(e.g., "New York guitar player" or "Beatles influenced drummer")

Musician - floyd barre

• Age 56 | Musician | San Diego, CA

Floyd Barré (bar-ray) has been a working musician virtually all of his life. He comes from a highly musical family with his father on piano, his brother on guitar, and his other brother on drums. Inspired by many performances by his favorite artists at Bill Graham’s Fillmore, Floyd began his professional career playing bass. With this his first band covered material by the Stones, the Yardbirds, the Kinks, the Byrds and other famous groups of the 60's. Picking up the guitar again, he teamed up with an old drummer friend Scott Smith and a young guitar prodigy named John McCrae. Together they explored Blues and Fusion as he learned technique and theory from his much more talented guitarist friend. While J. Scott Smith went on to win the prestigious Yahama SoundCheck drumming award, opening a recording studio, while John found his final challenge in graduating from Berkeley in classical guitar. For his part, Floyd studied musical formally in high school and college, taking courses, stand up bass, alto saxophone, alto recorder, sight singing, jazz ensemble (guitar), jazz theory and studied the classical music tradition.

When his next move took him to Vancouver BC, he joined a Country Rock "Still Willin'" band headed by a successful Nashville songwriter, Jim Cowan. The band performed as the opening act for Merle Haggard. He then moved to Nashville itself where he worked as a studio musician and was also hired by MCA Records President Tony Brown to tour with a MCA Records hopeful. Here he was fortunate to move among the "cliques" of Emmylou Harris and Ricky Skaggs and met several of Nashville’s legendary musicians.

His next two moves took him to Dallas, TX and then on to San Diego. Here he played with the country group, "Wild Horses", an acoustic band called "The Palomar Mountain Acoustic Review," a R&B unit known as "Whitey and the Bandits" and worked as a musical director for an Elvis impersonator under the management of Total Control in Los Angeles. Playing numerous venues in San Diego country, among which was six performances at the Del Mar Fair. He was the guitarist and producer of "Kalama Blue" and the leader of "Elixir," his current project. His more recent projects are as a guitarist, bassist, vocalist, engineer and primary arranger of the Tom Thornton's "Acid Lounge" project and as lead guitarist for "The Denials" (http://johnnyray.4t.com).


To date, Floyd has won 15 awards for his original compositions from the prestigious international competition held at Garageband.com, presided over by former Beatles producer--Sir George Martin. He also released a new CD, “Becoming” that contains his studio work as well as award winning compositions.

Finally, this academically inclined musician has written a handbook for guitarists, intended to impart essential information to help them move from a guitarist who plays by ear toward becoming a theoretical musician. It is entitled, The Guitar Essentialist-A Handbook for Berginining, Intermediate and Advanced Guitarists. The manuscript is posted and freely posted here on his website.

http://freewebs.com/lmbarre

• Guitar,
• Bass Guitar

• Blues,
• Country,
• R&B

• Drum Kit,
• Keyboard,
• Bass Guitar

• Blues,
• R&B

Guthrie Govan, Larry Carlton, Robben Ford, Peter Green, Mike Bloomfield, Eric Clapton.

• Extensive stage and studio work.

• Advanced players.

• Experience: Professional
  
• Availability: 1 day a week
  
• Commitment: Music is life
  
• Energy: In the groove
  

• Smokes: Some
  
• Drinks: Some
  

• Experience: Professional
  
• Energy: In the groove
  

• Tolerates Smoking: Don't Care
  
• Tolerates Drinking: Don't Care