JEFF LAWRENCE - striving to be the best ,relentlessly searching for new melodies,never to give up, ever.
I AM JEFF LAWRENCE, IN THE EIGHTIES AND NINETIES I WAS CALLED GEOFF LAWRENCE. I STARTED PLAYING BASS AT AGE 9 BECAUSE I WAS GIVEN ONE BY WAYNE SAULS WHO WAS MY MOTHERS BOYFRIEND, HE WAS THE GUITARIST FOR B.J. THOMAS,DAVIS ALLEN COE AND ERIC QUINCEY TATE, BANDS LIKE STYX AND KANSAS AND ALLMAN BROS. WERE OFTEN AT OUR HOUSE, I PLAYED LYNARD SKYNARD AND QUEEN TUNES MAINLY ON BASS UNTIL ONE DAY THIS GUY BARRY KINNARD AND TOM JOINER WHO WERE SCHOOL MATES FORMED A BAND CALLED GRAND REAPER AND SINCE I WAS THE ONLY GUY THAT WAS 10 and played bass IN MARRIEETA I GOT THE JOB, I SUCKED BUT LEARNED MOST AC/DC AND TED NUGENT SONGS THAT WAY. TO BETTER MYSELF I BEGAN TAKING LESSONS FROM PAT BUCHANON WHO LATER PLAYED WITH CINDY LAUPER,HALL AND OATS AND CAMEO, HE TAUGHT ME A LOT ABOUT TIMING AND PLAYING WITH FEELING, BY THIS TIME I WAS IN A BAND THAT WAS CALLED TEMPLE EAST AGAIN I WAS THE ONLY GAME ON BASS IN TOWN. I SOON BEGAN TO TAKE GUITAR LESSONS INSTEAD OF BASS AND BECAME MORE KNOWLEDGABLE ABOUT MUSIC THEORY AND STARTED A BAND CALLED FATAL VISIONAT AGE 17, IT LASTED TILL AGE24, WE OPENED FOR VAN HALEN, CHEAP TRICK,DEREK ST. HOLMES JACKYL AND THE BLACK CROWES AND R.E.M., DURING THIS TIME I ALSO TOURED WITH THRASH METAL PIONEERS HALLOWS EVE, TOURING EUOROPE,JAPAN AND AMERICA, I ALSO DID A BRIEF STINT AS A GUITAR TECH FOR AC/DC MALCOLM YOUNG. ALSO DURING ALL THIS I GRADUATED FROM THE GUITAR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY WHERE I TOOK LESSONS FROM JIMMY HERRING OF THE DEAD,GOV. MULE ANS AQARIUM RES. UNIT AND ALLMAN BROS. I ALSO RECORDED WITH JAMO OF ALL. BROS THERE AND LEARNED ALL STYLES, I THEN MOVED TO MY PLACE OF BIRTH, GREENWOOD SOUTH CAROLINA AND STUDIED CLASSICAL GUITAR AND MUSIC THEORY AT LANDER COLLEGE, I TURNED FATAL VISION INTO AN INSTRUMENTAL GROUP AT THE TIME BEFORE THAT SORT OF THING WAS COOL. I LEARNED ABOUT COMPOSITION THERE AS WELL. I RETURNED HOME TO ATLANTA AND RECORDED TWO INSTRUMENTAL ACOUSTIC CDS AND ONE COUNTRY ONE, I MOVED TO NASHVILLE FOR A WHILE AND PLAYED WITH THE NIECE OF BUDDY HOLLEY, SHERRY HOLLEY WHERE WE PERFORMED HIS SONGS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY INCL;UDING FOR JIMMY CARTER AND BILL CLINTON, I MOVED BACK TO ATLANTA AND STARTED THE JEFF LAWRENCE BAND ,A COUNTRY GROUP AND OPENED FOR TRAVIS TRITT AND MARK WILLS AND CHRIS LEDOUX AND RECORDED MORE CDS. I LATER BECAME A SINGER FOR THE BAND SHOVELHEAD PUTTING OUT ONE METAL CD. I MOVED TO SALT LAKE CITY IN 2000 AND RECORDED AND TAUGHT FOR ON TRACK MUSIC IN UTAH AND TAUGHT MYSELF MANDOLIN,BANJO,HARMONICA AND DULCIMUR. I HAD 78 STUDENTS AT ONE TIME, I THEN OPEN DIXIE MUSIC INSTRUCTION AND JOINED A HEAVY GROUP EVICTION AND FOLK SINGER NAMED PHYLEEN BOTH WITH CDS. TWO YEARS LATER I TOOK A POSOTION AS GUITAR DEPT. LEADER AT PARK CITY CONSERVATORY OF ARTS AND MUSIC IN PARK CITY UTAH HAVING 63 STUDENTS AT ONE TIME. I NOW TEACH GUITAR FREELANCE WITH VERY MINIMAL PRIVATE STUDENTS INCUDING THE GOVERNERS SON WILL , president of morgan stanley BILL, i write movie music for you guys DURING THE SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL WHICH TAKES PLACE PRACTICALLY IN MY FRONT YARD, I LIVE IN PARK CITY AS WELL. FORMER STUDENTS CONSIST OF KYLE OF MATCHBOX TWENTY AND OTHERS.also toured with clint black and tracey lawrence and recently opened for Nazareth. I CURRENTLY FRONT THE 3 PIECE JEFF LAWRENCE GROUP WITH TOURING DATES ALL OVER UTAH WE PLAY JAZZ/BLUES/METAL/COUNTRY/CLASSICA/BEBOP/LATIN/ROCK/FUNK/FOLK/PUNK FUSION MUSIC. I HAVE 16 CDS AVAILABLE ON WWW.CDBABY.COM MY SONGS CAN BE DOWNLOADED ON ALL YOUR POPULAR SITES INCUDING APPLE. I was ALSO THE GUITARIST FOR NEW PILGRAM BAPTIST CHURCH ON COMCAST CABLE EVERY SUNDAY MORNING WITH AN AWESOME BAND AND CHOIR. PLEASE CONTACT ME ABOUT GIGS AND LESSONS AND SIGN GUESTBOOK AND HIT CALENDER AND GET TO THOSE SHOWS.also recently did a four show tour with dickey betts as his other guitarist was ill., I AM NOW ALSO EXCEPTING STUDENTS AT MY NEW STORE AT 30 NORTH MAIN IN KAMAS LAWRENCE GUITARS , ALSO PLAY MANY WEDDINGS SO PLEASE ENQUIRE AT LWRN86@AOL.COM
I have also taught over 1200. people to play instruments successfully,and have my own curriculum, over the years i have been kicked in the teeth, built up,torn down,stabbed,punched,shot at, a plane crash survivor, robbed, backstabbed,trusted,used,abused,tatooed,screwed,ridiculed,adulated,imitated,dined with kings and queens,slept in alleys,dined on pork and beans,cheated on,slapped, but am still in the game and that is the real lesson. i teach classes for the park city school district, the alpine scholo district and utah valley univirsity, i play bass wth Monrovia www.monroviamusic.net I CAN ALSO BE SEEN AND HEARD PLAYING TASTEFULLY GUITAR WITH VIOLIN BOW AND CORDLESS DRILL. MY BAND IS NOW JEFF LAWRENCE AND WARHORSE