4 Thursday, March 23, 2017 Island Beat Hawaii Tribune-Herald 6 p.m. Saturday and admission is $40 general, $55 gold circle. Tickets are available at: Hilo Guitars, CD Wizard and Hilo Music Exchange in Hilo; Keaau Natural Foods and Keaau Music Exchange in Keaau; Taro Patch Gifts in Honokaa; Waimea General Store on Parker Square; Sound Wave Music and Kiernan Music in Kona; online at lazarbear.com; and by calling 896-4845. Kimock is a frequent musical visitor to the islands who says his time here has “sort of melted into a continuum of Hawaii experience.” Many of the greats he’s shared the stage or studio with are part-time islanders, including Taj Mahal, Bonnie Raitt and Todd Rundgren. Others he’s played with include Angélique Kidjo, Buddy Miles, Derek Trucks, Elvin Bishop, George Porter Jr., Joe Satriani, Jorma Kaukonen, Little Feat, Nicky Hopkins, Norton Buffalo, Papa John Creach, Peter Frampton, Phish, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Stephen Perkins, Steve Winwood and Warren Haynes. As evidenced by the aforementioned list, Kimock’s playing style is gloriously unbound by genre. “There’s so much good music out there, in so many different genres and styles all over the world and throughout recorded history. I’m 61, and I’ve had my nose on some kind of guitar grindstone since I was a teen,” he said. Asked about his musical touchstones and influences, he replied, “Oh, boy, we could spend all day doing that.” “My formative listening, especially when I was a kid, was second-generation electric blues, a lot of British invasion — Eric Clapton, Peter Green. As far as American players, Roy Buchanan, Johnny Winter, stuff like that. As I got more into it with the early American blues players, the three Kings (B.B., Freddie and Albert). Also Jerry Garcia and John McLaughlin. You know, everybody.” Kimock singled out the late Buchanan, an Arkansas-born, rural California-bred bluesman as “a primary influence on me, for sure, and on Garcia, as well.” “That said, back in the day, everybody in the Bay Area were getting their asses kicked good and hard by Mike Bloomfield. He really raised the bar for all the guitarists in the San Francisco scene when he showed up, because that guy could play.” Kimock also has played the Hawaiian lap steel guitar for decades. “I listen to Jerry Byrd, King Benny Nawahi, the old classics — if somebody’s playing the steel, I’m paying attention,” he said. When contacted by the Tribune-Herald, Kimock was busy in the studio with the seminal San Francisco band Ace of Cups, which in the 1960s was one of the first all-woman rock ’n’ roll outfits. “It’s amazing the people they asked to play with them — Buffy Sainte-Marie, Taj Mahal. I have an emotional attachment to it because of the San Francisco connection,” he said. Kimock just finished up a recording project of his own, as well, produced by Widespread Panic’s Dave Schools. “There’s nothing more I can do. It’s going to be mixed and mastered,” he said. “A couple of years ago, I did a solo record of kind of personal and introspective soundscape called ‘The Last Danger of Frost.’ It’s very naively psychedelic. It will always be one of my very favorite things I’ve done. I thought it would be a good idea to take some of those concepts and bring them to the stage. So I got some help — myself, my son, John Kimock, on drums, Bobby Vega and Leslie Mendelson. It evolved into sort of a songwriting project. And this is that record. It’s ‘The Last Danger of Frost’ fleshed out with a whole lot of other input and influences. “I don’t know what the timeline is for getting it out, but it will be vinyl.” According to Kimock, there’s not yet a working title for the album. “There are a couple of things under consideration, but it’s not too late to win a free copy in a ‘name the album’ contest,” he quipped. Email John Burnett at jburnett@hawaiitribuneherald. com. KIMOCK From page 3 Courtesy photo Don’t miss Steve Kimock and Friends (keyboardist Jeff Chimenti, bassist Bobby Vega and drummer Wally Ingram) Saturday night at Honokaa People’s Theatre. General admission is $40, with gold circle tickets for $55.
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