Autobiography of an Unsigned Artist
David Anderson and How Twilight's Edge Began
David played his first guitar at age 20. It was an acoustic that basically introduced him to chords and notes on the fret board. Then it was shortly after that, he purchased his first real electric guitar, a Fender Stratocaster. A couple of years later, a Les Paul custom and to add the icing on the cake, a hand made Boogie Amp manufactured by Mesa Engineering around 1982.
Since he began playing, David was in and out of garage bands, always maintaining the Rock Genre. With the discovery of Michael Schenker, his dream was to play like Michael, but was just not capable of shredding, so instead, he created his own style of playing that has become his signature sound. In the beginning, lots of negativity came his way, but that didn't stop him pursuing the guitar.
His style seemed to become more refined as time went along. Emotion seemed to become more prevalent in his playing. His guitar playing has achieved a level of certain viturosity and giving him the ability to venture out as a solo artist with songs that are beautifully layered track on top of track with different guitar sounds all in synchronization with each other. Thus Twilight's Edge has been created.
Twilight's Edge is a musical entity that explores new areas of Rock/Metal. It is an alternative to commercial Rock & Metal music and is located in the San Francisco Bay Area. At the core of Twilight's Edge is Artist, Recording Engineer, Producer and Manufacturer, David Anderson. David's playing is a translation of 70's and 80's Rock guitarists and culminated into a distinctive style that truly is his own. As you listen to David's playing, you just might catch glimpses of Leslie West (Mountain), Ronnie Montrose (Hagar), Paul Kossoff (Free), Brian May (Queen) or even Buck Dharma (Blue Oyster Cult) and many other rock Legends of the 70's and early 80's.
On the other side of Twilight's Edge is Nick Anderson, a young guitarist usually found in the Thrash/Death Metal realm. Nick took time out of his busy schedule to contribute a very tasty piece of Metal with an eerie instrumental that will surely catch your attention.
Around 1988, David bought some studio gear and began experimenting around with recording. Learning what the equipment was capable of and stretching it to the limits. After a few short months, things came to a halt and the equipment sat for about 15 years.
Then during the winter of 2003 David had an inspiration in music and was able to capture
some very tasty Rock/Metal sounds. In about 8 consecutive weekends, David came up with enough material to cover 2 CD's. 8 of those songs ended up on the Simply Guitar album. The rest will end up on either the 2nd or 3rd CD's.
And so began a 3 year journey into the creation of a very unique and quite different CD titled Simply Guitar.
It was through the Simply Guitar journey that provided the experience needed to self produce and self manufacture a CD. This all provides a basis for future projects that may also involve other musicians and/or artists.
David has produced a CD that is unique and different than any other of its kind. Only the electric guitar is used to produce the basic beat, a passion and a melodic drive that the end result is nothing less than music with a life of its own.
David Anderson has proven that he has the ability to go solo on a CD project without the assistance from any production group or groups to get the job done. This then becomes a labor of love for the craft as well as the music produced by that craft.
This phase of the journey is now over and has morphed into a more complex Twilight's Edge, a more mature artist has emerged.
Cheers and Best Regards,
David Anderson
Twilight's Edge & d.e.a. music
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