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Michael Santeler

About Me

First off all, I have to say that guitarplaying is my biggest passion. I..m studying Law for a while now and making music is just a very fine relieve! I started at around 10 with acoustic guitar for about four years and went to the local music school, but I really sucked at it. I wasn..t too crazy about playing classical pieces when you..re listening to rock music. Then I got an electric guitar that my brother wasn..t using anymore and I knew instantly it..s my thing, as I hit an E-powerchord with distortion. I guess I..ll never forget this feeling, incredible! Then I switched the lessons to e-guitar and had a very good teacher. At first, all I wanted to play were Vai or Malmsteen numbers, which I did after hours of practising, though. I could play along to some hard tunes, but I didn..t learn the basics like good phrasing, tone, nice bendings etc... I realiced that this stuff is really more important than playing fast, so I got in blues, jazz and of course in Frank Zappa..s music. Now, I really enjoy it to record from time to time a new song for this page here. Since I..m not in coverband i don..t play that much live, but i participate once every month in my hometown in a jazz JamSession in the opening band and i play also gigs once in a while with my band FoxForce5... If you want to know anything about me or just to say hello, write me a message or a comment and i..ll answere you right back!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 01/11/2006
Band Website: http://foxforce5.twoday.net/
Band Members: Everything is recorded or programmed by myself;GEAR:Guitars: Fender Telecaster Highway1, Ibanez Jem7vwh, Ibanez7321, self made Fender(Japan) fretless, Squier Bass;Recording: Boss GT-3, M-Audio Delta66, Pro-ToolsLe M-Audio, Reason, GuitarPro, EZdrummer;Amps: Marshall 6100lm Top(only as a poweramp, i use the GT-3 for preamp and effects), Engl 2x12 Cab, Tech21 PowerEngine60;
Influences: Guitarists: Jimi Hendrix, Paul Gilbert, SRV, VAiSATChPETRUCCiYNGWIe, Shawn Lane, Frank Zappa, IA Eklundh, Bumblefoot, Mike Keneally, David Fuiczynski, James Hetfield, Pete Townshend, Beatles, Tom Morello...soon to be updated...
Sounds Like: instrumental guitar music of course, but i try to put different genres into my songs. my goal is that every song should be interesting in it´s own way, without being a copy of my previouse stuff...GEAR:Guitars: Fender Telecaster Highway1, Ibanez Jem7vwh, Ibanez7321, self made Fender(Japan) fretless, Squier Bass;Recording: Boss GT-3, M-Audio Delta66, Pro-ToolsLe M-Audio, Reason, GuitarPro, EZdrummer;Amps: Marshall 6100lm Top(only as a poweramp, i use the GT-3 for preamp and effects), Engl 2x12 Cab, Tech21 PowerEngine60;
Record Label: Basement Records

My Blog

about the songs

MIDDLE EAST BEACH PARTYI recently saw Fatih Akins new movie "Auf der anderen Seite", which is really great. i also liked the oriental music in it too, so i practiced some scales from that region. when...
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