Jeff Menteer "The Nature Of My Dreams" (USA) 

 

 

About Jeff Menteer

 

Jeff Menteer calls the Seattle area home. He was married here and his children were born and grew up here. Originally, he came from a middle class family that lived on the north side of Spokane, Washington a few blocks from one of the local public golf courses. He grew up with 4 siblings on a block where every other house contained a family with children so there were lots of kids to play with when he was young.

 

His introduction to music was via piano lessons and eventually clarinet in the school band but it was when he picked up the guitar that his life-long love of playing music started. This led to garage bands which evolved into playing in numerous rock bands that worked in clubs throughout Washington, Idaho, Montana and up into Canada. Then while in college studying music theory, he spent a couple years playing in a country band every weekend at the collection of clubs on the state line between Washington and Idaho plus did the guitar work for EWSU's production of the rock opera Tommy. While he was a poor student the allure of money grabbed him and he set off on a ten year odyssey that took him from working in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to the Persian Gulf side of Saudi Arabia and to travels through the Seychelles Islands, India, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia and the Philippines. He crewed on a 100-ton sailboat on an extended trip down the Pacific side of Latin America, transiting the Panama Canal into the Caribbean. On all his travels his guitar was his steady companion.

 

After he married, working and raising a family became his priorities though he still kept up his playing and songwriting occasionally playing a string of gigs with some friends. Finally when his children were in high-school he felt the urge to get back into playing out in the clubs and doing what he loved which was just “being a guitar player”. He plays gigs mostly with the award winning Seattle based Stacy Jones Band. He has written songs for and recorded 5 CDs with the Stacy Jones Band and has his newly released “The Nature of My Dreams” solo CD.

A consummate songwriter and student of the guitar, Jeff plays custom-built amplifiers and has a modest collection of Tokai guitars which he gigs and records with. Look for a section on his gear as the website matures.

Link To Samples Here...

 

Additional Artist Info... http://www.jeffmenteer.com/