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Tony Mckenzie Tony Mckenzie started life in music after visiting the last great music festivals in the UK at the end of the 60’s. He often went to see live bands, many now legends in their own right such as ‘Led Zeppelin’, ‘Steppenwolf’, ‘Queen’, ‘Charlie’, ‘Ten Years After’, ‘Rory Gallagher’, ‘Gary Moore’, ‘Santana’ and a host of others way too long to mention here. At school Tony had little interest in music; he did make it into the music classes but was later thrown out for fraternizing with the girls (what other reason is there?). By the time he started his first job, the Beatles were gods and others were to follow. ‘Hendrix’ and ‘Santana’ came along and the spirit found in those and other bands rubbed off on Tony and the road was set for many years to follow. Through the 1970’s Tony was a member of many different bands and honed his guitar skills through long hours of practice. So when the 1980’s arrived and music focused on electric guitar, Tony was at the front of the queue to hone those skills even further while at the same time working in his day job in the early days of the IT Industry in different places around the world. Music, however, was always his first love and as time progressed, he developed his song writing skills, with influences right across the music scene, but primarily guitar-based music. Since those pioneering days Tony has continued to develop his style of guitar, which in the early part of the 21st Century is instrumental rock but even that has moved on a little. Tony had worked with Alan Bruce on an earlier album called ‘Eniac’, an instrumental project from 2007, which did not really achieve the recognition it deserved at the time of release but had several Top Ten chart positions with several tracks subsequently. Jack The Ripper Later Tony completed the technicalities for an album based on the ‘Jack the Ripper’ scenario. While the ‘Jack’ theme has been covered before, nowhere had been seen this idea extended to buying the CD. 'Berner Street' had some really good music and as you might imagine for a subject like ‘Jack The Ripper’, the music was heavy some of the time. but there was blues, progressive, rock and metal throughout the album as well. Berner Street was completed in 2008. The ‘Gravity Waves’ album concept first appeared in 2012 but as you will read later was delayed and not completed until July 2016. Alan Bruce wrote the lyrics, bass parts and contributed 'Al's Blues' to the mix as well as co-writing 'God Particle' which in reality was a live recording. This album was released by Tony's own record company ‘Bigdan Records Inc.’ worldwide on 29th August 2016 and published by CDbaby in the USA for mainly audiences around the world. It's also available from CDbaby and the regular crowd such as iTunes, Amazon and many others. The entire release was self-financed by Tony with Bigdan Records Inc. The other associated things Tony worked on for this album included website design - gravitywavescd.com. ‘Gravity Waves’ is a collation of music that was planned for release in 2014 but Tony was found to be suffering from prostate cancer. After an early diagnosis in September 2013 and operation in May 2014, Tony was cured. It obviously took some time for him to recover but after the four years it had taken to complete, ‘Gravity Waves’ was published. Of course that's not all Tony does - he has a YouTube channel where he regularly reviews music equipment in a totally unbiased way. He even goes and buys the gear under review in exactly the same way you might yourself, checks it out just as an ordinary user would and tells it the way it really is. On the way, Tony will often strip the gear down, go into the finer details and generally offer a score before using the gear himself to provide a good all- round review. There’s no manufacturers bluffing here as you will see when you visit his YouTube Channel. Tony also has a website at www.tonymckenzie.com where there are also loads of reviews and other useful information for musicians as well as his guitar and amplifier collections on show.