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Matt Thorpe is one of the UK's best kept secrets ! His soulful guitar playing is so Uplifting to listen to, and Amazing to watch... That it takes me right back to one of the last live gigs of Paul Kossoff (lead guitarist of the band FREE) which I saw shortly before Paul's untimely death. Now Matt thinks that... 'Paul Rodgers (vocalist of FREE) has to be one of the greatest male vocalists of all time' Well I do to, in fact, some of Matt's playing has a Paul Rodgers vocal quality to it, so that's another reason why he sounds so great. Matt's been playing for over 35 years... |
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His musical influences are many...
Including the early Eric Clapton recordings, from the Cream era onwards. And as you would expect... Matt has a good selection of classic guitars, but his favourite for gigging and recording the blues, is a 1990 Gibson Les Paul Standard in wine red, (above right) which he purchased back in 1995, and it sounds just great. Impressive back catalogue... Matt also has a very impressive back catalogue of original work, that he's self produced, self recorded, written and performed. And he has enjoyed phenomenal success on the Internet... Because over the last few years, a lot more people have been able to enjoy his music... It all started with the old MP3.COM website, where Tens of thousands of people per month, were downloading his tracks for free. But sadly MP3.COM no longer provide that free service, but thankfully you can still get acquainted with Matt's music, for free, by downloading his tracks from a variety of websites on the net. Then you'll want to buy all of his albums online, either as mp3 downloads, or as a real CD. So check out all the links below, for much more information ! |
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| Here's just a few of the comments from Matt's fans... | |||||||||||||
| "Man I just checked out some of your mp3's on the web, damn you are awesome bro. keep it up" | |||||||||||||
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"Was Just Listening to Your CD, Man You are Awesome, I Love the Guitar Lick's, I could even Feel what you where playing. Good to see someone realy getting back into what the Blues is all about." |
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| "Wonderful. I have not enjoyed a guitar like yours, in a long while. Thank you." | |||||||||||||
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"Matt, started listening to one of your songs but I couldn't wait so I stopped listening and started downloading. I am sure I am going to have to get some of your CD's. I hope you come to St. Louis Mo. some time. Maybe you can play at Blueberry Hill." |
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| Matt's previous groups include Cold Shot & Escape, who played a wide range of popular Blues and Rock music, and currently you can experience Matt Playing Live with a variety of bands in venues around the area, including: Running Shoes (AKA: The Riki B Band) | |||||||||||||
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Why don't you go and see Matt Thorpe perform LIVE ? Then let us know what you think ! Please let everyone know that you heard it here first on Great Local Music |
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