Completely rewritten 10th November, 1999. I graduated this year (1999) from St.Mary's International School in Tokyo, and am currently taking a year out before going to Leeds University to study Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy (surprisingly). This year, I'm currently working as an shop assistant at The Gadget Shop in Shrewsbury! Excellent place...come visit if you live around there. Texas Instruments have also asked me to work for them for a few months via cybercommuting as it were - which is great. In terms of other stuff I do outside of Generation5. Basically, my guitars are my love. I've played for 12 of my 18 years, and I have 4 guitars and 1 bass.
Guitars When I'm not playing my guitar, I'm either at work, going out w/my friends, or on the computer. Computer generally consists of either programming or Generation5. I love programming, and its probably what I'll end up doing most of my life - I program Windows pretty much exclusively now. I stick to C++ since I know it really well, I used to know PASCAL, but that's fading. I've dabbled in others: Visual Prolog, LISP, Scheme, SmallTalk, Java, Visual Basic...but I can't be arsed to learn anything more after C++! Enough about me, though.
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My guitars consist of two electric and two acoustic. The acoustics aren't anything really special, my first one I bought of my first guitar teacher for £12.50 - and it has this HUGE crack down one side of the body! The other one I bought in Madrid, and it has a lovely sound - but I had a Danish friend who had the identical guitar - so its not like a Spanish edition. Anyway, its my electrics that I really love. I bought an Ibanez RG-480 3 years ago for my first electric guitar. Great instrument, especially with very low gauge strings - you can fly up and down the fretboard no trouble. I also got a Marshall VS100 100-Watt amp which is rather nice, and I got a Boss GT-5 the following winter. Then, as my graduation present, my parents bought me an Ibanez Jem7! It is an absolute DREAM! The guitar is just amazing - if you can ever get your hands on one at a guitar shop, play it. The floating tremolo, combined with those DiMarzio pickups and the unvarnished neck...ah, wonderful! That's the guitar pictured at the right if you hadn't noticed. Also, with the some of the money I make from Texas Instruments, I plan to buy an Ibanez UV777BK - the most beautiful 7-string guitar. Not exactly the look for playing Korn and Limp Bizkit (which I love, btw), but anyway. My guitar idols are quite simply Steve Vai, Steve Vai and Steve Vai. I pretty much love the guy! He designed both the Jem 7 and the UV777 along with Ibanez - he happens to be rather a nifty guitarist too! To be absolutely honest, I also really like Joe Satriani and Paul Gilbert (saw him in concert this year) who are very inspirational. I'm a big Eddie Van Halen (saw him too) fan, since it was him who basically kept me going after my Clapton inspiraton had run out. Yngwie Malmsteen (and him!...) is pretty damn good too, but he just doesn't have the attitude to go along with it.