Pat Bohan - news

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Update!- Writing and recording have resumed on my first solo album- "Taking Back Chicago", which I started writing in Chicago in 2005, but has roots going as far back as 1994. Official recording begins in fall 2010 just after The Dearest sessions wrap up. A dry demo preview of the instrumental "Seven Breaths" will be available on patbohan.com on September 11th, 2010. You can also catch me solo or with friends in the PDX region.

New! Welcome to the 12x12... the story of the documentary of the diary of the making of "Taking Back Chicago"... in realtime. ish. Read the first entry and play the test recording of the new microphone I'll be using (Blue Yeti). Two unrehearsed tracks... one take each. The doorway to the 12x12 is here.

Steelbridge Songfest 2010 has celebrated another successful year in lovely Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin this June. You can hear Pat Bohan and Adam Mackintosh (among others) on "Steel Bridge Songs" recorded during SBSF5 in June 2009. The Last Dancers and The Dearest were among many performances at this years event. Click here to learn more.

A big hello to all the fine folks at our Last Dancers shows in Los Angeles in early April. L.A. was once home to me many moons ago, and it's always fun to get back there and noodle gleefully about. Big thanks to Greg Eklund (Everclear, The Oohlas, Storm Large) and David Graham (you name it, he's done it) for providing the flawless drum-n-bass.

Another huge thanks to all who attended Dante's for the Storm Large/Eric McFadden show at Dante's in Portland on April 21st. It was an unexpected treat on my end- being asked by Eric to supply the bass for his set moments before I was to purchase tickets just so I could attend. My sincerest thanks and praise to Eric, Storm, James, Greg, Scotty, Steve, Jenny, Stephanie, Doug, and all at Dante's for yet another memorable time.

In February, The Dearest began recording a new compilation of songs by Adam Mackintosh and Anna Sacks. Recording began on Valentines Day and will resume later this summer. My guitar tracks will be on the recorded versions and live (schedule permitting), but you can catch a stellar version of The Dearest on YouTube in Los Angeles earlier this spring.

"I seen that boy play the rock music"...

Official recordings:

The Last Dancers (Demo summer 2009, official release fall 2010)

Steel Bridge Songs (SBSF5 limited release- summer 2010)

Coming Soon! The Dearest, Pat Bohan "Taking Back Chicago"

The Last Dancers formed in Wisconsin in 2008 and currently reside in Hollywood, CA and Portland, Oregon. Core members are...
Adam Mackintosh (words & music, lead vocals, guitars)
Pat Bohan (guitars, bass, lap steel, backing vocals)
Dano Capristo (drums, engineering)

Additional members/friends/troublemakers are:

Anna Sacks (The Dearest): vocals, keys, perty dresses
Kelly LeMieux (Goldfinger): bass, tattoos
Rob Gay (Toivo): drums, rehearsal space acquisition
Addison Elliott (" ...you want the goldtop or gold Strat? Both? Ok.") bass, backup guitar matrix
Craig McClellan ("I'm bringing the big rig"): bass, devilish laugh
David Graham ("Guitar is awesome, but bass is AWESOME!"): awesome bass
Tony Dobro ... nicknamed Tony Dobro because his name is Tony and he plays a Dobro
Greg Eklund (Everclear, The Oohlas, Storm Large, napping): drums, percussion, amusing anecdotes
Stephen Ellestad (The Eugene Smiles Project, keg operation, button pushing): bass
Jeff Hammes (normal bass, big giant bass) normal bass, big giant bass
pat mAcdonald and melaniejane (Timbuk 3, Purgatory Hill, "our show isn't 'till later... we can swing by and sit in with you guys"): vox, harmonica, stringamajigs, keys, booty shakin'
Eric McFadden ("whatever you're doing, I just made it sexier"): geeetar
James Hall (Pleasure Club, Player/Kommander, Futura Bold, face-melting): guitar, keys, vocals, impossible fretboard fingerings
Wally Ingram (Stockholm Syndicate, Sheryl Crow, Timbuk 3, Bandallamas): drums and percussion
Scotty Lund (Agent Orange, session ace): drums and percussion, more tattoos
Jake Nyberg ("Ahm on TeeVee!"): drums and the wooden box thingy. Scotty has one, too. Cajon.

Personal Note: The musicians mentioned above make life worth living. I remember the above shows like they happened this morning. Thank you, friends!

The Dearest 2010-present: Same as above with just as much love.

In General:

acoustic and electric guitar (6,7, & 12-string), squareneck & roundneck Dobro,

electric & acoustic Bass, lap steel, lead and backing vocals

Live performance 1980-present: First payed rock-n-roll gig at 12 and then I stopped counting after 1000 or so. Also a former guitarist for: Ironchrist (Annapolis MD/Hollywood CA), Pinfold (Baltimore), The Voodoo Kings (Chicago), and twenty or thirty other bands that never bought Ferrari's.

Recording Arts & Sciences 1989-present: Omega School of Recording Arts (Rockville MD 1989)
Guitar Institute of Technology (Hollywood CA 1992)

header photo and promo shots by Jackie Matelski

Pat Bohan uses Fender Custom Shop Musical Instruments, Jerry Jones Guitars, and D'Addario Strings