as a product.It can be found on cd baby,the online store for independent artists. Links to the cd and other recordings that you can hear for free are in my tags section. My cd even has a barcode that can be scanned in any store.I wrote a song that will prove to be a hit with the right promotion behind it.I've yet to find a single person that doesn't like it.The song, "Fishin on Chesapeake Bay" hit and held #1 jump blues position on the Soundclick music charts.The country version also hit #1. It only takes one song to make a career soar. It takes money to get it done right in the studio. I also don't want or need anything but success. Remember this verse of a song that Ringo Starr sang. (Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues and you know it don't come easy)Well Ringo wasn't trying to be a blues singer maybe thats because he knew how tough it was.LOL Toys are not my thing. Fast cars, boats, motorcycles and my daredevilish personality would not mix well with toys like that.Toys have killed many talented people. I just want to do my job as a singer and see the world. I do want to buy toys for my friends and family. The ones that I can trust not to kill themselves on them that is.LOL
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Religion is sometimes important to me in relationships.
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I'm not Materialistic.
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I Smoke Sometimes.
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I Drink Sometimes.
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I Like Pets.
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I Like To Travel.
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I am an Active Person.
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I Don't spend long hours at Work.
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I Am a Spontaneous Person.
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Friends Are Important to me.
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I Like Competitive Partners.
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Sometimes I like clubs/bars.
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I'm not that Stressed.
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I sometimes try to stay in shape.
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I sometimes want to get married.
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Sometimes I feel that I would like to have kids.
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I Am Not a Stubborn Person.
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Sometimes I enjoy going to the movies.
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Sex Is Important to me.
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Sometimes it's important to have a clean house.
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