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member since: 28 Sep 2004 12:14 AM
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Hello. Neal Gilbertson Here, AKA Gilbert Neilson and AKA jibes.
My music is just a few songs of my "messing around." It would be better I suppose to attack my "Hobby" more seriously but I am not a serious sort of person. I must admit that I am getting up there in years and am ready to retire from my job as a Printed Circuit Designer here in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I have no formal training in music and none in Art. These things are my passion. And my art can be seen at: My Art Blog
I have been "around the block" as they say and have played in many bands. One notable band I played Lead Guitar and sang in for a short time in the late 60's was a band out of Mpls Minnesota called the "Trashmen." Maybe you have heard of them and then again maybe not. The Trashmen had a hit song Called "Surfin' Bird." It was number 1 across the nation for 3 weeks in the early 60's. A one hit wonder as it were. They also had some regional hits besides Surfin' Bird. We traveled all over the upper midwest.
Before and after that I've been in many local bands, including "Driftwood" Which I joined in 1983 and we broke up around 2000. We get together now and then.
Now I am working on the "One Man" Coffee Shop sort of thing and have spent the last 2 years getting ready to go out and play Gigs doing that.
My music is just a few songs of my "messing around." It would be better I suppose to attack my "Hobby" more seriously but I am not a serious sort of person. I must admit that I am getting up there in years and am ready to retire from my job as a Printed Circuit Designer here in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I have no formal training in music and none in Art. These things are my passion. And my art can be seen at: My Art Blog
I have been "around the block" as they say and have played in many bands. One notable band I played Lead Guitar and sang in for a short time in the late 60's was a band out of Mpls Minnesota called the "Trashmen." Maybe you have heard of them and then again maybe not. The Trashmen had a hit song Called "Surfin' Bird." It was number 1 across the nation for 3 weeks in the early 60's. A one hit wonder as it were. They also had some regional hits besides Surfin' Bird. We traveled all over the upper midwest.
Before and after that I've been in many local bands, including "Driftwood" Which I joined in 1983 and we broke up around 2000. We get together now and then.
Now I am working on the "One Man" Coffee Shop sort of thing and have spent the last 2 years getting ready to go out and play Gigs doing that.
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Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Steele Dan, Bruce Cockburn, Jenifer Warens, Leonard Cohen.
