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If you would
like to hear Michael's live recording of his
guitar solo, click on one the song(s) below to hear the
imperfect, untouched
versions. It might need to
be downloaded to your computer and played with your
MP3 Player
(Windows
Media Player or Real Player).
Eruption
- performed by Michael Logue.
For
LIVE
VIDEOS,
you can also go to YouTube at the following link, or
Michael's Facebook page by clicking the
link on the top
right corner of this page or by :
www.youtube.com/misstakenband
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LEAD GUITARIST
Michael Logue
has enjoyed playing guitar since a very young age.
Michael
grew up in Hollywood,
Florida. When he was very young,
Michael used to play with toy
guitars, pretending he was a rock star.
His parents bought him his first guitar when he was about 8 years old,
but Michael started actually learning/playing guitar at
the age of nine.
For 6 years, he took lessons at
ASM (Associated Studios of Music)
where he learned how to read/write
music and won several trophies
and awards for his talents. Yet, the kind
of things they teach in a
classroom
are not always what you hear in real life or on the radio.
Since it
was often repetitious and uninteresting, he left ASM and
took
some private lessons for a year.
Eventually, Michael decided to
teach himself and that’s where he
learned to play by ear and picked
up some sheet music to help him
learn to play many styles of music.
With all of his musical influences,
he knew that lead guitar was what he wanted to play and he found
rock music
to be the most enjoyable and free.
When Michael was about 15 years
old, he started writing original
songs
and competing in competitions of
which he won many awards.
He was
also playing guitar with local bands,
filled in for other band’s
missing
members, and recorded demos and
originals in a studio
environment,
which is also where Michael learned
how to run the
recording equipment
and get the right sound out of recordings.
Michael also played with
a few country bands and later joined
the
FCMA in 1998 where he won
“Instrumentalist of the Year” and
the “Band of the Year” awards.
Michael also adds a little bit of the
following instruments into his
experience: rhythm guitar, bass guitar, drums &
keyboards, and
multi-track recording, which in turn gave him
good experience in
overall sound.
Michael learned how to run sound
for other bands
when he was younger and he takes pride in the
complete sound
of a song, not just
in his own instrument. He has
also been providing
multi-track recording for singers and other bands in the studio in his
home.
Although Michael plays many styles
of music, his heart is in rock
because it is challenging, rewarding and gives him the freedom of
being himself. With rock music, he is
able to play loud or soft,
happy or
sad, and adds so much feeling into
the lead guitar solos
that he can
make the crowd feel whatever the
song is saying -
without speaking a
word. Michael never adds “fluff” to
any song.
He puts a lot of thought
into each note he plays and adds
just the
right amount of effects to
fit the feeling of each song. Michael
says
playing music makes him feel
better no matter what mood he is
in
and he states, “Music is exciting
and fun and I would like to help
other people to enjoy themselves
and feel the chill of emotions like
I
do.” When Michael met Linda, he
thought they would be a good
match because Linda adds the
same kind of feeling and emotion
into her singing/song-writing as he
does. They immediately began
writing original rock music together
and in December 1999, they
moved
up to the Central Florida area to
begin a new original band,
“Misstaken.” Michael is continuously
learning more about music by
reading and learning how to run the
latest equipment out on the
market.
Michael
plays lead guitar with the band, Misstaken, and also
provides
fill-in work, studio work, and guitar lessons. You can
also view his bio
information reflected through his bio page and
the band website pages:
www.misstakenband.com/bios.html
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