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J.A.H. Warren
[edit]Writing an article about yourself is generally frowned upon. Autobiographical pages are usually biased and smack of vanity. C1k3 (talk) 01:58, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
== J. A. H. Warren ==
J. A. H. Warren (full name James Austen Henry Warren) is a musician in the Acoustic/Solo Rock Genre. He began to play the guitar when he was 8 years of age. He had a great guitar teacher at FairField in the town Loughborough (Leicestershire County). He began as many guitarists did with making small little tunes. Then at the age of 10 he stopped guitar lessons as he moved to the newly established Ratcliffe College's Junior Department. He didn't have guitar lessons for a whole year. But when the next year came, at the age of 11 (year 7), he started having guitar lessons once again. He had a teacher Called Mr. Johnson who was a great teacher and inspired James by teaching him Chords. These were the days when James first learnt the most basic and easy chords such as: the E major, the E minor, the G major, the D Major, the D minor, the A major, the A minor and the C major chord. The first Chorded song he could play was The House of the Rising Sun. From this he began to make his own words to the song.
In year 8, when James was 12 years of age a new guitar teacher came to the school. His name was Mr. Thomas. James felt pushed to give up electric guitar for a while and to start doing Acoustic Guitar grades. He in fact didn't get that far with Mr. Thomas for he sometimes missed his lesson and other times he hadn't done any practise for him. So after 2 years he moved onto a guitar teacher who taught out of school. His name was John Padget. This new teacher was great. James suddenly felt himself wanting to challenge himself. He sped up the grades and went too grade 1, in just 2 months, too grade 3 and then too grade 5 each about a year apart. Then it came to his GCSE years where he started becoming pressured to do other things and so started putting aside classical guitar for electric guitar and homework.
He began to do his grade 6 and (again like in when he took his other grades) he challenged himself and said that he would do the hardest piece in the whole of the grade 6 book. This would be a great success for him but he would need a lot of practise to get it perfect. We still wait to see if he manages to complete his grade 6 exam but at the moment it is looking unlikely. But after this James wishes to go on and try either singing or the violin.
However there is another side James’ musical career which is unmentioned so far. His band career was very rocky from the very start. In Year 8 he created a band with his best friend Nicolas Dutton. This band was called BOA (Blades of Awe) who later changed there name to JET. Nicolas Dutton was the singer and James Warren played the keyboard/piano a new skill he had only just learnt from one of his friends called Rory Finn. The band created 4 songs. These songs were called: Come Back to Me, Bewitched, Thinking of You and Shot Down. However BOA split up within about 2 months or so because Nicks ‘friends’ were making jokes about them and taking the Mick out of BOA and seen as Nick wasn’t very strong in heart and mind and desperate to keep his ‘friends’ he left BOA.
However all was not lost yet for the following year he created another band with another one of his friends, this time in the year below him. He created this new band and called it Sunrise. This time the band lasted much longer it lasted about a year and a half and they created many songs including: Bridge of the World, Hay Hay Hay and You came over the hill. But soon Simon Gray, the other band member, became friends with an amazing soloist in his own year, called Andy Cooper, and formed a new band called The Tectonics. Unfortunately after Simon got going with the Tectonics and the played at the School’s Picnic concert Sunrise had fizzled out.
To make up for this James searched out for a new band. He eventually joined another newly formed band called Paradox. The band had some of James’ very best friends in it: Olly Stabler and Daniel Hopwood. Paradox came to be when Olly Stabler and Tom Smith created a band. Tom Smith was playing Lead guitar and Olly Stabler was playing keyboard. At the same time Dan Hopwood made a band with two of his friends. Then Olly Stabler suggested that the two bands join to make one big band. Their first band practise was a failure. All they were doing was messing about.
When James originally joined he became a bassist but soon Tom Smith left and So James became rhythm/lead guitar. Then Dan Hopwood came up with the name PARADOX. All Paradox needed was a drummer now. So James brought in Simon Gray, from his previous band Sunrise. Then Olly found another drummer whom he thought was better called Rachel Hough. She replaced Simon and Simon became rhythm guitarist. Then at a band practise Simon just went off to play with the Tectonics so Paradox kicked him out.
Then Paradox kicked Rachel Hough out of the band because they thought it would be better to have a school band because then they could play at all the school events as well. So instead Paradox brought in a great Drummer called Mitchell Grayson. He like the other two previous drummers didn’t last to long because he was just too unreliable. So eventually it came to be that Daniel Hopwood became the drummer as well as Lead Singer.
The Olly Stabler started to bring in loads of random people he knew, who weren’t going to be in the band anyway, into the band and soon it just got overcomplicated as the band members kept on hopping between different covers without choosing one and sticking with it. Therefore James and Daniel split of from the band Paradox and created there own little band as a pair of solo artists. They first called themselves Warren and Hoppy but later changed their name to Airwalk.
IN THE SUMMER OF 2009 JAMES WARREN AND DANIEL HOPWOOD ARE GOING TO RELEASE THEIR FIRST EP: EBONY WILD