Marcus bonfanti born

My Dad was not a musician but a massive music lover, always had music on and just loved music. It was still a big part of growing up. Alan: Did you always want to become a musician? Marcus: Yes, right from the word go. I started playing trumpet when I was six and my mum and dad always encouraged me to get a musical instrument, but a proper one!

I started learning the trumpet and I was playing classical music in a big brass band. I used to love doing that. From that point I thought I wanted to be a trumpet player but I definitely wanted to be a musician. That was the only thing I could see myself doing until I was fifteen and then I picked up a guitar and, that was exactly what I wanted to be doing.

Alan: So did you have any encouragement to be a musician from family or friends? Marcus: Yes, I was lucky in that people are always telling me that they were discouraged by family or people at school telling me not to go into it but everybody I came across really encouraged me, from my primary music school teacher all through all my music teachers and also my parents.

Tell me about your experiences there. Marcus: It was an alright place. To be honest, and like most things, you get out of it what you put into it. And what I get out of it was that I met some amazing musicians and saw a lot of the guitar players around who were just fantastic players. So that was great and I really worked hard on my guitar playing and then I wanted to get a blues band and start playing bars.

And the good thing was that we had rehearsal rooms where we could rehearse and bars all around. I just thought it was a little bit backwards in the way that the course was run. Alan: What first attracted you to the blues? Marcus: Led Zeppelin. That was one of the big turning points. I remember there was a kid at school, he was in a band and he had long hair and I thought he was cool as hell.

His band were pretty scrappy but I really liked them. You know what I mean?

Marcus bonfanti born

Like, how dare they?? I need to find out who was, who Blind Willie Johnson was. And from then on there were just so many doors opening. Alan: Your musical influences are quite varied. I get quite into stuff like I remember hearing Tom Waites about five years ago and then for the last five years Tom Waites has been the one thing I always seem to come back to.

They were the two people that I heard play guitar that made me want to make a sound like that. Jimmy Paige because it can be so beautiful at times but then it can just be fireworks, it can be flamboyance, or beautiful blues playing and incredible licks. If he were a few decades older, you could believe he was the love child of Janis Joplin and John Bonham.

But there is more to Marcus Bonfanti than what a first glance would suggest. An actual listen to his music would reveal the kind of nuance and taste no one would expect from a typical British rock and roll wild man. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item. Marcus Bonfanti. Musical artist. Life and career [ edit ].

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