Jack Butler
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Jack Butler is a creative outlet for the music that has been running around in my head for a long time. I've been able to start recording because technology has caught up to my wallet.
Do you play live?
In a the band called Dr. Jr. and played all over central and eastern North Dakota. As for any special moments, just when the whole band is locked in and kickin' some bootie.
How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
Singles are in Albums are out, just like the early 60's.
Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
Never, unless one was offered.
Band History:
Jack was abandoned by his mother at birth and raised in an isolated part of North Dakota (rumor has it he was born 9 months after the last big concert was in town). His only contact with the outside world was TV and radio. When he was about four he saw Buck Owens and his red, white and blue guitar on TV and knew what he wanted to be. Luckily Santa brought him a guitar that Christmas and he spent a lot of time and many hours playing and strumming the acoustic. A few years later he heard his first Chuck Berry record and knew that he had to get an electric guitar.
After playing and jamming in many not so professional bands he met up with Trey Stevens and they formed a band called Dr. Jr. Dr. Jr. played many gigs from Bismarck to Moorehead and all points in-between. Other than the continual search for another bass player, this partnership lasted about five years until Jack got a "real" job and moved to the badlands.
When in the badlands, the "real" job had a lot of windshield time so Jack began to write songs in his head. He built a little studio under the stairs and tried to make some demos without driving the other people in the house crazy.
When the opportunity presented itself Jack moved back to Jamestown (with another "real" job) and Jack decided to record the songs he wrote and put them out under his own name on Soundclick.com.
Here's hoping these songs will strike a chord in you.
After playing and jamming in many not so professional bands he met up with Trey Stevens and they formed a band called Dr. Jr. Dr. Jr. played many gigs from Bismarck to Moorehead and all points in-between. Other than the continual search for another bass player, this partnership lasted about five years until Jack got a "real" job and moved to the badlands.
When in the badlands, the "real" job had a lot of windshield time so Jack began to write songs in his head. He built a little studio under the stairs and tried to make some demos without driving the other people in the house crazy.
When the opportunity presented itself Jack moved back to Jamestown (with another "real" job) and Jack decided to record the songs he wrote and put them out under his own name on Soundclick.com.
Here's hoping these songs will strike a chord in you.
Your influences?
Very first influence was Buck Owens and his red, white and blue guitar and Roy Clark. Chuck Berry, Edward Van Halen, Angus and Malcom Young, Ted Nugent, Steve Vai, Rob Tognoni, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Aerosmith, Gary Moore.
Favorite spot?
Center Stage
Equipment used:
Peavey Tracer guitar, Ibanez Roadstar II, GK Backline 100 amp, Modified TS-10 and other various guitar effects and pedals that I built myself.
Anything else...?
No animals, I repeat no animals were "intentionally" harmed during the making of this.