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I was born into a family of musicians in the UK whereby my parents had a
big band playing six nights per week for thirty years. Both my brothers and
I were encouraged at an early age to play a musical instrument. (My father
played and hand made a number of instruments including guitar, steel
guitar, accordion and keyboards, my mother had music degrees in piano,
violin and singing) I play guitars and keyboards and croak a bit too.
Whilst many of my friends were listening to the Beatles and the Rolling
Stones in the sixties I had had an upbringing of the 40's, 50's and 60's
sounds ranging from Cole Porter to Stan Getz and most things inbetween. I
was fascinated by the bossa nova sound and still am.
When I was fifteen I played in bands at college but it was too difficult to
get five young hopefuls to rehersals so I started playing records to
entertain. A few years later I got the opportunity to travel and work in
clubs, hotels and discotheques throughout Europe. In 1977 I went to work
for some friends in Canada who knew someone in radio. For five summers I
returned to Toronto to work as a "fill in presenter" for jocks who were on
holiday.
I lived in London during the early 80's playing in clubs and local radio
before moving to West Germany for four years in 1986.
At the age of 42 I have recently stopped entertaining after a career of
some 35 years. I have collected records for 30 years and have quite a good
collection. My preferences are fusion, contemporary and latin american
although I have experience of a wide gamut in the musical spectrum.
My main profession is in marketing and nowadays I enjoy working in my
multi-media studio at home with my computers and talking to others on the
net with similar tastes and interests. We share music, memorabilia and
ideas. I am always interested to hear from any other music fans on the net
who would like to have a chat with an old musical seadog.
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About Wes Gillespie