Paul Rose is without doubt one of the most unique and talented guitarists around today. Although fundamentally a rock guitarist, his extraordinary playing style touches on blues, country, jazz and folk, blended together into a style that is entirely his own. Never a gig goes by where audience members don't comment that Paul is the best guitarist they've seen.
Born in Newcastle, north east England in July 1966, Paul's natural gift shone through at an early age, and he was already being hailed as one of the best guitarists in the region by the age of 16. Playing regularly on the Newcastle pub circuit with the most popular local bands of the day.
Rory Gallagher awarded Paul a '62 reissue Fender strat with a Vox AC30 in a Fender sponsored competition that invited guitarists from all over the UK to appear in local music shops. Entrants were required to play in front of a video camera using the guitar and amp in question (without any pedals), to be edited and shown to Rory at a later date. Out of 1000 guitarists Rory selected Paul as the winner and described him as "A hot player with a hot future". Having also won 'Guitarist Of The Year' in Guitarist Magazine a couple of years later, it is plainly obvious that Paul is a force to be reckoned with.
Despite all the accolades of this era, Paul was battling with his own personal demons, and as a result suffered seemingly countless disappointments and setbacks during his early career, but Paul's career has going from strength to strength, having released a total of eight solo albums to date that have sold worldwide to an ever increasing circle of fans, coupled with his stunning live shows built on 25 years of tough performing experience, Paul is now gaining the worldwide recognition he deserves.
Recognised as an electric guitarist, Paul has recently been playing many solo gigs with nothing but an acoustic guitar and a sample pedal to promote his first ever acoustic CD 'The Learning Curve'. These gigs have been very well received indeed, with one reviewer writing "this is a truly world class guitarist at the very top of his game". This not to say Paul has totally turned his back on the Fenders he loves so well, in fact quite the contrary.
In 2008 Paul has teamed up with one of the world's best rhythm section in Ted McKenna and Alan Thompson for a series of shows to promote his latest studio album 'Promises'. Ted and Alan's CV's includes between them Michael Schenker, Ian Gillan, Gary Moore, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Greg Lake, John Martyn, Rory Gallagher, Dave Gilmour, Phil Collins and Womack & Womack....the list goes on.
This year also sees Paul headline at festivals in the UK, Ireland and Germany and also release his eagerly antisipated anthology 'Seeds Of My Own Destruction' which sees recordings from 1990 through to the present day. Paul has also signed deals to endorse Avalon acoustic guitars, Krozka Sharpe handbuilt electric guitars and Cornford hand built valve amps.
Find out for yourself exactly why more and more people are claiming Paul Rose is the best electric guitarist they have ever seen.