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Shooting Star

An rocking riff acoustic tune
Telling a story about making poor decision and choices ... something we've all done

Short Stories

Chopping Block

A melancholy track - simple and haunting in its delivery. Touching on a difficult subject - trading affection for material gain

Give You What You Like

A song that just kind of happened - it started out as a warm up ritual for me before I practiced or performed

I ended up creating this tune out of it - happy - thats how it makes me feel when I play it

My Favourite Cliche

A song about a break up !
Well .. it is a country song !

I was on tour and far away from home when my wife at the time called me on the mobile phone to tell me she was leaving
This lyric is essentially my story of trying to get home from the west coast to the east coast to see her

Shes leaving home - electric

A rocking tune about temptation and desire

Dead On

Holding Hands With The Devil

When you watch Mike Beale play you begin to understand what commitment 
to music really means. His energy and amazing guitar skills are only the 
beginning of Mike’s unique style and way of bringing the blues to audiences 
in Australia and all over the world. Originally hailing from Canada, Mike came to 
Australia when he was ten years old. “My interest in music started at about age 13 listening to America and Crosby Stills and Nash and and hearing the big acoustic guitar sounds and harmony
Soon I bought an acoustic guitar and was very much the usual guitar geek – locked in the bedroom trying to learn everything. I learned all the tunes off the first America album. I was impressed by the use of different guitar parts in their songs” he says.
Mike does most if not all of his song writing on a Martin D28 guitar one that he acquired in 1983. This he says has been a “Perpetual Feature” of his musical life and has been by his side through thick and thin having made it through robberies, being lost on a planes, and a world of travelling” it is a constant in his life, its his musical muse.  
My true musical passion is probably driven from the acoustic guitar : “I just love the open tone of acoustic guitar and I just want to hear that natural sound. I love the feel of it in my hands and how everything you do with the left and right hand can affect the quality of the sound and the quality of chords you play….That’s my real passion, that’s what I love”

Mike Beale

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