Hello everyone! I'm Edd Baxter and I've been playing acoustic guitar for far too long to count. I mess around with a lot of different styles, from classical to rock to progressive, with whatever I can find inbetween.
I don't really think I've been going long enough to have a history. I've been messing around with acoustic guitars for as long as I can remember, but I've only recently started doing it seriously and actually making music from it!
I've played live around town, and I love every second of it! I'll never forget the amazing times I had during my time at college, the topless cossack dance being something I wish I wasn't known for...
My influences come from all over the place. I know what I put in this section should normally give people a vague idea of what my music might sound like, but to be perfectly honest I don't think it will.
I listen to all sorts of music and take ideas and influences from them all. From the most brutal death metal such as Cannibal Corpse and Nile, to the happy innocent pop like 5ive and A-Ha, aswell as virtuoso guitarists such as Yngwie Malmsteen and Paul Gilbert. I also love very strange, progressive music from the likes of Dream Theater and Sikth. Acoustic guitarists such as Justin King and Antoine Dufour play a major part in influencing how I play my guitar, the way they don't even need other musicians alongside them to make a single guitar track sound like a full band. I love my overly cheesy rock, metal, or synth-pop, such as Europe, Journy and Jefferson Starship.
Basically anything that has the power to make the listener smile, alongside anything that could be described as 'epic', 'dramatic' or 'powerful'. The word 'cheesy' seems to play a big part in my musical taste aswell.
I have quite a few guitars, most of them acoustic.
I play a Hohner MW-300 strung with nylon strings that despite the terrible reviews I've read online about it works for me.
I also have an Ibanez V7212 12-string acoustic, which I've gigged with and again works well.
My last acoustic is an Ozark acoustic bass that I've strung up with nylon bass strings. It sounds epic and seems to gel well with my Hohner.
