Jeff Soule

Biography

Interview with Jonah Mclain Q. How did you first get into making music. A. Hmm. KISS was probably the main reason I started playing. Before I had anything to play on I would make guitars and amps out of cardboard boxes and put my record player on and jam out. I started playing guitar when I was 11. The Beatles, ELO, the Cars were all big influences in my learning to play and write songs. My grandpa used to play on the Remwald show on CBS back in the late '50s to early 60s. He never taught me a thing, but would always want me to play for him and show him what I was learning. He was very good, I still can't play as good as him. A lot of my family is country, I'm kind of the odd ball being a rocker. I wrote my first song when I was 12, I took it to my choir teacher in school, and he added a piano part and we did it in class...Wait! is this a trick question? I mean I'm really still trying to make music, I just fart around. Q. What kind of things have you done with your music. A. Most of it has been trying to find the right people to put a band together. Some of it has been playing for decent bands, although they always seem to be dysfunctional and self-destruct. I have many live shows under my belt from Chicago to Detroit. One of the best things I've done with my music is decide to try to do it on my own in hopes of finding other musicians to write with by putting it on myspace. I'm still relatively new to being online and it's been a fascinating experience. But usually I like to wake up with my music, cook to my music, go on walks with it, I guess you could say we do pretty much everything together ;) Q. How did you come to understand what music means to you and to others. A. I think I only understand that it is very powerful, able to invoke emotions and memories, sometimes so entrancing that one may find themselves momentarily lost from thought, work or even speech from listening to music that resonated something within them. Q. Why do you make the style that you do. A. I'm not really sure, I guess it's just what comes out. I try to write a little something for everyone, but I guess it all kinda fits in the rock category. My song construction is often very ethereal in it's start, with the parts only being played out in my head. What I have recorded so far is only the results of my own labors. Things could sound quite different working with other musicians.

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