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Ed Alleyne-Johnson is a British electric violinist and prolific busker. He has been busking since he was a Fine Art student at Oxford University in the early 1980s. He uses an electric violin he carved with a kitchen knife, a custom pedalboard, and an amplifier he modified to run from rechargeable batteries. This setup has enabled him to perform on the street in almost every major city in Europe, and across the United States and Canada. He was a member of the English post-punk/alternative rock band New Model Army recording and touring with them for five years, with several concerts in Germany in over 200 concerts worldwide, supporting acts as diverse as Simple Minds, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, The Cure, Midnight Oil, and Faith No More ==Early life== Ed was born in Liverpool in 1959 where his father, Brian, was a teacher. The pupils he taught included future Beatles members George Harrison and Paul McCartney. At the age of five, Ed's father made him a wooden model of John Lennon's guitar to play. Subsequently, Ed inherited a violin from his grandfather. Ed learned to play violin at school and joined the Liverpool Schools Symphony Orchestra. He built his own electric violin at the age of 13 which was made of plywood and pine. At 16 Ed's father bought him a bass guitar to enable him to join a school rock band. On leaving school Ed was offered a place at Pembroke College, Oxford where he studied fine art. Whilst at university Ed started busking and hitchhiked around Europe with friends. His guitar was too heavy so he took his grandfather's violin, which he had sprayed purple. He played the violin on the streets using an amplifier and digital delay equipment. This was to form the basis of his future work. During his time in Oxford in the late 1980s he played bass guitar in local band, Raindance. Three Raindance tracks were included on The Mad Hatters Club compilation album released on the independent (March Hare Music ) label.〔March Hare Music website includes album, which is still in their catalogue, at 29 May 2014, Ed is credited on the sleeve, there is a photo on the reverse of the sleeve on the company website.〕 The band self-released a nine-track album (Raindance) in 1987 (catalogue no. Axis XIS 121). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ed Alleyne-Johnson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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