Preacherman

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Preacherman

Preacherman's real name is Tim Jones but he’s also been known as Midi Man, Ironing Board Band, and perhaps most notably, T.J. Hustler.
In 1979 as T.J. Hustler, Jones self-released one extremely rare LP, Age Of Individualism. In the years since, he’s released two even rarer CD’s as Preacherman, of which the tracks on this reissue, Universal Philosophy: Preacherman plays T.J. Hustler’s Greatest Hits are taken.
Jones was raised in Fresno, CA and started playing blues on the organ in the eleventh grade. He joined his first bands in 1963 before moving north to the Bay Area. In the early 1970s, Jones began performing around town with a groups Dawn and Sunset and Mystic Moods, recording with both. He handled organ duties within the groups, and modified his organ to also sound like a bass.
In the 1980’s Jones was a technician for IBM in both Las Vegas and San Jose where he repaired Selectric Typewriters and then word processors during the day. At night, he world perform in the Las Vegas lounges. Consistently fascinated by technology, and, somewhat of an engineer, Jones adapted a Hammond B3 organ to play a Moog synth with some of the organ's keys (some still played the organ) and also adapted the organ's foot controlled bass levers to play two Moog synth bass pedals (a failed item Moog made for a few years). Thinking he wasn't much of a live performer, he had a wooden puppet made that he named T.J. Hustler, and together with the puppet would engage in long philosophical soliloquies.

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