Patrick Butler

Patrick Butler has a musical career that has spanned many styles. He began his career studying guitar with jazz guitar great Harry Leahey. He also studied jazz with the legendary James Spaulding and Trinidadian jazz guitar player Roland Prince. Butler recorded and toured with the funk band The Fatback Band, and appears on Fatback's single, King Tim III, considered to be the first rap song recorded. Butler has also recorded with bass player phenom Mike Watt, appearing on Watt's Ball Hog or Tugboat, and appears on Banyan's CD Anytime at All, drummer Stephen Perkins' acid jazz project.

Butler recorded and toured with the funk band The Fatback Band, and appears on Fatback's single, King Tim III, considered to be the first rap song recorded. Butler has also recorded with bass player phenom Mike Watt, appearing on Watt's Ball Hog or Tugboat, and appears on Banyan's CD Anytime at All, drummer Stephen Perkins' acid jazz project.

As a composer/author, Butler wrote a book, Pentatonic Flights, which uses the pentatonic scale as the basis of the harmonic structure instead of the diatonic scale.

Butler's bands include power funk trio Unstoppable and Celtic rock band Superkeltic. Current projects include playing "space guitar" in Dave Williams' nu-jazz band, TheMajicBulletTheory and participates as an annual attendee at Uli Jon Roth's Sky Academy.