Seth Andrew (AKA: Rev. Truman Goines - Bliggins & Goines), Songwriter, Singer, Pianist, Guitarist.
Seth Andrew played music as a child in the Sourland Mountain Region of central New Jersey, first taking trumpet lessons from the famed trumpeter, Ha [+]Seth Andrew (AKA: Rev. Truman Goines - Bliggins & Goines), Songwriter, Singer, Pianist, Guitarist.
Seth Andrew played music as a child in the Sourland Mountain Region of central New Jersey, first taking trumpet lessons from the famed trumpeter, Harold "Ain't Done Yet" Simpson, at age 3. At 6 years old, trumpet in hand, he left the Sourlands for New York City, where he lived under bridges in Central Park. Faced with finding a means to support himself, he was surprised at the numerous steel drum bands that played in the park on weekends and how well they did. He soon began building marimbas out of fallen oak branches, and discovered his propensity for perfect pitch, as he could look at a fallen limb and declare it "C#" just by looking at it. He soon rented hand-built marimbas to the music-lesson yuppies from Queens who descended on the park on weekends to make a little "pot" money, and later as he's says it" began messin' with the piano". His renown grew, and in 1964, was asked to join Thad Wheeler and Harcourt Yipple's traveling entourage as a vibe and piano tuner. He traveled extensively throughout Europe and Asia with Wheeler-Yipple, landing in Luang Prabang in 1971.
It was there he met, Xiang Ge Pton, she was Mao's voice teacher. Pton was a vocalist, specializing in epiglottal throat singing. Seth and Pton fell deeply in love, and in 1973 Seth left Hampton to live with Pton at her monastery in Fu Shang. It is there we lose touch with him, and we term this period (1973- 1985) The Lost Years, as we can only assume it was there, under the tutelage of Pton, that Seth studied Zen Buddhism, piano, and further developed his eclectic and spontaneous vocal style. He became ordained while in Fu Shang in 1984 and later at the Heart River Healing School in NYC in 1998. He turned up in Paris in 1986 playing piano at the Trois Amigos, thickly involved with voodoo and a singer named Patty Foo. Although a junkie, Foo recognized Seth's greatness, and urged him to get a job and cut a CD. The result was "Rumble, Rattle, and Roll", which was recorded in New York City in 1987.
When Patty Foo died in an electrocution accident from an ungrounded microphone in 1987 shortly after the album was recorded, Seth finally took heed of his lost love's advice, go
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