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Jan 30, 2005 |
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As a preteen I was into the folk thing, learning a lot of easy songs by the Kingston Trio, Harry Belafonte, John Denver, Bob Dylan, and the like from older friends and teachers
Because of my sister I was also into listening to lots of Beatles and Rolling Stones for rock. In the Bluegrass realm I was into the Kentucky Colonels, the Newgrass Revival, Doc Watson, John Hartford, and The Dillards. In the country mode I was into the jazzy country swing thing such as Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, and Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. In the fingerstyle mode I loved Leo Kottke and David Bromberg stuff.
As I became a teeny-bopper I started taking guitar lessons from a great "old school" jazz guitarist. We went through the whole Mel Bay jazz guitar method and lots of supplimental materials. I worshipped Joe Pass! This led to playing guitar in my high school jazz band, banjo in the dixieland band, sax in the marching band, and percussion like xlylophone cymbals and drums in the concert orchestra.
By high school I was loving Chick Corea and Return To Forever and John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
In (junior) college I was taking lessons from LA jazz great John Pisano and even had one day with Lenny Breau, the greatest fingerstyle jazz guitarist in his relatively short lifetime.
I moved up to the southern California Mojave desert at this point and started playing country, classic rock, blues, and top 40 pop rock for a living from 1980 through 1991. I "grew up" (mentally and emotionally) at that point, quit drinking and doing drugs every day, investigated Christianity, and found it to be true, not some intellectual/spiritual suicide for losers who were too square to deal the real world, if you know what I mean.
I played electric and acoustic guitars and some keyboards at Calvary Chapel, leading worship at church, in prisons, for homeless ministries, at residential care convalescent hospitals, running the youth group worship team, just volunteering my heart out at every opportunity.
In 1998 I started going back to school, got my BA and so far 2 CA teaching credentials, with a MA going on right now, and became a school teacher. That's what I do now, and yes, I jam and sing songs with my special ed students every day! Life is hard but worth it. , |
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Sounds Like
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I'm known as the cameleon, I can mimic and blend in with most styles. , |
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Record Label
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My band is "M.T.Toombe" and we produce out own stuff independently under the "Promised Band Productions" label |
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| General
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http://profiles.yahoo.com/drewster58
http://engman.blogspot.com/
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| Music
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Everything from the 1880's thru today. What's not to like?
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All the spoof movies like "Blazing Saddles," "Black Brother," "Scary Movie," etc. Serious ones like "When A Man Loves A Woman," "Cold Mountain," "A-I: Artificial Intelligence," etc. I like silly funny movies and I like deeply moving movies along with a hugh dose of GOOD sci-fi stuff.
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http://hometown.aol.com/drewengman/myhomepage/faith.html
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Married |
| Here
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Fun |
| Orientation |
Huh? Regular So Cal dude |
| Hometown |
Burbank, Ca, now Pinon Hills, CA |
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Type |
6'2" |
| Ethnicity |
American of Swedish/Finnish descent |
| Religion |
Christian |
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Yield |
| Smoke |
No |
| Drink |
No |
| Children |
Everybody else's, I'm a teacher! |
| Education |
MA in Spec. Ed. |
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My profile is spread over a few websites. Here are the links.
http://www.wholenote.com/members/drewengman/
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/person.php?id=878
http://www.hotjobs.com/cgi-bin/person-show?P__PINDEX=P371660BX |
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Spanish Translation by Google
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