Junior Giant

Artist Information

Biography

Junior Giant is an authentic rock and roll band. New school meets Old school literally. Junior Giant is Spencer Linsley a New School Freestyle professional skier and his father Brian Linsley. Brian co-founded The Jim Carroll Band ATCO records circa 1980. Their hit song "People Who Died" is a classic song to this day. First signed by Rolling Stones This sets Junior Giant apart from all other up and coming bands and audience's know it and love it.
When you add in Skip Hardy on Drums a talent of the likes of Keith Moon or John Bonham and ground breaking Bass player JT Nebeker you have a 'killer' rock, pop and jam band.
Management: Paul Geary (Creed) Azoff, Geary, paul and Smith a Frontline/Live Nation Comapany

Instrumentation

Spencer Linsley - Lead Vocal, Guitars and Keyboards
JT Nebeker - Bass
Skip Hardy - Drums
Brian Linsley - guitars

Discography

March 2012- recorded 5 new songs with producer Warren Huart (recently producing Aerosmith)mixed by Tim Palmer U2 & Pearl Jam, CO5 Music, Winter Tour 2012 Ski Resorts and Spring 2012 Tour of East Coast
May- June 2012 'Jaded' on US Airways Inflight radio for 610,000 listeners, Sept 2011- Junior Giant's "Heyla" wins Best Song "Adult Contemporary Category" Malibu Music Awards .April 2011 a 12 week PR campaign to enhance name recognition of Junior Giant by VitriolMusic. "Heyla" JG's Music /Ski Video premiered on Artistdirect.com.The primary purpose will to be support late Summer/Fall 2011 touring. Any gigs associated with Sonicbids will be supported by this team. January 2011 Junior Giant released a single entitled "Hey La" to 80 Specialty Radio Stations. The album "True North" was released to 300 College Stations. "Hey La'' (the single) was selected to be played everyday on Six Flags Radio in the parks starting 8/20/10.
Junior Giant Live at The Gap Provo UT - The Born to Play Concert series celebrating the 40th Anniversary of The Gap
Pongid.net Internet Radio Interview and "Hey La"
Article in The Rock and Roll Report Canada featuring Junior Giant
Profile of JG in online magazine Skopemag.com
JG Invited to play The Midpoint Festival Ohio JG Invited to play The M.E.A.N.Y Festival NYC Emerging Artist Festival
. A First place winner of the Converse/Journey's "Get the Band Out of The Garage" (out of 4000 bands) 12/08. 50,000 CD's will be distributed exclusively in Journeys shoes stores (www.journeys.com) featuring "Beside You" April 09. Six songs in The Golden Tee 2010 Arcade game. Airpplay again "Hey la" on WBRU-FM Providence.
On 11/14/08 on CBS TV "Good Morning Utah" JUNIOR GIANT blew a few minds. JUNIOR GIANT was selected by MTV to open "MTV's Choose or Lose Tour" Salt Lake City. JUNIOR GIANT's 'Hey La' was added in rotation at WFNX 101.1 Boston September 1st. "Beside You' and "Hey La" are on Internet Radio, Outbound Music. JG is a 'featured band' getting airplay on XM Radio's The Radar Report Channel 43, Salt Lake City's X96 FM "Live and Local' and KRCL FM Salt Lake. Members of the band have also played on various major releases, including The Jim Carroll Band's ATCO release 'Catholic Boy' with 'People Who Died'. Heard in The Dawn of The Dead 2004, The Basketball Diaries w/Leonardo Di Caprio and Traffic the miniseries.

Links

• Facebook
• Twitter
• MySpace
• Artist Direct
• Skope Magazine - A2W- Junior Giant
• Video of Junior Giant @ M.E.A.N.Y Fest Oct 3 NYC
• Winners of Converse/Journey's Contest
• Junior Giant and MTV Choose or Lose Tour

Audio

• Heyla Master
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• Jaded_TP1
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• Our_Little_World_TP1 wav
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• Beauty_is_the_Eye_TP1
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• Lost_and_Found_TP1
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• Never Knows Best 10.21.11 Mix.Fix.M
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• Trouble On My Mind
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• RUNNING FROM THE FUZZ
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• True North 3-11
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Lyrics

• Hey La
• My Escape
• True North
• Running From The Fuzz
• Arrow of Love
• Junior New Soul
• Beauty Is The Eye
• Euphoria
• Stable Ground
• Jump & Clap
• Vampire Woman
• Our Little wORLD

Video

JuniorGiant music ski video

Photo Gallery

Press

• Junior Giant Premiere Music Video for "Heyla" on ARTISTdirect.com [+ Show ]
  

  Junior Giant is four-piece band fronted by 21-year-old music prodigy and pro skier Spencer Linsley a...Junior Giant is four-piece band fronted by 21-year-old music prodigy and pro skier Spencer Linsley and ARTISTdirect.com is premiering their video for "Heyla" today! The band's sound is a blend of upbeat indie rock with alternative guitar driven beats and catchy hooks. The band's youthful exuberance informs the lyrics and their dynamic live performances! Playing music and skiing professionally? I would expect nothing less than youthful exuberance to punctuate Linsley's music! He has the life and I'd love to be his assistant/publicist/bro!
  

• Musical Giants
  

  http://www.inthisweek.com/view.php?id=2246453

• Junior Giant 1st place in Converse/ Journey's Contest 50K CD's with Hey Love to be released via Journey's
  

  http://www.getoutofthegaragemusiccontest.com/contestants/winners

• JG Interview with Juniors Cave Online [+ Show ]
  

  http://www.juniorscave.com/JuniorGiant.html Check it out good interview, probably Sencers 15th fo...http://www.juniorscave.com/JuniorGiant.html
  
  Check it out good interview, probably Sencers 15th for the year

• Junior Giant Wins MTV Tour Slot
  

  http://soundtrack.mtv.com/the-big-break

• Snowbird festival is a big step up for Junior Giant [+ Show ]
  

  Snowbird festival is a big step up for Junior Giant By David Burger The Salt Lake Tribune Article...Snowbird festival is a big step up for Junior Giant
  By David Burger
  The Salt Lake Tribune
  Article Last Updated: 07/31/2008 08:47:57 PM MDT
  
  The average age of a band member in Junior Giant is 36.
  But that tells you nothing - or, possibly, a good deal - about the band playing Aug. 2 at the Snowbird Rock & Blues Festival.
  "We're the band with the two old guys and the two young guys," said Junior Giant drummer Giles Reaves.
  Junior Giant is a local alt-rock band that spans generations. Lead singer and guitarist Spencer Linsley is 18, and bassist J.T. Nebeker is 21. Also on guitar is Spencer's 56-year-old father, Brian Linsley; Reaves is 47.
  "We're budding musicians working with veterans and professionals," Nebeker said.
  "We're the potential and energy, and they have the experience," Spencer Linsley added.
  "And we know when to get out of the way," Reaves said.
  The elder Linsley and Reaves have been around the music-industry block. Brian was a founding member of the Jim Carroll Band in the 1970s. (Primarily an author and poet, Carroll wrote an autobiography called "The Basketball Diaries," later made into a 1995 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio.) Reaves is a studio engineer at Annex Recording in Draper, working most recently with Emmylou Harris.
  The band was launched last winter, after years of Spencer noodling around on the guitar and helping his father on recordings at the Annex under the guidance of Reaves. Spencer had written some songs,
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  and as he recorded a few demos with his dad, Reaves was so impressed he joined the band.
  Their first gig was a corporate Christmas party, but the band lacked a bass player. Spencer tapped his fellow Waterford School grad Nebeker to play bass, even though Nebeker had never held a guitar before. Brian taught J.T. briefly, and ever since, the two young members of the band have jammed for hours every day.
  Junior Giant has played at Kilby Court and the Waterford School Prom, but its biggest concert will be at 1 p.m. Aug. 2 at the Snowbird festival. "There's a lot of places we can't play because Spencer is under age," Brian Linsley said. "That's why the Snowbird gig is so big for us."
  The Snowbird Rock & Blues Festival features tonight's headliner, Bettye LaVette, the 62-year-old soul singer and recent Grammy nominee for her 2007 collaboration with the Drive-By Truckers, "Scene of the Crime."
  "My show is going to be a mixture of my entire career," LaVette said. "This is my job, which is keeping me healthy. It is an hour-and-a-half workout every show. If I wasn't doing it, I'd be a cripple. In lieu of aerobics and exercise, I do this."

• Junior Giant -2007
  

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtnzpDIXIg8

• Sonicbids Picks Junior Giant for Spotlight
  

  Week of May 18th

• junior-giant-premiere-music-video-for-heyla-on-artistdirectcom [+ Show ]
  

  Junior Giant is four-piece band fronted by 21-year-old music prodigy and pro skier Spencer Linsley a...Junior Giant is four-piece band fronted by 21-year-old music prodigy and pro skier Spencer Linsley and ARTISTdirect.com is premiering their video for "Heyla" today! The band's sound is a blend of upbeat indie rock with alternative guitar driven beats and catchy hooks. The band's youthful exuberance informs the lyrics and their dynamic live performances! Playing music and skiing professionally? I would expect nothing less than youthful exuberance to punctuate Linsley's music! He has the life and I'd love to be his assistant/publicist/bro!
  
  A little background about this snow pro: Music has been a part of Spencer's life since the age of four when he got his first guitar. He learned to play his Fender Stratocaster with his favorite song, Green Day's "Basket Case." At age five, he started playing piano and learned how to read music. At 16, Spencer began to write songs and lay down tracks in a local studio under the guidance of his father, Brian Linsley.
  
  Spencer's love of music ultimately led him to form Junior Giant in 2008 along with his childhood friends JT Nebeker on bass and Skip Hardy on drums, with father Brian Linsley on guitar. The band released their first album Blue Boy in 2009, and followed up with their latest, Truth North, in 2010.
  
  James Bond's 1977 classic film The Spy Who Loved Me provides the inspiration for the video for "Heyla." This clip was shot over four days at Solitude Mountain Resort ski resort and the end result is a fun filled video that pays homage to the unforgettable chase scene in the original film and ends with the band performing live to hundreds of enthusiastic fans dancing and singing along. Hooray.
  
  I love when music videos become a homemade mini movie. So should you. This one is so "bad" it's good!
  

• COOLTV
  

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Setlist

JUNIOR GIANT has 30 original 'hit songs' from which to compile a set list. JUNIOR GIANT will consider the occasion and venue and let loose with an exciting and dynamic show. Two 45 minute sets, one 90 minute set or the open jam as long as the crowd wants to go.

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