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'''George Cole''' (born October, 10, 1960, in [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco]], [[California]]) is the [[Record producer|Producer]], [[Composer]], [[Lyricist]], [[Singer|Vocalist]], and lead [[guitarist]] for the [[Jazz]] band [[George Cole and Vive Le Jazz]]. He was also a guitarist for the [[pop rock]] band [[Beatnik Beatch]] and [[Big Blue Hearts]]. He played on [[Chris Isaak]]'s platinum selling [[Forever Blue (album)|Forever Blue]] album. He was the guitar instructor of [[Billie Joe Armstrong]] for ten years and also taught [[Mike Dirnt]] before they started the [[punk rock]] band [[Green Day]].
'''George Cole''' (born October, 10, 1959, in [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco]], [[California]]) is the [[Record producer|Producer]], [[Composer]], [[Lyricist]], [[Singer|Vocalist]], and lead [[guitarist]] for the [[Jazz]] band [[George Cole and Vive Le Jazz]]. He was also a guitarist for the [[pop rock]] band [[Beatnik Beatch]] and [[Big Blue Hearts]]. He played on [[Chris Isaak]]'s platinum selling [[Forever Blue (album)|Forever Blue]] album. He was the guitar instructor of [[Billie Joe Armstrong]] for ten years and also taught [[Mike Dirnt]] before they started the [[punk rock]] band [[Green Day]].


==Early life==
==Early life==
George Cole was born on October 10, 1960. He was born at San Francisco General Hospital. He grew up in [[Richmond, California]]. He attended Kennedy High School. He performed in the band "Young Country" in the late 1970’s and [[The Upstarts]] in the early 1980’s. His favorite band as a child was The [[Benny Goodman]] Quartet.<ref>{{cite web | last = Fields | first = Jack | title = New CD: Samois Faire, by the Hot Club | url = http://djangology.net/archives/2007_03.html | accessdate = 2009-01-13 }}</ref>
George Cole was born on October 10, 1959. He was born at San Francisco General Hospital. He grew up in [[Richmond, California]]. He attended Kennedy High School. He performed in the band "Young Country" in the late 1970’s and [[The Upstarts]] in the early 1980’s. His favorite band as a child was The [[Benny Goodman]] Quartet.<ref>{{cite web | last = Fields | first = Jack | title = New CD: Samois Faire, by the Hot Club | url = http://djangology.net/archives/2007_03.html | accessdate = 2009-01-13 }}</ref>


==Guitar Instructor==
==Guitar Instructor==

Revision as of 22:33, 12 February 2009

For other people named George Cole, see George Cole (disambiguation).
George Cole

George Cole (born October, 10, 1959, in San Francisco, California) is the Producer, Composer, Lyricist, Vocalist, and lead guitarist for the Jazz band George Cole and Vive Le Jazz. He was also a guitarist for the pop rock band Beatnik Beatch and Big Blue Hearts. He played on Chris Isaak's platinum selling Forever Blue album. He was the guitar instructor of Billie Joe Armstrong for ten years and also taught Mike Dirnt before they started the punk rock band Green Day.

Early life

George Cole was born on October 10, 1959. He was born at San Francisco General Hospital. He grew up in Richmond, California. He attended Kennedy High School. He performed in the band "Young Country" in the late 1970’s and The Upstarts in the early 1980’s. His favorite band as a child was The Benny Goodman Quartet.[1]

Guitar Instructor

George Cole has taught guitar lessons to promising musicians for twenty-five years. He began teaching guitar lessons in California in the 1980’s. Among his many students, he taught and mentored Billie Joe Armstrong for ten years and the bassist Mike Dirnt of the punk rock band Green Day. "Cole and Billie Joe would frequently spend afternoons jamming together, free-form style with the teacher winging off as many odd notes as his pupil.[2]He helped them have their first recording session at a studio at RDR studios in San Francisco in 1986. Armstrong received his first electric guitar, a Fernandes Stratocaster copy that he named "Blue", that his mother bought from Cole. Cole bought the guitar new from David Margen of the band Santana. Cole gave Armstrong a Bill Lawrence Humbucking pickup and told him to install the pickup in the bridge position. After the pickup was destroyed at Woodstock, Armstrong then switched to the Duncan JB model. "Armstrong fetishized his teacher's guitar, partly because the blue instrument had a sound quality and Van Halen - worthy fluidity he couldn't get from his little red Hohner. He prized it mostly, however, because of his relationship with Cole, another father figure after the death of Andy."[3]

Career

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George and Vive Le Jazz at Anna's Jazz Island in 2008
George Cole & Vive Le Jazz! at The Freight and Salvage in 2007

George Cole was lead guitarist in the pop rock band Beatnik Beatch from 1984-1988. With Beatnik Beatch, he performed with Warren Zevon and Buster Poindexter.[4] Beatnik Beatch has a music video featuring George Cole on VH1. They won a California Music Award for Best New Major Label Artist.[5]George Cole was a member of the band Big Blue Hearts from 1997-2000. He toured with Joe Walsh of The Eagles, recorded with producer Roy Thomas Baker, and they performed with Robert Cray, Ringo Starr, and Boz Scaggs.[6] George Cole started the Jazz band George Cole and Vive Le Jazz in 2006 and is the Producer, Composer, Lyricist, Vocalist, and lead guitarist. The band is a seven piece acoustic jazz band. George recently performed a sold out performance at Carnegie Hall in New York. The band performed at a San Francico Chapter of National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences’s (Grammy's) celebration.[7]

Instruments

George owns and plays acoustic Selmer Guitars 103 and 520. His Selmer 520 was played by Django Reinhardt on a tour in Europe in the 1940’s.[8]


Selected Discography

The Hot Club

  • Samois Faire (2007) -- Executive Producer, vocals, guitars

George Cole

  • George Cole (2004) -- Producer, guitars

Compilation (Norah Jones, Diana Krall, Lavay Smith...)

  • New Sirens of Song: Sultry Singers (2003) -- Producer, guitars

Christie McCarthy

  • Everyday Real (2003) -- Producer, guitar

Glassbrick Boulevard

  • A Ride Up The Mountain Where Miracles Live (2002) -- guitars

Lee Seung Hwan

  • Egg (over Easy) (2003) -- guitars

Fred Horn

  • Steady Fready (1999) -- guitars

Jerry Shelfer

  • Slipaway (1992) -- guitars

Chris Isaak

Beatnik Beatch

  • At the Zula Pool (1986) -- guitar
  • Beatnik Beach (1986) -- guitar

Notes

  1. ^ Fields, Jack. "New CD: Samois Faire, by the Hot Club". Retrieved 2009-01-13.
  2. ^ Spitz, Marc (2006). Nobody Likes You: inside the turbulent life, times, and music of Green Day. Hyperion. p. 11.
  3. ^ Spitz, Marc (2006). Nobody Likes You: inside the turbulent life, times, and music of Green Day. Hyperion. pp. 11–14.
  4. ^ Thomas, Michelle. "Biography of George Cole". Retrieved 2009-01-13.
  5. ^ Beatnik Beatch, George Cole (1986). Beatnik Beatch [1]. VH1. {{cite AV media}}: External link in |title= (help)
  6. ^ Schwartz, Marc (May 2008). "Amplifying the Gypsy Jazz Guitar". Just Jazz Magazine. 55: 179–184.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  7. ^ Thomas, Michelle. "Biography of George Cole". Retrieved 2009-01-13.
  8. ^ Swift, Sheila. "Selmer Acoustic Guitars". Retrieved 2009-1-13. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

External links

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