Guy Fiorentini

I started playing guitar at the age of 15 and got into my first band a year later. We were awful, but I was hooked. We were punk and played all our own songs. We put on our own shows and also got to open for touring acts like Scream and the Henry Rollins Band.

Throughout the 1990’s and early 2000’s I played, recorded and toured with all kinds of bands: Johnny On Washday (imagine a bastard New Orleans street band mutated into some kind of psychotic wedding band); F/i, psychedelic instrumental garage rock; John Kruth, an eclectic multi-instrumentalist, Sunny Gets Blue (jazz standards); Moriarty (eclectic power pop), the Crusties (hardcore), Joyful Noises (R’n’B/Gospel), Blackbird Pie (original southern style funk/rock), and Harmonious Wail (gypsy jazz). During this period I also studied with several of the leading jazz guitarists in Milwaukee (Jack Grassel, Don Linke, Bill Stone).
By the late nineties I had also started working in clubs doing live sound and engineering both studio and remote recordings. I also worked out of my attic studio until I started Fly Studios in 2007. I recorded both the Salt Creek CDs as well as Colin’s “Inside These Guitars”.           

Around 1991 I met Lil’ Rev, a great multi-instrumentalist folk musician. Rev turned me on to a lot of acoustic music, from Celtic fiddle tunes to early country blues, planting the seed that would later yield Salt Creek. I know he had a similar influence on Colin O’Brien. We still perform together occasionally, and I recorded his 2009 CD “Drop, Baby Drop”. In 2002 I purchased a string bass for $50. It was all busted up in pieces, but ultimately repairable. I got myself a beginner book and some CDs and locked myself away. A few months later I mentioned this to my friend Colin, who came over to jam and ended up inviting me to a gig. Since then I’ve been playing more bass than guitar, mostly upright, but also stints on electric with blues artists Alex Wilson, Little Jimmy, and Robert Allen Jr. In 2010 I was voted Bassist of the Year by the Wisconsin Area Music Industry.

 

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