Pink Floyd
David Gilmour
Gary Moore
Guns N' Roses
Eric Clapton
Joe Bonamassa
Jimi Hendrix
Led Zeppelin
The Eagles
Dire Straits
Mark Knopfler
David Bowie
Walter Trout
B.B. King
Buddy Guy
Jeff Healey (RIP)
Iron Maiden
U2
Coldplay
Killers
Jeff Buckley
Steve Vai
The Beatles
Duffy (Perfect Voice!)
Katie Melua
Just too damned many to mention!!!
David Gilmour - 'A Great Day For Freedom' - Live In Gdansk (Out 22nd September Europe)
Joe Bonamassa - 'If Heartaches Were Nickels Live
Sounds Like
All the above people, hopefully me... And Eartha Feckin' Kitt?!?
A Few Personal Photos. Hover Over For Description.
Michael (Mike) John Garvey is a 30 year old guitarist and composer from a small town near Liverpool called Warrington.
A brief musical history....
In 1994 I found myself travelling between Warrington and Blackburn, the town I'd just left. This was a fairly harsh time for me having moved to a strange new town. I got heavily into the music of Pink Floyd after hearing a friend play 'The Wall' and immediately went out and bought most of their albums including 'Dark Side Of The Moon' and 'The Division Bell', released that year. Something about the music, in particular the fantastic guitar playing of David Gilmour gestated gently in my subconscious.
Whilst back in Blackburn I happened to walk past a small music shop. In the window was a gleaming electric guitar.... At that moment I knew I wanted to be a guitar player!!! I managed to get a Fender Squier Stratocaster for Christmas, though sadly I didn't have the guitar in my possesion for too long.... "Didn't know how to string it, had no amp, didn't know how to play the f*cker!". For a year or so I forgot about guitar playing, believing that I wasn't cut out for it, simply wasn't musical. However I was cought by the guitar playing bug and from the age of 19 onwards had owned a succession of cheap guitars on which I gradualy learned my first chords and basic blues licks, quickly developing into a talented guitarist.
The year 2000 would be a pivotal year for Me. I was now aged 22 and had been playing for a couple of years or so. A new music course - the Access To Music Foundation Course - started at Warrington College. I immediately joined and quickly set up my first band 'Chapter 24' with new friends Mike Hadland and Ian Bennett amongst others. Whilst the band didn't write many songs and only gigged a few times a great time was had over those two years and I grew and grew as a player and composer, winning an award for best song and becoming the first Warrington band to play at the Northern Regional Festival at the Cockpit in Leeds. I was briefly tought by Tony Thorpe of 'The Rubettes' who had had a number one hit in the 1970's. The course was a great success and I left in 2002 with an Advanced Diploma in Popular Musics and a Nicotine addiction.
In 2003 I went to Brunel University in London to study a B.A. in Music. Sadly, within a short while of starting I realised i'd made a huge mistake with this particular course and left to find another direction. The direction was North via a Virgin Rail train from London Euston.
Over the past three or so years I have aquired new equipment and have developed into a more muture more refined guitar player. I currently live and work in Warrington, sharing a house with my girlfriend Liz and a pair of wooden elephants called 'Eddie Norman' and'Little Eric' and a furry Hippo called Humphrey (He is real!) and have a voice that is inaudible to humans. I can , however, communicate freely with baboons, gibbons and hump back whales! I'm currently working on my first album - 'In Search Of The Blue Nowhere' - Due late 2009.
Thanks for your kind comment and thanks for beinga friend of Peachy!. Can't beat a bit of blues though can you!
We want you to hear and review/rate our first official single release, Ease the Pain by clicking on the link http://www.amazingtunes.com/users/peachy/tunes/24458?rec=1e2f222a-a077-11de-aa6e-00144f458b1a&ref=peachy Please, please, please sign up as a fan on the website (it's free), then rate the song (heart logo) at the Amazing Tunes website as it will get help us get valuable radio airplay. You can download the single for just 79p but more importantly listen to and rate the song! Please also email your local radio station and request Ease the Pain by Peachy! Already it's the most requested song for September on Fading FM in Holland. Radio Stations/Media/DJs may request a free promotional mp3 download via our Myspace profile. Peachy love you - thank you! NOW FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE AND ANYONE YOU KNOW!!!!
Hi there) Thanks for being our friend! Download for free our new EP "Starring" - 1 song from it will be on FREAK drama soundtrack Welcome to our page!)) Cheers from Ukraine
Hi Mike: Thought i would pop in and say, hey man!...I was just trading guitar licks with one of your tunes...you have a great gift of playing guitar mate!...look for an e-mail, it say which tune i played to... Peace Thru Music, Jon/Worcester-Boston,Massachusetts/USA
Hey there! First of all, I'd like to thank you for being our friend and supporting 3 Kisses. I know there's a lot of music out there and I hope that you are enjoying what we do. We have a brand new single called LET'S DANCE out and it was just released on our label's V109 Compilation. You can pick it up now on iTunes. It rocks in true Texas Party Punk fashion!
Thanks for the add and giving us a chance! We are six hard working, passionate, down-to-earth, crazy guys creating the music that we love! Free Spirit is a hardworking and equally hard playing rock band hailing from Finland.Our music offers strong musicianship, soulful vocals and the essence of the great acts from the rock scene. Undercurrents of Celtic and folk music blend seamlessly with powerful guitars, souring harmonies and melodies that will get stuck in your head for days at a time; a wound healed only by listening to more and more, quenching the thirst of a Free Spirit hit.
We wish you a great day and much peace&love!
Vesa, Sami, Pasi, Timo, Marko and Sami H.
Some clips from Free Spirit " Pale Sister of Light " Album. http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=59455267
Thanks for being my friend. My band Washington's Crossing plays all over the area and we hope to tour soon hope to see you at a live performance. Please come back often to listen to our music and tell all your friends. You can have a FREE song for your profile or a banner. Our music is for sale on iTunes and CD baby.
