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Vinyl Groove |
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Eclectic Dance, R&B & Rock |
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Who’s in Vinyl Groove |
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Elliott—Guitar, Keys, Vocals Elliot remembers getting a toy Roy Rogers guitar on his 5th birthday. Unfortunately his parents did not know any guitar teachers so he was given piano lessons instead. When he reached high school he finally got a real guitar and found someone to give him lessons.
After 6 months of strenuous practice Elliot put together a band with two High School buddies and named it Nirvana. Fame would prove elusive for Nirvana until many years later when some guy from Seattle stole their name. |
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After graduating from Penn State Elliot relocated to Northern New Jersey to became a High School science teacher by day and a musician by night in a succession of Eagles, CSN&Y, and Dead influenced bands.
He married a Jersey girl and moved to Chicago for 4 years, and retired from live playing. He kept active with the occasional studio gig and acoustic jam with friends. Elliot and bassist Tim met in 1999 through their sons but it would be a few years before they began to discuss music. After playing together at informal acoustic house jams over the next few years Tim invited Elliot to sit in with the trio he had formed with Tony and Peter, the beginning of Vinyl Groove.
Elliot’s main guitar is a ‘75 Fender Telecaster Deluxe but he still plays slide on his first electric, a vintage cherry red ‘63 Epiphone. For amplification he uses a Mesa Boogie combo amp. His musical influences run the gamut from the Beatles, Stones and Who, Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Buffalo Springfield, Byrds, Graham Parsons, Eagles, Neil Young, Stephen Stills, the blues/rock of Cream, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Led Zeppelin, the master Jimi Hendrix, acoustic wizards Clarence White, Doc Watson and Leo Kottke, the beautiful slide work of Duane Allman, Lowell George, David Lindley and Ry Cooder, the blues of John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, and Robert Johnson, and finally the British Folk Rock of Fairport Convention, the Strawbs, and Richard Thompson. |
