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Allancraigwallace/sandbox/Guitarist ALLAN CRAIG WALLACE

Musician Allan Craig Wallace, Guitarist, Singer/Songwriter, Producer, Recording Artist. Instruments played: Electric Guitars/Acoustic Guitars, Bass, Six String Banjo, Mandolin, Keyboards. Allan began playing guitar in the Catskill Mountains, Resorts, jam sessions, local bands and nightclubs at an early age! Attended State University of New York at New Paltz for music education for a short time but left to pursue live gigs around the country. While attending an Ike and Tina show, Allan was hired personally by Ike to replace their current guitarist on the spot! Allan decided not to take a permanent position and so never went out on the road with the band but did play once with them. After auditions for many of acts in Manhattan he started working with Big Edsel, The Drifters, The Shirelles, The Coasters, Tiny Tim and more. (At the Apollo in Harlem with the Drifters on a Mike Douglas production live TV show). But his long standing guitar gig with east coast band Big Edsel proved to be a life lesson! Big Edsel, A hard working act played live TV at the 1980 Olympics, had a national comic book deal, released two albums and many singles as well as thousands of club and concert date in the USA. Allan became good friends with Stevie Ray Vaughan in the early eighties hanging out as friends mostly. They met in a nightclub upstate New York and realized they had parallel life experiences and passions in music as well as other topics. Stevie was a great friend and they had many great conversations as well as some guitar playing fun on his tour bus. It took Allan a long time to get over the tragic helicopter accident that took Stevie's life! There friendship was special and they had a bond. Allan was asked to attend the funeral in Texas he but could not. At one point Stevie Ray had invited Allan onstage to sing Jimi Hendrix's song "Little Wing! At that particular show in the opening act was bass player Harvey Brooks who invited Allan to play on and record his tunes! Brooks was one of the busiest bassists in music, working with such varied artists as John Martyn, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Seals & Crofts, John Sebastian, Loudon Wainwright III, John Cale, The Fabulous Rhinestones, and Paul Burliso, Miles Davis, Electric Flag, Jimi Hendrix, Dylan and Mike Bloomfield/Al Kooper super session and Steely Dan! Allan and Harvey were also recording with drummer Vito Liuzzi. Vito was the drummer for the legendary Johnny Winter Band. Vito was operating/owner of a recording studio where Harvey was recording his own funk tunes! Some songs were pre recorded at Allan's upstate New York home studio as well! Allan spent many years doing live shows with The Big Edsel Band while working on his own music! In the early nineties was signed to a publishing contract with Philadelphia International Records Mighty Three Publishing Group for a two song deal! Philadelphia had become his home, playing live shows and doing recording sessions for others and studying with Pat Martino. Allan also worked with both Minutes After doing local Philly shows and CBGB's in New York and Georgie Bonds and the Blues keepers around Pa and NJ. Eventually he formed his own band in Philadelphia Pa, (Holy Crow), a power trio, a spring board for his own music. Allan went into Music retail sales/Management working for Zapf's Music by day and played by night. After twelve years, the final retail manager, closing all retail stores in Philly/NJ area and started working on the last brick and mortar of Music123.com ran by Steve and Richard Zapf. He and an assistant built the last know Zapf’s/Music 123 retail store in Cherry Hill NJ. After a year or so he left Music123 to pursue a repping gig with Fender guitars. Fender had Allan flying around the country with possible positions, as well as many meeting at their headquarters in Scottsdale AZ. This did not pan out and Allan returned back to his root in New York. Allan did some club and show tune type gigs plus dance/ballet dance music editing, in the upstate New York Catskills. 2013 thru 2014 Allan played guitar for Dublin Records recording artist Joy Ray recording playing collages and NYC clubs like The Bitter End, Sullivan Hall. and college gigs. He also did remote guitar sessions from his own studio for Producer songwriter ShamTrax(wrote for 50 cent). Allan Craig Wallace is currently doing remote and live session work and doing sales and consultations designing high end lighting for residents and commercial. Writing songs and looking to play on something special remains a priority.

Equipment: Allan Craig Wallace uses a variety of gear depending on genre of music. Fender, Gibson, PRS, Deering, Guild, Lavaliere, Martin, Taylor, Takamine, National, Vox, Marshall, Mesa Boogie, Revera, Sovtek, Many effects or simply non, Protools, Wave Lab and more! allancraigwallace.com Allan Craig Wallace can be found on Google, Instagram, My Space, Pintrest, Linkedin, Ello, Tumblr, Wikipedia, Twitter.