NAME: Jack
STAR SIGN: taurus
ROLE IN BAND: Guitar + voice
FIRST RECORD: devo
FAVE POP STAR: hendrix
TOP 10 FAVE SONGS:
01. 1983 a merman I will turn to be - hendrix
02. Waiting room - fugazi
03. Mayfair - nick drake
04. Welcome to the cruel world - ben harper
05. Root down - beastie boys
06. Don’t let me down - the beatles
07. Sitting on the dock of the bay - otis redding
08. Further on down the road - taj mahal
09. It stoned me - van morrison
10. My babys got sauce - g. love and special sauce
WORST NIGHTMARE: I don’t know, but one of the weirdest dreams I ever had was this one where I was feeding peanut butter to dolphins that would come sliding up the beach.
WHERE YOU WANT TO BE IN TEN YEARS: hawaii
MODE OF TRANSPORT: Bike + surfboard
LAST BOOK: Stupid white men - michael moore
FAVE SNACK: Avocado on anything
WHO IS YOUR HERO?
Tom curren and gary larson(the far side comics)
WHY WOULD I BUY YOUR RECORD?
Because you like songs that say: thingamajigsaw, bling bling, and blah
blah
blah.
ARE YOU SUPERSTITIOUS? sure
WHAT'S YOUR GREATEST VICE? Mochi ice cream

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Jack Johnson's name first traversed with the music scene when G-Love and Special Sauce chose Jack's composition "Rodeo Clowns" to be the first single lifted from their 1999 release Philadelphonic. "Rodeo Clowns" - on which Johnson also performed - made an impressive impact at radio, further raising Jack's profile… but still only providing the music community with a glimpse of Jack's scope, talent and story.

Jack Johnson has long been a huge figure in a world parallel to our musical one, making a name as a world-renowned surfer. Practically learning to surf as he learned to walk, the man has grown up on his board. Born and raised in Hawaii, Jack began surfing the universally revered and feared Pipeline when he was 12 - and by the time he was 17, he made the finals at the Pipe trials, becoming the youngest invitee ever to do so at the world's most prestigious surfing event.

Despite having scored a pro contract with Quicksilver before he was out of high school, Jack gravitated away from competition in favour of creativity. He left the island for the University of California in Santa Barbara, where he later graduated with a degree in film. Wasting no time in utilising his cinematography skills, Johnson racked up film credits on surf films and music videos, before leaving on a trip that took him across Europe in a camper van.

Returning to Hawaii, he reunited with old friends Chris Malloy and Emmett Malloy, to conceive and create the acclaimed feature, Thicker Than Water. Hailed as a return to the purist beauty of early surf cinema, Thicker Than Water was a landmark for Jack on two levels: First, it marked his most significant work as a cinematographer to date. Second, and perhaps even more importantly, it was during the scoring of the film that Jack Johnson found his musical voice.

Having played guitar for most of his life, Thicker Than Water marked the first time Jack Johnson would step up to the mic as a full-on singer/songwriter. Jack's soulful folk tunes, inflected occasionally with blues and hip hop flavourings, soon began circulating as bootlegs in all corners of the global surf community. By the time Thicker Than Water was named Surfer magazine's Video of the Year and its follow-up The September Sessions nabbed the Adobe Highlight Award at the ESPN Film Festival, Record Companies were wining and dining Jack in the hopes of signing this talented young musician.

In keeping with the ethos that guided him away from a pro sports career in favour of a creative existence, Jack opted to release his debut LP, Brushfire Fairytales, on Enjoy Records, an upstart indie founded by veteran A&R man Andy Factor and Ben Harper's manager/producer J.P. Plunier. Produced by Plunier, Brushfire Fairytales was an impressive debut on numerous levels: From the opening "Inaudible Melodies"-which seemed to boil Jack's personal philosophy down to a chorus of "Slow down everyone/You're moving too fast"- to the anthemic "Bubble Toes," Brushfire Fairytales turned many people across the nation onto Jack Johnson.

Brushfire Fairytales was released in January 2001 and soon made its way into the hands of the surf community who had been eagerly anticipating an official release of Jack's music. He was subsequently invited to open for one of his musical heroes, Ben Harper, on a four month U.S. tour, and Jack's album began to spread like wildfire among the enthusiastic, music-minded Harper crowd. By August that same year Jack began headlining and selling out his own club shows, and within a year of its release, Brushfire Fairytales had gone platinum in the U.S. Released in Australia in February 2002 on Modular Recordings, "Brushfire Fairytales" chartered a similar journey, with an extraordinary sell-out tour in June 2002, culminating in the album reaching Platinum status on the eve on the worldwide release of Jack's second album.

In August of 2002, Jack slowed down from touring and returned home to Hawaii to record his sophomore album On and On, which will be released worldwide on Monday May 5th, 2003. The new album was produced by Mario Caldato JR, best known for his work with the Beastie Boys, and features the same line up as Brushfire Fairytales: Jack on vocals/guitar, Adam Topol on drums, and Merlo Podlewski on bass.

On and On mixes heartfelt ballads of love and simple joys with more serious subjects of materialism, industrialisation, school shootings, offshore oil drilling, and war. Stand-out tracks include the first single The Horizon Has Been Defeated which features Jack's distinctive vocals across a bubbling reggae beat, the infectious Times Like These, and the rockin Holes In Heaven. The inner truth and social commentary that is evident in Johnson's early songwriting on Brushfire Fairytales has matured with On and On insuring Jack's critics and fans will not be disappointed with this follow up album.