I’ve been playing guitar since my late 20’s. Black Sabbath made me want to pick up the guitar as soon as I heard the Masters of Reality album, especially the song ‘Into The Void’. I’m a major “Metal-Head” and bands like Iron Maiden, Queensryche, King’s X and Rush are still an influence on me. I love all kinds of music especially jazz from the 50’s to 70’s. I also have a love for progressive rock music – bands like Yes, Pink Floyd, Rush, Genesis have really expanded my playing. I also play bass and admire many players such as; Geddy Lee, Chris Squire, Steve Harris and so on. I used to play Bass in a punk band called ‘Rodent Emporium’.
Currently I play guitar in a band called ‘Butler’s Experiment’ which I founded back in 2017. I’m working on new material and hope to have some new songs out this year. I released a new song called ‘Rain’ on Spotify, earlier this year as part of the Performance course.
I also host a podcast on Anchor.fm called ‘Butler’s Experiment Podcast’. I love music so much that I wanted to set up a podcast that concentrates on the artists or bands that have influenced a guest musician. I limit it to three artist/bands and ask how they influenced them on their instrument and song writing style. I also play the guests music and ask them about how the artist/bands can be heard in the songs. The podcast really aims for bands/artists that are not on major labels etc as I’m not doing this for any monetary gain-just for the love of music. Of course, I certainly wouldn’t discount a band on a major label, I just want that to be clear. If any bands/artists want to contact me for an episode, that would be great.