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Lightning Chris

It's a Fuckin' Shambles Ken

About Me

Tour Manager/Guitar Tech/Production Bloke/Lacky/Whipping Boy/CU@T/ All round good Egg!!I have worked for/with:Alice Cooper, Brides Of Destruction, LA Guns,(4 Tours) Danger Danger, Love/Hate, Faster Pussycat, Enuff Z Nuff (5 Tours), Bang Tango, (can you see a pattern emerging??) The Misfits (2 Tours), Vain, Robin Black, Crash Kelly, Tigertailz, Bubble, Nutrajet, Tuff, Shameless, Pretty Boy Floyd, Quireboys, Towers Of London,Tattooed Millionaires, Sebastian Bach,..and God knows how many more as one offs!!!

My Interests

Music, Guitars especially Vintage Gibson & Fender, I love VOX AC30's and Old Marshall JCM 800's. Football I'm a big Manchester United fan(well actully I'm quite a small Man Utd fan!!), Reading & LAS VEGAS BABY!!!! OH YEAH..& BEER!!!

I'd like to meet:

Anyone I know and anyone I don't. Networking too. if you're coming too the UK and need a hand, get in touch... width="425" height="350" .... width="425" height="350" .... width="425" height="350" .... width="425" height="350" .. .. width="425" height="350" .... width="425" height="350" .. .. width="425" height="350" ..

Music:

If it's got hooks, riffs and grooves I'm there!! Fave bands inc: Enuff Z Nuff, Black Halos, GNR, Motley Crue, Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, LA Guns, Thin Lizzy, Tom Petty, The Who, John Neilson, Bubble,FASTBACK, Quireboys, The Doors, The Dragons, Hardcore Superstar, Iggy, Alice Cooper, Manics, Flaming Groovies, Bowie, The Faces, Rod Stewart, The Rat Pack (That's Sinatra & Martin etc), Marvellous 3, Alice In Chains, Rev Horton Heat, Supersuckers, Motochrist, Wildhearts, The Dragons (RIP), Marvellous 3, The Small Faces and loads of other stuff from ELO to the Doobie Bros and back!!

Movies:

Get Carter, Alfie, (Pretty Much anything with Michael Caine), Pulp Fiction, Fact based WW2 films. Loads of stuff really. But none of that slushy girlie nonsense!!

Television:

Football(that's Soccer to you lot over the pond), Las Vegas, CSI, History & Discovery Channels, Good Music TV, Good UK Dramas like Sherlock Holmes & Dr Who. Reeves & Mortimer, Vic Reeves Big Night Out, Black Adder, and other mad off the wall humour.

Books:

Anything by Bernard Cornwell or George RR Martin. I enjoyed the DaVinci Code and I'm a bit of a sucker for blood and guts type thriller by Andy McNab etc. I also like factual historical novels and Auto/Biographies.

Heroes:

Davy & Donald Stott, Councillors Cox & Evans and without a doubt the one and only Mr Keith Richards & the Late & Very Great ...Mr Dean Martin!!