John_DePatie

Los Angeles, CA, USA

As a guitarist/sideman John DePatie has backed up Nancy Sinatra and Leif Garrett, as a songwriter been on the Billboard Top 40 chart and on HBO, and as a bandleader performed under his own name in the US, Norway and Germany. He was asked to co-write Acoustimania with Wrecking Crew session legend Don Randi, co-wrote the Jezebel album for Cathouse Thursday (commissioned by Sonoton) with Will Faerber and Aaron Bagley, scored the full length cartoon film Seaper Powers, and has had other compositions used on PBS, The Voice, and in various films. Select recordings include: Nancy Sinatra's cover of the U2's “Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad” (alongside U2's Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen); “Good Jazzy Vibrations,” jazz versions of Beach Boys songs by Don Randi & Quest with special guest drummer Hal Blaine (which also includes the DePatie/Randi penned tribute “Brian Makes Me Smile”); “Walking Into A Crossfire” with Cathouse Thursday used in the film Hunting Lands