| First Name: |
Jack |
| Last Name: |
Nimersheim |
| Website: |
www.cheznims.com/songs
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| Location: |
Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky, United States... |
| Time zone: |
(GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) |
| Joined: |
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 |
| Status: |
Active |
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| My Talents |
• Arrangement
• Bass, Electric
• Guitar, Lead
• Guitar, Rhythm
• Keyboard, Organ
• Keyboard, Synthesizer
• Lyrics, Writing
• Mastering
• Mixing
• Percussion
• Producing
• Vocals, Backup
• Vocals, Lead
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| About Me |
I was a musician, sound engineer and producer during most of the '60s, '70s and early '80s.
As a musician, I played in a country-rock band named "Heather". We were popular (and lucky) enough in our geographic area (the Midwest) to share the stage in various venues with The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Lonnie Mack, John Hartford, Pure Prairie League, and Loggins & Messina, among others. Those were heady times -- pun intended.
Studio work provided an even more extensive musical education. As a studio musician and sound engineer I had the privilege of playing with and/or pushing the pots (audio pots, folks!) for Loggins & Messina, John Hartford, Errol Garner, Leonard Bernstein (Yep, THAT Leonard Bernstein! Most people don't realize that he recorded parts of "The Mass" at Counterpart Studios, in Cincinnati.), Bootsy Collins, Midnight Star, Livingston Taylor, Roger Trautman, singer-songwriter (and ex-Cincinnati Bengal) Mike Reid, to name a few...and even managed to insinuate my frantic fingers into the final mix of a Grammy-nominated album, "Wanna Make Love (Come Flick My Bic)", by Capitol recording artists, Sun.
Ahhh...three-inch 3M tape, acetate masters (from King Studios, no less, home of the early James Brown hits!), 16-track studio boards, tape splicing, spring-mounted echo chambers, analog recording, manual mixdowns...again, fun times!!
Then, I took a 15-year musical sabbatical...during which, as a full-time freelance writer, I managed to write and publish over 30 books, 1500 or so magazine articles, and a couple dozen science-fiction stories.
It's been a long and creatively satisfying life.
And, now, I've returned to my first creative love: music.
I recently set up a rudimentary recording studio in my basement, using the incredible PC technology available today, and started writing and recording new songs.
Man, this stuff is amazing...um...the technology, not necessarily the songs, although I'm proud of those, as well -- but I'll let y'all judge their merit. *g*
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