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!