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Over the last several years we have developed a fair collection of tunes. We really don't do any live performances although you can see Hjylimar as the singer for Blue Daddy. We did Play as guest musicians at one of there gigs. We played three songs, "Cut Out My Eyes", "Ride'n With My Baby" and "Swallow". It Was alot of fun. Hopefully we will soon get our own gig and maybe have Blue Daddy as guests. We have some of our new stuff recorded, but sense I don't have much space on this web site I only have this one posted. It's an mp3.
Cut Out My Eyes
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Hjylimar started singing in open mic clubs in Seattle and quite often gets favorable responses from people with his original tunes. He joined a blues band "Nine Miles Of Bad Road" where he learned to sing blues. He then did back up vocals and percussion for a singer, guitar player Glenn Johnson. All this wasn't hard rocken enough for him so he joined Frank Parkers band " The Power Trip ". He left that band and helped Chris Curnutt put together what they called the "Starbucks Band", because they played gigs for Starbucks (the coffee people) parties.
Chris moved to Texas and after that Hjylimar joined Blue Daddy. He is still singing for Blue Daddy and if you click on there name any where in this web site it will take you to bluedaddy.net where you can find their schedule.
Hjylimar The Artist
You can't call Hjylimar just a singer. To find out what I mean, just go to www.hjylimar.com.
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About Myself
For the most part I just put bass to Hjylimar's stuff. I do write tunes, but Mr. Hinn hasn't learned any of my crap! I will have to start bugging him about that.(just a joke!) I started playing bass when I was eighteen. My older brother Bob played guitar sense he was seven. I always enjoyed listening to him play. He always seemed to be pretty good at it even when he was starting out. He ended up just getting better. He was undoubtedly an inspiration. I started playing bass and joined him in putting together a band that had no name. Sense Bob was kind of well known as a kick ass guitar player people just loved to hear him play, the rest of the band didn't matter. That was a good thing, because I sucked. I was actually surprised that he would let me play in his band. When we started out we had a drummer who's name was Tim...something. I can't remember his last name. (If anyone reading this remembers please let me know) He was Berry's boyfriends brother when she lived in that house on Phinny Ridge near Ballard. Ring a bell? It was around 1980 or so.
We ended up switching to Tom Hendrickson on drums and played several parties as that trio. Lots of Fun! Then we briefly got Kirby Soderstom to join us and formed Billy Saturn and Johnny Out. I think it was about that time Tom and I left that group and joined Kim Skillicorn(guitar lead vocal) and Steve Elertson(lead guitar) to form Gibraltar. I wish I had some recordings. I played for them for about two years. I left that group to form what I thought of as my own band with Bob Myestus(drums) and Victor Palmerson(guitar). I called it Relayer. That didn't pan out too much. After Relayer I joined back with my brother Bob, Kirby and Tom to form The Butchers. We made by far the most intense music I've ever been a part of. After being together for only two weeks we were playing gigs in the University District and Downtown Seattle. We then added Yuri Moshinsky as lead vocal to the band. Long story short, after one of those heated debates Bob left and The Butchers became Uncle Fester. We lasted as Uncle Fester for about a year. Then the whole thing fizzled. We split up and I was without a band for quite some time.
Bob and I would get together every once and a while to do some jamming, anytime we could find a drummer to jam with us. We would get together with Tom every now and then and play parties. Bob was at this time refining his style, learning more blues influenced by Stevie Ray Vaughan and tech stuff like Satriani and Alex Liveson. He was coming up with some new originals and recording them with help from Joel Perry and Kirby. He would get together with a drummer friend Bill Becker who was a very good drummer.
It was about this time Bob had left us. He loved hiking. And it was on one of his hiking trips on the Hamma Hamma Trail in the Olympic Mountain Range in Washington that he did not return. He had gone by himself on this trip, which was not to unusual for him to do, when he must have gotten himself into trouble on some ruff terrain. He died from a fall off the Brothers Mountain along the Hamma Hamma trail.
We all miss him very much.
Fast-forward eight years. Yuri starts getting ancy to play again and somehow gets Kirby, Tom and myself to put back together Uncle Fester. Although this time we call ourselves "YuroMental" . We end up cutting an EP and playing some gigs out in Everett WA until Tom decides to leave to pursue other endeavors.
There's more info in the YuroMental page.
Well, this is about as far as it goes, sense I'm ending where this page started.
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