Venice BluesCats consists of Tony Battelle, Gregory Dean and side players. Sound Advice consists of Gregory Dean, Kirk Howe, Eric Bierke and Gary Hoffman.
Influences
Eric Clapton, George Benson, Eric Johnson, Dickey Betts and Gary Moore
Greg was born in Los Angeles where he started playing the guitar in 1963, and began songwriting in 1965. In college he majored in music and electronics. Through the course of the years he has played in many rock bands, in addition to providing private instruction in guitar and bass.
Greg writes music (notation/orchestration), and is well versed in midi programming and music theory. Having written well over a 100 songs and received a publishing contract in 1990 for a song that had its ups and downs and never went anywhere which was ironically titled “Going through the Motions”.
Major influences include: Eric Clapton, George Benson, Beatles, Jimmy Page, Albert King and Dickey Betts.
