John Etheridge

b. 12 January 1948, London, Britain. Etheridge is really a self-taught guitarist who began playing while he was at college. He continued to Essex College or university and then used jazz rock organizations in London in the first 70s, including Darryl Method’s Wolf. In 1975 he changed Allan Holdsworth in Soft Machine, sticking to the music group until their preliminary demise in the past due 70s. He used Stéphane Grappelli between 1978 and 1981, displaying as much service playing the classical guitar with him as he previously previously done for the electric. At exactly the same time, he shaped the jazz fusion group 2nd Eyesight with previous Albion Music group member Ric Sanders. He undertook single concerts in Australia and toured the united states with bass participant Brian Torff in 1982 before playing some live schedules and recording using the re-formed Soft Machine. Because the middle-80s Etheridge spent some time working with an extraordinary amount of jazz music artists, including Gordon Beck, John Marshall, Andy Summers, Pat Metheny, Supplement Ellis, Didier Lockwood, Barney Kessel and Dick Heckstall-Smith. He in addition has used Danny Thompson, Yehudi Menuhin, Nigel Kennedy and traditional guitarist John Williams. His very own bands add a quartet focused on Grappelli as well as the 8-piece Zappatistas, who perform the music of Frank Zappa. Recently his single acoustic work continues to be equally fulfilling. On 2004’s I Didn’t Understand he sensitively protected ‘God Bless The Kid’ and ‘Mercy, Mercy, Mercy’. Etheridge also frequently teaches guitar classes at additional education university. His latest project may be the Soft Machine Legacy with Elton Dean (until his loss of life in 2006, and Theo Travis), Hugh Hopper and John Marshall. A officially gifted guitarist of huge talent, Etheridge can use guitar results very successfully in his solos.