NAME: Edmund Loren Woods, AGE: 38, BAND: Lo Woods and Friends
INFLUENCES: Allan Holdsworth, Jeff Beck, Larry Carlton. John Lennon, Todd Rundgren, Steely Dan
COMMENT: The ad on his flyer asks, "Is it rock? Jazz? Blues?" You decide--really, you don't have to do anything but enjoy. The music is familiar along the lines of his influences but absolutely fresh and new-sounding. Well balanced playing finds "Lo" Woods streaking, walking slowly, or skipping across the fretboards at will and when called for. A complete guitarist!
PERSONAL STATEMENT: I spent most of my teens and twenties playing in rock n' roll copy bands. I couldn't force people to create original music that meant anything. At 28 I looked up and realized that I'd been partying for the previous 13 years almost non-stop. I found myself well into alcohol/drug addiction. I retired from the music business and started putting my life back together.
I just turned 38 and have been clean and sober for eight years. The quality of my life, music and everything is better beyond comparison. I spent the first four of the past six years in Baltimore, MD, virtually in a cave rediscovering the whole music thing. I listened to very little music (recordings/radio) during those four years. I spent almost all of that first year deleting copy stuff from my head. Into the second year I began to sound like me and could create music that was representative of me. I played a lot, built a home studio, learned the process and recorded a lot.
I am a musician who has taken the time to refine my skills to the point where the music is unique and individual. I have a good working knowledge of the recording and marketing processes and am both compulsive and tireless because I enjoy it. I have worked and practiced hard, explored new territory and will continue to do so. My ambition is to help reinstall sparkling musicianship and class into the mainstream, to attain a record deal and mass market product.
*Guitar for the Practicing Musician, September 1993
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