Black Dogs: The Blues Band

Hi there, this is Ian typing from a computer chair somewhere. Howdy folks!

Well, ive been working on a blues band, gettng one together, and getting one actually to this stage is a real rush! Lovin it!  Although the actual band has been through some rough times, and some undecided times. Luckily i kept slogging away with my strat, amp, and got a great blues four piece group goin now. Which i would like to think has a true ‘raw’ blues sound. Some people may think differently, and not like it, but hey. Thats for the listener to decide.

Anyways, i fist picked a strung instrument up, at the ripe young age of 3! A ukelele of all things! Couldnt play the damn thing, or understand it. So i put it in its box and left it alone until one day, when i heard “Chris Rea’s Road To Hell’at the age of 10  and that slide guitar sound has haunted me ever since! If only i could reproduce it to his standard! Surfice to say, yeh, Chris is one of my main influences for actually picking up my first guitar. A nylon strung classical thing! What an awful contraption, well for slide guitar anyways!   And after many years of nagging my parents at 12 years old, i finally got my first electric guitar(gibson copy) Im sure the neighbours were not happy with the strange wailing noises coming from the house next door. But thats what you need to do, say bollocks to the neighbours and learn.

Thats a bit of my past anyways, and how i came to actually pick up a guitar. Totally self taught, and it probably shows, im not as flash as some of the guys out there, but i create the sound i want. And to me, thats all that matters. Nowadays i own a USA standard stratocaster in lake placid blue. Shes about 12 year old now, but doesnt look a day past, well shes looking good lets just say that! Also to my collection, i have an epiphone SG double cut away gibson, and a squire strat,which i may add is amazing for slide guitar due to the high gauge on the strings. Plus an electro acoustic Tanglewood odessey. Just for those hillbilly moments, when i dust a harp down and try and produce something bearable.

Finally, id like to thank you for taking the time to read my incohearant(is that how you spell it?)  ramblings. And bid you a fine fairwell, and hope to see some of you soon on the road somewhere?

There is also music on the myspace link on this site, so please have a listen and pass comment. Please be easy on us.

Thanks once again,

Regards,

Ian.