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Now you can download Jeff directly into your iphone. The new iphone
app from Truefire features Jeff"s Rock Solid guitar
instructional course! Check it out at http://truefire.com/iphone
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The 6th "Christmas Concert for the Animals" took place at
the historic Uptown Theater. The packed house was treated to rockin'
Christmas tunes and wonderful special guests like Danielle from TUF,
Janet and Dennis from Shooting Star, and Mike Doss. (See the video
page for vids of the show) There were booths with information and
representatives from 4 local animal shelters there and tons of money
was raised for homeless animals. Another GREAT charity event!!!
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Jeff and Matt were part of a Tommy Bolin and Energy band reunion in
Kansas City. They joined Tommy Stevenson on keys (who played with
Tommy and then went on to play with Joe Walsh and then the Eagles
and many more), Bobby Berge on drums (who played on the first two
Bolin CDs), Fast Johnny Ricker on guitar and Johnnie Bolin on drums
(Tommy's brother). The sold out show featured 2 1/2 hours of songs
from Tommy's solo albums as well as tunes from the Billy Cobham
"Spectrum" record and others. Look for more shows in the
future.
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The CD "Behind the Mask" has
made it to the finals of "Rock album of the year" in the
JPF music awards!!! This is the largest music awards show in the
world and this year had over 42,000 CDs submitted!!!!! The Rock
category is of course one of the biggest and "Behind the
Mask" is in the TOP 10 final CDs! Amazing!!! The process for
narrowing down this many CDs is a long and arduous one where there
are many judges and many stages to go through. So it is quite an
honor to have made it down to the top 10! Great to see that people
in the industry agree with what all our fans already know - that
this is just a killer album! Thanks JPF!
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The
new CD "Behind the Mask" is out! Cover art by Rodney
Matthews, bonus drums by Jim Riley of Rascal Flatts, and 14 killer
tracks!! Get yours today!
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Jeff
performed
several workshops and jams each day at the Premier Guitar festival in
Boston. Cool players like Robben Ford, Johnny A, Stu Hamm, Monte
Montgomery, J. Geils and tons more will be on hand performing -
teaching - jamming - and just doing the "guitar thing"!!!
Many players showed up for Jeff's instructional workshops - and the
Jam with Trey Alexander was fun for all!
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It's
official!!! On June3rd at the Community America Ballpark in Kansas
City Jeff led 1,721 guitarists to break the guinness world record
for most guitarists playing at one time! Jeff, in conjunction with
radio station 99.7 KYYS promoted the event with T.V. and radio
appearances. Jeff counted off "1, 2, 3, 4" and the mass of
guitarists kicked into Jeff's transcription of the Deep Purple
classic "Smoke on the water". The event was covered by
CNN, WGN, Headline News, the Colbert report, and was the number 8
"Play of the day" on ESPN's Sportscenter! Thanks to
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Jeff
was chosen to be included on the back of Ernie Ball Strings.
"What an awesome honor to be on my favorite string
package" says Jeff.
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Jeff
has his own line of signature guitar amps being produced by Dailey
amplification! The new Dailey JS series is built to Jeff's specs and
is a hand wired tube amp. Dailey makes killer custom amps and
approached Jeff about designing one for his sound, after some
planning and tweaking the new amp is here - and it rocks!
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Jeff
has a new 2 CD-rom course just out called "Blues Rock: Secret
Sauce". This course is designed to help players get out of
their "ruts" and stretch their playing out a bit.
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The
Just Plain Folks music awards is the largest music awards program
in the world. The "Beggars, Rogues & Thieves" CD is
up for the Blues Album award (there were 25,000 Albums submitted
this year and 8 nominated for blues album of the year)
But wait there's more....
the title track "Beggars, Rogues & Thieves" is
up for the top Blues rock song!!! There were over 350,000
submitted - and "Beggars" is one of the top 20 nominated
for song of the year!!!!!
The song "Wicked
Ways" from the Beggars CD made it to number 11 on the
American Idol underground charts!!!
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The
third annual "Christmas concert for the Animals" was a
great success. The band rocked - santa danced - and well over a
thousand dollars and lots of food and toys was raised for charity.
The proceeds went to local animal shelters and there were
representatives there from the locals and information from other
animal and environmental groups like the "Vital Ground"
foundation from Montana.
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The band had an awesome time playing in Mexico. What great people
and great fans!!! Looking forward to going back!
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"Rock
Tricks" is the new Jeff Scheetz instructional CD rom. This is a
one CD course where Jeff teaches you all the "tricks" of
the trade. Pinched harmonics, whammy technique, legato, two hand
tapping etc etc etc. Like "Rock Solid" this course comes
with interactive software that allows you to learn at your own speed!
Click here for details.
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The
new Guitar instructional 4 CD-Rom video course is out! Jeff and
Truefire released his new instructional course and it is hot! Over
80 video segments, with Jeff teaching you the rhythm and solos to 10
tunes including solos to "Beggars" and "Longest
night" from the BRT CD. The interactive software is an awesome
way to learn! Click here for details.
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Jeff
has released "In the Beginning", a jam packed CD that
features all of his first two releases on one CD! "Woodpecker
Stomp" and "Warp Speed" plus two never before
released demos from the early days. Check it
out.
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The
song "Beggars, Rogues & Thieves" was featured on three
segments of ABC's "All my Children" Soap. The tune sounded
great and got a lot of positive response! Jeff's tune "Rush
Hour" also is being used on the Style network!
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Jeff has been asked to write columns and reviews for
"Musician's Hotline" magazine. This is the premier mag
for toneheads and players into "boutique" amps, guitars
and effects. He has written a review on the Keeley compressor and
is doing one on the new Zion guitars to kick the column off.
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"Beggars, Rogues & Thieves" from the JSB will be on
the Syndicated radio show "Blues Deluxe", the week of
Jan 9th. This is a one hour blues show that is played on over 100
stations across the US, Canada, Virgin Islands and Guam!! This
show will also feature Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker, The Greatful Dead
and Queen - some good company to be in!!!!!
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The second "Christmas Concert for the animals" was a
fantastic success, being bigger and better than last year!! The band played to a packed house and raised
over $1000 for the animal shelters!!!! People also brought in 100
cans and 20 big bags of dog food, 24 pounds of dog biscuits - 100
cans and 3 bags of cat food - and 22 toys and many treats for all
the animals! JSB says THANKS to everyone who participated - the
animals are starting the new year off happy! :o) www.helppets.org
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band played for the Iowa Entertainer's benefit show for Big
Brothers and Sisters of Iowa. The band had a great time and the
crowd was VERY responsive! Lots of money was raised for BBBS,
thanks to the IE for putting on the show!
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played shows in Switzerland including a benefit for "Pro
Tier", an animal protection organization in Germany. Money
was raised to help fight animal cruelty, and to get the word out.
Jeff also spoke to a group about being good stewards of the
environment.
Time off is
good in the Alps in Austria! :o)
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Jeff
Played at the Elements of Rock festival in Switzerland. He also
gave a guitar workshop the next day. Was a great festival in Uster,
and Jeff says - "What a great bunch of people involved! Can't
wait to get back!" Click here for more pics.
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- The first annual Jeff Scheetz band "Christmas
Concert for the Animals" was a great success! The band played
tunes from the "Christmas...at last" CD and JSB
standards to a completely packed standing-room-only crowd at the
Grand Emporium in KC. All proceeds from the show went to the
animals at Wayside Waifs and the Akita foundation animal shelters.
Many people also brought a donation of a dog toy or dog or cat
food to drop in a box on their way in. Collected were 71
cans of food, 40 dog toys, 20 bags of treats, 2
collars and 8 large bags of food!!! Thanks to everyone who
helped to make for some happy animals this Christmas!!!!
Here is the band with Santa and one elf after show! :o) - More
pics at the pic page
Here are all
the goods being sorted out to go to the animals!
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- Jeff spent a week in the studio writing with world renown
fantasy artist Rodney Matthews. Jeff and Rodney have been friends
for over 10 years and have always talked about doing a CD project
based on Matthew's paintings. It is finally coming to fruition.
The overall feel is 70s progressive rock, trying to match the feel
of the fantasy art heyday of the 70s. It is all instrumental and
will feature several players that should excite any prog rock fans
(stay tuned)! Jeff will be back in Wales in November to finish the
writing and seal up plans for "officially" starting the
recording that will take place both in the states and in Europe.
If you are not familiar with Matthew's work - you can take a look
here - www.rodneymatthews.com
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mixing the new CRUNCHY CD with ex Galactic Cowboys bassist Monty
Colvin. Jeff says the new CD is "Even better than the first
one - great tunes - very Foo-Fighterish". Look for it soon.
Visit Monty at www.MontyColvin.com
Clicking
here
will take you to the "Rockumentary"
page that details the recording of the JSB cd
"Beggars, Rogues & Thieves".
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- Jeff Spent 10 days in Liverpool, England producing and recording the Maddy
Leigh blues band CD. Jeff said "It was a lot of fun, and
we worked long hours and got some great tracks recorded. Everyone
I was working with were just great people, makes it more fun than
work!!" Jeff did the mixing in the states in his studio, and
guest soloed on a couple of tracks along with his organ player
Ted. Rumor has it that Jeff also got to sneak away to Scotland for some fun time. "Well, that's true,
Scotland was awesome, wading in Loch Ness was definitely a
lifetime goal achieved - even if everyone thought I was
nuts!" The midnight train ride through Glasgow also left an
impression, and was the inspiration for a song on the new Jeff
Scheetz band CD - you have to check it out for the details!
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Jeff played in front of about
300,000 people in the St. Pat's day parade. He performed the Star
spangled banner and God Bless America on the "Rock's"
float. Jeff reports that it is "No easy task to keep your
balance and play well at the same time! - Kind of like playing on
a surfboard! :o) It was a fun day and a great time with all the
'Rock' crew!"
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- Jeff was asked to
contribute a song to the Jason Becker Tribute CD "Warmth in
the Wilderness" on Lion music. The CD will feature lots of
cool players like Marty Freidman, Paul Gilbert, Vinnie Moore, Jeff
Watson and many more. Jason, who played with Cacophony, and David
Lee Roth, suffers from Lou Gehrigs disease. Jeff says "It was
great to be asked to contribute a song for such a great cause.
Jason was a wonderful player who had his playing career cut short.
It reminds us all that this world is temporary, and that is why it
is so important to consider what happens afterwards". Jeff
chose to do "Sensible Shoes" from the David Lee Roth CD
"A little ain't enough". It is a very funky blues
instrumental version. All musicians on the CD are donating their
time and talent, with all proceeds going to the Jason Becker
family.
WOW!!! The Christmas CD
continues to be a hit!!!!!
"Angels We Have Heard on High", and
"Joy to the World" were both in the top 10 on the mp3.com charts!
Jeff played the Christmas tunes live on many radio
stations - including the
"Johnny and Murphy Show" - and the "Breakfast brothers
show with Ken and Dave" - lots of great feedback and lots of
fun!!!!! Thanks to all the stations that participated in the holiday
fun!!! Some pics below.
Johnny Dare, Jeff, and Murphy - 98.9 the
Rock
Hey! Give me a break... It's early! Ken, Jeff, and Dave - Q96
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Co-Produced the band "Crunchy". This is Monty Colvin's
new band. Monty was the force behind the Galactic Cowboys for
many years, and has now stepped out on his own.
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last" is a must have for all you
guitar heads! All of your favorite Christmas songs rocked up, and ready
for Santa!!! Jeff says, "It was a lot of fun to do this CD, my wife
has been after me to do a Christmas CD for at least 9 years!!! So I
guess it was about time! :o) Did get to play with lots of my friends on
it, and everyone did a fantastic job. I am truly blessed to be able to
play with such quality players and good people."
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his studio "Gray Wolf Studio" were featured in an issue of EQ magazine. THE recording magazine to
read! Jeff says, "It was good to be in EQ, cause I ain't gonna make
it into GQ - ;o) - Special thanks to Mitch Gallagher and
Steve La Cerra for making that happen. (It also made me clean my
studio!!!)."
