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About Me

About 40 years exp with guitar, I still play in bands and duos and offer guitar tuition.I provide unacredited learning, working closely with the student's individual needs. Minimum theory, more hands-on. There is no set time for a session but about an hour is usually enough. If you need more, you get it - I don't clock-watch. Likewise, if we get done there's no point labouring a point so we get off early:)Message me for a more personalised discussion.

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 23/01/2007
Band Members: THESE ALL TELL STORIES WHICH I WILL GET TO IN THE BY AND BY********************************************************** ***********

Influences: Hah, the list is so long I could fill the entire site. Jimi Hendrix http://www.jimi-hendrix.com/index.php, Vivaldi http://www.baroquemusic.org/bqxvivaldi.html, J S Bach, Rory Galagher, Alvin Lee, Steve Vai. Eddie Van Halen, Joni Mitchell, The Animals, Ravi Shankar, I Solisti Veneti; hey, I was going to find websites but you can just google any of this, right?
Sounds Like: Well, people say I look like Neil Young (and I've covered a few busking - thanks Neil, I made loads at this in the 70s but haven't done it since); Iggy Pop and Andy Frazer. I like Free but never quite got that close to anything vaguely punk. I've also been told (usually by drunk old blokes) that I look like Max Wall - who was considerably funnier than any of those geezers. But sound-wise, I've heard Garry Moore and Rudolf Schenker mentioned, and I'm embarressed but proud to say Hendrix too when I'm playing electric. Acousticwise I suppose I've yet to find out - I know one bloke who picks similarly but can't remember his name. I listen to Jansch, Young, CSNY, Pepe & other Romeros, Spanish, classical and Romany musics and I also nick sitar riffs, Chinese zither stuff and have recently undergone an operation to have panpipes removed - but seriously Peru was brilliant!
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

HellHound and Being Biker and Alethiometry

Since the house move I've met with some IT probs that I'm not sure how to resolve. For sure, since before then I'd lost control of HellHound's myspace. As time is tight (dammit we wanna do more record...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:50:00 GMT

Alex on the radio:)

I've been interviewed for www. realhitradio. co. uk The show is by Paul Mallatratt and is titled unsigned heroes. Their schedule is a bit random (if you catch the show record it and ...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:52:00 GMT

House and song

Heh life is pretty good and getting better:) After half an hour watching kingfishers with Ali, we came home to our flat - we call it our cottage in the sky - to discover we have at last climbed the co...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:07:00 GMT

Community Music Project

Hi All, thanks for stopping by. With the band plus a friend by the name of King Rollo I am researching the viability of a community/educational music venture. It is in two parts Rollo is working on ...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:58:00 GMT

Social Significance of the Blues

Notice..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> The use of politically and other incorrect terms has been unavoidable in creating this work. Introduction Despite...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 07:09:00 GMT

The Social Significance of the Blues

Notice..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Darn I didn't date the darfts so am not sure if this is the right one - still, it seems complete. So to this essay...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 06:52:00 GMT

Catching up with myself

So, I find a moment pre-gig to meander. Haven't blogged recent gigs cos I've had to dash back and forth sorting family matters 9as in the sad loss of Ali's Dad and Step-Mum). The smiles are coming bac...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 06:33:00 GMT

Chaos

Erm, this is more of a message for you to share. Ali lost her dad a couple of weeks ago and that pretty much knocked us sideways, as he fought even to the very last. For some relief we decided to use ...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 07:40:00 GMT

The Manx

Two years ago we booked our ferry. For a hundred weeks we had the times and dates printed out, stashed in an old A4 envelope with other TT info we had gathered. So why did we think 05.00 Friday would ...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:06:00 GMT

Being Biker 2 The Evolution of Biker Culture

PART ONE THE EVOLUTION OF BIKER CULTURE HOW AND WHY IT ALL BEGAN Past cultures have been built slowly, on factors like how close people live to each other, religious beliefs and even war. But when Bi...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:37:00 GMT