I was born in 1979.I first picked up a guitar at age 13 after hearing a mates brother strumming away to Hendrix.I went straight home and told my parents I wanted a guitar for Christmas,Santa was good to me that year and low and behold under the tree was a black and white Encore with a little practice amp....cheers Santa.                                  After leaving school I did a course at colledge,the course wasn't great so I spent most of my time down the pub.I played in a number of colledge bands but my main project was 'Gavins Armpit' a play on Slash's Snake pit.We played quite a bit but our highlight was to be at the Chichester Festival,unfortunately it was cancelled due to miserable Bastsards who had 'concerns about noise levels'Twats.                           We did our last gig at the bognor music festival.I took a break of 2 years from guitaring whilst also being in a relationship,gues what? yeah that didn't work out but the good thing was I had found my love for the guitar again,and thank fuck I did !!                                             With my Bitch gone and my hunger for playing back I set about forming a band which you know as 'Raw Power'which brings me to where I am today 'Gigging and fuckin lovin it'.................See ya soon

Gavin barnard