Jeff Patterson's Music History

What follows is a brief history of most of the musicians and artists I've had the pleasure to work with over the past 30 years of musical adventures. If you didn't make the list I apologize. I'm attempting to update and expand the list as I dig thru the archives.

• Groups and Artists performed with:

  1966 - 1976

  • Umatilla Sidewalk: This was one of the first groups I was ever in. I was 11 years old and the other members of the band were all about 17 years old. We played for high school dances and private parties. We were 1st place in a Battle of the Bands contest and won a trip to a recording studio where I did some of my first recordings with a band. This band was great fun, Don Zinter-guitar, Jim Hart-organ, Mike Carter-vocals, Gary Frasier-bass, Ron Ridenower-bass, guitar and vocals, and Mike Fitzpatrick-guitar. 
    
    
  • Purple Jade: I joined this band to replace another drummer -Tom Moore. We continued to work through my Junior High School years. I worked very hard on developing a style. The band was led by guitarist-singer-songwriter Ron Becker.
    
    
  • Stonehenge: Purple Jade went through some personnel changes and evolved eventually into Cottonwood. This band had mostly the same lineup as Purple Jade, but included Randy Tyler, who was later replaced by Randy Kline.
    
    
  • Cottonwood: This three piece group was quite successful, we worked a lot, and made a fair amount of money for some High School kids. We played every weekend somewhere in Southern Oregon or Northern California. The group was Ron Becker, Randy Kline and myself.
    
    
  • Hank Allen: Hank was a country singer who helped define country singers for me. He played his way out of the Army and into country music history. Hank was a one of a kind player, traditional country music to the end.
    
     

    PAX

    
    
    

  • Pax: This group was the band during my Senior year of High School. We were a popular local band and did some traveling around Oregon. Pictured here, Denny Woolsey- bass, Lyle Annis- guitar, Jeff T Patterson - drums, Jim Buckles - drums and percussion, and off camera, Bob Duke - keyboards.
    
    
  • Lyle Annis: Lyle was one of the members of Pax, and went on to also play for Johnny Golden and the Family Jewels, The Billy Hayes Band, and The Mechanix and many other bands.
    
    
  • Bob Duke: Bob, a keyboard player was also in Pax, he and Lyle continued to work together for many years. He now performs regularly with Suzanne Lee Price. They frequently play Reno, Lake Tahoe, and have done several USO tours.
    
    
  • Ryder: While still in High School, I began to perform with college groups based out of the nearby town of Ashland, Oregon. This group was one of those bands that were constantly evolving. We often featured two drummers, and two guitarists. In fact during these years I often worked in bands with more than one drummer. This was a blast and great for developing your time and style. Some of the many musicians that played with this group were Jerry Mulkins, Steve Elmer, Don Patterson, Lance Barnes, David Janssen, and several others over the years.
    
    
  • Jerry Mulkins: I began to move away from pop music at this point and into the area of Jazz and Blues. Jerry was a great guitarist, and more or less the leader of the band Ryder. We also began to explore more and more complicated forms of music, and continued to work steadily.
    
     

    Bee Bumble and the Stingers

    
    

  • Bee Bumble and the Stingers: Before we became Johnny Golden and the Family Jewels, we were Bee Bumble and the Stingers. I think someone was already using the name so we changed it.
    
    
  • Johnny Golden and the Family Jewels: With Dave Janssen playing the role of Johnny Golden, the Family Jewels was the first post High School band I was with. The band was very successful, capitalizing on the 50's Rock and Roll Revival craze that swept the nation for quite some time. I was in and out, and back in this band. This was a very unsettled time of change for me.
    
    
  • David Janssen: Dave and I go way back together and have performed in lots of different situations and lots of different groups. Today we occasionally write together and hope to do more writing and recording in the future. Dave now teaches music on the Island of Guam where he makes his home. Dave writes and records children's music as well as contemporary pop and religious music.
    
    
  • Steve Elmer Group: Steve and I have worked with one another in many musical settings. Steve worked with Dave Janssen to form the predecessor group to Johnny Golden and the Family Jewels, the Original Bee Bumble and the Stingers. Steve writes and performs regularly with a group in the Ashland, Oregon area.
    
    
  • JA Starr: I backed up this extraordinary female singer with a group of other west coast musicians from Ashland, Oregon, and Los Angeles, California. We did an out door summer tour, it was hot, dynamic, and that band really rocked.
    
    
  • Skat: I played as a percussionist, and vocalist with this small group of very experienced and veteran players. The other drummer had played at the Fillmore West with a group called the Neighborhood Children.
    

  1976 - 1986

With the Hurrman Burrman Band - 1981

• Me: This was a group based out of Eugene, Oregon mostly built around original songs by David Janssen. Dave wrote lots of songs during this period and we did lots of recording. This was also the group where we had some of our first Radio Airplay.
  
  
• Lane Community College Concert Band: Your typical Community College concert band. This is where I began to learn to read sheet music.
  
  
• Lane Community College Percussion Ensemble: We had about eight drummers under the direction of Nathan Cammack. This was exciting music, from an exciting group of players.
  
  
• Solid Foundation: This Gospel group did lots of recording and sold quite a few albums, mostly in Canada. We worked with a top notch recording engineer by the name of Jim Gaines. This is where I really began to learn the ins and outs of the recording studio.
  
  
• The Platters: I worked briefly on a very successful tour and some Las Vegas dates with the World Famous Platters. the Diamonds rhythm section was hired to play as the backup band for the Platters.
  
  
• The Ink Spots: We performed with the Ink Spots at an Officers Club on the Naval base in San Diego, California.
  
  
• The Coasters: We played several different dates with the Coasters, in Las Vegas, Nevada and Del Mar, California.
  
  
• The Merrils: We recorded an album by the same name. This couple sang Gospel tunes and performed widely throughout the US. They had both sung and toured with The Continental Singers earlier.
   
• Les Addison Group: This group was put together often on short notice to pick up some extra money and entertain some folks in some out of the way Rock and Roll bars.
  
  
• Gary Frazier Group: Gary and I went way back to the beginnings with the Umatilla Sidewalk, and then later with his group which had an odd combination of Country and Jazz influences. A creative association of old friends.
  
  

The Diamonds The Diamonds: I worked and toured all over the West Coast and South East Asia with this group. The leader of the Diamonds, John Felten was killed in an airplane crash in Northern California just after we had played in Reno, Nevada. We picked up the pieces and continued for some time until Nat Goodman, the Original producer of the Diamonds hit records died of a blood disease. After that, legal disputes arose over rights to use the Diamonds name and it was tied up in the courts for years. Pictured from left to right: Bob Duncan, John Felten, Dave Janssen (back), Ron Neuman, and Don Wade.

• Lou Christy: We performed with Lou Christy in the Shake, Rattle and Roll show at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas.
   
• The Imperials: This group, minus Little Anthony, was also on the bill with us at the Tropicana.
   
• Western Express Band: I engineered an album called Country Cooking with this band. A good strong band doing popular cover tunes of several country hits.
   
• Janice K. Feagin: Another Gospel Singer who wrote all of her own material. I engineered her project at a recording studio in Southern Oregon called Little Oak Sound.
   
• Rosie & Neila Moore: The Moore family owned Little Oak Sound. I engineered several projects for both Rosie Moore and her Sister Neila Moore. Both of them were very creative and talented song writers.
   
• Suzanne Lee Price: An exciting and talented young singer. We did a tour of county fairs all over Oregon one summer and opened for comedian Rich Little, at Mac Court in Eugene, Oregon. Suzanne was just 15 years old at the time. She performs often in Reno and Lake Tahoe. Suzanne Lee Price and Bob Duke have been performing together for the last several years. Suzanne and her band have played several dates in Europe and the Middle East.
  
  
  

SUZANNE LEE PRICE	JEFF PATTERSON

JON COPPLE	OWEN JOHNSTON	NEIL COPPLE

Marty Davis Show: Another country singer, very popular amongst country music fans all over the west coast.

1986 - 1996

• George Fox College Concert Band: This was an even more talented group of young college musicians under the direction of "Doc H," or Dr. Dennis Hagen. I worked with this group for about two years. I spent  a lot of time playing the timpani.
  
  
• George Fox College Jazz Band: This jazz band was comprised of some very good horn players directed by Dr. Bob Lauinger.
  
  

  George Fox College Campus Album Project "No Turning Back"

  
  
• Lavonna Zeller - Williams: An extraordinarily gifted Gospel Jazz Singer Songwriter. We worked on an album for her and both appeared on Campus Album Projects at George Fox College.
  
  
• Dayspring: I worked on a couple of Album projects with Dayspring, a college group from my Alma Mater, George Fox College. One album was done live and another was a studio effort.
  
  
• George Fox College Orchestra & Chorale: A mixture of college and community personnel creating some of the most beautiful music this side of Heaven. Directed by Dr. John Bowman.
  
  
• New Hope Community Church Orchestra & Choir: I played almost every other Sunday for about five years at this Church in the Portland area. This is one of the bigger churches with a congregations somewhere around 5000 members. I shared the drumming duties with an excellent percussionist named Mike Charles. We would alternate every other Sunday and then both play together for special events.
  
  
• New Hope Community Church Singles Worship Team: This group was small, but had a very powerful and effective musical ministry.
  
  
• Laird Halling: Laird was the Orchestra Director at New Hope Community Church when I was there. He had an special gift when it came to arranging. His work was truly appreciated by everyone who heard him. It was a tough job, but Laird always managed to pull the orchestra together and help them sound great.
  
  

1996 - 2000

• The Quiet Years: I spent a few years just working, writing, and teaching lessons privately. This was a good time of inner musical growth. During this time I also began putting together my small home recording studio. Working with my students was very good. To the many of you I've had the opportunity to share my love for the drums with. Thanks and Best Regards to each of you.

 

2000 - 2007

• Grace Bible Fellowship: Music Leader Ed Knox of the well known Gospel group, The Knox Brothers, helps direct the efforts of some of the finest Christian Musicians in the Willamette Valley. This is an effective music ministry that is making an impact with the Gospel Message in Contemporary Christian Music and Song.  This group has recorded some worship song tracks for use in church worship services as backing tracks for when the full worship band is not available. Bumper music provided for Radio Program -- Journeys In The Word on KWIL (790am)  radio
  
  
• Barry Bilderback Trio: This is a traditional jazz group combining the talents of keyboardist Barry Bilderback, bassist Tory Doerkson, and Jeff Patterson on drums doing mostly jazz standards with a blues foundation.

Barry Bilderback Jazz Trio with Sapphire - vocals Barry Bilderback - Piano; Tory Doerksen - Bass; Jeff Patterson - Drums

 

 
• Theater of Faith: This is a group of Musicians and Actors doing a "Tonight Show" and "Late Night" format to interview interesting guests, music and skits to entertain and share the Gospel

• Champion Players: This is a Prison Ministry group made up of many of the same people involved in Theater of Faith. This group goes into the prisons and brings a strong Gospel message through music and theater.

• Albums Recorded:

  • The Merrils
  • Western Express Band -- Country Cooking
  • Janice K. Feagin -- Peace of Mind
  • Steve & Steve -- Gotta Give Thanks
  • Highland Troubadours #1
  • Highland Troubadours #2
  • George Fox College -- No Turning Back
  • George Fox College -- Reach Up
  • Lavonna Zeller
  • George Fox College Dayspring -- Rock of Faith
  • George Fox College Dayspring -- Live
  • New Hope Community Church -- Sounds of Hope
  • New Hope Community Church -- Reach to the Future, 20th Anniversary Album
  
  
  

• Demos/Singles Recorded:

  • David Janssen
    • Told You Twice
    • Up Here With Me
    • Marshall's Madness Suite
    • Don't Tell Me I'm Crazy
    • Moon In My Pocket
    • I Always Wanted To Be In An Old Cartoon
    • You Better Wake Up
    • I'm So Afraid
    • Ever In A Niche
    • Mr. Doorknob
    • Gotta Get Married
    • One Less Date
    • Another Hotel
    • She's My Other Girl
    • Gotta Lotta Love
    • Clown Song
    • I'm A Living Dream
    • Don't Let It Slip Away
    • You Always Write The Same Song
  • The Mechanix
    • Fightin' For Your Love
  • Connie Josephson
    • Hello
  • Rosie Moore
    • Jungle Inn
    • Danny's Song
    • Experiments Gone Wild
    • Glad I'm Alive
    • Free Spirit
    • Mezmerized
    • You Got Me Hangin
    • Lily Snow
  • Neila Moore - Neuman
    • Leave It In His Hands
  • Johnny Golden
    • You Never Make Up Your Mind
  • Johnny Golden with Suzanne Edwards
    • You and Me
    
    

• Hypnotic Tapes Recorded:

  • Louis Livadais
    • Be More Creative
  • Jack Schwarz/Alethia Foundation
    • How to Stop Smoking
    • Better Performance in Sports
    
    

• Songs Written By Jeff Patterson:

  • I'm a Lonely Man
  • Give Me Just a Little More Time
  • Island Song
  • I'm So Stupid
  • John 16:24
  • Waldenville
  • 905 River Street
  • Glad To See You
  • TaleSpinner
  
  

• Songs Co-Written By Jeff Patterson & David Janssen:

  • You Better Wake Up
  • You Always Write The Same Song
  • Tumon Bay
  
  

• Engineers & Producers:

  • Chris Wood
  • Jim Gaines
  • Rob Perkins
  • Ron Neuman
  • Tim Greenidge
  • Dave Maurer
  • Maury Macey
  • Barry Hagen
  • Tim Greenidge
  
  
  

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