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About Me

How do you start writing these things. Here goes I'm a Drummer and I play in a band called Ravenheart I also play Bass Guitar but thats just for myself these days. I love Heavy Metal and Hard Rock. I started playing in the late eighties during the golden age of metal my first influences were a heady mixture of Glam bands like Poison, Motley Crue, Cinderella, Thrash bands and Mainstream Metal a la Iron Miaden, AC/DC, Judas Priest. I was briefly seduced by Speed metal in the early 90s and then Prog Metal later in the 90s I've never given up and never will. These days I listen to a wide range of Heavy Metal. The only things I can't listen to are sampled drums and cookie monster vocals. I was playing in a band about two weeks after I started, I was in five bands by the end of the first month. In one band I was playing bass guitar and the drums in the same practice. I now only play in one band at time as the hassle gets too much and the number of guys called Pete got too confusing. Three in one band! At a charity gig I played in three bands learning 60 songs in one week isn't fun. These days I just play the drums. I didn't mean to but I played the bass for 15 years and when I got a new kit it was because we couldn't find a decent drummer in the area. I started teaching the Bass Guitar when I was studying for my first degree (Biochemistry and Cell Biology)and I started teaching drums about 6 years ago. I haven't had much romance this year as I've been very busy studying for a teaching degree. Now I have the time(yay! I passed) I've found a women who is honest, intelligent, creative, artistic, generous, open minded, loving and doesn't threaten to smash my kit up every five minutes!

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Mike Mangini, Mike Portnoy, Tommy Alderidge, Vergil Donati, Billy Sheehan(already met him but he's cool) Steve Vai, Alice Cooper, Iron Maiden, Ronnie James Dio.

My Blog

It's been a while.

It's been ages since i wrote a blog and a lot has changed since then. All of it for the better. I am now engaged to Katharine Hemingway a wonderful artist and mother of two brilliant boy, Dominic and ...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:16:00 GMT

Tired but happy.

Another tiring week in work. I was working from 8 until 4 on saturday and then went straight to a gig i was playing at. Finished the gig at ten and spent most of the night awake as the adrenaline rush...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:00:00 GMT

Knackered!

Absolutely knackered today. Have been recording again and we only had a limited time as we could only get in and out of the practice rooms within 3 hours. This included setting up the equipment and en...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:19:00 GMT

Headaches

Wow what a head ache! I've just been wiring in a set of active pick ups into Frag's Bass Guitar. It should have been a piece of cake but the holes for the pots on his bass were metric and the new pots...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:31:00 GMT

Defretting a 5 string bass

Don't try this at home kids! Last week I took the frets of my 5 string (I'll post some piccies when I've got time) First of all I took the frets out using a potato peeler! Then I sanded the fingerboar...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 04:42:00 GMT

5 String Bass update

Hi everybody! I've just done some more customisation to my 5 string bass. I've added a Wilkinson active circuit, a Seymour Duncan Musicman Humbucker and a Schaller 2000 series bridge. All it needs now...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 12:55:00 GMT

Five String Bass update

O.K. Here we go. I've got some more bits for my five string bass; two Seymour Duncan humbuckers, a set of Gotoh machines to go with the detuner and a Wilkinson active circuit. I just need to pick them...
Posted by on Sun, 13 May 2007 12:59:00 GMT

Recording

I've just spent most of the day setting up to record, then recording and finally mixing the songs. How can it take six hours to rcord three songs? I now feel like crap my feet are killing me and as I ...
Posted by on Sun, 06 May 2007 11:34:00 GMT

Bass Project

I've ordered the pick ups for my five string (Seymour Duncans) and some new Gotoh machine heads I've just posted the first photos of the bass with the hipshot detuner. We had a go at recording today b...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 12:25:00 GMT

Video

This week we videoed four songs. Now we just have to get them from VHS onto DVD. Why is recording more tiring than gigging or practicing? We recorded for songs and it completely drained us of ene...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:55:00 GMT