John Watt
Member
Thank you, Mr. Magle, for this wondrous resource. I've had a very dramatic music career that began when I saw Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple, George Benson and McCoy Tyner in Toronto the same year. I dropped out of grade twelve, working at a factory to order a Marshall and buy the first Strat sold here. Now there is nothing Fender about my guitar, a semi-solid body original work of art. It's nice to have something that creates exciting response in those who look at it. Yeah, I know, an electric guitar, but with new harmonics, new resonance, new grounding, a new lower volume level of feedback and unanticipated fret feel. My highlights were playing with Drastik Measures for two seasons, winners of The Toronto Caribana Parade Band Contest, playing with Ben Hewitt, when I was on the rez the rest were Mohawk, and dating a girl who played bassoon in The Ottawa Symphony, escorted by conductors. With this new guitar, sixties effects on the floor, and stereo amp, micro-digital half racks through the loop, I'm riffing like Coltrane through the atmospheres of Jimi. It's taken a lot of my life to be where I am, in ways I never could have known. It's still beautiful it still comes down to music. My life is only as good as the music I make. The northern rain always cools, standing here alone I need it, to whet my burning heart, so my mind, like a late white floe down summer's Niagara, can shine in radiant splendour, before the final falls. as always, John Watt. I am a descendant of James Watt. I've got to turn on your lightbulb. I've been wattbulb or wattage from the start.
