My earliest memories: strangely enough, my earliest memory is seeing the breaking the law video on top of the pops, the only other stand out memory from early childhood is seeing the trooper video on top of the pops... hmmmmm must haver been some sort of fate/karma/ whatever type of thing going on there.
So fast forward a few years, I found myself as an 11 yr old kid watching/listening to my brothers Maiden stuff, and I started getting itchy fingers, there was nothing for it, so after much begging, and pleading I got my 1st guitar which was a suitably pointy metal affair called a 'Pulse' so armed with that I took my first tentative steps into the heady debauched world of rock!!!!!
After several years of bedroom wailing, by this point at high school, I finally stepped out the bedroom door, and into the first of several bands, and over the years the bands have got better, as hopefully has my playing, up till no where i'm at the point where I feel I can actually get away with going on stage in tight leather and spandex and not be laughed off stage, which brings me to the metal of Junior Priest, and tearing it up in a Tipton-esque stylee, with some heavy, riffing, and where the playing is almost as tight as the trousers....LETS ROCK!!!!!!!