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eltopo
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I'm a deputy editor by trade (which in reality means I'm a bit of a proof reader/mac monkey/gopher). When out of the office I love to RAWK AND ROLL, though. I haven't had a band for few years, but was in the immortal if short lived folk-punkers, Hugh Grant's Hooker. Musically, I like a bit of everything, although my main passions are British and American folk (richard Thompson, Dick Gaughan, Phil Ochs, Dar Williams), 60s rock particularly early Stones and The Band, classic punk like the Ramones, second-wave punk like the Subhumans and Zounds, classic 70s rock like Led Zep and Bowie, early new Orleans funk like the Meters. I've probably missed something but that's the stuff that rotates most on the old record player.
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Music Background
I had some piano lessons when I was a kid but not that many. I became far more interested in playing my Mum's old spanish guitar and playing songs from her 60s folk records, especially things like Joan Baez's interpretations of traditional folk songs like John Riley, the Four Marys and all that, just playing some fingerpicked parts.
Music Skills
I soon started to write my own folk songs in a similar style and as a teen decided being in a band would be cool so invested in my first electric guitar - a cheap Peavey Predator strat copy with really buzzy electrics, which I loved.
As until then my guitar skills involved picking nun/campfire chords I got a pile of books and started to learn about scales, theory, blues even a bit of jazz and basic knowledge modes. My learning has been quite a mish mash and I have a very idiosyncratic style, which reflects the self-taught experimentation that created it. Most of the time I'm just playing by ear. Also in my late teens I started mucking about with midi and computer music in a small way, first just to make drum parts to play along too - although friends were into rave and dance and I went through a phase of making techno/electronica/ambient, call it what you will. The act of 'looping stuff up' remains useful today. Music Hardware
I have a Simon and Patrick accoustic, which is my workhorse. I've also got an Epiphone Sheraton, which is a bit 'far east' but still pretty nice to play with a big bold tone. Then there's an M-audio 88es Keystation, which I got as a scratched ex-demo deal for a song. My audio interface is the M-Audio 1814.For mics I just love Rode - character, definition. I have the Rode NT1a and NT2000. I also a Shure dynamic, which doesn't really get used for much these days. Not in use at the moment are a really nice Roland XV5050 synth and Freebass 383 monosynth, which I'm hoping to set up with Logic soon. I'm a tech-luddite, by which I mean I love tech and hate it. I like messing around with cheap folk instruments and have so far collected blues harps in several kays, penny whistle, ocinara and djembe. Music Software
GB2, Logic Express, Wiretap
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