Phone : 585.813.8113
E mail : john@johnbohnaudio.com
Feel free to get in touch with me anytime by phone or e-mail to talk about your project.
Born and raised in Batavia, NY, a small town in between Buffalo and Rochester, I've been involved in music as long as I can remember. Growing up, my parents always had this beat-up, yet in-tune, old upright piano and a record player in the back room of our house. I don't ever remember learning how to play it, I always just played the melodies that I heard on the record player. My piano skills never developed very far but it was my "gateway instrument". Around age 12 I picked up the guitar and I couldn't put it down. My first guitar was a cheap JC Penney acoustic that my parents had bought for my oldest sister in the mid-80s. This lead to playing in a countless number of local bands, most notably, the power-pop rock foursome "Joey Vicious". After being in the studio a few times with these bands I started recording on my own. After a few years and a bunch of records, I decided that engineering and producing was for me.
This is when I moved to Nashville where I started my new career interning at the world famous Masterfonics (formerly Emerald Entertainment). After paying my dues for a while I started assisting on sessions at studios all around town. While assisting I picked up some tricks from some of the best engineers in town and kept expanding my career by doing my own sessions whenever I had spare time.
These days I'm booking myself solid. I've worked with some great people so far and hope to work with many more for years to come.
Wilson Pickett, The Beatles, Mike Patton, The Who, Jeff Buckley, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Sam Cooke, Tom Waits, Tom Petty, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Colin Hay, Counting Crows, Butch Walker, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cowboy Junkies, Danny Elfman, Frank Zappa, Elvis Costello, John Zorn, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, The Little Willies, Living Colour, Masada, Queen, Stevie Wonder, Charlie Parker, Paul Simon, The Black Crowes, The Darkness, The Spin Doctors, Stanley Jordan, Steely Dan, Sufjan Stevens, Rilo Kiley, The Dresdon Dolls, Tom Petty, Tomahawk, Van Halen, Van Morrison, The Doors, The Chi-Lites, The Temptations, and so many more.