Midnight Shadows : James Pearce.
 Lead Guitar Player & Vocals until December 2009.

 Born on the 29th May 1978 in Bristol, I started playing the guitar when I was 8 years old. My dad for as long as I can remember was always playing his guitar in the front room.  

 

Occasionally he use to let me bash the strings & I use to make a terrible noise.  I was never interested in playing until Dad bought an Echo effects unit which had a red light on it, which flashed when you played a note.  

For some reason I was amazed at this & decided to learn to play. The first song I learnt to play was Wonderful land by The Shadows. 

As well as learning to play lots of Shadows instrumentals I also learnt to play the Spanish guitar at school, unfortunately I found the lessons so boring I packed it in, which I now regret.

Dad & I once the word got around managed to play a few gigs of our own, we played at my sisters 21st party & an occasional gig at the local church.  

This was as exciting as playing got, until we met Dave Wilkins & after many years of hard work finally got a group together & we now enjoy playing regularly at different venues.

My all time favourite guitarists are my dad, Hank Marvin, Brian May, Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Hendrix (to name a few).
My favourite songs played in our set are You Got It (Roy Orbison) Dream (Everly Brothers) All my Loving (The Beatles) and Riders in the sky (The Shadows)

The guitars I currently use are the Fender 1960’s re-issue (Japanese model) & Fender Lone Star (American) with a Mesa Boogie Mark 2B Amp. 

I use a Boss GT3 & Zoom delay unit for effects.

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