The new CD I completed with Wally Z is now available. Fully packaged CDs can be purchased from CD Baby. The tracks are also available on iTunes. It is called Across the Border. Short samples of each of the 12 tracks are provided on both our CD Baby web page and on iTunes.
A FREE TRACK FROM ACROSS THE BORDER
Here is a complete track from Across the Border it that you can download for free:
JOHN HERDT INTERVIEW ON KOOL RADIO, AUGUST 10, 2007
This radio interview was conducted by the great Big Daddy on KOOL 99.5 FM as part of the promo for the 2007 Tommy Bolin Music Festival in Sioux City. Interviewed were guitarist John Herdt and Fest organizer Trace Keane. John plays parts of some Tommy Bolin tunes in the second half of the show. Vist KOOL radio at www.kool995.com.
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JOHN HERDT INTERVIEW ON KOOL RADIO, 8-10-07 (16.7MB) |
FREE MUSIC FROM HERE TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE
The audio files listed below are compressed in MP3 format. Note that the file size is included for each tune. If you have trouble playing the files through your browser, I recommend that you download the files that you want to hear to your hard disk before playing. On a PC right-click on the MP3 AUDIO button, on a Mac hold down the Control key and click on the MP3 AUDIO button, holding until a menu pops up where you can save the file to your hard drive. If you have trouble downloading, e-mail John Herdt.
All music on this page except for the Tommy Bolin tutorials and as otherwise noted is by John Bryan Herdt, with the copyright in each MP3 file name, all rights reserved. You’re invited to download them for free, and you can make copies for a few friends.
SELECTED MUSIC FROM SOME OF JOHN’S ALBUMS
NOTE: Album tracks updated to 160 kbps for higher quality on 6-25-08
See Discography page for complete list of songs on all of John’s CDs.
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INNUENDO (2000) | ||
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Mountain Town (4.8MB) | |
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Melt Away (4.4MB) |
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Brass Ball Concert Hall (6.3MB) | |
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Sinister Plan (4.4MB) |
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I’ll Just Make You Cry (5.6MB) | |
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Party It Up (5.4MB) |
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Twilight (8.3MB) | |
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Spinner (5.0MB) |
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Rude Bayou (4.2MB) | |
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Fool Come Around (4.4MB) |
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Comatose (4.5MB) | |
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Eleven Ways From Sunday (5.0MB) |
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With Then Without You (4.4MB) | |
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Toss It Off (4.8MB) |
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Goodbye (5.3MB) | |
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If Nothing Else (4.4MB) |
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| WIDE OPEN SPACES (1999) | |
SIDELONG GLANCE (1997) | ||
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Gina’s Black Boots (6.0MB) | |
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You Call It (5.9MB) |
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Wide Open Spaces (5.2MB) | |
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Still Waters Run Deep (6.9MB) |
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Nothing Like Forever (6.7MB) | |
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Believe Me (4.7MB) |
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Hope Springs Eternal (5.7MB) | |
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You’re the One (6.1MB) |
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Crash Dive (5.7MB) | |
CHAPARRAL (1996) | |
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Reckoning (4.9MB) | |
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Slipstream (6.6MB) |
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Storage Unit of Love (6.2MB) | |
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Donna Didn’t Say Goodbye (8.2MB) |
JOHN HERDT AND BOBBY BERGE
Bobby Berge and I met in 2001 and in the following year I played guitar in his band at the 2002 Tommy Bolin festival in Sioux City. Since then we have done quite a few studio and live recordings together. Bobby played drums on five tracks on my 2004 Gather CD, including Mountain Town, Brass Ball Concert Hall, I’ll Just Make You Cry, Never Never and With Then Without You, some of which are available above for MP3 downloading. Here are some other tunes we have recently worked on that haven’t been released yet. I played guitars and bass, Bobby of course played drums. We also have some tracks posted from a live jam at Tom Thorsen’s studio in Brighton, CO recorded during Bobby’s trip to Colorado in 2006. You can check out some tunes from that jam by clicking here.
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Only Ever the One by John Herdt(5.2MB) *Posted 7-26-08 |
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| This is the most recent tune that Bobby and I have done together, and it has one of my all-time favorite Berge drum performances. It’s one of my “pretty” ones but has some juice going. | |
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Denver Shuffle by John Herdt(7.7MB) |
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| This is a fast blues shuffle that I came up with to practice R&B riffs. There is a psychedelic section in the middle that’s pretty cool and some interesting rhythmic interplay later in the track. | |
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Bobby’s Tune by Bobby Berge and John Herdt (4.0MB) |
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| Bobby sent me some drum tracks to check out a few months ago, and I loved his solid arrangement for drums on this track. I was pretty inspired and wrote the parts for guitars and bass fairly quickly. One of the two guitar parts was played on April 28, 2007, so if you get this quickly the music is only weeks old. | |
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Use Me (6.6MB) |
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| We did this version of the classic Bill Withers tune just for fun and to keep our chops up. I intentionally left the parts very sparse so it sounds like three guys just sitting there jamming, though it’s actually just him and me and I overdubbed the bass and one guitar solo, ha ha ha. | |
JOHN HERDT AND DAVID HARE
David Hare was moving from Sioux City to Las Vegas on September 21, 2007 and spent the night at my house in Colorado to cut the trip in half. We went out for a great Mexican dinner with Bev, then David and I took our acoustic guitars and his lungs into my studio, Rampant Squid, and jammed for a couple of hours. David is well known as singer for the Tommy Bolin Tribute Bands, performances by the Bobby Berge Project and for his own solo work. Here are a pair of tunes from our September 21 jam.
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People People (5.6MB) |
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| David Hare: vocals and guitar; John Herdt: lead guitar, shaker (overdubbed) | |
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Wild Dogs (5.8MB) |
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| David Hare: vocals and guitar; John Herdt: slide guitar, shaker (overdubbed) | |
MIRAGE LIVE IN EVERGREEN 1984
I got Mirage together in 1983 after touring with Ruckus playing commercial rock. I wanted to get back into intense instrumental rock. I had written a lot of our material before Mirage, but these guys were such good players that I count the Mirage versions as the definitive ones. This audio is from the last time we played together except for a single reunion show a year later. We played this at Mike’s mountain home in Evergreen, CO, and recorded straight into a cassette deck, the only edits were to cut out pauses between tunes. John Herdt: guitar; Steve VanDewater: guitar; Paul Molnar: bass; Mike Mixter: drums. All material ©1984 John Herdt except “Country Jam” improvised by the band, “Animal Behavior” by Steve VanDewater and the “Cover Tune” is a cover.
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1 Zip City (6.3MB) | |
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7 Animal Behavior (3.7MB) |
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2 Jake (5.8MB) | |
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8 Hambone Express (5.5MB) |
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3 The Mash (5.6MB) | |
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9 Synthetic Men (9.0MB) |
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4 Moon Tune (10.7MB) | |
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10 Cover Tune (5.8MB) |
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5 Country Jam (1.1MB) | |
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11 Hot Pursuit (8.1MB) |
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6 Dr. Matrix (7.0MB) | |
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12 Nawlins (4.6MB) |
UNRELEASED OR RARE STUFF
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Wild Dogs Acoustic Duet (5.4MB) |
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| In August 2004 I bought a new Taylor acoustic guitar and when I got it home I plugged it into my studio mixer and recorded a rhythm track just to see how the guitar sounded. I had enough time left that I decided to plug in my Ovation Elite acoustic and lay down a lead part with some slide included. Though it was all just an experiment, the resulting track is kind of fun so I decided to present it. “Wild Dogs" is one of Tommy Bolin’s most beloved tunes, and it’s certainly a favorite of mine, check out Tommy’s wonderful version on his Teaser album. | |
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Morning Papers (5.4MB) |
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| I made this tune up real fast on April 28, 2007. I programmed some drum parts to use for a jam with Big Jim Wilson, who was in Denver for a few days from Athens, Georgia, and while I was doing this one I grabbed my guitar and made up the rhythm guitar track on the spot. A month later I finished it with a slide/lead guitar track and bass. I felt lucky that that groove dropped in my lap like it did. | |
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Nothing Like Forever – Live Acoustic Version (4.7MB) |
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| A few people have asked for an acoustic version of this tune from my Wide Open Spaces CD, so here it is. I recorded this live on 8-18-01 at Rampant Squid Recording Studios. | |
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Confucius – Improvised Jam (7.5MB) |
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| This one is for fans of hard jazz-rock fusion. It was recorded live at Dan Lile’s house in Denver on 7-14-83. John Herdt: guitar; Randy George: bass; Dan Lile: drums. | |
JOHN HERDT AND WALLY Z LIVE AT THE 2005 COLORADO BOLIN BASH
In 2005 it didn’t look like there was going to be an official Tommy Bolin Music Festival in Sioux City, an annual event to celebrate Tommy’s music and his August 1 birthday, so we worked out a Colorado show on August 6 at the mountaintop home of Bolin Foundation President Jim Rhodes. I pulled together two of my oldest friends from Fort Collins, Dave Marsh and Joel Lamoreux, and Wally flew down from Canada. Dave and Joel met Wally for the first time right before we played. Without rehearsals we had a few rough parts, but the soundboard recording is cool and there are a lot of hot parts. Joel Lamoreux: vocals: John Herdt: guitar; Dave Marsh: bass; Wally Z: drums. Recorded off the mixer by David Polhemus, these performances are completely live and unedited except where I had to splice a few parts where the minidisc skipped.
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1 Bustin’ Out for Rosie (4.2MB) | |
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6 Standing in the Rain (4.9MB) |
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2 Dreamer (5.5MB) | |
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7 The Grind (3.6MB) |
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3 Shake the Devil (3.7MB) | |
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8 Savannah Woman (3.2MB) |
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4 Lotus (5.4MB) | |
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9 Gypsy Soul (4.8MB) |
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5 People People (5.4MB) | |
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10 Post Toastee (7MB) |
JOHN HERDT’S TOMMY BOLIN TUTORIALS
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Gettin’ Tighter (24.9MB) |
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From Another Time – James Gang version with solo (10.6MB) |
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People, People (4.2MB) |
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Savannah Woman – including first solo and hints at second solo (9.5MB) |
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Standing in the Rain – James Gang version with solos (11MB) |
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Teaser (2.5MB) |
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Teaser – intro solo and middle solo (11.9MB) |
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You Told Me That You Loved Me (10.5MB) |
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Tommy Bolin Lick #1 (1.2MB) |
REED WILSON’S TEXT FILES FOR CHORDS TO TOMMY BOLIN MUSIC
Alexis, Another Highway, Dreamer, Feel It’s Time for Love, Gypsy Soul, People People, Someday Will Bring Our Love Home, Standing in the Rain, and You’re No Angel. Thanks to Reed for providing these so we can strum along with Tommy.