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About Me

ME
Hi! I am a guitar player originally from west Wales. Having spent the summer of 2007 in Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA) I am based in London.
I'm currently doing regular session work for MUSIC 4 (www.Music4.com), working with Upper 11 Records artist NATALIA and writing for eBooksforGuitar.com.
I'm into all sorts of sounds (all the same 12 notes after all) but am particularly taken with David Gilmour, Steve Vai, John Petrucci, John 5, Norah Jones,Vannessa Carlton, Bumblefoot/Ron Thal, Sikth, Avenged Sevenfold, anything by Xenomania (Girls Aloud, Sugababes) and Extreme-era Nuno Bettencourt.
I'm a proud user of ENGL amplifiers and Parker guitars.
I'm always keen to talk guitars and music so feel free to drop me a line.
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I'm student of Benji Bartlett and Phil Hilborne (see my friends, below) and I continue to study with Berklee College of Music via their online extenstion school (www.BerkleeMusic.com) =====================================================

My Interests

Guitar and more guitar

I'd like to meet:

David Gilmour, Steve Vai, John Petrucci, John 5, Norah Jones, Vannessa Carlton, Bumblefoot/Ron Thal, Sikth, Nuno Bettencourt, Avenged Sevenfold.

Music:

Sikth, Pink Floyd, Avenged Sevenfold, David Gilmour, Steve Vai, John Petrucci, John 5, Dave Martone, Gatecrasher, Norah Jones, Vannessa Carlton, Bumblefoot/Ron Thal, Extreme, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Girls Aloud, I Am Ghost, Cafe Del Mar.

Movies:

Star Wars, The Blues Brothers, The Godfather, Spirited Away, Aliens, Labyrinth, Dark Crystal, Children of Men, Legend.

Television:

Lost, Simpsons, Futurama, Thundercats, News 24 (self proclaimed geek).

Books:

Gormenghast, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, The Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost.

Heroes:

David Gilmour, Steve Vai, John Petrucci, John 5, Dave Martone, Brian Higgins and Xenomania, Russell Brand.

My Blog

Hogwarts for Musicians

Hey,There's seems to be more and more space between my blog entries as things heat up here. We're into the last few weeks now. I'm looking forward to getting home but I'm going to miss it here soooo m...
Posted by Owen on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:20:00 PST

Jazz Boot Camp!

Hi,Berklee really is jazz boot camp. And that's necessary to study harmnoy properly of course. BUT, I soooo look forwards to Saturday mornings when I get an ensemble room with a bassist and a drummer ...
Posted by Owen on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:11:00 PST

I'm back

Hi,So, I've been a little quiet on the blog front - been crazy busy with midterms and been a little homesick for the first time ever. I'm going through what a lot of my friends got out of the way in t...
Posted by Owen on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:41:00 PST

Finally some time to write my blog...

Hi Guys,I've finally found some time to write my blog! Been a bit busy prepaing for mid-terms and being tired at the pace of things here. Plus I'm slightly homesick but really don't want to wish my ti...
Posted by Owen on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 05:29:00 PST

Midterms

Hi Guys,I've not updated you in a while. I have mostly been:preparing for midtermsseeing transformers and knocked upmissing my 7 stringbuying clothesloving funk musicWent to see the Berklee Tower of P...
Posted by Owen on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:07:00 PST

U...S...A!

Hey Chaps,So, my first 4th of July celebration was spent at Matt's aunty's place in Providence. We all had a great time playing wiffle ball, poll volley ball, and eating! See facebook for the photos.S...
Posted by Owen on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:47:00 PST

All quiet on the Eastern front...

Hi,I was watching the making of Dream Theater's new album with some friends the other day. The scene cut to a close up of Jordan Rudess' hand during a typical crazy solo, the camera pans out and the g...
Posted by Owen on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:56:00 PST

Garageband disaster!

Hi,So, I spent 2 and a half hours working on my funk project and had a track I was really happy with. Garageband died and took the lot with it! It's taken me a couple of hours to get back to where I w...
Posted by Owen on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 07:49:00 PST

Thank funk for that...

Hi Y'all,I was seriously lacking inspiration after the weekend but been bouncing round like a teletubby the last few days. We went to see drummer and Berklee Alum Will Calhoun last night and he was se...
Posted by Owen on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:57:00 PST

Not a lot...

Hi Troops,Been a little sparse with updates. Been really busy and trying to chill out between classes and homework. I went to a Mick Thomson (of Slipknot fame) clinic and got a cool photo with the man...
Posted by Owen on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 03:25:00 PST