Guitarist with heavy metal band Vortex/MetalBats and melodic rock band Maestro from Groningen, the Netherlands. Also guitarist for Eloah and RVH Project.
Started playing the acoustic guitar when I was eleven years old, after seeing a live show by The Shadows at a local venue. My dad is a huge Shadows fan and brought me along. After seeing the show I told him “I want to be able to play like that”. My parents seemed alright with that and found me a guitar teacher, the Dutch jazz guitarist Jan Kuiper. He taught me how to play and taught me all about music theory, which I found very interesting. After some time I started listening to bands like Queen and Kiss. They really got me into the electric guitar. I just loved that distorted and powerful sound of electric guitars. A little later I got my first (very cheap) electric guitar and amp.
Guitarist with heavy metal band Vortex/MetalBats and melodic rock band Maestro from Groningen, the Netherlands. Also guitarist for Eloah and RVH Project.
Started playing the acoustic guitar when I was eleven years old, after seeing a live show by The Shadows at a local venue. My dad is a huge Shadows fan and brought me along. After seeing the show I told him “I want to be able to play like that”. My parents seemed alright with that and found me a guitar teacher, the Dutch jazz guitarist Jan Kuiper. He taught me how to play and taught me all about music theory, which I found very interesting. After some time I started listening to bands like Queen and Kiss. They really got me into the electric guitar. I just loved that distorted and powerful sound of electric guitars. A little later I got my first (very cheap) electric guitar and amp.