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James Graff
 
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Incline Village, United States

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Influences  RELATIVES AND FRIENDS!!!

COMEDY!!!: Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn't seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy takes out his phone and calls the emergency services.

He gasps: "My friend is dead! What can I do?" The operator says: "Calm down,  I can help. First,  let's make sure he's dead." There is a silence,  then a gunshot is heard. Back on the phone,  the guy says: "OK,  now what?"

...and to a lesser extent:

,  Zoroaster,  Muhammad,  Buddha,  Moses,  Christ,  Luther,  Schweitzer,  Sugihara,  Wallenberg,  King,  Tutu,  Dalai Lama,  Dongfang,  Lao Zi,  Confucius,  Socrates,  Plato,  Aristotle,  Machiavelli,  Locke,  Spinoza,  Bacon,  Rousseau,  Marx,  Sartre,  Washington,  Franklin,  Hamilton,  Jefferson,  Roosevelt,  Mandela,  Gandhi,  Bolivar,  Alexander,  Hammurabi,  Alexander,  Asoka,  Huangdi,  Caesar,  Charlemagne,  Khan,  Bonaparte,  Lincoln,  Ataturk,  Gorbachev,  Homer,  Virgil,  Alighieri,  Shakespeare,  Blake,  Moliere,  Dickens,  Twain,  Brecht,  Tolkien,  Michelangelo,  Rembrandt,  Wren,  Hokusai,  Turner,  van Gogh,  Wright,  Picasso,  Dali,  Bosch,  Chaplin,  Stewart,  Nickelson (went to my High School!),  Pacino,  DeNiro,  Redford,  Lange,  Euclid,  Archimedes,  da Vinci,  Galilei,  Newton,  Watt,  Pasteur,  Harvey,  Jenner,  Lister,  Franklin,  Freud,  Einstein,  Fleming,  Pauling,  Salk,  Watson,  Crick,  Hawkings,  Sagan,  Gutengerg,  Lun,  Morse,  Otto,  Nobel,  Bell,  Edison,  Wright,  Marconi,  Gates,  Polo,  Columbus,  Magellan,  Amundsen,  Gagarin,  Armstrong (went to my High School!),  Smith,  Friedman,  Milton,  Black,  Scholes,  Cosby,  Pryor,  Carson,  Williams,  Seinfeld,  Letterman,  Hope,  Martin,  Carlin,  Bruce,  Allen,  Hubbard,  Trudeau,  Stallone,  Kubrick,  Copolla,  Scorsese,  Spielberg,  Puzo,  Welles,  Goldman,  Hitchcock,  Disney,  Griffith,  Keaton,

LIVING: Drugs,  booze,  sex,  sleaze...no seriously:

7 years wasted (literally and figuratively): a Bachelor of Economics with a concentration in Finance and a Bachelor of Applied Science in Systems Engineering from the UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA...basically the finest in "snobby" Ivy League Education: the only thing I learned at Wharton Business School/Moore School of Engineering is that 1. I wouldn't work if you paid me!! and 2. I don't want to "work" a day in my life!! (FYI: Wharton is consistently rated the #1 business school in the world by various trade magazines...hmph...and the Moore School is where they built the first supercomputer the Eniac to improve missle accuracy in WWII). By the way: the current President of Estonia - Toomas Hendrik Ilves - went to theUniversity of Pennsylvania too - we're school mates!!

WRITING:,  Bach,  Mozart,  Beethoven,  Tchaikovsky,  Chopin,  Wagner,  Puccini,  Verdi,  Handel,  Glass,  Schoenberg,  Gershwin,  Parker,  Led Zeppelin,  Beatles,  Springsteen,  Dylan,  Pink Floyd,  Grateful Dead,  Eagles,  Rolling Stones,  AC/DC,  Neil Young,  Doors,  James Taylor,  Billy Joel,  Black Sabbath,  Zappa,

VOCALS:
,  Plant,  Pavaroti,  Domingo,  Boticeli,  Callas,  Jeff Scott Soto (sings for Foreigner now - used to sing in a Queen tribute with one of my old bandmates -,  Gary Schutt,  playing bass: Gary is a monster musician - guitar,  bass,  drums,  vocals,  songwriting),  Lou Gramm,  Paul McCartney,  Mercury,  Don Henley,  Billy Joel,...

LEAD ELECTRIC GUITAR:,  Jimi Hendrix,  Jimi Page,  Jeff Beck,  David Gilmour,  Stevie Ray Vaughn,  Mark Knopfler,  Paganini,  Frank Gambale,  Jerry Garcia,  Allmans,  Tony Macalpine,  Michael Angelo,  Brian Setzer,  Billy Gibbons,  Joe Perry,  Slash,  Eric Johnson,  Alan Holdsworth,  ...

SLIDE GUITAR:,  Duane Allman,  Jeff Beck,  Eric Clapton,  Hendrix,  Ry Cooder,  Johnson

KEYBOARDS:
,  Beethoven,  Mozart,  Bach,  Chopin,  Scott Joplin,  Art Tatum,  Oscar Peterson,  Allman Brothers,  Lynyrd Skynyrd,  Billy Joel,  Keith Emerson,  Mats and Morgan,  Jan Hammer,  Rudess,...

DRUMS/PERCUSSION:
,  Bonham,  Buddy Rich,  Mike Mangini (I knew Mike when he was playing a four piece kit - snare,  bass,  high hat,  crash - LEFTY in a pub so small the roaches had to stand up on two legs to get by each other!!),  Dave Weckl,  Kenny - a.k.a.,  Ginger Fish,  - drummer for,  Marilyn Manson,  (I don't know his name now that he is in MM but I used to play with him in the Boca Raton Dirty Moes houseband called Nightshift (or better known as NightSH!T) - he sang and played electronic drums - totally turned me onto them - Manson is still ripping him to shreds,  making fun of him on stage: just like the leadsinger,  Greg,  used to do in our band!!)

BASS: Victor Wooten,  Flea,  Primus,  Bad Company

ALTO AND TENOR SAX:,  Charlie Parker,  John Coltrane,  Clarence Clemens,  George Thorogood and the Destroyers,  David Sandborborne,...


ELECTRIC 6 STRING VIOLIN/VIOLA/CELLO:,  Paganini,  Mozart,  Mark Woods,  Kansas,  ELO,  George Martin

CLARINET:,  Benny Goodman,  Woody Allen,  Mrs. Reinhardt (3rd-8th grade music teacher)

FLUTE:,  Jethro Tull,  Moody BLues

TRUMPET:,  Louie Armstrong,  Dizzy Gilespie,  Miles Davis,  Doc Severinsen (Johnny Carson Show Bandleader),  Forest "Bo" Bajbek (my cousin with perfect pitch,  played french horn with the Torres Orchestra)

BANJO:,  Roy Clark,  Bela Fleck

MANDOLIN:,  Jimi Page,  Rod Stewart,  Jerry Garcia,

PEDAL STEEL GUITAR:,  Bobby Seymour,  Jerry Garcia,  Emmons,  (hell...he done designed that there guitar I play!!)

BLUSE HARP,  HARMONICA,  CHROMACTIC HARMONICA:
Inspired by a few great friends who really blew:,  Dirk Gilbert,  former frontman/harmonica player/guitar for south Florida's,  MOTOR,  (Voted Best Hard Rock Band and Nominated for Best Cover Band in Florida (Population 16 million) by XS Magazine Readers,  CD "Screaming Bloody Motor" Sold thousands of copies,  Videos for the singles "Reptile" and "Pedal to the Metal" are still being played on cable television all across Florida and received airplay in the US and Europe),  "Hurricane" Hirk,  of the Belmar duo,  Jr. and Hirk,  JASON RICCI,: the BEST harp player I have ever heard - I saw him and his band ",New Blood," at the blues club on bleeker in the village - he played a 40 minute harp solo and the last twenty minutes of the solo was accompanied by a standing ovation from the crowd!!! And of course the greats:,  Big and Little Walter,  Sonny Terry,  Sonny Boy Williamson,  Paul Butterfield,  Stevie Wonder,....

...for starters...to name a few..., 
 
 
  James Graff's Details
Gender Male
Status Single
Hometown Spring Lake, New Jersey
Sign Cancer
Smoke No
Drink On social occasions
 
  James Graff's School Details
Previous Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia PA
Moore School of Engineering, Philadelphia PA
Manasquan High School, Manasquan NJ
H. W. Mountz Grammer School, Spring Lake NJ
 
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