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eclectic progressive instrumental guitar |
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| Location: | Los Angeles, California |
| Country: |  United States |
| Last Login: | Oct 7, 2008 (458 days back) |
About Me |
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| Jimmy Williams began playing guitar at the age of 13. His formal years began with lessons from his father, who began showing Jimmy various licks and barre chords. It wasn't long before he discovered Eddie Van Halen and performed "Eruption" in his high school talent show during his sophomore year. A few years later Jimmy happened upon a new discovery, a young Swedish virtuoso by the name of Yngwie J. Malmsteen. In 1994 Jimmy was selected to be featured in Guitar Magazine's "Resume Column" and moved from St. Louis to Los Angeles to pursue a career in music.
In 2000 Jimmy answered the call and joined Nuclear Blast Records Recording Artists Steel Prophet . In 2001 the band released the highly acclaimed albums "Book of the Dead" and "Unseen" and completed full tours of America and Europe. In 2003 "Guitar Concepts" a compilation of 10 demo songs was released by Progressive Arts Music. In 2004, vocal metal project Vindikation recorded "Chamber of Discontent". This project was recorded and produced by keyboard wizard Erik Norlander and featured Jason McCrarey - vocals ( Sanctus ), Jim Williams - guitar & bass (ex-Steel Prophet), Rob Rampley - keyboards/FX (Winds Died Down) and Karl Rosqvist - drums ( The Chelsea Smiles , ex-Steel Prophet). In 2007 he released his second instrumental guitar CD "Sonic Divergence" an intense journey through the many facets and styles of progressive metal. Later in 2007 Jimmy recorded acoustic and lead guitar for a few tracks on the Rocket Scientists CD "Looking Backward" and in 2008 joined the band for a number of shows in Mexico, the USA and Europe. Jimmy is currently playing with the Rocket Scientists and just completed his third CD "Acquiescence" a 12 song solo acoustic work. Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4 |
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Music:Member Since: 11/7/2006Band Members: Jimmy Williams - guitar, bass Rob Rampley - keyboards, FX Karl Rosqvist - drums Sounds Like: JIMMY WILLIAMS: Acquiescence Former Steel Prophet and Rocket Scientists guitarist's new solo acoustic guitar work, displaying a wide range of styles from rock, flamenco, ambient to traditional acoustic. JIMMY WILLIAMS: Sonic Divergence Former Steel Prophet guitarist's second Prog Metal CD with shredding guitar solos, heavy sythns, industrial samples, punishing metal, and solo acoustic guitar. Jimmy Williams' Chops From Hell GUITAR LESSONS: Horizontal Pentatonic Movement Whole Tone Scale DISCOGRAPHY: Jimmy Williams - 2008 Acquiescence 2007 Sonic Divergence 2003 Guitar Concepts Rocket Scientists - 2007 Looking Backward Vindikation - 2004 Chamber of Discontent Steel Prophet - 2002 Unseen 2001 Book of the Dead Jimmy Williams - "Mini Shred Improv" Vindikation- "Forever Again" Jimmy Williams - "Guitar Solo" 1991 Record Label: Progressive Arts Music Type of Label: Indie |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Progressive / Metal / Acoustic) |
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My Blog |
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Acquiescence - finally finished and released! |
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| Well after quite a few delays and other mishaps my solo acoustic guitar cd "Acquiescence" is finally finished and available. It was a crazy three hour recording session the night before my hand surger... Posted by Jimmy Williams on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:03:00 PST |
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Guitar Lesson - Chromaticism - |
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| I've been wanting to work on things to improve my playing so no better way to pratice what I preach than by making up some lessons and posting them here.CHROMATICISMI recently started practicing the p... Posted by Jimmy Williams on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:08:00 PST |
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Back from SF & NY and mastering new CD |
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| Final mastering is being done on Acquiescence, my next cd. It is a 12 song solo acoustic guitar work and should be available in the next few weeks. Ryan Tucker from Tucker Mix is doing an ex... Posted by Jimmy Williams on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:41:00 PST |
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Back from Mexico and Cleveland |
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| After 5 non-stop days of travel it is nice to be back in Los Angeles. The two shows with the Rocket Scientist went very well. Unfortunately everyone in the band besides "Stick Guru" Don Schiff was sic... Posted by Jimmy Williams on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:53:00 PST |
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Rocket Scientists gigs and successful hand surgery |
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| I will be playing three shows with the Rocket Scientists in Mexico, Ohio and Rotherham in the UK. Very cool, I've recorded a lot with Erik Norlander and Mark McCrite, but now I get a chance to p... Posted by Jimmy Williams on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:25:00 PST |
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Recording new cd, new video, gigs and NAMM |
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| This week I'm starting to record my new acoustic cd. The title is "Acquiescence" and kind of sums up the past year or so for me. Luckily I work and Line 6 and have some good equipment to record the cd... Posted by Jimmy Williams on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:54:00 PST |
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Finally finished writing music for acoustic cd |
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| Finally, just before this year has ended, I've finished composing and recording demos for a new solo acoustic guitar cd. It will contain 12 songs with over 40 minutes worth of music. There is no titl... Posted by Jimmy Williams on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:28:00 PST |
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"Searching for Anything Real" posted |
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| I haven't updated my page in some time so I thought posting the song "Searching for Anything Real" from Sonic Divergence would be nice addition. There is a great mix of heavy guitars in 6/4 (although ... Posted by Jimmy Williams on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:52:00 PST |
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New acoustic guitar cd in the works |
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| Many people have mentioned liking the acoustic songs on my latest cd Sonic Divergence. I've been wanting to do an all acoustic solo guitar cd for some time now, but have never gotten around to doing ... Posted by Jimmy Williams on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 01:06:00 PST |
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Review of "Sonic Divergence" at Seaoftranquility.org |
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| A new review of "Sonic Divergence" is available at the Music for the New Intellectual webpage Sea of Tranquility.
http://www.seaoftranquility.org
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