Check it out! I just stumbled on this on YouTube recently. My recordings and live band “Fitzhugh and the Fanatics” was the “un-Gamal-izing” of myself after my 8 year stint with the Jazz/Rock powerhouse, Gamalon. I started out by stripping down American songbook/Jazz Standards into a more bluesy 3-chord
Archive | Performance Footage
Gypsy Tears with Jason Schuster at Heartwood Soundstage again.
I had the privilege of playing with guitarist Jason Schuster and Gypsy Tears again on October 1st 2019. Also bassist Nolan Kostella-Staples did some fine solo work and my good friend Howard Wapner on rhythm guitar is always a treat to make music with. We had some rather distracting sound
Best of Blues Violin Course
Hey there! Here’s the public highlights of my Blues Violin Course that began back in April of 2017. Each lesson of the course has a dozen lesson elements or more of things like: learning the bass line to the song, melody tutorials (by ear, eye and reading), harmony and chord
Gamalon Billy’s Saloon Footage from 1988
I stumbled onto this Gamalon footage from 1988 today. That’s me on a home-made violin I called EVI (minus the gray hair we see today!). I had probably been in the band about a year at this point, but you can readily hear how developed our sound was even in