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Member Info: Christopher Sung - Warning: Guitar Player Approaching |
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Name: Christopher Sung
Contact: Available to Members
Focus: Jazz
Location: New York, NY USA
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Silly Guitar Player
My name is Chris, and I'm ActiveBass' token guitar player. My bass experience consists of knowing a few choruses of "The Lemon Song" (love JPJ's walking on that), and the few weeks that I spent with Tony Oppenheim's "Slap It" book.
I also built most of the site, so if you have technical problems at ActiveBass, you'll most likely be corresponding with me.
Being a guitar player, I can play really avant-garde if you put sheet music in front of me, and if you asked me what I'd do if I won the lottery, I'd say, "well, I guess I'll just keep playing guitar till the money runs out..."
But Seriously...
I started playing guitar when I was about 11 in pretty much the stereotypical fashion. I saw a friend of mine play Stairway to Heaven and I was hooked. I begged my parents for a guitar and they bought me a cheap acoustic for $60 from the local record store in a mall in New Jersey. I remember the summer when I was 13, when I went through the entire Led Zeppelin Complete book learning every tune in it. My parents eventually rewarded me with my very own cherry-sunburst Les Paul Standard from Sam Ash in New York City, allowing me to further imitate my hero, Jimmy Page.
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Turning to Jazz
After going through my Jimmy Page phase and a Randy Rhoads stage, I started to play jazz when I was about 19. I heard Mike Stern play on "The Man with the Horn" and I completely freaked. Here was a guy who was mixing Hendrix-type licks with bebop lines and I thought, "this is how I want to play". From then on, heavy periods of listening to Pat Metheny, Tribal Tech, and Keith Jarrett ensued. Lately, I'm starting to listen a lot more to alternative rock, but I think at heart, I'm a jazzer.
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Musical Influences
• Pat Metheny, Chris Tarry
• Keith Jarrett, Andre Lachance
• Scott Henderson, Brad Turner
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Favorite Recordings
• "Question & Answer" by Pat Metheny
• "Superunknown" by Soundgarden
• "Metalwood II" by, er, Metalwood
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