John Mizarolli Biog Guitar Lessons

Zen guitar virtuoso 2nd2none. Unsigned, free, true to rock'n'roll spirit. Gypsy nature is not destined for chains in a hypocritical corporate music industry now dying of greed. Until 'Beat It' Michael Jackson was not allowed on MTV - 1980. Van Halen made it racially acceptable! Have no doubt, now is the biggest musicians revolution in the history of the planet. You can't own music, only channel it. Rock on torrents. Some say, the best electric guitarist since Jimi Hendrix. Many 60's music people blocked off upcoming talent and sold out to the money machine with their 'winner takes all philosophy' cloaked in 'mystique & hippydom' Rise above race, class, creed, religion, status and allegiance to colors. Is 'institutionalized racism' alive and well in the british blues and rock music industry? If not, can you remember the last 'ethnic guitarist' in the UK to achieve serious success in blues and rock? A long silence occurs after that question! Hmmm... Beatniks, hippies, punks, grungers, metalheads, rappers.. Truth is the current world revolution doesn't rely on the music, film or book industry to express what people feel and want. Cyberspace is a psychic country where anarchists rub shoulders with big brother daily!

 

Guitar Lessons Online One of Uks leading guitarists. 4 years in the USA, then returned to the UK in 1978. Spent 2 years gigging, recording, touring and giving guitar lessons. Achieved fame in 1980 joining Ginger Baker's band 'Energy' touring Europe, UK and the Iron Curtain doing tv, clubs & arenas. As Ginger's lead guitarist he was singled out by europe's music mags as 'the revelation of the band' after 4 encores at a 15000 seater in Rome. John toured with the Kinks in "Jody St" featuring Henry Thomas, Brett Morgan and Noel McCalla. In 1978 John developed a unique and historic course of guitar lessons. It's ironic that in 1980 he was too busy to give Andy Summers of Police Guitar Lessons Andy Summers was relatively unknown then but was definitely influenced by Mizarolli's guitar sound (that jangly roland jazz-chorus chord vibe) When Gary Moore left Thin Lizzy, John met Phil Lynott to discuss joining, but decided that Ginger had more to offer in musicianship, so he stayed with the Cream's Wild Drummer, but was supported by giving guitar lessons to most of the nation. Learn guitar with an expert like John, 25000 other guitarists did!

In 1982 he toured with "Atomic Rooster" in the UK & Yugoslavia and guested on their last album Headline News, sharing guitar with Bernie Torme and Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd. Atomic Rooster flew on a private jet to Yugoslavia with Motorhead and the Ian Gillan Band. Lemmy stated of John's drunken flight "that's the loudest spic I've ever seen!" He guested on Jim Capaldi's album "Fierce Heart" with Stevie Winwood and completed a 6-week European tour with Ginger Baker in between his usual 7 days a week Guitar Lesson marathons

Between guitar lessons John's live guitar performances were compared to Clapton, Jeff Beck, Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen. Born in Fulham, London,  England he took up guitar at 7. He has been in bands since the age of 12. At 21 he left England for the USA and spent 4 years on the Californian music scene. Here he did endless gigs, tours and recording sessions gaining as much practical musical experience as possible across the musical spectrum. He was at the centre of the Jazz/Funk & Jazz/Rock movement in LA around 1974. John took guitar lessons from Caldera's guitarist Jorge Strunz, who developed John's Jazz awareness a great deal. He also gigged with names like Canned Heat, Big Joe Turner(The Original!),The Platters and was developed in the studio by Little Richard's bass player and keyboard player

Johns parents were from Cyprus & and emigrated to the UK in the early 50's. They left an island wartorn and soon became refugees during the 1974 illegal invasion. His roots were from many neighbouring lands as Cyprus is the crossover between Africa, Asia & Europe. He has bloodlines in Gypsy, Greek-Cypriot, Egyptian , Ethiopian & Italian

John's mother came from a small village called Leonarisson, his father was from another village in Kyrenia called Karavas. Both these villages have now been taken over by Turks. John's father left home at the age of 12 and became amongst other things a tailor by profession whilst learning music and acting. He played classical guitar, trumpet and mandolin and spent many years studying & reading pieces by Segovia and worked with some of the best composers in the Middle-East. He was also a Singer and travelled many places on the Island of Venus performing old cypriot folk songs. His mother came from a family of 13 that worked in tobacco fields as children. When she arrived in the Uk in the early 50's she worked hard in the factories and eventually took on the rag trade as well

John suffered greatly during the British Coal Pollution years between 1952 and 1963 when he had acute asthma for 10 years. He was a Great Ormond Street Hospital survivor and in 1 year over ¼ of a million British Children actually died in the 'Fog' or 'Smog' as it was called then. He was written off for dead on 3 occasions and eventually was cured when the British Government took him to France to clean his lungs in La Bourboule a famous cure centre for kids with asthma and eczema. His relentless resentment of corporate abuse since then has never died!

John learnt about guitar playing and giving guitar lessons from his father before he had any formal guitar lessons. He was taught to hear and experiment with Intervals at the age of 7. He originally wanted to learn piano but his father insisted he learn classical guitar so his mother found a local teacher by the name of Frederick Schiller who himself was quite a famous jewish Austrian actor/musician and appeared in film classics like 'Maigret' and the like.

At 12 John took up electric guitar, started playing local gigs with his 1st band 'The Light' covering Shadows, Beatles, Equals & Elvis Songs! He never gave many guitar lessons until his playing ability was noticed by the neighbourhood musicians, then it all changed! At 17 on saturdays, the house was packed with friends and musicians taking Guitar Lessons from Miz the Wiz, now teaching Hendrix and Clapton Songs. We are talking 1969, yes Mizarolli was teaching Hendrix then. As fate would have it, next door to John's school, legendary bands used to rehearse and John regularly watched rock legends like The Who, The Cream, Ten Years After, Manfred Mann, Pink Floyd, Spencer Davis Group in between class breaks! John reflects the 1st time I met Ginger Baker I was in my school uniform and we heard this sound like a UFO that had a magnetic-turbo effect on my brain. We went round to St Annes Hall, peeked through the window and I could see Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker rehearsing, of course they were not famous then! I instinctively tried to walk in the door to get a close look at this strange event, then lo and behold, the door opened and Ginger came out looking like what I recognized as a Beatnik and shouted "Cut Out Man, Cut Out Man". He scared the shit out of me and my schoolfriends and we ran away! .. ' That was probably the beginning of my fascination with real rock music & electric guitar bands, I was amazed, confused, mystified, awe-inspired & fascinated. Then came the 60's, no more said!