Odd Music

One of my very limited claims to fame is a chap called Darren Hurst. I had about 12 months of guitar lessons from him when I lived in Southport. Back then he was a professional musician/teacher type person. I stopped having lessons because the lure of a "proper" musical carrear was too strong for him... and he left to try and make his fortune.

I lost track of him then one day, bored at work, I googled his name and found that he'd moved to Las Vegas and was a propper jobbing musician - living the dream.

He has an album out called "Free Spirit" which I've not got, but I do have a demo tape that he gave me way back when. His guitar style is somewhere around an English Joe Satriani - lots of melodic guitar driven stuff.

Have a look at his myspace web site: http://www.myspace.com/darrenhurst, and to start with I'd recommend the four tracks rather than the YouTube stuff he's got in there as the sound quality is stacks better.

So that's my musical claim to fame!

Other blog told of me starting to rip my CD collection. Because I am waiting for the last couple of CDs (for tonight) to finish being ripped, here's a sad list (insight!) into my collection thus far:

Accept (German 80s metal)
Alcatrazz (US 80's metal)
Anthrax (US 80's metal)
Anti-Nowhere League (English 80's punk)
Badlands (US early 90's rock)
Jennifer Batten (US 80's girl widdley guitar)
Shaun Baxter (English 90's widdley guitar)
Pat Benatar (US 80's rock)
Black Sabbath (Brum's finest)
Tim Blake (Hawkwind 90's space rock)
Blue Oyster Cult (US 80's rock)
Suzy Bogguss (US 90's country(?!) rock)
Dave Brock (Hawkwind 90's space rock)
Jason Becker (US 80's widdley guitar)
Jeff Beck (English cool guitar god)
Deana Carter (US 90's country rock)
Johnny Cash (US country)

Day #2 of this ripping process (the wife's away and I've nothing better to do):

Albert Collins (US Blues)
Ry Cooder (US Blues)
Alice Cooper (US shock rock)
Creed (US(?) rock)
The Cult (UK Goth rock)
Deep Purple (UK classic rock)
Desperado (US/UK super (heavy) rock group that never was)
Diving For Pearls (English 90's "band wagon" rock)
Dio (UK 80's heavy metal)
Dirty White Boy (English 90's "band wagon" rock)
Dokken (US 80's metal)
Dragon Force (? pubescent widdley rock)
Eddie and the Hot Rods (English 80's punk)
ELP (UK 70's prog rock)
Fast Eddie Clark (UK 90's metal)
Micheal Lee Firkins (US 90's widdley instrumental rock)
Flotsam and Jetsam (US 90's heavy/speed metal)
Foo Fighters (US 00's rock)
Marty Friedman (US 90's widdley instrumental rock)
GMT (English 00's heavy rock)

[So far about 1000+ songs on about 100 CDs]