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Bernie Torme
Bernie Tormé – Guitar Legend / Blues
Rock Psychedelic Shredmeister / Glam Punk
Sleaze Rock Frontman is known for many
things:
• Stepping in & saving the day for Ozzy
Osbourne in the aftermath of guitar legend
Randy Rhoad's tragic death
• Hit records world tours & international fame
as Ian Gillan's axe man in Gillan
• Forming Desperado with Twisted Sister front
man Dee Snider which also featured ex Iron
Maiden drummer Clive Burr
Fronting his own bands Electric Gypsies and
later Torme (featuring Phil Lewis of L A Guns/
Girl fame)
It has been said of Irish guitarist Bernie
Tormé that he plays his Stratocaster through
a Marshall as though he knew them in a
previous life Dublin born Bernie learned his
trade from local heroes such as Rory
Gallagher Gary Moore and Eric Bell before
moving to London in ‘ where he initially
played with heavy pub rockers Scrapyard and
then formed the Bernie Torme Band in ‘
The BTB toured with Bob Geldof's Boomtown
Rats and Billy Idol's Generation X among
many others
In early ‘ Bernie joined ex Deep Purple
singer Ian Gillan's band Gillan and was crucial
to the bands success as guitar hero foil to Ian's
soaring vocals While a member of Gillan he
wrote and played on four top ten albums and
many hit singles including Gillan's biggest
selling singles 'New Orleans' and 'Trouble'
After his stint with Gillan Bernie joined
Ozzy Osbourne on the Diary Of A Madman
tour in the US standing in for the legendary
guitarist Randy Rhoads who had been
tragically killed in an air crash just days
beforehand Madison Square Garden was
among the gigs that Bernie played with Ozzy:
a young Zakk Wylde who was present in the
audience has been quoted in interviews as
saying 'Bernie rocked'
Bernie's first solo album (Turn Out The
Lights) was released in the UK Europe and
Japan in shortly after his return from
Ozzy's US tour Playing gigs in the UK and
Europe continuously through the remainder
of and when his second solo album
'Electric Gypsies' was released the album's
title being drawn from the title of his three
piece band touring band 'Electric Gypsies'
was particularly successful in Japan where
both it 'Turn Out The Lights' and 'Bernie
Torme Live' were re released last year ( )
In Bernie started playing solo gigs
again with his favourite three piece line up
format playing festivals in Spain and the UK
He is planning to record a new solo album in
which will be the first Bernie Torme solo
album for years An awsome guitarist
catch him @ The Robin Bilston on October
th
OCT
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