GERRY JOE WEISE has injected new energy into the Blues. His larger than-life tones and outstanding solos add to a rich mix of blues rock arrangements. Songs that range from slow spacey textures / tears in your beer, to tone-to-the-bone blues, to outrageous rockin' tunes, to searing tortured blue bends.
Gerry Joe Weise plays both standard and infectious slide guitars. With a style steeped in blues, rock and country, this Sydney born guitarist has lived and toured extensively in Europe for more than 20 years. Since 1993, he has released several remarkable studio and live solo albums, that display a player of great skill and taste, with magnificent guitar tones and soaring melodies.
A French magazine claimed Gerry Joe Weise to be a "studio savvy, roots rocking guitarist extraordinaire", while a German paper announced that "Gerry Joe Weise's onstage persona sticks closely to the : do what it takes to amaze an audience". Throughout his many European tours, he has jammed with legends such as B.B.King, John Lee Hooker, Eric Clapton, and Albert Collins, among others. Gerry Joe Weise performed with his trio and later joined Noel Redding onstage for the 1996 30th Jimi Hendrix Commemorative Concert near Paris. In 1998 he had a stint at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Weise also opened for the Scorpions in front of 7,000 people in Toulouse France, playing a 1930s Dobro as a solo-act in 1999.
21st Century Blues Rock executed with a 1960 Silvertone slide electric and a twangbanger Stratocaster, a famous 1963 model. The abuse and the raw power create a sonic landscape that spotlights the talents of Gerry Joe Weise. Singer and accomplished songwriter, he has written more than 80 tunes, some of which have had radio airplay. To sum things up, for the last 30 years, Gerry Joe Weise has performed amazing guitar at festivals and concerts around the World.
John Douglas, BLUES REVUE
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