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- Who are your main influences ... ?
- What is the writing process with your music ... ?
- What about the recording, how do you approach this ... ?
- How many effects do you use to create your sound ... ?
- Do you change your setup for live work ... ?
- What have you got planned for the near future ... ?
Who are your main influences ... ?
- Ritchie Blackmore, Michael Schenker, Neal Schon, Steve
Lukather, Trevor Rabin ,Gary Moore ,Joe Satriani, Mark Knopfler,
Lee Ritenour, Larry Carlton, to name a few;
I like different players for different styles of music.
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What is the writing process with your music ... ?
- Usually start with playing around with a few Riffs, then I will try them out with a drum beat just to see how they sound and if I think they are worth proceeding with. I will repeat this process till I have about 12 good tracks ideas.
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What about recording, how do you approach this ... ?
- Backing guitar with drums first, bass, keyboards, then lead guitar melody, then solo’s last
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How many effects do you use to create your sound ... ?
- I try to keep it simple really, a quality distortion sound is the basis followed a good clean sound, then vox wah, whammy pedal, reverb and delay and a nice chorus, sometimes use a octave pedal.
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What have you got planned for the near future ... ?
- I will be promoting my new album - 'Dark Fear'. Also listen to the music on our home page which is excerpted from new as yet unreleased album featuring former 'Band of Rain' vocalist Sharon Leslie which will be out later this year.
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