Tony Powell

As you may have noticed I play guitar and do a little singing. I've been doing this for as long as I can remember. Literally. I grew up in the music industry and the entertainment industry. My father was an audio engineer and my mom designed costumes for theater, movies and the such. Some of my fondest memories are in recording studios and concert halls. At the young age of three I was clanking around on piano's and stuff, but the guitar caught my eye and well that was all she wrote. Unfortunately I put the guitar down around six and started focusing on sports, but there was never a love loss. Plus I really love playing sports. Mostly soccer. I did some rodeo too, which is what lead me back to guitar. I was a bull rider and well bulls can hurt you. So after a couple of stays in the hospital I decided I needed a career change. So the guitar seemed like a safe enough thing to do. without loosing the thrill and the attention. I didn't get full blown into music till a couple of years later when my father died. At that point in my life I decided that music was it. It would either make me or brake me. There was no looking back.
My styles are all over the place. Jazz, Country, Rock, Blues, Classical, even Reggae, Folk, Bordello and Flamenco. I even dig the eastern type of stuff as well. In my book music has no boundaries.
My musical ventures at the moment are:
Band Of Thieves: A very cool all original R&B/Rock Band. Lots of vocals lots of cool grooves. Band of Thieves We are cutting a new cd at the moment. Some tasty stuff..(Serena is one of the unfinished cuts off of that album.)
And of course me Tony Powell: A Solo Acoustic Rock/Blues/Heavy Metal/Outlaw County/Texas Soul Extravaganza of Incredible Music. Covers, Oringinals or made up on the spot improvised what ever it is to be awsome music.
I also whore myself out to any band in need of a guitarist. I have references.
These are my tools.
Guitars:
Gibson 84 Les Paul studio custom shop
Gibson 85 Explorer custom shop
Fender 2006 Highway One Telecaster
Martin 2003 DX-1 dreadnought
Airline 1963 resonator.
Amps:
Peavey XXL Half-stack
Marshall AVT-100 valve state combo
Marshall AS50R
Effects:
Danelectro Dan-Echo
Morley Wah.

The Lazy Eight:

My Recording studio..I have the rep, payed the dues and do the deed.
The Power: A custom Asus p4s8x mother board with a pentium4 2.4 gig cpu, 1.5 gigs of memory, 240 gig of storage. 333 fsb.
The Tracking Tools:
Nuendo
1-UAD-card with all the tricks.
Waves Native Power Pack..
Bunch of other cool plugins.
OutBoard Gear:
2-Bellari Tube Channels rp503.
2-Symetrix 528e voice processors
Orban dual reverb
2-Ardvaark Q-10's preamps
Midi Shit:
M-Audio Oxygen8 v2
Toontraks Ezdrummer.
Speakers:
Bluesky and Cambridge Monitors.
Mic's:
Oktava Mic's: Mk-52 ribbon mic, Mkl-2500 tube mic, mk-319(2), mk-219(4), mc-012(2)
Shure Mic's: Sm58, sm57, sm77(2), beta52
Neumann Kms 105 mic
Ev Mic's: 868, 408, 757, 457
Beyerdynamic Mic's:Tgx5(3)
CAD mic's: Astatic ctm 1000a(2)
Iso Boothes:
Offset 8x10 Stone/wood/carpet Acoustic room, Offset 8x4 woodbox Amp room (pictures coming soon) Main room has a 15foot cathedral ceiling
pretty much everything you hear on this site has been recorded here..
Located in the heart of the Texas Hill Country right between San Antonio and Austin, just a few miles west of San Marcos and New Braunfels.
Contact me for rates.
And my newest and proudest venture..

Texas Underwater Removal of Trash by Lovers of the Environment Corp.

aka

Turtle

Go Here www.turtlecorp.org
Check this Chic out..