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Australian brand of Blues!
2009
- N°1 on the "Top Electric Blues" charts for 9 consecutive months 2008/2009 in Australia.
- N°1 on the "Top 100 Artists Blues Rock" charts in Australia.
- N°2 on the "Top 100 Artists Jazz Blues" charts in Australia.
2008
- N°1 on the "Top Electric Blues" charts for 4 consecutive months in Australia.
- N°1 on the "Top 100 Artists Blues Rock" charts in Australia.
- N°3 on the "Top 100 Artists Jazz Blues" charts in Australia.
- "Dreamtime Shuffle", N°8 on the "Top Radio Charts" in New Zealand.
- "Artist Of The Month" April, Lizard Lounge Radio in Australia.
- "Long Train Blues" won the "Strat Master" 2008 title USA.
- Headlining the Santa Maria Blues Festival, The Azores Isles, Atlantic.
2007
- "Long Train Blues" was "Song Of The Month" at Songweavers NYC.
VIDEOS
GERRY JOE WEISE - Down Chicago Way - live in Portugal
GERRY JOE WEISE - Purple Haze
GERRY JOE WEISE - Great Dividing Blues
GERRY JOE WEISE - Sonic
Santa Maria Blues Festival 2008 - photos by Sylvie
Santa Maria Blues Festival 2008 - photos by Pepe
Gerry Joe Weise at the Blues Festival on the Santa Maria isle, The Azores, Atlantic Ocean, 19 July 2008.
Gerry Joe Weise - biography & discography
Gerry Joe Weise, the Australian guitarist who has been touring Europe every year since 1980, has outstandingly impressed hundreds of festival audiences, with his sky-soaring-outstretched-fiery-blues-bonanza, a real guitar hero in the making ! He is forever touring and isn't afraid of tough audiences, which he seduces quite easily, doing what he does best, that is: bringing the Blues to town, 'Australian style'! BLUES MAG Tom NolwenGERRY JOE WEISE biography
Australian Blues Rock - Guitarist Vocalist Composer
GERRY JOE WEISE was born in 1959 in Sydney, Australia. He learned to play guitar at the age of 4. During the 1970's he played guitar in local Sydney bands, the Class and Siren, who supported bands AC/DC, Angels City, Rose Tattoo and Midnight Oil at venues like the Bondi Lifesaver. When he was 18 he joined the progressive band Corroboree featuring Cezary Skubiszewski on keyboards (ex Alexis Korner, award film score composer for "Two Hands") and Craig Collinge on drums (ex Manfred Mann).
In 1980 Gerry Joe Weise took a big step forward and moved to Euopre, living in several different countries (France, Germany and Switzerland) until 1999, before moving back to Australia. He released the solo albums : 1994 "Live In Paris", 1996 "A Letter To Jimi", 1999 "Bushman Boogie" and 2005 "Sydney-Paris Blues", 2009 "Blues Down Under" (Alien Records). Compilation : 2009 "Jaguar" ("Long Train Blues" by Gerry Joe Weise) with 7 other artists (Leaping Cat Records). In 2000, he wrote two songs for Nabarlek (Indigenous Live Band Of The Year Award 2005) for their 2nd album "Bininj Manborlh". His "Long Train Blues" recorded live in concert was voted "Song Of The Month" December 2007 at Songweavers NYC. In 2008 "Dreamtime Shuffle" climbed to N°8 on the Radio charts in New Zealand, while Gerry Joe Weise became N°1 on the "Top 100 Artists Blues Rock" charts and N°1 on the "Top Artists Electric Blues" charts (for 8 consecutive months 2008/2009) in Australia. He was featured "Artist Of The Month" April 2008 at Lizard Lounge Radio Australia, also in 2008 "Long Train Blues" won the "Strat Master" USA title.
Gerry Joe Weise has toured Australia, Europe, USA, Hawaii, Tahiti, Fiji, Polynesia, Azores Isles and Scandinavia.
While playing at festivals and important concerts, Gerry Joe Weise has jammed with B.B.King, John Lee Hooker, Albert Collins, Noel Redding and Eric Clapton. His trios have had musicians from Mick Taylor, Roy Buchanan, Savoy Brown, Tower Of Power, Ravi Shankar, Big Ed Sullivan and Otis Grand. He has guest supported Ray Charles, B.B.King, John Lee Hooker, Pat Metheny, Buddy Guy, the Scorpions, Alberts Collins, John McLaughlin, Noel Redding, Luther Allison, Eric Clapton, the Yardbirds, Iggy Pop & the Stooges, Bob Brozman, Chick Willis, Joe Louis Walker, Matt 'Guitar' Murphy, Canned Heat, Luther 'Houserocker' Johnson, Dave Hole, Calvin Russel, Jerry McCain, Maurice McKinnies, Ron Thompson, Deborah Coleman, Eddie & the Hot Rods, Nine Below Zero, Van Wilks, the Chicago Blues Festival Tour and the San Francisco Blues Festival Tour in Europe.
Gerry Joe Weise in the 1970s
1999 BLUES NIGHT FESTIVAL in France,
Joe Louis Walker, Matt 'Guitar' Murphy & Billy Branch.
Gerry Joe Weise guest support act.
Joe Louis Walker, Gerry Joe Weise, Matt Murphy, Billy Branch
The Blues Down Under!
NORTHERN TERRITORY BLUES Interview 2006 by Mike Zolton
Mike Zolton: After traveling around the World, so many tours after all these years since the late 70s, which would be your favorite countries ?
Gerry Joe Weise: I'd probably have to say France and Australia. Even though France has some political issues, it still is one of the leading forces in the Arts. I've done so many exhibitions, countless tours in France, and I've made great friends and had so much great support; you just don't realize how lucky you are until you move to another country. For me France will always rest an institution to the 7 Arts.
Australia on the other hand is the last frontier, with great richness in the indigenous arts, that is so very dear to me. The wide open spaces where it is very easy to get to, away from the hustle and bustle of city life. It's great to travel and tour, so many breathtaking landscapes to discover. But Australia has an isolated thriving musical culture, which doesn't export so well, that's why I've based myself in Europe during the 1980s and the 1990s. It's been so hard to make up my mind where to stay, since 1999 I have been living in Australia and the South of France.
M Z: You are busy performing about 100 concerts a year ?
G J W: That's right, and I still find time to go to the studio and record new songs, and organize my exhibitions of installations, paintings and photography. I generally divide my time up 50/50 between art and music.
M Z: In the beginning of the early 2000s, you stayed at a couple of aboriginal communities ?
G J W: Yes one of them was a remote population of 50 outstation, called Manmoyi; the other a much larger community named Gunbalanya, incorporating the Injalak Arts Council. Both belong to the Kunwinjku tribe, and are situated east of the Kakadu Reserve in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. I had a great chance to have highly interesting musical exchanges, as well as learning from aboriginal artwork. I gained in knowledge, the real deal, and feel a little less ignorant these days. Many thanks to the Kunwinjku people, for allowing me permission to enter their land.
M Z: What equipment are you using ?
G J W: Well basically it's my old trusty 1963 Strat and 1960 Silvertone. I made myself a white rectangle guitar and a purple left-handed guitar (note: Gerry has been servicing his own guitars since the 70s - he has never put one of his guitars in a repair shop yet!), mostly for extra open-slide tunings, like in A, G, E, D. I use Ibanez overdrive and distortion pedals; Carl Martin, Boss and Yamaha compressors, both vintage and new. The compressors are a pretty important part of my sound, they just seem to make everything else sound bigger.
M Z: And that's what makes Gerry Joe Weise so special, making the guitar sound bigger than life on his latest 2005 release "Sydney - Paris Blues".
Mike Zolton: After traveling around the World, so many tours after all these years since the late 70s, which would be your favorite countries ?
Gerry Joe Weise: I'd probably have to say France and Australia. Even though France has some political issues, it still is one of the leading forces in the Arts. I've done so many exhibitions, countless tours in France, and I've made great friends and had so much great support; you just don't realize how lucky you are until you move to another country. For me France will always rest an institution to the 7 Arts.
Australia on the other hand is the last frontier, with great richness in the indigenous arts, that is so very dear to me. The wide open spaces where it is very easy to get to, away from the hustle and bustle of city life. It's great to travel and tour, so many breathtaking landscapes to discover. But Australia has an isolated thriving musical culture, which doesn't export so well, that's why I've based myself in Europe during the 1980s and the 1990s. It's been so hard to make up my mind where to stay, since 1999 I have been living in Australia and the South of France.
M Z: You are busy performing about 100 concerts a year ?
G J W: That's right, and I still find time to go to the studio and record new songs, and organize my exhibitions of installations, paintings and photography. I generally divide my time up 50/50 between art and music.
M Z: In the beginning of the early 2000s, you stayed at a couple of aboriginal communities ?
G J W: Yes one of them was a remote population of 50 outstation, called Manmoyi; the other a much larger community named Gunbalanya, incorporating the Injalak Arts Council. Both belong to the Kunwinjku tribe, and are situated east of the Kakadu Reserve in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. I had a great chance to have highly interesting musical exchanges, as well as learning from aboriginal artwork. I gained in knowledge, the real deal, and feel a little less ignorant these days. Many thanks to the Kunwinjku people, for allowing me permission to enter their land.
M Z: What equipment are you using ?
G J W: Well basically it's my old trusty 1963 Strat and 1960 Silvertone. I made myself a white rectangle guitar and a purple left-handed guitar (note: Gerry has been servicing his own guitars since the 70s - he has never put one of his guitars in a repair shop yet!), mostly for extra open-slide tunings, like in A, G, E, D. I use Ibanez overdrive and distortion pedals; Carl Martin, Boss and Yamaha compressors, both vintage and new. The compressors are a pretty important part of my sound, they just seem to make everything else sound bigger.
M Z: And that's what makes Gerry Joe Weise so special, making the guitar sound bigger than life on his latest 2005 release "Sydney - Paris Blues".
CD Sydney Paris Blues - discography
GUITARIST MAGAZINEOctober 2005
CDs Of The Month
SYDNEY-PARIS BLUES
CD OZ/ABM 853900
Australian guitarist, Gerry Joe Weise had been living in the south of France for 5 years before going back to Australia. The tracks on this album composed by bluesman Gerry Joe Weise have both fire and power, ignited by his 1963 L-series Stratocaster and 1960 Sears Silvertone. Showcasing "Slidewater Cajun" with his trio live in Paris, featuring cosmic slide-work. "Long Train Blues" a soaring electrifying experience, taken from a concert opening for the Yardbirds. "Crocodile River" where Texas meets Australia's Northern Territory; and tunes even more australian in style, like "Ned Kelly Outlaw" a solo deep and blue about bushrangers catching a fugitive. "Down In Sydney" a soulful acoustic solo performed live, opening for the Scorpions in front of 7,000 people in southern France.
SOUL BAG MAGAZINE
N°181 dec 2005
SYDNEY-PARIS BLUES
CD OZ/ABM 8539000
Staying with a big guitar sound is Gerry Joe Weise with his third CD "Sydney-Paris Blues". Australian guitarist living in the south of France, has put aside traditional australian instruments (didjeridu etc...) that had given his former "Bushman Boogie" album great color, to concentrate more on vocals and guitar. Fans who enjoy heroic guitar solos under control, will enjoy the treatment. many great arrangements, plus an interesting contemporary approach to acoustic guitar.
Christophe Mourot
Quotes from critics
At the Blues Festival this weekend, Gerry Joe Weise performed breathtaking guitar and vocals, with a great homage to Hound Dog Taylor. He's a legend in the making.DAILY EXPRESS Sue Cranwood
Outrageous contemporary blues rock guitar, Gerry Joe Weise has many techniques up his sleeve : slide, fingerpicking, different open tunings, you name it - he can play it well! He is definitely a top-notch bluesman.
MORNING HERALD John McMahon
Another expat bluesman, this time from Sydney, is Gerry Joe Weise. Over the last 20 years he's played internationally with great musicians, such as John Lee Hooker and B.B.King. His guitar playing, which combines tight blues riffs with a lyrical edge, has great original quality.
THE VOICE Ken Moore
Gerry Joe Weise, he is a hot, burning performer, with killer Blues !
Van Wilks
Gerry Joe Weise and Van Wilks at the 2003 Vallee Blues Festival.
Concert with The Scorpions
ZENITH Concert Hall, Toulouse, France.
THE SCORPIONS with guest support GERRY JOE WEISE.
Thursday 3 June 1999.
7,000 people and Gerry Joe Weise on solo guitar with his 1930 National and 1932 Dobro.
SONGS FROM THE ZENITH CONCERT
01 Down In Sydney (Gerry Joe Weise)
02 I Just Can't Make It (Hound Dog Taylor)
03 Island Sunset (Gerry Joe Weise)
THE SCORPIONS with guest support GERRY JOE WEISE.
Thursday 3 June 1999.
7,000 people and Gerry Joe Weise on solo guitar with his 1930 National and 1932 Dobro.
SONGS FROM THE ZENITH CONCERT
01 Down In Sydney (Gerry Joe Weise)
02 I Just Can't Make It (Hound Dog Taylor)
03 Island Sunset (Gerry Joe Weise)
Oz Blues Guitarists
The Blues Down Under !Amazing, fiery soul from the desert, sprinkling of distorted-mountain rock mixed with tears in your face ocean blues, shaked, squeezed, shuffled, until the tunes can bear it no more, that is Gerry Joe Weise's Aussie recipe ! SOUTHERN TIME BLUES Roger Doulles
BUSHMAN BOOGIE CDGerry Joe Weise is back with an album of blues-rock and sounds of traditional world-music from Australi a, where he was born. With excellent guitars, and songs like Dreamtime Shuffle, Broken Hill Blues, and Kiama Beach Jamboree, which are my favourites.SOUL BAG Magazine n°153 1999 Christophe Mourot
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Festivals & Concerts
Gerry Joe Weise, San Francisco Blues Festival 1992.
Maurice McKinnies, San Francisco Blues Festival 1992.
Gerry Joe Weise, Amiens Jazz Festival 1993.
Buddy Guy, Amiens Jazz Festival 1993.
Buddy Guy, Amiens Jazz Festival 1993.
Gerry Joe Weise, Jimi Hendrix Experience Festival 1996.
Noel Redding, Hendrix Experience Festival 1996.
Kathy Etchingham, Noel Redding, Gerry Joe Weise, Hendrix Festival 1996.
Nono (Trust) and Gerry Joe Weise, 287 Club Paris 1998.
Gerry Joe Weise, Keith Boyce drums (Savoy Brown, Heavy Metal Kids), J.P.Lopez bass (Otis Grand), The Yardbirds concert, Castres 2001.
The Yardbirds, Bolegason Castres 2001.
Mickey Finn guitar (Jimmy Page, Heavy Metal Kids), Peter Cole bass, Gerry Joe Weise, House Of Live Paris 2002.
Hot Rod Tone article
HOT ROD TONE & BLUES ABUSEGERRY 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 rocking tunes, to searing tortured blue bends.
Gerry Joe Weise plays both standard and infectious slide guitars. With a style steeped in blues, rock & 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 & 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, root's 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, Buddy Guy 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. Weise also opened for the Scorpions in front of 7,000 people in Toulouse France, playing Dobro as a solo-act in 1999.
21st Century Blues Rock executed with a twang-banger Stratocaster electric, 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 25 years, Gerry Joe Weise has performed amazing guitar at festivals and concerts around the world.
BLUES Magazine John Douglas
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