ENTRANCE

THIS IS A FANSITE FOR ENTRANCE Born April 29, 1981 in Baltimore , Maryland, Guy Blakeslee began teaching himself to play electric guitar, upside-down to accommodate his left-handedness, at the age of 11, and started calling himself Entrance and performing all over the United States in his 20th year. During the four year journey that followed, he recorded and released 3 albums, and traveled across Europe and North America several times, living on the road, most of the time alone (sometimes with drummer/driver Tommy Rouse) with no money and no idea what would happen next.During these years of train and plane travel, highway adventures and wordly experiences, Blakeslee commitedly decided that the Electric Guitar is the instrument of Today. Now coming out of a period of intense immersion into the pantheon of old-time American Folk and Blues recordings and mythology, Entrance has allowed the influences of such modern rock giants as Jimi Hendrix, Can, the Birthday Party, Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Black Sabbath and Syds Pink Floyd to find their natural place in his music, alongside a newly sparked obsession with the music of modern day nomadic peoples of the Sahara Desert (a sound being made by Electric Guitarists like Ali Farka Toure and Malian group Tinariwen,) making for a Fully Amplified, Heavy and Psychedelic Sound that is as much Punk as it is the Blues.Of particular importance to Entrances overall sensibility is the unheralded musical genius Sandy Bull, recently deceased, who pioneered the modern fusion of American and Middle Eastern drone-based music and experimented with Electric guitars as well as exotic stringed instruments, and also the unaccompanied singing of Southern America, gospel chants and work songs, field hollers and mournful wails that can be heard in treasured field recordings made for the Library of Congress.Beyond the purely musical realm, Entrance is definitely inspired by what some would call The Movement, from the Beats and the early non-violent Civil Rights struggles, all the way through to Hippies, Yippies, Black Panthers, Timothy Leary, punk rock, the Anti- Globalization Movements of today, current Anti-War activists like Cindy Sheehan, and the struggling oppressed people of the world who against great odds fight a spiritual battle everyday to maintain their basic human power and dignity. For now Entrances four year odyssey of constant travel has come to a halt and he has moved to Los Angeles, California. MyGen Profile Generator..