Hi. Thanks for visiting my page.
I got my first guitar aged about 3 or 4. It was a plastic nylon strung guitar that I melted by leaving it too close to the fire side. I got my first electric guitar 28 years ago, and started to take playing seriously. I joined my first band aged 17, a Thin Lizzy covers band. I've been in bands of one kind or another most of my adult life, both original and cover bands.
I have far too many influences to list here. My favourite guitar players are John Petrucci, Guthrie Govan, Paul Gilbert, Shawn Lane, Allan Holdsworth, John Sykes, Zakk Wylde.
When I'm not recording and writing, I play in a Black Label Society tribute band for a laugh. I started teaching guitar in 1991. I am a registered RGT tutor, and I teach electric guitar courses run by the RGT up to and including diploma level.
As you've probably gathered by my choice of the people I have pestered to be my friends here, I respect and admire virtuosity and highly skilled musicians of all kinds, but it has to be musical. I'm not into using technique for the sake of it. Thats what I strive to be as a musician, musical and skillful, which is why I practice hard every day cuz I'm no where near it yet!!
The only reason I can think of not to practice is.....none.
I play any guitar that plays and sounds good. I currently use a Washburn X50 pro for recording, its a real nice guitar, well balanced and well built. I have a bunch of Les Paul replicas, Japanese Tokais, Burney and Japanese Epiphone. I fit them all with EMG 81/85 pickup sets. I use a Marshall Mode 4 MF350 amp with various Marshall cabinets. The only pedals I use are Morely wah pedals. All my other effects are rackmount processors, just a little delay for lead and occasionally some courus. I don't like anything in the signal path to the amp, I prefer rack stuff routed through the FX loop. It gives a much purer sound.
The tracks on my page are all my own compositions, and I play all the guitar and bass parts (yeah I know, my bass playing aint too hot). The drums, thats all Korg;-)
I do all my recording at home on a Korg D3200 which I am still learning to use.
Thank you for taking the time to read my page and to listen to my tracks. May God bless you.
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