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David King

David King

About Me

" Fresh, smooth guitar grooves. We've got our eye on David King "
Sandy Shore - SmoothJazz.com


David has been playing guitar since he was 8 but it became a serious concern when, in his teens he started going to gigs at Glasgow's legendary venue The Apollo in the early eighties witnessing guitar hero's galore including Alex Lifeson, Angus Young, and Andy Summers
David has consumed all things guitar ever since including the Jazz genius of Martin Taylor and Pat Metheny and effects influenced players such as The Edge and Charlie Burchill of Simple Minds and the acoustic work of Tommy Emmanuel and Acoustic Alchemy. Having exhausted all possibilities in various bands he returned to his home studio and gained a degree in Media Music Composition recognized by the Film Music Institute of Los Angeles. David has just completed his debut album of guitar instrumentals encompassing some smooth jazz grooves with a hint of fusion and just for the hell of it the occasional big rock solo to !
The album, " Strangely Familiar " is now available from the very fine people of CD Baby - or the equaly fine people of iTunes - please click on the links below. David's own site www.davidkingmusic.net is now live. Further tracks from the album can be previewed at www.garageband.com where the song " I'll be back someday " has been voted Ambient Track Of The Day - please click on the link.Thanks for dropping by.
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Member Since: 8/13/2006
Band Website: davidkingmusic.net
Band Members: Just me.......
Influences: My earliest influences were all the rock guitar legends of the time. Alex Lifeson will always be numero uno but Angus Young, Michael Schenker, Eddie Van Halen and Andy Summers were always regulars on the turntable. Remember them ?? Turntables I mean !!
I saw Pat Metheny on a late night TV show - would have been around the days of the Travels album - I had never heard anybody make the guitar sound so beautiful. Martin Taylor also blew me away to with his asonishing technique.
Away from guitar players, I have always loved The Blue Nile - such perfect atmosphere from everything they ever produced.
Acoustic Alchemy have been a huge influence on my writing since I saw them in the late 80's on another TV show - TV was great in those days obviously !!
I continue to be influenced on a daily basis most notably by John Mayer, Tommy Emmanuel, Robben Ford, Larry Carlton - the list is endless. And there are just not enough hours in the day....................
Sounds Like: Alex Lifeson
Larry Carlton
Lee Ritenour
Pat Metheny
Andy Summers
Martin Taylor
The Blue Nile
Bruce Hornsby
The Rippingtons
Fourplay
Acoustic Alchemy
Record Label: What are they ???????
Type of Label: None

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Strangely Familiar - The Album.

David King - Strangely Familiar - the album. So it's taken 10 months - it has completely consumed my life but it's done and I'm here to share it with the world ! It's an instrumental guitar al...
Posted by David King on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:57:00 PST