Carl Jah

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Carl Jah
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Carl Jah (back row, second from right) as part of the band Dread Zeppelin at the Edwards Drive-In, Arcadia, CA 1989
Background information
Birth nameCarl John Haasis
Born Arcadia, California, U.S.
Genres Rock, reggae, heavy metal, hard rock
OccupationsMusician
Years active1976–present
Website carljah.com

Carl Jah (Carl Haasis) is an American rock musician and co-founder of the band Dread Zeppelin. He was the lead guitarist with the band from its founding until 1995, and returned for a period in the 2000s.

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Career

In 1989, Carl Haasis was hired by the members of Dread Zeppelin, a Led Zeppelin led by an Elvis impersonator. [1] Haasis, now Carl Jah, took on the role as the groups "Jimmy Page". [2] After appearing in National Lampoon's Last Resort in 1994 and performing a song for the end credits, [3] Jah left the band. Carl makes a guest appearance on Dread Zeppelin's 1996 album The Fun Sessions. In 2012, he released his first [4] solo album, Re-Purpose. [5] [6] The album was praised by Guitar Player and Toledo Free Press. [7]

In 2013, Jah had this to say about making the solo album: "I moved to Atlanta about four years ago. I was getting settled here and wasn’t in a band. My focus of late has been on songwriting, and I’m very interested in recording. I had a lot of musical ideas that weren’t right for a traditional rock band like I would normally play with and write for. Some of the music was from previous bands. I’d take a 25-year-old cassette tape of a song, loop a riff part that I liked, add all sorts of guitar parts and create an entirely new song out of it. That was part of the repurposement; 85 percent of the music is new and written for this album." [2]

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References

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