- Marc Pattison
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Marc Pattison was born on March 4, 1968 in Frankfurt, Germany. He is a California based guitarist and was one of the first guitarists endorsed by several companies such as ESP Guitars, DiMarzio pickups, Morley pedals and Steinberg software based on internet visibility alone. He is also endorsed by M-Audio/Digidesign, Line 6 amplifiers and Dean Markley strings Sabine tuners
Biography and playing history
Even though Pattison was born in Germany, German law dictates that a child take on the citizenship of the father, who in his case was American. Pattison spent his first 5 years in Germany when his parents moved to the United States. German was his first language and he did not learn to speak English until age 5 when he arrived in the U.S.
Marc Pattison started playing guitar at age 13. He took lessons for less than 3 months when he quit because he was tired of learning single note passages/melodies for songs such as "House of the Rising Sun", "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" or "Swan Lake". He could not find anyone to teach him rock songs by bands such as AC/DC, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple so he decided to teach himself. After this brief period of lessons Pattison was mostly self-taught and never took lessons again.
Marc Pattison first made a name for himself on the now re-structured site mp3.com. He heard about the site on CNN and decided to upload some material and quickly rose to the top of his genre: instrumental guitar. During the next two to three years, Pattison topped the charts both in instrumental rock as well as the more broad genres of rock and pop and was being downloaded thousands of times a day by guitar enthusiasts. MP3.com decided to promote him as a success story and placed a statement and picture in an advertisement in Guitar Center's buyers guide that went out to over 2 million homes and stores.
Back in 1999 mp3.com was the number one site for unsigned musicians to upload their music and be heard by a huge audience. The site was acquired by the major record labels due to a copyright infringement lawsuit and then shut down until it was bought and re-opened by download.com/CNET and turned into a place for signed artists to sell MP3s.
Marc Pattison was one of the first artists to mix guitar and electronic music in the genre of instrumental rock guitar. He released such material on mp3.com with great success and managed to stay in the top 40 of over 30,000 bands for most of 1999. His music has been played on the now defunct KSJO radio in San Jose, California and also on the syndicated "Mikey" (DJ Mikey Esparza currently on KIOZ) show and has also performed live on Mikey's show three times and has had music on MTV's Undressed in several of their episodes that are still running in reruns as of 2007, Fox sports as well as many video games, DVDs and webpages.
Later, Pattison went on to compose electronic music without many guitars, and currently produces music in such genres as rock, metal, pop and RnB as well.
Marc Pattison has now been playing guitar for 26 years, has been mentioned in magazine articles in Recording and Guitar Player magazines, has music in the video game Stunt GP, was featured on Clear Channel's website as a hot new artist because of a high chart status at GarageBand.com, has appeared on different compilation albums, including a double album of shredders released on liquid Note records in England and two Morley compilations, one where he was one of five artists including Steve Vai.
His music has been downloaded over 3 million times since 1999 and he continues to have his music played or downloaded thousands of times a week on various sites.
Since early 2007, Marc has been composing music for television and has had placements on The History Channel, The E channel, The Bravo Network and Fox on such programs as Cities of the Underworld, Sunset Tan and Millionaire Matchmaker.
Marc also recently wrote and recorded the theme song for the Oakland Athletics's Baseball TV broadcast aired for the first time on April 6, 2008.
In addition, Marc Pattison's song "SpaceJam" was used for the online game "Homerun in Berzerk Land", which was created by Marc-Antoine Jean and Simon Lachance.
He is also currently in a new band called Futures End with former Zero Hour singer Fred Marshall and Steve Digiorgio on bass of Sadus, Death and Testament. Futures End have released the album Memoirs of a Broken Man in October 2009 on Nightmare Records. Futures End's album was declared one of the top metal albums in a recent issue of Greek Metal Hammer
Categories:- American rock guitarists
- 1968 births
- Living people
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