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It was always a mystery to Eddie's parents that just hours after buying him his first guitar as a present for his twelfth birthday he had mastered enough chords to play along with a couple of tunes. It was also a mystery to his teachers why Eddie wasn't in school that day, but neither they or his parents ever made the connection.

It didn't take long before he was jamming along to albums by Hendrix, Steppenwolf, Led Zeppelin and Wishbone Ash and not long after he turned seventeen he went on the road full time as a guitarist in a covers band, working four and five hour gigs up and down the country.

Through the seventies, and after a stream of jobs in commercial and rock bands, Eddie joined forces with musicians from Cambridge including Roger Newell, (bass player with Rick Wakeman and currently bassist with Marty Wilde & the Wildcats and Deputy Editor of Guitarist Magazine), and set up the successful rock band 'TRUX', a management company and record company to look after the bands interests.

Then in 1983 following the release of their single "Bad Luck" which reached number 9 in the rock charts, there was a disagreement in the band and a year later Eddie found a different direction for his talents, as a founding member of the hugely successful Guitarist Magazine, eventually becoming Editor.

During his career on the magazine, he interviewed most of the biggest names in the world of guitar as well as reviewing thousands of amps, guitars and accessories and still contributes articles and reviews when his hectic schedule allows.

It was during this time with Guitarist Magazine that Eddie was asked to join the Wildcats, the band of rock and roll legend Marty Wilde. Over the last ten years Marty Wilde and the Wildcats have headlined nine successful UK tours, headlined nearly every major theatre and venue in Britain including the Royal Albert Hall and the London Palladium, as wll as continuing a punishing schedule of one night stands up and down the country.

Since the beginning of 1998 Eddie has added to that schedule by taking on one of the most demanding jobs in the music business as the British Amplifier and Product Specialist for Fender. This means he is continually touring the UK and Benelux countries demonstrating the wide range of Fender amplifiers and providing support for both the sales teams and the customer, which has won him the prestigious Fender Millenium Achievement Award. Click Here to view, print or download A4 Publicity Photograph.

Artists Worked With:-

Marty Wilde Kim Wilde Bruce Welch (The Shadows) Jet Harris (The Shadows) Noel Redding (Jimi Hendrix Experience) Bernie Marsden (Whitesnake) Micky Moody (Whitesnake) Jerry Donahue (The Hellcasters) Eden Kane Roger Newell Neville Marten

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