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Butch Watson
Guitarist, Songwriter, Groove writer, Sound
Charles "Butch" Watson… Guitarist, Songwriter, Groove writer, Sound
Appears on:
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Parliament/ Funkadelic : Butch performed with Parliament while in
high school
Quazar *Arista#1307 Re-released 1991, NYC
a. Guitarist/composer "Working on the Building"
b. Album was #10 on USA R&B Charts
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Catherine Lara “Coup d’ Feel” CBS SONY/SONY France SMM 501480 2 © 2000)
a. Lead Guitarist
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Catherine Lara Catherine Lara Collection Or (Columbia 471266-2 © 1992)
a. Lead Guitarist
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Wilson Pickett Warner Bros , EMI #062-86025 LP “ I Want You” Montreal/NYC
a. Composer “
b. Wrote the song “Granny” with Wilson Pickett
c. Wilson Pickett is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Dub U 5 “World Beat” World Records #WRC4-4939, 1983
( Associate Producer) Montreal
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Talking Heads / “Stop Making Sense “ VTR RCA/ Columbia#60510 DVD”directed by Jonathan Demme /LA/NYC
a. Assistant Monitor Sound Engineer
b. The Talking Heads are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Talking Heads (video special edition) DVD #PALMDV3013 directed by Jonathan Demme LA/NYC
b. Assistant Monitor Sound Engineer for all shows of the “Speaking in Tongues” North American Tour culminating in the “Stop Making Sense” movie at Pantages Theater in LA
c. Supervised all Monitor Sound Technicians for original Sound for the movie “Stop Making Sense”
movie
d Jonathan Demme went on to direct
"Philadelphia", "Silence of Lambs" , and the "Manchurian Candidate"
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Tom Tom Club/ “Stop Making Sense” VTR RCA/ Columbia#60510 DVD” directed by Jonathan Demme LA/NYC
a. Assistant Monitor Sound Engineer
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Free Time “The Beginning” Polydor International /Sung Eum Records #9205-G188 Korea 1992, produced by Yong- Jin Jeong
a. Lead Guitarist
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Uncut Funk ( Compilation CD)1997
( Polygram BMG France) Butch Watson Appears as a guitarist and songwriter on the album with: Parliament , George Duke, Sly & The Family Stone , Kool & The Gang , Lonnie Liston Smith, Headhunters, ,Larry Young's Fuel Cameo , Bootsy's Rubber Band, War , Ike & Tina Turner and Quazar (2) “Working On The Building” by Quazar (3:43) Written by C. Butch Watson, Glen Goins Guitars: Harry Watson, Butch Watson, Glen Goins
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In 1990, although an instructor at YBM [ELS Chongno] and Yonsei University in Seoul, Republic of South Korea, Butch performed [KBS TV] and recorded an LP album "The Beginning" ( Polydor/ Seungum] with Korean movie soundtrack composer, Yong-Jin Jeong. In 1992 he moved to Japan. He has performed with Japanese singers Mochida Kaori and Amuro Namie. In Japan, Butch Watson has also taught International Communications at Waseda University Open College (Tokyo) and Kanto Gakuin University (Yokohama). He also teaches and writes music in his guitar studio everyday. Butch diligently studies Kendo ( 4th degree Black Belt/ Japanese Fencing/ Zen Nihon Kendo Remmei ).
He gives thanks to all of those who have came into his life...
Emerald City
Over the Rainbow
Kansas
Photo below of art picture of Butch Watson Model 6 Jackson Charvel Stratocaster submitted by Harry Watson.
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