John Ferenzik (born John Michael Ferencsik 13 October 1955 in

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...

) is an American musician,

keyboardist A keyboardist or keyboard player is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical inst ...

, guitarist and composer. He has performed most notably with

Todd Rundgren Todd Harry Rundgren (born June 22, 1948) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, multimedia artist, sound engineer and record producer who has performed a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of the band Ut ...

(on keyboards,

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

and

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gu ...

), and also Jefferson Starship (on keyboards,

, and

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

) and

Beru Revue Beru Revue is an American rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that played that city's club circuit in the 1980s and reunited in 2006. They debuted at Grendel's Lair in Philadelphia on September 6, 1981. Although Beru Revue had a strong an ...

(on keyboards and

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are ...

Discography

Solo Artist

*''Wild Man Of Borneo (album)'' (label: Rraxxo 1990) *''Devil's Playground (album) aka "ferenzik's Devil's Playground"'' (label: Rraxxo 1995) *''Wheel Of Nesh (album)'' (label: Rraxxo 1997) *''Zero Points For Zeus (album)'' (label: Rraxxo 2000) *''House Of Boris (album)'' (label: Rraxxo 2004)

With "Todd Rundgren"

*'' The Individualist'' (label: Ion Records 1995) *'' With A Twist'' (label: Guardian 1997) *'' One Long Year'' (label: Artemis 2000)

With "The Strapping Fieldhands"

*'' Discus'' (label: Omphalos Records 1990) *''

Wattle And Daub Wattle and daub is a composite building method used for making walls and buildings, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called wattle is daubed with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung a ...

'' (label:

Shangri-La Records Shangri-La Projects is a record label in Memphis, Tennessee that grew out of and split off from the Shangri-la Record store in Memphis, Tennessee, and released several of the seminal records of the early 1990s Memphis indie scene. It also manufa ...

, 1994) *'' Gobs On The Midway'' (label: Siltbreeze Records, 1994)

Miscellaneous Recordings

*'' Lynne Me Your Ears – A Tribute To The Music Of Jeff Lynne (Compilation)'' (Label: NotLame 2004) song title: "The Minister" *''The Jam Band Tribute to Frank Zappa (Compilation)'' (Label: CMH Records 2002) song title: "

Cosmik Debris "Cosmik Debris" is a song by American composer Frank Zappa, from his 1974 album '' Apostrophe (')''. It concerns the Mystery Man, a typical guru or psychic, offering to help the narrator reach Nervanna icfor a "nominal service charge," and the ...

References

External links

ferenzik.com (official website)facebook.com/ferenzikmusic (facebook website)myspace.com/ferenzikmuzik (myspace website)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ferenzik, John 1955 births Living people American rock keyboardists American rock guitarists American male guitarists American male composers 20th-century American composers Guitarists from New Jersey American session musicians Guitarists from Philadelphia 20th-century American guitarists 20th-century American male musicians