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Band Hot As A Pepper Live Entertainment Musicians

Versatile Vocalist Wanted – Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Hot As A Pepper has an immediate opening for a versatile vocalist!

We’re a dance and party band!!!!  Genres include Pop, Top 40, Dance Rock, Disco, Funk, Motown, R&B, Soul, Beach, and even some Jazz, Reggae or Country – what ever gets butts outta seats and on the dance floor.
We play bars, clubs, private / corporate events of all types and festivals.
We play A LOT. Mostly around the Upstate.

HAAP is in our 5th year, we have received awards and are always booked out months in advance.

Some young blood would be a welcome addition to this group!
If you play an instrument – you move to the front of the line!

You can do some homework by checking out our song list, videos, list of shows (past and present).

If dance music is your passion, then we want to talk with you!

Use our contact form for more information – send us links and tell us about yourself.

Here’s a few tunes from our most recent shows:

(She’s A) Bad Mama Jamma A
1999 F (starts in C)
24k Magic F
Angel / Joker F
Angel Eyes C
At Last – F
Back in Love Again – D
Badonkadonk – F#
Billie Jean – F#
Blurred Lines – G
Boogie Shoes – C
Born to be Wild – E
Brick House – A
Brown Eyed Girl – G
Cake by the Ocean E – SNA
Can’t Take my Eyes off You – E
Caribbean Queen – C
Carolina Girls D
Country Girl Shake it – E
Creep G
Desperado
Disco Inferno – B
Dock of the Bay G
Don’t You Forget About Me – E
Everybody Talks – E
Fame F (Fm7-Cm-Bb)
Forget You – C
Funkytown – E
Get Down On It – E
Get Down Tonite/That’s Way -F
Get Lucky – E
Give it to me Baby – C#
Hang on Sloopy G-C-D
Happy F
I Can’t Go For That – Fm
I Feel Good (I Got You) D
I’m Your Boogie Man – G
Into the Mystic – D#
Jungle Love Eb
Kiss
Ladies Night – Cm
Lady Marmalade G
Let’s Dance
Let’s Dance (D# ahhhh, A#)
Let’s Go Crazy
Let’s Groove – Easy
Magic Carpet Ride D
Man in the Box – E
Mary Jane’s Last Dance
Moondance
Moves like Jagger B
Mustang Sally C
My Girl – C
Need You Tonight – C
Never Tear Us Apart – A
One Thing Leads Another Bb
Perm – G
Play that Funky Music – E
Power of Love
Pride & Joy E
Proud Mary D
Purple Rain – A
Rollercoaster/Jungle Boogie C
Santeria – E
Satisfaction E/A
September
Shape of You – C#m
Sledgehammer – Eb
Smooth
Sugar – G
Super Freak – D
Superstition
Sweet Caroline B
Sweet Home / All Summer Long / Werewolves of London – D
Talking in Your Sleep – D
Thinking Out Loud D
Treasure – F
Twist & Shout – D
Two Princes
Two Tickets to Paradise A
U Honky Tonk Women G
U Rock this Town – D
Under the Boardwalk G
Upside Down
Uptown Funk D
Vehicle – Eb
Wanted Dead or Alive – D
Word Up – Gm
You Dropped A Bomb – E

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Bass Equipment Gear Guitar Instruments John M. Hoyt

OnBoard Research Corporation customer service is as awesome as their Intellitouch PT10 Tuner!

PT10 Mini Tuner from Onboard Research CorporationAs a musician who owns many guitars and basses, I also own many different types of tuners. One of my favorites has been the Intellitouch PT10 Mini Tuner, which tunes using vibration instead of relying on the audio from the instrument.

This is handy for tuning an instrument in a noisy environment, and does not require taking the guitar or bass out of the circuit at all. Sure, a rack mount tuner is nice, but I can’t pack a rack mount in the guitar case and take only a guitar with me, therefore I buy a tuner for each of my favorite axes and throw that in the case or gig bag.

The other day, I had the first problem in years of using these types of tuners. It was the aforementioned Intellitouch PT10.  The clip had broken loose from the body, and I considered my options…  Glue it or toss it. Then on a whim, I checked the www.tuners.com website and found that Onboard Research will allow you to send in your old tuner and a few dollars, and they will fix or send back a new one. I opted to give that a try.

It was a painless process (really painless for me, since my wife was kind enough to package up the old tuner, write a check and send it in for me!), and today, I received a shiny new tuner that works like a charm!

Kudos to a OnBoard Research Corporation for having a fine product to begin with, but even more so for supporting the products they sell! I will certainly be buying more as I acquire new instruments!

John

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Band Fun Greenville Hot As A Pepper John M. Hoyt Music Upstate

The search is on for the best guitarists / vocalists in Greenville / Upstate!

Our ad on Craigslist has turned up a number of potential members!

We have had musicians from all around Greenville and the Upstate contacting us and checked out a few of them already but have a ways to go I believe.

I’m compiling a database of these musicians and here’s the summary so far:

  • Vocalists – 2 (Do not play instruments)
  • Guitarists – 7 (only 1 is a “lead” singer)
  • Drummers – 9 (one is a “lead” singer)
  • Keys – 3 (one is a “lead” singer)
  • Other – 11 (We’ve had sax, trumpet, flute, conga and harp players contact us!)
  • Bass – 2 (I could switch to rhythm guitar)

That list is in the order of what we need most….   So, if you are reading this, and you are a vocalist, preferably one who plays an instrument, then you are on my “most wanted” list!

If there is anyone who has emailed and I have *NOT* contacted you in someway, then please try to reach me another way, through facebook for instance (John M. Hoyt or Hot As A Pepper), in case something is being lost in email.

I promise to get back with each of you as quickly as I possibly can!

If you are not willing to commit to AT LEAST one rehearsal a week, and one weekend gig per month over the next six months and hopefully TWO weekend gigs per month with as many as FOUR over the next year, then this is likely not for you.

Thanks everyone for the support!!!!

John M. Hoyt – Searching for the best of the fun and funky players in the Upstate!