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Daniel Gullien

Musician, Guitar player & VW T-3 driver!

About Me

Hi, Im Daniel. Im a 26 years old from Oslo, Norway. I am a musician, guitarplayer. I study Music at the University of Oslo. I have two years on a private institute for stage and studio and a year at Toneheim folk-highschool (direct translation) My musical career started as a baryton player in my school orchestra (I never actually played with the band, I only took lessions), but my career took a new direction when I started to stumble over my fathers guitars at home. He had been playing rythmguitar for nearly 30 years in various settings with gigs every saturday for over ten(!) years. And my mother had a musical education as a classical guitarplayer. So I started in my room when I was about 8, got my first real 6 string at the age of 13, joined my first two bands at the age of 17 and also began to attend some jamsessions in Oslo. The first music I started out on was The Shadows, and tried my best to get that Hank Marvin sound from my fathers little, old amp and strat-copy. Today I play both guitar, bass, vocals, a little bit mandolin, banjo and piano/organ. For the last three years I have been playing mostly with Tuva & The Far out Orchestra, Stormy Monday and Gravel Road, but also with some norwegean artists and bands such as Harald Thune, Ivar Thomas Brynildsen, Malin Pettersen, Kentucky Riders, Spanky (w./Tommy Kristiansen and Eirik Bergene), Lucky Lips, and occacionally with Monica Nordlie, Benedicte Brænden, and Toini and The Tomcats. Other great musicians I have the fortune to play with are Lars Håvard Haugen, Knut Hem, Tore Blesterud, Sveinung Lilleheier, Bjørn "Honky" Haglund and others. Thank you for checking out my space!D
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Member Since: 4/18/2006
Band Website: stormymonday.no
Band Members: Stormy Monday (a tribute to the Allman Brothers) are: -Olav Kopsland- guitar, -Anders Hofstad S.- guitar, -Kristian Rafteseth- organ, bassguitar, -Finn Haakon Borgi- drums, -Daniel (myself)-acoustic guitar, bassguitar, organ, lead vocals.The next band is called: Gravel Road, are: -Olav Kopsland-guitar, -Finn Haakon Borgi- drums, -Erlend Hoelland- bassguitar, -Vegard Finnekaasa- lead voc. and acoustic guitar, -Daniel(myself)- guitar. Country/rock.Ivar Thomas & The Hired Guns: -Ivar Thomas Brynildsen (Voc, guitar.) -Olav T. Kopsland (Lead Guitar) -Tore Blesterud (Ped.steel guitar) -Bjørn Haglund (Drums) -and myself (Bassguitar) Good, ol..country.Tuva And The Far Out Orchestra: -Tuva Andersen (Lead voc. organ/piano) -Erlend S. Hølland (Bassguitar, back.voc.) -Olav T. Kopsland (lead/rythm guitar, steel guitar, back.voc.) -Finn H. Borgi (drums) -and myself (lead/rythm guitar, acc. guitar, back.voc.) It..s a mix of blues,rock and country (Blockry)Harald Thune: -Harald Thune (voc. guitar.) -Lars H. Haugen /Olav T. Kopsland (lead guitar) -Knut Hem/Bjørn Haglund (drums) -Tore Blesterud (steel guitar) -and myself (bassguitar/voc.back.voc.)I also play (stand in) bassguitar/el.guitar, if needed, in various settings too. Now it..s with Kentucky Riders. I also got a guitarduo (Champagne Season) with Kjetil Bjelke from Bergen.
Influences: As a guitar player, my influences are of course Jimi, Hank Marvin and Mark Knopfler for startes. Since then Eric Johnson, Dick Dale, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Brian Setzer and David Gilmour have also contributed a lot to my sound and playing style. Other favourites includes: The Allman Brothers Band, The Hellecasters (John Jorgenson, Jerry Donahue and Will Ray), PINK FLOYD, The Beatles, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Jethro Tull, The Who, Johnny Cash, Sheryl Crowe, Tom Petty, Creedence Clearwater Revival, the psycedelia bands from the 60´s like The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Crosby, Stills and Nash, The Band etc, Neil Young, AC/DC, The Stones, classic rock from the 50´s (so many names), and so on... I am also influenced by norwegian guitarplayers such as Øystein Sunde, Lars H. Haugen, the late Marius Müller, Vidar Busk, Knut Reiersrud, and Terje Rypdal. I also enjoy listening to norwegian bands and artists, such as DeLillos, DumDumboys, The Respatexans, Hellbillies, Big Bang, Beat Tornados, Los Plantronics, Motorpsycho/The International Tussler Society, Odd Nordstoga and others.
Sounds Like: Hopefully I sound like myself.
Type of Label: None