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Pekka

Blasphemy is a victimless crime.

About Me

I just created this myspace to let people hear my own music and maybe even to communicate with my friends. I will post mp3s later, ideally soon. Its not just metal, I also compose jazz-ethnic-ambient-blues-classical-etc-whatever-influenced stuff. Whatever happens to come out naturally at the time. In public I only play metal and I wear only black, because I have no incentive whatsoever to make people think I was gay.
Music Info:
As number one, I am a guitar geek, but also I am an open minded musician. I got my first guitar when I was 3 but I seriously begun playing music around 8 years old or something, on both keyboard and guitar. I got lessons from the leading jazz players in Finland, too many of them to start listing here, and also studied in a music high school. I mostly practiced jazz theory and technique, although I always was a big fan metal. I started giving guitar lessons 12 years ago and might still be up for some extra money. Hell, I will go all they way for just a cheeseburger, any given day. I played in a number of jazz/prog projects and when I moved to London I joined Brazilian band Downcast, which broke up when most of the dudes moved back to Sao Paolo. I really don't care about what I been doing, more about what I AM doing.
Gear stuff:
At the moment I have Kramer, Charvel, PRS and Brian Moore guitars. Brian Moore is a 7 string. I like neck through body and PRS guitars. Basically, anything neckthru and with 2 humbuckers, I will like it. Otherwise, RAUS! I use Line 6 amps and TonePort for recording. I also play keyboards, and actually, if anyone has a spare +5 octave keyboard let me know. (I never brought my keyboard gear to London)
VX WARHEAD
Now it is official!!! It is called VX WARHEAD. We are forming a metal band with my dear friend Arno, and we are looking for a bass and drum players. Drummer has to be really awesome but I am not naive enough to pretend bass is a real instrument, so just some dude with a bass would be good enough. Being black is a bonus! At the moment we agreed this band will be twin guitar-riffing "metal", something in the style of Megadeth. Why not? Mustaine is great and there are no that many proper guitar bands anymore.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/31/2006
Band Members: This page is for my own music, stuff I write by myself.
Influences: Devin Townsend (!!!)
Wintersun
Strapping Young Lad
Soilwork
Alice in Chains
Kingston Wall
Decapitated
Hypocrisy
Necrophagist
Samael
Dark Tranquillity
Arch Enemy
Meshuggah
Omnium Gatherum
Pink Floyd
Nebelhexe
Astor Piazzolla
Pat Metheny
Trilok Gurtu

Guitarists that influenced my playing:

Steve Morse
Al DiMeola
Steve Lukather
Eddie Van Halen
Steve Vai
Shawn Lane
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Jason Becker
Robben Ford

Type of Label: None