Terry Knott's Brit Pack
Blues
P r e s e n t a t i o n
Terry Knott's Brit Pack Blues is band located in Southampton, South United
Kingdom. Rather than Terry tell you about himself, this is what his friends
had to say:
Mike Dollins, Blues Guitar Gang Founder, and Multi
Blues Hall of fame inductee, CEO of www.mikedollins.biz.
Arkansas - I met Terry Knott online at MySpace Music a few
months back, and it is totally amazing how vast blues guitar friends become
in our modern world of instant communication. No stranger to the blues, Terry
lays it down with a real sense of deep feeling for the music we love a share.
Down here in the Blues Delta Land, in Arkansas USA, next to the Mississippi
River where I live we call it, "Sharing the hog." Whereas you have
to give and take. What goes around, comes around. Terry first became a friend
of our Blue Guitar Gang, and helped promote the boys. As the God Father of
the Blues Guitar Gang, being the senior old man, we have all grown to appreciate
Terry from his shear blues networking, sharing the hog, and heart felt playing.
Bonding deep friendship in this day and age where pop culture rules the major
media markets, Terry has joined thousands all over the world in keeping the
blues alive and well even if in deep underground circles. Thank you Terrry,
and it is with great pride I say you are one fine player, and blues great
friend.
DJ Trav TornadoValleyRadio WICHITA, Kansas
- Terry Knott, what can be said about this young man that hasn't been said
before... he brings great feeling to his music in that he believes that music
isn't just played and listened too, you need to experience it... his mellow
sounding tracks and influences have made Terry a guitar player to be taken
in as one of the promising best in the field of blues... As a DJ on internet
radio and getting to know Terry as a person not just a musician he instills
the art and love of his craft... If he wasn't from England you would think
he was from the south or big blues cities here in the states.
A huge influence on Terry was Ronnie Wood and also Rod Stewart and Paul McCartney
as well as many other blues musicians... if you don't catch a show with Terry
Knott you are catching the wrong show cause this man will put you in a state
of utopia with his sounds and humor... So don't be caught with your pants
down and you arse hanging out doing nothing... Tune into Terry and get the
gift of pure music talent...
Johnny Mannion, Johnny Mannion Band, Blue Guitar Gang
Member, Blues Hall of Fame Inductee, San Diego California
- Terry my brother, thanks for the add request.. I absolutely love your music.
Nothing but love for ya man! Take care and keep in touch, my friend Terry
Knott.
'Uncle Henry'. Moderator, 'Blues Guitar Gang Fan Club'.
Mattoon, Illinois - I first connected to Terry on, Feb. 8,
2007, but we really connected through our love for the blues. At the time
of this writing, about a month. It seems I've know him for years. He is as
good of a friend that anyone would want to find anywhere. If we were ever
to meet here in the States or over in England those that see us would think
we were friend or mates for many, many years. We have come to know each other
so well.
Myself, being the starter and moderator of the 'Blues Guitar Gang Fan Club'
here on myspace, Terry has been most helpful and encourageing, helping me
carry the ball of starting something new. I've collected a few things about
him, so that you will understand him better. Terry is one of those people
that is blue through and through. This is how he started: "I have been
inspired musically, by so many people over the years. The Beatles made a very
young boy, stop in his mischievous tracks and think - I wanna do that's &
that's how it started for me. I would pick up a Cricket Bat or Tennis Racket,
and mimic Paul McCartney swaying and pouting alongside the Great John Lennon.
Then as the years moved on, and through influences of my Sister Sue's vast
record collection, I liked virtually every sound that had a 'Twang' in it.
I was raised with many of the greats being played on the old record player,
The Rolling Stones, The Who, Cream, The Small Faces, The Temptations, Smokey
Robinson, The Beach Boys & shit loads of others. By the time my teen years
struck, I then began to develop my own musical taste, but didn't move far
from the 'Founding Fathers' I had been weened on".
My friend Terry is becoming a real master mixer This is part of what he had
to say about the subject: "It is really only in the last two years I
have begun to get a 'Sound' that is comparable to Pro Studio's. But it still
takes time. I can lay a track down in 1 hour. But it will take me 4 hrs to
get to a Master Take, during the production process, that I am happy with,
and I am not easily pleased".
"The music I play, in my mind, needs to be 'Raw', with minimal mastering
effects as possible. Giving you a feeling that you are listening to a live
act. That's what I try to achieve. Or at minimum, a band playing live in a
studio, as oppose to 50 takes on this, that and the other".
In spite of his modesty on his abilities, if you listen to his work you will
hear his heart and soul. He is a master Bluesman!
Steve "Hat Trick" McTaggart & Benson
Road. Auckland New Zealand, Blues Guitar Gang Member - Well,
what can I say. Terry is the 'dogs bollix' as they say in Ireland. I can see
in him a true devotee to the blues. He is a very 'tasty' player... good tone
and a heap of emotion... everything that you want from a blues guitar player.
You can hear the mix of British and American influences in his playing. And
you know a few of us have gone down that road... the same way that my elders
discovered howling wolf and Freddy King through The Stones and the Eric Clapton.
Its highly likely that the 'Brit pack' will draw attention to the British
blues underground and I know there are some fantastic players there. I say
to fellow Strat stranglers and Les Paul maulers to gather around Terry. He
knows his blues players and his blues history. As a member of the Bluesguitargang
out of the USA (and NZ) I see that strength indeed is in numbers. The Britpack
will be the same I am sure.
Terry Knott - About himself
Well, what can I say about me. Other than the obvious. I am 6 ft 1",
big lad. Born and raised in London. I now live in Hampshire, near the southern
English coast. I am a Music 'Nut', particularly Blues. You only have to listen
to the music I make, to realise that. Got a great sence of humour, and love
a few pints down the pub.
I have so many influences over the years, The Beatles made a very young boy,
stop in his mischievous tracks and think 'I wanna do that's & that's how
it started for me. I would pick up a Cricket Bat or Tennis Racket, and mimic
Paul McCartney swaying and pouting alongside the Great John Lennon. Then as
the years moved on, and through influences of my Sister Sue's vast record
collection, I liked virtually every sound that had a 'Twang' in it.
I was raised with many of the greats being played on the old record player,
The Rolling Stones, The Who, Cream, The Small Faces, The Temptations, Smokey
Robinson, The Beach Boys & shit loads of others.
By the time my teen years struck, I then began to develop my own musical
taste, but didn't move far from the 'Founding Fathers' I had been weened on.
By then, Rhythm was the key factor, in anything I listened to from that day
to this.
I was hugely influenced by one of the greatest rhythm guitar players, the
Great Ronnie Wood. His Raunchy, Dirty and marvellously Rhythmic style of playing,
next to the Gravely and Fantastically Melodic Voice of Rod Stewart, during
' The Faces' days, got under my skin, I just had to play.
I bought my 1st Guitar. It was a Fender Bass. The neck of the guitar had
a bigger bow in it, than the one Robin Hood used. Ignorant to the fact, I
would need hands with more muscle than a baboons arse in order to play it,
didn't bother me.
I didn't even realise you needed an Amplifier. My Uncle had a lead made,
so I could plug my Bass through his 'New' Stereo System. Like the scene in
the film 'Back to The Future' I started pounding the guitar, oblivious to
the fact, the speaker covers had whizzed at 100 mph past my ears, and the
speaker cones were hanging out. I wasn't exactly popular I can tell you.
Time moved on, and my Mum (God Bless Her), bought me my 1st 'Lead Guitar'.
My pal Pete, showed me a few chords, and I would practise until my fingers
bled. So that's how my music came about.
I will be putting lots of my tracks on my Juke Box, for you to listen too,
some I wrote, Some are my favourite covers. But on all, I play all the instruments
& provide all the vocals (not my strong point). Several tracks,
which I will advise at the time, will have a Pal guesting with me.
All I ask is, good or bad, you tell me what you think of the tracks I post.
I will do tributes in my songs to Jimi Hendrix, Steve Ray Vaughn, Robert Johnson,
The Free, Eric Clapton and many others. As those lads inspire me so much.
So, lets get 'Deep n Dirty'... Enjoy. Hope you like it here, and let me know
you have been.
