Bletch's profile

I'm a professional lead guitarist and am available for recording and live work. If you need a good player to stand in for a one-off gig or you need a recorded solo for your classic song then I may be the man you're looking for. I play mainly with Fender Stratocaster's but also I use a Gibson Les Paul Standard and usually play through Marshall valve amplification.

I specialise mainly in the riffs and lead styles of Ritchie Blackmore and mainly his early work. Specific solos played include Wring That Neck, Speed King, Black Night, Child In Time, Highway Star, Pictures of Home, Smoke On The Water, Lazy, Place In Line, Burn, Lay Down Stay Down, You Fool No One, What's Going On Here, Mistreated, A200, Stormbringer, Holy Man, Hold On, Lady Double Dealer, Knocking At Your Back Door, Wasted Sunsets, Man On The Silver Mountain, Sixteenth Century Greensleeves, Kill The King.

Also I play a fair amount of work by player's such as Scott Gorham, Brian Robertson and David Gilmour. Specific solos played include Jailbreak, Romeo and the Lonely Girl, Warriors, Cowboy Song, Emerald, Don't Believe A Word, Dancing In The Moonlight, Southbound, Still In Love With You, Chinatown, No One Told Him, The Sun Goes Down, Time, Pigs (Three Different Ones), Have A Cigar, Comfortably Numb and many others.

Also I am proficient with styles for Bands such as Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Nirvana, Extreme, Audioslave, Steely Dan, Cream, Neil Young and Dire Straits and others.
Specific solos include Heaven and Hell, Die Young, Stairway to Heaven, Freebird, Tuesday's Gone, The Needle and the Spoon, Crazy Train, Bark At The Moon, Desire, Get The Funk Out, Reelin' In The Years, Kid Charlemagne, FM, Rikki Don't Lose That Number, Peg, Black Friday, Bodhisattva, My Old School, Purple Haze, Sultans of Swing, Tunnel of Love and many others.

I will consider offers from any full time originals bands and Blackmore Deep Purple tribute bands.

Call Bletch on 07852868502.

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