JIM WEIDER: Percolator

Jim Weider

Percolator

© 2005 JIM WEIDER (786851036329)

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Jam-Band/ Groove Guitar rock instrumentals - Rock

tracks

1 The Maze
2 Percolator
3 New Day
4 Troll
5 Flight
6 Smooth Move
7 No Goodbyes
8 Rain Daze
9 Caveman
10 Prayer

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Jim Weider's Percolator represents Jim's newest musical venture into a powerful groove & atmospheric guitar driven Music. Jim blends rock&blues with funk & jazz groove's combining modern drum loops and samples, to playing beautiful melodic ballads.
Jim Weider, a master of classic telecaster guitar, is renowned for his rock and blues-based signature sound. He is among a select group of musicians with an endorsement from Fender® and, for the past three decades, he's earned enormous respect from fellow musicians and music fans throughout the world . Born and raised in the famed arts colony of Woodstock, NY, Jim received great acclaim during his long tenure (1985-1999) as lead guitarist (replacing Robbie Robertson) for Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame inductees, The Band. During 15 years of international touring with original members Levon Helm, Garth Hudson and Rick Danko, Jim was featured on numerous albums, films, videos and television appearances. Jim has written songs and produced for many artists and has made three solo albums Big Foot , Remedy and his newest cd , Percolator and has been touring under his name since the mid 90's
. Percolator is a new musical direction for Jim ,Big Guitars with Modern Grooves !
Jim's new album "Percolator" is available now! Percolator is an all orginal "Groove" Guitar instrumental record using multi layered Guitars / Drum loops with Drums and Percussion and an all Star Guest

Percolator CD Features:
Jim Weider - Guitars(The Band)
John Medeski - Keyboards (Medeski ,Martin& Wood)
Rodney Holmes - Drums (Steve Kimock Band )
Tony Levin - Bass ( Peter Gabriel Band )
Carlos Valdez - Percussion
John Holbrook - Synth Bass&Keys

Also Featuring:
Randy Ciarlante
Dan McKinney
Sid McGinnis
Richard Bell
Matte Henderson
Fema Ephron

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  • Intelligent compositions, great playing, well recorded, good interplay of musici
    author: Steve Blomerth

    I had never heard of Jim Weider before, but after hearing this CD he is obviously a great player as well as a great writer.It's not easy to write good instrumentals in a rock format. Without vocals telling a story or theme the composition and interplay of the musicians must engage the listener's attention 100%. Jim Weider has done it very well and this work has been recorded very well for a nice big sound. All the other musicians are very good. The drummer and bass guitarist in particular caught my ear from the very beginning as being outstanding players. But the keyboard player also has a very important part in coloring the music and enhancing it's sophistication. If you like smart and engaging instrumental music in a rock vein this is a great CD.

  • Jim Weider—the Telecaster devotee breath's new life into the genre pioneered by
    author: GUITAR PLAYER MAGAZINE

    Jim Weider Percolator While prog rock and neo-Baroque shred are still highly abundant these days, quality straight-ahead instrumental rock seems to be in shorter supply. With Percolator, though, Jim Weider—the Telecaster devotee and sideman par excellence—seems on a mission to breath new life into the genre pioneered by Jeff Beck and other singer-less rockers. Sure, there are welcome traces of outside musical styles on Weider’s new disc—a sprig of fusion here, a snippet of hip hop there, a mandatory funk breakdown over yonder—but the fat-crackin’ snare drum, all-engulfing B-3 swells, warm glow-bottle guitar tones, compelling riffs, and other timeless elements of straight-up rock refuse to be diluted by any eclecticisms from the outside. The compositions are rich, layered, and complex, and the mix is superb. Weider, who is perhaps best known for being Robbie Robertson’s replacement in the re-launch of The Band, never succumbs to the temptation every instrumental rocker faces—the near-irresistible urge to weigh songs down with indulgent overdubbing. Sure, a couple of vamps drift dangerously close to the soothing, but fully un-rocking territory we call smooth jazz (let’s face it—a rock record can only be so edgy without a singer up front spittin’ from the gut) but, in general, this disc kicks. You’ll be proud to bump Percolator (which features guest virtuosos such as Sid McGinnis, John Medeski, Rodney Holmes, and Tony Levin) through your favorite pair of woofers. Moon Haw. —Jude Gold Associate Editor Guitar Player Magazine

  • Jim Weider - a new FUNKY guitar sound
    author: G-Man Productions

    Jim Weider and a host of outstanding musicians boiled over on Jim's latest project, PERCoLaTOR. THis cd is a keeper for guitar lover's. 180 degree swing from the traditional roots style of previous JWB projects. Funk,,groove,,just a really cooking.Check out PERCoLaTOR,,The Maze,,Flight,,and Rain Daze!!

  • The title "Percolator" is appropriate as this music is bouncy and rhythmic
    author: Gary Goldberg for WRPI radio program, "IN THE SPIRIT."

    The music on the CD "Percolator" is bouncy and rhythmic. The nice interplay of guitar in it's many voices adds to the overall texture. In fact, althought all these pieces are instumentals, it has a feel of a conversation between the guitars, keyboards and a terrific rhythm section. These are well crafted selections from the high energy of "Flight" to the sweet reverant "Prayer" that closes "Percolator. This is a CD for those who respect musicianship, arrangement and expertly crafted melodies. Well done!

  • ''Percolator,'' his latest album and one that stretches the concept of a ''jam b
    author: Poughkeepsie Journal / John Barry

    The songs on the CD bounce from jam band symphonies to tunes that fall between a dirge and a ballad, punctuated by the very, very lonely guitar notes that Weider tugs from his guitar strings. Helping Weider navigate his trademark Fender Telecaster sound through the exploratory nooks and crannies of the jam band solar system are two of that genre's heavy hitters. Playing on ''Percolator'' are Rodney Holmes, drummer for the Steve Kimock Band, and pianist and keyboard player John Medeski, a resident of the Woodstock area and member of the improvisational trio Medeski, Martin & Wood.

  • With his third solo album, a self-described "groove guitar fest," Weider is read
    author: Boston Herald Newspaper / Nate Dow

    The all-instrumental "Percolator" teeters between rock, jazz and blues with multilayered guitars and mutating moods that recall Joe Satriani, Charlie Hunter and Danny Gatton. With all-star backing from the likes of John Medeski and Tony Levin, Weider puts on a clinic in clean, atmospheric picking

  • Weider's guitar work is often fast, furious, and fluid, but he never overplays.
    author: David Malachowski /Chronogram review

    Venerable guitarist (and former member of The Band) Jim Weider has assembled an all-star cast—Tony Levin, John Medeski, Sid McGinnis Rodney Holmes and Randy Ciarlante, and producer John Holbrook—as he steps slightly away from his musical roots on his latest release, PERCoLAToR. Well, more than slightly. He comes out blazing in the rock/fusion fueled "The Maze," where he wails and squeals his way through a catchy tune. Hard-hitting title track "Percolator" is propelled by funk elements, while the gorgeous melodies of "New Day" and "Smooth Move" juxtapose the muscular, heavy hitting "Troll." The real departures, "Flight" and "Rain Daze," are stocked with synth bass and drum programming and sound quite contemporary.

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