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Ed Drake
Age:	42
Location:	10601 Hamilton Rd. Glen Allen, VA 23060 USA
Phone Number:	804-755-6421
Email Address(es):	ejmd@erols.com
Instruments:	Ibanez AH -10 Elecric Guitar, Ovation 1867 Legend Acousic Electric Guitar, E-Bow, Tablas, Roland GR-1 Guitar Synth
Looping Gear:	Lexicon Jam Man (32 sec) controlled by Ground Control by Digital Music Corp, Digitech RDS 8000 Time Machine (8 sec), Lexicon Vortex, ART SGE Mach II, Roland DEP-5, 2 SDE-1000's, Mackie 1202 Mixer, Pro Co Patch Bay, Mesa Boogie Mark III 60 Watt combo amp, Fender Twin customized by Paul Rivera, Alesis HR-16 Drum Machine, MIDI Sequencing
Influences:	Beatles, Hendrix, XTC, Fripp, Crimson, Eno, Holdsworth, Torn, Metheny, Frisell, McLaughlin/Shakti, Trilok Gurtu, Oregon/Ralph Towner/Colin Walcott, Steve Tibbets, Peter Gabriel, Michael Brook, Jai Uttal, Steve Roach, Indian Classical Music (Ali Akbar Khan, Ravi Shankar, L Shankar, Zakir Hussein, Nikhil Bannerjee), Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Bartok, Stravinsky, Bill Laswell, New Ambient, Future Sounds of London, Aphex Twin, Diblo Dibala (Afro-pop guitarist), Jazz and Brazilian guitar, Latin rhythms, African, Indian and Balinese Gamelan rhythms
Recordings Available:	None Available

I've played guitar for over 25 years and play electric and acoustic guitar in Standard tuning, Guitar Craft Tuning and other altered tunings. I've studied jazz and classical guitar and attended several Guitar Craft seminars in the mid 80's at Claymont Court in West Virginia which were incredible musical experiences. Now I play in everything from bar bands to weekend wedding bands to touring Broadway shows and teach 25 students a week. I've been looping in a limited way ever since I got my first digital delay line (Roland SDE-1000) and got the Jam Man when it first came out although now I wish I had the Oberheim Echoplex. I do hope to get a 'Plex soon and I know that my looping will move to a whole new level. In the meantime, I'm just trying to get as much as I can out of the Jam Man and look forward to integrating it with a 'Plex one day. Musically, I'm exploring the ambient, ethnic, trance connection although I do rock out and get noisy and dissonant. I'm also trying to bring a more compositional approach to my looping incorporating my love for different styles of music (jazz, rock, indian, african, classical, ambient) with improvisation and interesting rhythms, evoking moods from sublime beauty to dark places to toe tapping fun. With my 4 year old son around, I don't have as much time as I like, to practice and loop, but I still try to find time each night to play.

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