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Hi Tide Harris Profile
For those with extreme imagination.
Hi Tide Harris's Musical Objectives are to improve the human condition.
To put people in the groove and keep them in it as they go through life.
To help people become more and more conscious of the groove. Not only while the music is playing for the groove is with out boundaries of time. The groove is time it self moving like currents and waves of the deep blue sea. We only need music to help us hold on to the groove doring musical moments and this is what Hi Tide Harris' music is for.
Nonetheless the groove can and should be applied to every thing we do. It is becoming increasingly clear that the groove improves the quality of life and can cause life to be appreciated more and more all throughout the Universe and not just down here where we are. In other words When you are in the groove you will be happier to be alive.
EDUCATION
Went to public school dropped out of high school to play the clubs and tour with bands. Studied drama at Oakland's Lany College.
Learned how to sing by hanging out with Blues singers such as JJ Malone Sunny Rhodes, Little Joe Blue, Shaky Jake, Little B.B..
Learned Music from; Zeta Fay Prothro Barbara Mclullin, Wesley McDanials, Charles McKenny, Morris Atcheson, Johnny Heartsman, Johnny Shine, Joe Pass, Eddy Foster etc..
EXPERIENCE
Worked with; Bob Gettings Jr. Jimmy Mc Crackin, Lowell Fulsom, Little Jonny Taylor, Muddy Waters, Big Mama Thornton, Charlie Musclwhite, John Mayall, TV. Mama, L.C. Good Rockin' Robinson Little Franky Lee, Jonny Fuller, the Fuller Brothers, the King Brothers, etc.. 'Some times I get calls to do Gospel singing while it is not my favorite thing I am always glad to help out. Who knows I might save some souls.
Hi Tide Harris is a world class veteran artist.
HISTORY
I will copy this history from a document dating back to the early 80s.
TEN YEARS
Started his career in 1962 as a Doo Wap singer(BASS).
1964 Learned how to play guitar.
1965 Became a combo musician.
1966 Went on tour(The southern USA)with Jimmy McCracklin's Orchestra.
1967 Played with Lowell Fulsom's band and Big Mama Thornton's Band as well as keeping his own little band working. It was the hey day around the bay for live music.
1968 Toured the far east with Bob Gettings Jr.
1969 Went back to The San Francisco Gay Area and played the clubs. By the way it was not so gay at that time it was the dawn of the hippy era.
1970 Went to L.A., and joined Shakey Jakes band
1972 Started playing in collage concerts as a featured artist.
Twenty Years
1973 Toured the Midwest, and East Coast of USA with Charlie Musclwhite.
1974 World tour with John Mayall.
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1975 Was invited to New York City by Gordon Parks to sing at the premier of the movie "LEADBELLY" after doing the vocals for the sound track
Was invited to Hollywood by the Academy award winning Maurice Jarr and Dino Delarintes to direct a Muddy Waters session for the sound tract to a movie titled 'MANDINGO" after composing the theme song "BORN IN THIS TIME".
1976-1977 Became popular enough to stay busy on the West Cost Blues Scene.
1978. Was invited to Kyoto where he joined B.B. King. and Albert king on stage at Roots of Blues Festival.
Made his first album"Celebrating With HiTideHarris" It was released in Japan by RVC Victor.
Proceeded to give the first Blues Guitar Seminar in Japan's history sponsored by YAMAHA. The seminars were given in every major city in Japan.
1979 Returned to California to chill occasionally taking brief trips to L.A. Tokyo, and New York.
1980 Was invited to Australia as the guest of honor for the Australian Blues Society's BluesFestival Convention. Concerts were held in
Sydney Canberra, and Melbourne.
1980- After returning from Australia; Stayed in San Francisco Bay Area through the up hill battle of Live Music verses Disco. A time when Black owned clubs were systematically <closed down>becoming White owned clubs along with the influx of white so-called Blues musicians.
1981 Through 1985 Worked in California's beautiful Sierras Playing the Blues in Honkytonk Resorts with Oakland Fats and Guy J. Puma. Played at the 1985 Sacramento Blues Festival.
Thirty Years
1986 Went to Tokyo again. Played at many of Tokyo's Universities Blues Fesivals, Live Houses etc
1987 Started playing on the Main Drag in Shibuya at a club called AspenGLow which resembled the Honkytonk Resort clubs in the Sierras. Recorded a live LP called Hi Tide Harris Live At Aspen Glow. Would play there steady from 1987 through 1993.
1988 Started playing the NCO Clubs on the US Military Bases in the Konto Area mostly Yokota Air Base and The Sanno Hotel and once on Okinawa.
1989 Touring KyuShu Shikoku, Osaka, and Korea,
1990-1993 Was booked in Clubs Live House, Bars, Hotels, Ryokans, Festivals, Parties, Department Store Grand Openings Events etc. all along Japan's Shonan Coast. It all started in 1990 at a huge Summer Fair in EnoShima called Surf '90 sponsored by Kirin Beer where Hi Tide Harris was feature every Saturday evening.
Fourty Years
1994 Played through out Japan's Izu pennesula mostly Ito, Atami, and Shimoda. Went to Holly Wood to record.
1995 Yokohama's Blues Cafe Tokyo's finest restaurant Tatou Tokyo ship cruises for the Lions Club and Volga near Tokyo Tower. P-VINE RECORDS released PCD-5802 Hi Tide Harris Nice&Hi. A good CD but the company just didn't get behind it thus it would not have a very positive effect on Hi Tide Harris's carrier.
1996 Touring Hokkaido's Furano Kushiro, Sapporo etc. Taking four and five piece bands on the road; playing from Tokyo to KyuShu all major cities in KuShu and many cities between such as Toyohashi, Gifu, Hiroshima, Wakayama, Shirahama, Tokuyama, etc.
P-VINE Records released PCD-5708 Black Music From JIROKICHI with Marty Bracey Paul Jackson, Takahiro Honda, Siotsugu Shinji, and Hi Tide Harris. Went on tour with those musician.
1997- Went to Holly Wood to Record With Larry Johnson's Band. Went back to Tokyo to find that no record company would except the recordings and gigs were few and fare between in the Tokyo area. Started playing the Sendai area.
1998-Became disillusion with Tokyo Blues Scene Japanese musicians, the club owners etc. etc.. Started making a series of acoustic guitar solo recordings and playing gigs as a solo guitarist. At the end of 1998; got a job as a Gospel Singer at Tokyo Bay Hilton Hotel. A job which would be played from the summer of 1998 through the spring of 2001.
1999-2000 Completely withdrawn from the Blues scene except for a few occasional gigs around Yokohama.
2001-Started TEZU Records the label which Hi Tide's records would be released on. TEZU Records 5-25-1 Shimbashi Minato-ku Tokyo Japan 105-0004. TEZU Records released TEZU 0001 Hi Tide Harris TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE.
2002 After leaving the Hilton Hotel togather with its finest organist Miz Melody Ohira Hi Tide and Melody have become a team working in Tokyo's Hotel scene and various events around Japan.
2003 Comes the release of The Hey Day Of Hi Tide Harris. A compilation of previuos recordings made during the 1970s-90s.
This profile will soon be updated.
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