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The Heretics
Biographical Notes
Floyd Barré (bar-ray) has been a working musician virtually all of his life. He comes from a highly musical family with his father on piano his brother on guitar and his other brother on drums. Inspired by many performances by his favorite artists at Bill Graham’s Fillmore Floyd began his professional career playing bass. With this his first band covered material by the Stones the Yardbirds, the Kinks, the Byrds and other famous groups of the 60's. Picking up the guitar again he teamed up with an old drummer friend Scott Smith and a young guitar prodigy named John McCrae. Together they explored Blues and Fusion as he learned technique and theory from his much more talented guitarist friend. While J. Scott Smith went on to win the prestigious Yahama SoundCheck drumming award opening a recording studio while John found his final challenge in graduating from Berkeley in classical guitar. For his part Lloyd studied musical formally in high school and college taking courses, stand up bass, alto saxophone, alto recorder, sight singing, jazz ensemble (guitar), jazz theory and studied the classical music tradition.
When his next move took him to Vancouver BC he joined a Country Rock "Still Willin'" band headed by a successful Nashville songwriter Jim Cowan. The band performed as the opening act for Merle Haggard. He then moved to Nashville itself where he worked as a studio musician and was also hired by MCA Records President Tony Brown to tour with a MCA Records hopeful. Here he was fortunate to move among the "cliques" of Emmylou Harris and Ricky Skaggs and met several of Nashville’s legendary musicians.
His next two moves took him to Dallas TX and then on to San Diego. Here he played with the country group "Wild Horses", an acoustic band called "The Palomar Mountain Acoustic Review," a R&B unit known as "Whitey and the Bandits" and worked as a musical director for an Elvis impersonator under the management of Total Control in Los Angeles. Playing numerous venues in San Diego country among which was six performances at the Del Mar Fair. He was the guitarist and producer of "Kalama Blue" and the leader of The Jazz Heads and of Sorcery. His most recent projects are as a guitarist bassist, vocalist, engineer and primary arranger of the Tom Thornton's "Acid Lounge" project and as lead guitarist for The Denials (http://johnnyray.4t.com). He is now forming his own group known as the Night Cats (http://blueoasis.4t.com) a band dedicated to deep-groovin' Blues and R&B (see play list posted at his website). Lloyd was also highly flattered that Russell Ferrante one of the world’s top keyboard players and leader of The Yellowjackets offered to take him as a student.
To date Floyd has won 15 awards for his original compositions from the prestigious international competition held at Garageband.com presided over by former Beatles producer--Sir George Martin. He also released a new CD “Becoming” that contains his studio work as well as award winning compositions.
Finally this academically inclined musician has written a handbook for guitarists intended to impart essential information to help them move from a guitarist who plays by ear toward becoming a theoretical musician. It is entitled The Guitar Essentialist-A Handbook for Intermediate to Advanced Guitarists. The manuscript is posted and freely posted here on this website.
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"Wicked." A five-year old present at the above mentioned Hot Java Cafe performance. My best compliment!
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Hi Barré,
I have to say that I haven't heard such nice guitar playing since the 80's. I was really pleased to listen to your fine songs:
She Haunts Me Still
Winds of Change
Your sweet guitar playing and that sound is one of the nicest I've listened to.
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Personal website: http://lmbarre.com/
Sideways Blues Band website: http://www.freewebs/lmbarre/
Sorcery website: http://quartermoon.4t.com/
Email: barre@rock.com
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