The Reverend Double J: Links
JJV on the Web
- YouTube
- Reverb Nation
- iLike
All you Facebook users add the official J.J.V. page!
- Facebook (profile)
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J.J. Vicars's Profile
Create Your BadgeThe latest online place to hang out, post videos, crack jokes, and offend overly-sensitive people.
- Facebook (page)
The official JJV Facebook band/musician page.
- Follow JJV on Twitter
- MySpace
For the two or three people left in the world who still use MySpace.
- LastFM
Gotta be on here too!
Fellow Musicians (Far East)
- Jerry & The Hipswingers
Jerry Vicars (yep, J.J.'s dad) and his Jump Blues outfit complete with horn section. Papa Vicars was playing this stuff back in the late 50's and early 60's in from Alliance, OH all the way up to Cleveland, the same neck of the woods Alan Freed came out of.
- Mark "Pookie Bear" Schwarz
Bassist with J.J.V., Max Blues and others who appears on LONG WAY FROM HOME and LIVE IN JAPAN VOL 2. Proprietor of Broken Guitars and luthier of his own Rocket Revenger bass and J.J.V.'s ModBird guitar.
- Mike Price
Jazz tumpeter and bandleader Mike Price. Has played with just about everybody over the course of a long and illustrious career.
- Forris Fulford
Jazz drummer extraordinaire from back east currently living and gigging in the greater Tokyo area.
- Sorcha Chisolm
Singer, musician and composer from Adelaide, Australia working in Tokyo. Performs solo and with her band, as well as a session narrator, private event entertainer and wedding singer.
- Oliver Benjamin
Founder of the Church of the Latter Day Dude, guitarist, author, and what have you.
Fellow Musicians (U.S.)
- Nikki Hills
JJV's oldest and closest guitar buddy from way back when he was a teeny-bopper. As a two-guitar team they are unparralled, sort of the Allman Brothers meets Funkadelic. Recently reunited after 18 years (and with matching guitars) Nikki appears on J.J.'s upcoming EP while J.J. is helping Nikki with his solo debut.
- Debbie Davies
Blues guitarist with many solo albums out who served three years with Albert Collins & The Icebreakers. Featured in the '88 A.C. photos.
- Howard Glazer & The EL34s
High energy rockin' Blues from the Motor City. Blues-Rock guitarist Howard Glazer burns up a fretboard like nobody else all around Detroit, MI and surrounding areas and over in Europe.
- Jimmy Lloyd Rea & The Switchmasters
Greasy roadhouse boogie the way God intended it via Portland, OR.
- Free Bird Child
Tammy Michelle VanZant, eldest daughter of original Lynyrd Skynyrd vocalist/songwriter Ronnie VanZant. Tammy's 3-song CD FREE BIRD CHILD includes the title track written for her father, who wrote Skynyrd's MICHELLE for her back in their early days.
- Jeremy Gloff
Musician, fauxlebrity, advice column writer. Intellectro Indie. A Rock 'n' Roll rendition of the title track from his album "1987" appears on LONGHAIRED LEFTOVERS where he also guests on SEVEN DAYS A WEEK and TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, sharing a co-writing credit on the former. His own discography features 16 albums alternating between introspective Indie songwriter and Dance/Electronica with all sorts of surprises along the way.
- Tara Tinsley
Singer/songwriter and surfer girl from an eskimo village in Michigan (with no stop lights) via Modesto, CA. Proprietor of Golden Hill Records and the musician's tree-hugger group Musicians For A Better Planet.
- Stella Luna and the Satellites
Contemporary acoustic music for the masses. Featuring drummer Gary Rakow who played with J.J.V. on the album INSANE PROSE and on many Jerry & the Hipswingers gigs.
Fellow Musicians (Texas)
- The Tailgators
- Yes, the legendary Tailgators are now online! SWAMP ROCK, MUMBO JUMBO, OK LET'S GO, TORE UP, HIDE YOUR EYES, SWAMP'S UP, HOG GROOVE. You need this music!
- Don Leady
- Legendary Tailgators guitarist Don Leady's official site covering all his work from the Leroi Brothers to The Tailgators and on to Alamo Suite.
- Glenn Rios
Drummer, percussionist, multi-instrumentalist, engineer and producer. His many credits include playing drums on and recorded Don Leady's ALAMO SUITE album. He also appears on drums and percussion, with Mark Schwarz on bass, on the Jerry & J.J. Vicars rendition of Charles Brown's MERRY CHRISTMAS BABY.
- Baby Anacondas
Todd Moore of Austin, TX and his jam band. Todd was the mastermind behind C. Rex, the Austin band featuring J.J.V. on lead guitar. With the ever evolving Todd Moore no two bands are alike.
- Denny Freeman
Dallas/Austin guitarist best known as mentor to the Vaughan brothers, his work with Angela Strehli, Big Guitars From Texas TRASH TWANG & THUNDER and several top-notch solo albums. Currently touring with Bob Dylan's band.
- Larry Slezak
One of the baddest cats ever to pick up a horn. You haven't heard a Jazz player blow horn until you've heard Larry Slezak. A friend of the Vicars family during the formative years, he continues to be a major influence.
Radio Stations
- OS Radio
- Station in Germany with a Blues/Roots show hosted by Markus Fischer-Kiepe.
- Beaub FM Radio Limoges
- Station in Limoges,France.The Blues show is hosted by Christian Maraillac."le blues vous va si bien" BEAUB FM/KAOLIN FM
- CKRL FM.Quecec City
- DJ Michel Dubois hosts RUE D'AUTEUIL.
Music Related Sites
- Steve Moore's Firebird Tribute
Guitarist Steve Moore's internet tribute to Firebird guitars and the people who play them.
- Day By Day, Night After Night
424-page book about Stevie Ray Vaughan by Craig Hopkins. Written with the assistance of Stevie's mother Martha Vaughan and full of tons of very cool, very rare pics and memorbilia. A must-have for every serious fan/collecto of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Blues, and music in general. Well worth the price. The flyer from Osaka on page 244 is courtesy of JJV who is listed in the Acknowledgements.
- Captain Beefheart's Rules For Guitarists
The 10 Commandments for guitarists that should be followed diligently and abided by.
Charity & Goodwill
- The Animal Rescue Site
Click for free everyday to feed rescued critters.
- The Hunger Site
Click for free everyday to feed those in need.
- Defenders Of Wildlife
Protecting wild animals and their habitat.<p>
- Earth Justice
We only have one home, take good care of it.
- NRDC Action Fund
Mobilizing America for our environment. Somebody's gotta do it, the place is a mess!
Other people you should know
- Church of the Latter Day Dude
While Dudeism in its official form has been organized as a religion only recently, it has existed down through the ages in one form or another. The idea is this: Life is short and complicated and nobody knows what to do about it. So don’t do anything about it. Just take it easy, man. Stop worrying so much whether you’ll make it into the finals. Kick back with some friends and some oat soda and whether you roll strikes or gutters, do your best to be true to yourself and others – that is to say, abide.
- Seth Center
Seth & Jane Roberts bookstore and audio collection. All the regular books plus the recently published early and deleted sessions.
- Seth Learning Center
Has audio clips of Seth speaking during sessions and will send you a free introductory CD if you ask. The site can be viewed in English, German, French and Japanese.
- Abraham Maslow's theory of self-actualization
"Self Actualization is the intrinsic growth of what is already in the organism, or more accurately, of what the organism is." --Abraham Maslow Maslow studied healthy people, most psychologists study sick people. The characteristics listed here are the results of 20 years of study of people who had the "full use and exploitation of talents, capacities, potentialities, etc.."
- The Universe As a Hologram
An eye-opening article about Quantum Physics and how all matter is interconnected with all other matter on the quantum level. It's also a prime example of how the Seth material was scientifically ahead of it's time.
- Cholula hot sauce
Best hot sauce in the world. JJV & associates consume gallons of it.
- Subtitled
The latest project from Darren Howells, the man who kept the writings of J.J.V. prominently featured during his tenure with British mag Blues Matters. An extensive selection of movies from around the world examined in stunning detail.