Name? Brian Henke
Birthday? 3/12/55
Hometown? Born in Monterey CA, currently in Bay Village OH.
High school attended? Lakewood High School.
Former bands? DT and the Shakes, Ring of Fire, Skywave, Lighf
Iinstrument? Guitar
Gear, favorite instruments? Larrivee D-9 Cutaway is my main guitar. a custom made, 28 string, double neck
harp guitar called "The Dreamcaster" that was built in Madison Ohio by luthier Patrick Podpadec, and a 1971
Les Paul Deluxe.
Age you started playing? 13
Influences? Phil Keaggy, Pete Townsend, Steve Hackett, Steve Howe, Leo Kotke, Michael Hedges,
Beethoven, Lennon & McCartney, Mozart, Will Ackerman, George Winston, Joni Mitchell.
When was your first gig, and were you paid for it? Lakewood YMCA, 1970, and no.
What is your favorite piece of music to perform and why? At the moment, most stuff off Tree Of Life. It
reaches into the core of who I am.
Favorite venue to play? Akron Civic, Kent Stage, Severance Hall, Canterbury Coffee, The Mustard Seed
(especially on Sundays), Winery at Wolf Creek, Chalet Debonne. Everywhere I play, I like.
Who would you like to perform with? Phil Keaggy.
Artist you really like to listen to? Beethoven.
New artist you admire? Radiohead (that’s as new as I get)
What were your first three albums ever owned? Peter, Paul & Mary, The Brothers Four, The Beatles Second
Album.
Five CDs you can’t live without? Dark Side of the Moon, Déjà Vu by Crosby Stills Nash & Young, George Szell
Cleveland Orchestra, Beethoven’s Sixth, Stravinskys Firebird Suite.
Most embarrassing thing in your CD collection? 50-60 unopened CDs.
Favorite website? www.afterthegig.com
Favorite movies? Fantasia (both), ET, Arsenic & Old Lace, The Shootist, Made in Heaven, What Dreams
May Come, The Polar Express, Lord of the Rings series, Mary Poppins, Baraka, The Quiet Man.
Favorite books? Stranger In a Strange Land, Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Harry Potter series,
City and Way Station by Clifford Simak, The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe,
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, The Prophet by Kalil Gibran, All of the "Lost Cities" books by David Hatcher
Childress, Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren, If I Ran the Zoo by Dr Suess (the very first book I ever
read), Tales of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mistress Mashams Repose and The Once and
Future King by T.H. White and Cosmos by Carl Sagan.
It’s 1969, you’re 18 years old, and you have the opportunity to go to Woodstock. Would you go? Yes, with
my guitar.
What do you do in your day job? I play guitar full time.
Most tiresome request while playing out? Any request for a song that I wasn’t planning on doing anyway.
Most unusual request while playing out? To play naked at Starwood.
Favorite beverage at a gig? Cranberry juice at a bar, coffee or spring water at a restaurant. I don’t drink
alcohol at all.
Name two songs you’d love to see on your “To Learn” list: Songs that I’ve recorded and forgotten how to
play.
What is your advice to up-and-coming musicians? Be professional.
Email address: brianhenke9@att.net
Purchase Tree of Life CD at http://cdbaby.com/cd/henke08
Birthday? 3/12/55
Hometown? Born in Monterey CA, currently in Bay Village OH.
High school attended? Lakewood High School.
Former bands? DT and the Shakes, Ring of Fire, Skywave, Lighf
Iinstrument? Guitar
Gear, favorite instruments? Larrivee D-9 Cutaway is my main guitar. a custom made, 28 string, double neck
harp guitar called "The Dreamcaster" that was built in Madison Ohio by luthier Patrick Podpadec, and a 1971
Les Paul Deluxe.
Age you started playing? 13
Influences? Phil Keaggy, Pete Townsend, Steve Hackett, Steve Howe, Leo Kotke, Michael Hedges,
Beethoven, Lennon & McCartney, Mozart, Will Ackerman, George Winston, Joni Mitchell.
When was your first gig, and were you paid for it? Lakewood YMCA, 1970, and no.
What is your favorite piece of music to perform and why? At the moment, most stuff off Tree Of Life. It
reaches into the core of who I am.
Favorite venue to play? Akron Civic, Kent Stage, Severance Hall, Canterbury Coffee, The Mustard Seed
(especially on Sundays), Winery at Wolf Creek, Chalet Debonne. Everywhere I play, I like.
Who would you like to perform with? Phil Keaggy.
Artist you really like to listen to? Beethoven.
New artist you admire? Radiohead (that’s as new as I get)
What were your first three albums ever owned? Peter, Paul & Mary, The Brothers Four, The Beatles Second
Album.
Five CDs you can’t live without? Dark Side of the Moon, Déjà Vu by Crosby Stills Nash & Young, George Szell
Cleveland Orchestra, Beethoven’s Sixth, Stravinskys Firebird Suite.
Most embarrassing thing in your CD collection? 50-60 unopened CDs.
Favorite website? www.afterthegig.com
Favorite movies? Fantasia (both), ET, Arsenic & Old Lace, The Shootist, Made in Heaven, What Dreams
May Come, The Polar Express, Lord of the Rings series, Mary Poppins, Baraka, The Quiet Man.
Favorite books? Stranger In a Strange Land, Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Harry Potter series,
City and Way Station by Clifford Simak, The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe,
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, The Prophet by Kalil Gibran, All of the "Lost Cities" books by David Hatcher
Childress, Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren, If I Ran the Zoo by Dr Suess (the very first book I ever
read), Tales of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mistress Mashams Repose and The Once and
Future King by T.H. White and Cosmos by Carl Sagan.
It’s 1969, you’re 18 years old, and you have the opportunity to go to Woodstock. Would you go? Yes, with
my guitar.
What do you do in your day job? I play guitar full time.
Most tiresome request while playing out? Any request for a song that I wasn’t planning on doing anyway.
Most unusual request while playing out? To play naked at Starwood.
Favorite beverage at a gig? Cranberry juice at a bar, coffee or spring water at a restaurant. I don’t drink
alcohol at all.
Name two songs you’d love to see on your “To Learn” list: Songs that I’ve recorded and forgotten how to
play.
What is your advice to up-and-coming musicians? Be professional.
Email address: brianhenke9@att.net
Purchase Tree of Life CD at http://cdbaby.com/cd/henke08
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