Jake Conte
Jake Conte has played in progressive rock bands, Celtic music bands and Christian music bands and worship teams. All of these are featured here.
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The Philosopher's Dream The Philosopher's Dream
I wrote "The Philospoher's Dream" in the mid 1970's.
Morris Dance Tunes clip Morris Dance Tunes clip
Morris Dance Tunes: Sheriff's Ride, Staines Morris, Ring O' Bells)
Love Will You Marry Me clip Love Will You Marry Me clip
High Germany clip.mp3 High Germany clip.mp3
Jake Conte began his music career in 1967 playing electric bass in The Back Porch, a high school rock band, then moving to progressive rock by joining Bayonne, NJ-based Bering Braun in early 1970. With Bering Braun, he played bass guitar, flute and saxophone. He attempted to write his own progressive rock compositions and many still remain 'works in progress.'
In the mid 1970's Alison Steele (the Night Bird) a DJ playing progressive rock music on WNEW-FM in New York City, would occasionally play a Fairport Convention or Steeleye Span song (two bands that played traditional English folk songs in a progressive style into her radio program. This inspired Jake to form a band, Castle Keep, in 1981 which would play their own arrangements of the folk songs of England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales.
In 2008 he became interested in Christian contemporary music and joined a local Church's worship team. He has played on a few worship teams and jammed with area Christian bands. He's attempted to form his own Christian band called For Christ's Sake.
Now, he hopes to record Celtic, Christian, and his progressive rock songs.Band/artist history
1967-1970: The Back Porch (high school rock band),
1970-1973: Bering Braun (porgressive rock band),
1974-1978: Tried forming progressive rock band,
1981-1981: Destiny (cover band),
1981-2013: Castle Keep (Celtic music in progressive style,
1986-1986: Gravity's Rainbow (progressive rock band),
1987-1987: The Clan (Celtic rock band),
2008-present: Christian music worship teams,
2010-present: Have been trying to form Christian music bandHave you performed in front of an audience?I love to play live because the interaction between musician and audience is great. I think we feed off the attention. It's great to hear audience comments during a break or at the end of a concert.
One special moment was at our very first show as an opening act and someone came up to me at the end of our set and told me he liked our version of "False Knight On The Road" better than the Steeleye Span version (which we learned the song from). It was nice because he was aware that we were playing our own interpretation, our own arrangement of the song.
Your musical influences
On flute: Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), Chris Wood (Traffic), Andy Kulberg (Blues Project).
On bass: Jack Bruce (Cream),
Celtic music: Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention, The Pentangle.
Progressive rock: Alison Steele (The Night Bird) DJ on WNEW-FM NYC, Renaissance, Yes, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Genesis (before they sold out to pop).What equipment do you use?
Ibanez 5-string basses (fretted and fretless both strung with high-C), Peavey Foundation bass, 1960's Hagstrom bass, Hayman 2020 electric guitar, 1960's Epiphone 5102T electric guitar, Guild D-35 acoustic guitar, Ibanez mandolin, 1927 Weyman banjo-guitar, Minimoog, Hohner Clavinet, Ampeg B-15 bass amp, Fender Bassman, others too numerous to list.
East Brunswick, NJ
USA
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