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Joey Soplantila
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Joey Soplantila is a Dutch guitarist and composer, born March 8th 1974. Joey is best known for his self composed, performance on live jamsessions and instrumental music on YouTube, but he has also played on several other rock acts and musicians.
Joey begun to play guitar when he was 15 years old as an autodidact player (self-learning skills). On the age of 17th he went to a pre-school for conservatorium music. In the same time he had lessons by Jason Bouwens. Jason was his first real guitar teacher in the skills of ‘Flamenco’ and latin music.
Joey’s first guitar was an acoustic guitar ‘Contessa’.
This guitar was a gift from his grandfather, R.R. Soplantila.
On the age of 16th, he was getting his first electric guitar (Hohner Stratocaster) from his father.
Joey’s first band experience was when he was 16 years old (1990). He played in the band ‘Trinity’. This band was a rock & roll band.
After that he went to pre-school conservatorium and played in de college-band after an examination on age of 17th (1991, in classic music and popmusic).
In 1992/1993 he played in ‘Solo Band’ as lead guitarist. |
Solo Band was a cover band such popmusic.
In 1995 he was playing in ‘The Daylights’ such in popmusic and rock.
Then it was quite for more then 10 years.
The comeback was in 2008, when he begun to play as guitarist on jamsessions in Middelburg De Spot. He was working here as a volunteer jamsession leader/master for persons between the age of 15 till 25 years old. Also asked as guitarist for singers-songwriters on themes.
Meanwhile he went to a gothic/metal rockband ‘Starlit Nights’ as a guitarist.
In 2009 he was asked to play funk, soul and r&b for A&D Projects as a guitarist.
Where Joey’s contributions to others' material has been constrained by the largely rock, funk, soul or popmusic of those bands and jamsessions, his own material is considerably more esoteric. You can see this on youtube account:
www.youtube.com/user/creationweb
His own recordings demo CD’s includes:
Trilogy of Brainstorm (1995)
Snakebite vs Dragon (1999)
Respect & Honor (2000)
Joey likes to play on electric RG (rock) guitars with floyd rose element or floating tremolo and toplocks. This because he likes to play often with his tremolo while playing guitar on flageolet (such as screaming sound).
His interests lay down on Ibanez guitars.
The influence of Joey are: Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Reb Beach, Patrick Rondat and Richie Sambora.