The Mike Jackal Band

Introduction to your band: By band you mean me. I just love playing guitar and have been addicted for 4 years now. I know I am not that good and don't pretend to be something I'm not, it's just me messing around and trying to make some songs that sound half decent.

I had always wanted a guitar since I was a kid, I used to mess around with my dad's acoustic, but I didn't know what to do or how to play a note so I used to just pretend I was playing along to my CD's, my dad didn't know how to play either. I then pestered my mother for a guitar for years at Christmas and birthdays, but just like everything in my life, she thought it would go in a corner and never get played after 5 minutes, and she was probably right. There is then a big gap until my 21st birthday in March 2007 when I was reflecting on my under achieved life and decided I was going to buy an acoustic guitar. I bought one on ebay for 30 and began the process of learning how to fret a note, then by the end of the first day I had learned the G chord. By the end of the second day I had learned D and C chords and could therefore learn thousands of songs with these three chords. I got bored with just playing chords along with songs and started to explore the Pentatonic scales and around that time I started to discover blues music. It was now November 2007 and I decided I wanted to make the leap to electric guitar. On Dec. 1st 2007 I bought my first electric guitar, a Westfield E4000LH in Black, a Les Paul copy. It was 165 with a 20w amp and some accessories. So thats where my electric journey started, learning to play the pentatonic blues scale. I now play several hours everyday and after 4 years of my addiction to the guitar I'm still as dedicated as ever. I have now joined a band and we are called Black Jackal.

I play live at on a regular basis at an open mic night in a local pub, I suppose I would be the house guitarist for it and play for anyone who wants to sing. I love playing live and will be starting regular gigging this year hopefully.

The three biggest influences that I hear when I play are Peter Green, Gary Moore & Luther Allison

1996 Epiphone Les Paul Lefty 2007 Westfield Les Paul E4000LH 1980 Yamaha FG-450SLA Acoustic Fender Princeton '65 Amp Alesis Mixing Desk Adobe Audition Sennheiser e609 Guitar Mic Bayer Vocal Mic Guitar Rig 4

I would love to do some collaborations with other people, either them playing or singing on my songs, or me playing or singing on your songs. Get in contact if that sounds like you!