Artist description Rock bassed instrumentals with occasional melodic pop/rock songs.

Music Style Pop / Rock

Musical Influences Steve Vai - XTC - Steely Dan & modern pop music in general

Similar Artists Steve Vai,Joe Satriani,Gary Moore,Frank Gambale,Santana,Eric Johnston,Jeff Beck,

Artist History Edinburgh born Willie Logan, started playing the piano at the age of three and by the time he went to school he was able to play, by ear, well enough to accompany the class at singing. Guitars and making music a career was never considered, but strumming along with the radio on a tennis racket seemed a pretty cool thing to do. Being dissinterested in classical piano lessons and more in pop music, he had the idea that a guitar for fun, sort of as a hobby would be a better pastime. Quickly the guitar caught a grip of him as he started a school band and joined local bands that played at dances around the county. Willie joined several bands after leaving school that included a Toyah-esque club band and a local band, which was resident in the pub owned by the singer. Much music was played and much lager was drunk.Before the age of 4 track portastudios, he used to record his songs on two tape recorders, usually cassette machines, and transfer back and forth between the two, adding parts as he went along. The quality was verry poor and he dreamed that one day he'd own a multitrack recorder, and one day he did.£600 bought him the first portastudio, the TASCAM 144 cassette driven box which boasted a four channel mixer with a bass and trebble knob on each channel.For years he wrote and recorded pop songs then one day he met David Blaylock who ran a small record company that had in the past, enjoyed chart success with singer songwriter Keith Marshall formally of the glam rock band Hello. He released three singles onder the guise Quadrascope, Jupiter Red and finally his real name Willie Logan. All achieved airplay but sales were low and the partnership disolved.Years later, having toured with Celtic rock band Runrig as a tech, he wrote and recorded over two albums worth of material as the Blazing Apostles and released another single, a cover of the Sandie Shaw Hit 'Always something there to remind me' which also enjoyed local airplay. At this point his band of apostles broke up, and after a brief flirt with experimental folk music, as second solo guitarist along side Steve Reid in the band New Celeste, he decided to concentrate on recording guitar instrumentals.He reforged his connections with David Blaylock and secured a small deal with Carlton Home Entertainment who, at the time owned Hallmark records, and The Legend Lives series was born. The four tribute albums featured the songs of Elvis, Buddy Holly, Marc Bolan and The Carpenters and one original tune on each. Along with Dedications, the showcase album for the series and an Acoustic Christmas album on Tring records, units in excess of 60,000 were soldWillie has a new John Lennon tribute out soon and has just completed an album of original material in his studio The Citrus Factory called FINGERTIPS.

Group Members Willie Logan. (Guitar)with Alan Brown (Drums)& Lawrie McMillian (Bass)

Instruments Guitar

Albums Fingertips - TLL: Elvis - TLL: Marc Bolan - TLL: Buddy Holly - Tll: Lohn Lennon - Tll: The Carpenters - Willie Logan Acoustic Xmas - Dedications

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Location Dunfermline, Fife - United Kingdom

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