Neal Orin

Hi everyone names Neal. I've been playing music now for 16 years.Started to learn guitar when I was 8 years of age and within the first 2 days of playing I knew that this wasn't just a phase. My obsession with music is so strong that Its as important as food or air.From the day started secondry school I never ever once focused on my classes or my studied as you can probably tell by some of the spellings.I was raised on bluegrass and old time music by my parents but hated it at the time I was too busy listening to bands like megadeth,Steve vai,Jimi hendrix and many more.By the time I was 14 i was at my technical peak on the electric guitar i felt i couldn't play any better which led me to a complete state of lost hopes and exile within myself I was in a couple of bands at school and they were fun but everything just seemed unclear.So after I finished school with terrible GCSEs including music which the teacher felt I was never gonna succeed the way I was going fate seemed to drag me straight down the path I never wanted to walk in the first place BLUEGRASS.Thanks Mom and Dad!So from that moment on i found myself leaning constantly closer to the acoustic and attendid the sorefingers music school for a week.Check it out its still going!Where I met some friends and we got a band together by the time i was 18 we were on BBC Radio on the young folk music semi finals thing.Special thanks to John wirtz for the great managment.Anyway after that we gigged a load of folk festivals in the uk which was hard work but an important exsperience to remember.After that the band eventually split and i went to work part time in a recording studio in Darlington scratching away through a hazy time unsure about myself and also unsure what musical genre I really wanted to devote myself to.So after that I moved to blackpool of all places with a friend who's also a musican.Great Drummer and we basically spent loads of hours just listening and playing music.And after 5 years of slaving away in job been through 3 great relationships and lots exsperimental substances and recently split up with my Beautiful ex spanish girl friend who i miss so much,and also teaching guitar for 4 years I realise who I want to be.ME and what musical genre i want to commit myself to!None of them.From the age of 8 to 16 i was sure i wanted to be a rock guitarist from 17 to 21 i was sure i wanted to be a newgrass and folk musician and from 21 to 26 i just tuck a deep breath and absorbed everything i could get my hands on from folk to electronic above all everything abstract digging deep into the most uncharted places of music that most listener's would find unbearable and then climbed out of a pit to look straight back at myself and say!You don't need to commit yourself to any genre!That way I knew i could move freely stepping through different doors at the sametime mashing it all up and then spitting it back out to reveal something!Sometimes I wish there was no musical genre seperations all it does sometimes is divide people into groups and cages.Anyway In a nutshell the music I'm writing at the mo is what ever i feel in the moment simple as that i'm making a solo album with just me and my guitar and I'm drawing closer to the end.I think!Thanks for listening warm regards Neal Orin