Job: System Architect for CricInfo.com
Started playing: Lessons at school when I was 8, dropped it again till I was about 15, at which point (shame, oh shame) I started working on a bunch of ABBA songbooks - believe me, Hasta Manana does wonders for your barre chord. First electric at 16 (Hondo Strat), sold for a Hondo Les Paul, which was again sold for the Tokai.
Main gear: With Fleetfoot Mike: white Ibanez '75 lawsuit Les Paul custom, blonde Squier '83 JV serial Tele, sunburst Squier '00 Affinity Strat with Jon Haire custom bridge pickup, CSL 6/12 doubleneck (copy), Encore Ovation copy steel-string acoustic, cherry sunburst Tokai '80 lawsuit Les Paul custom. All into Crybaby/Bespeco volume/Boss SD-1 overdrive/Guyatone delay/Arion stage tuner into either Park Vintage LE 20 valve combo or a loaner Marshall JCM2000 DSL half stack.
With Phoenix: Rich Bartram custom, Academy Ovation Adamas copy 6 string, into Trantec wireless into Marshall JMP-1/JFX-1/VS8008 rack into pair of 1912 1x12" cabs.
Others: Ovation Applause 12-string, Antoria Mandolin, la'ud
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Favourite music: Lindsey Buckingham, Viv Campbell, Gary Moore, Jan Kuehnemund (Vixen), Leslie Fish, Brian May, Ritchie Blackmore