Andy Summers
| Andy Summers | |
|---|---|
Summers in 2015
|
|
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Andrew James Somers |
| Born |
31 December 1942 Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, England |
| Genres | Rock, Jazz, Jazz fusion, New wave, Progressive rock, New-age, Avant-garde |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer, photographer |
| Instruments | Guitar |
| Years active | 1959–present |
| Labels | A&M, Private Music, RCA Victor |
| Associated acts | Zoot Money's Big Roll Band, Dantalian's Chariot, Soft Machine, The Police, Robert Fripp, Circa Zero |
| Website | www |
| Notable instruments | |
| 1963 Fender Telecaster 1961 1958 Gibson ES-335 1957 Gibson Les Paul Fender Custom Shop Andy Summers Tribute Telecaster Gibson Les Paul Custom Shop Martin Andy Summers Signature Klein Custom |
|
Andrew James Somers (born 31 December 1942) known professionally as Andy Summers, is an English guitarist who was a member of the rock band The Police. Summers has recorded solo albums, collaborated with other musicians, composed film scores, and exhibited his photography in galleries.
Andrew James Summers was born in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire. During Summers' childhood, his family moved to Bournemouth in Dorset, England. After several years of piano lessons, he took up the guitar at the age of thirteen. By age sixteen he was playing in local clubs and by nineteen he had moved to London with his friend Zoot Money to form Zoot Money's Big Roll Band.
Summers' professional career began in the mid-1960s in London as guitarist for the British rhythm and blues band Zoot Money's Big Roll Band, which eventually came under the influence of the psychedelic scene and evolved into the acid rock group Dantalian's Chariot. He is one of the "two main love interests" in Jenny Fabian and Johnny Byrne's 1969 book Groupie, in which he is given the pseudonym "Davey".
After the demise of Dantalion's Chariot, Summers joined The Soft Machine for three months and toured the United States. For a brief time in 1968, he was a member of The Animals, then known as Eric Burdon and the Animals, with whom he recorded one album, Love Is. The album features a recording of Traffic's "Coloured Rain", which includes a guitar solo by Summers which runs a full 4 minutes and 15 seconds. To ensure he ended at the right place, Zoot Money kept count throughout the solo and gave him the cue out at bar 189. The LP also included a reworked version of Dantalion's Chariot's sole single "Madman Running Through the Fields".
...
Wikipedia