Age 10 SJ started studying classical guitar, untill he had 3 grades at 18. He stopped playing ""dead peoples music"" and started writing songs, jamming with his friend Bruno on old black blues themes, one would play rythm and the other solo. Listening to Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, The Gratefull Dead, Jimi Hendrix' Experience, Lightning Hopkins is how he got into the blues! A few years later he got the blues, cold turkey-ing heroïn, playing in the streets and breaking his heart on several occasions.
SJ played loads of bands playing solo, rythm, bassguitar, bluesharps and vocals, he also plays drums, violin, cello, double bass and piano, but in the end feels real happy with a guitar,
a bluesharp and his voice... Just like when he started. Since 1998 things got interesting with the coming of mp3.com, and Johnny joined, publishing over 150 songs, up to 65.000 downloads a year. When Mp3.com got sold and all artist uploads destroyed without notice, Johnny was
very disappointed and had to start from scratch. He did and the same thing happened all over with besonic.com. Today you can hear Johnny on over 10 different sites all over the world, China, UK,
Brazil, Australia, Germany, USA, Japan and others. Most of his work is recoded to Mp3Pro files, half the size, same quality! You can find them right here at bluez.nl! Please enjoy his ""Live"" recordings (even the multitracks are 'one' takes) and visit sonicgarden.com for his videos.

Rotterdam Holland
october 3rd, 2005

Secret Lover Man Lovesong for the one you'll never really love..

electric blues

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