Contact: twelvestrings(at)writebastard.com

Ian Wood plays the 12-string acoustic guitar, among other things. This space is primarily for tracks that he records during practice sessions in the Messy Studio.

Contrary to the current prevailing winds, music and the energy used to create it have value, so although most tracks here can be downloaded, they're not the ones with all the right notes in them.

eNVy have come back to shove a colonic up the hole in music.

'The eNVy Project' began in 2001 when Dylan Roberts played a guitar riff and Tim J Rowe thought they should try and record a song out of it.

That riff became 'Candy' and the partnership became The eNVy Project; a writing/recording duo with some ridiculously talented friends filling in the instruments live on stage. 

After 6 years, 25 songs and some bad behaviour they parted ways until September 2013 when Dyl got the hunger and emailed a guitar recording, and Tim unleashed his beast all over his studio. 

'Freak' was born. Tim's still cleaning the studio.

Where we go from here remains to be seen, although I can promise you this: if it's anything like last time it's gonna be eclectic and a little fucked up and I make no apoloqies for that whatsoever... 

Just thank your stars we're 300 miles apart this time.
 
Njoy. 

NV

P.S to see what we did before, hit the eNVy playlist at www.youtube.com/timboroony, and if your mum doesn't like it, get a new mum.

I play the parts using combinations of four guitars and an electric bass: Gibson L5, Fender Telecaster, classical nylon from a luthier named Nakade, steel-string acoustic from a luthier named Sauve, and a Fender Jazz Bass.  Any of my original tunes are freely available for download with the Creative Commons license.  If I didn't write the tune, I didn't make it available for download -- I want to respect intellectual property.  

I'm also active in photography.  The link to my photos is tomhealy.smugmug.com.  

I’ve had the good fortune to study in the past with some excellent teachers: Don Mock (one of the original Guitar Institute of Technology, GIT, instructors); Jay Roberts (son of GIT founder Howard Roberts; GIT is now the Musicians Institute in LA); and, Rich Falco (Rich joined the music faculty of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1979; Director of Jazz Studies.).

And, I've been able to attend some terrific clinics from guitar masters such as: Jim Hall, Pat Martino, John Schofield, Larry Coryell, Ulf Wakenius, Howard Alden, Frank Vignola, John Pisano, John Pizzarelli, Vic Juris, Corey Christiansen, Kevin Eubanks, and others.

Here's a list of only some of the guitar players I greatly admire: 
Barney Kessel
Bucky Pizzarelli
Charlie Christian
Django Reinhardt
Eddie Lang
Emily Remler
Freddie Green
George Barnes
George Benson
George Van-Eps
Grant Green
Herb Ellis
Howard Alden
Howard Roberts
Jim Hall
Jimmy Bruno
Jimmy Raney
Joe Beck
Joe Pass
John McLaughlin
John Scofield
Johnny Smith
Kenny Burrell
Kevin Eubanks
Larry Carlton
Larry Coryell
Lee Ritenour
Lenny Breau
Les Paul
Martin Taylor
Mike Stern
Pat Martino
Pat Metheny
Ralph Towner
Robben Ford
Tal Farlow
Ted Greene
Tuck Andress
Wes Montgomery

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Highly recommended -- Bassist Victor Wooten's book "The Music Lesson."  The book explores the following concepts and gives great insight.
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