Billy Galen

About the Artist:
Long Island native Billy Galen has been playing the guitar for over 30 years now. It started in 1975 at age 7 when he borrowed his best friend’s older brothers guitar and learned Stairway to Heaven. After that, he was hooked.
Joining the Navy after High School, Billy continued to play throughout his navy career. All of the time at sea made a great place (between world crisis, fire drills, and desert storm) to hone his skills. With a gig in every port, Billy never left home without his guitar and has played around the world with some of the finest musicians on the planet. Over 20 years, several bands, thousands of hours in the studio and now a retired Navy Chief; Guitar Loft Records in Atlantic Beach, FL is Billy’s new home for producing years of ideas and passion for the instrument and the art of studio production.
Billy also played lead guitar for Jacksonville’s Led Zeppelin Tribute Band CODA, which paid homage to his idol Jimmy Page and keeps the chops up for his solo studio work. Look for a phenominal CODA show in a city near you!!
Billy is the Stage Manager and Senior Sound Engineer for Jacksonville's premier original live music venue The Pit. You can find him here on most nights mixing live sound for the best local and out of town original acts around.
About the music:
Written, produced and arranged by Billy in the Guitar Loft Studio, and featuring world class musicians, this is an ongoing effort that test the bounds of progressive acoustic based hard rock.
As we evolve, the music will continue to grow into whatever it will become.
New and different, yet rooted in the classic influence of the British Invasion that captured our immagination in the 60s and 70s.
Check back often as I will always post my new stuff here first.
REMEMBER: the music on this site is a Protools Studio Bounce and is not fully mixed and mastered. I upload directly from the recording console. Many songs will not yet have vocals, or be incomplete in other ways - this is simply a look into my studio, and a selection of music right from the mixing console. I look forward to your feedback and would love to hear from anyone interested.
High compression is used at this stage to generate the MP3s you are hearing, so the sound quality will be severly affected.
Look for a full length CD release in Spring 2008
Enjoy the music!
Thanks again for checking me out!
Billy