*Husky "Nine" is a homemade CD-R lovingly handcrafted one at a time in our NYC shop.
"Christopher Occhialini's new project Husky shows the growth and grasp of great melodies entwined with classic yet still alternative guitar lines. It's rare thes [+]*Husky "Nine" is a homemade CD-R lovingly handcrafted one at a time in our NYC shop.
"Christopher Occhialini's new project Husky shows the growth and grasp of great melodies entwined with classic yet still alternative guitar lines. It's rare these days to get a chorus as great as the one in "Jukebox." Do yourself a favor and take 3 minutes to hear something you haven't heard in a while...a good song!"- Michael Lockwood(producer/guitarst- Aimmee Mann, Fiona Apple, Lisa Marie Presley)
Some of Christopher Occhialini's earliest childhood memories are that of himself, his older brother and his father dancing around the apartment they inhabited to the music of Derek and the Dominoes and Queen. By the time Christopher was in the Fifth Grade he made his stage debut singing the Beatles song "The Long and Winding Road " in his grammar school talent show.
In 1983 at the tender age of thirteen, and after a few failed attempts at piano lessons, he received his first guitar and from that day forward he was consumed with the passion of music. At a time when Eddie Van Halen, flashy guitar playing and big hair bands were all the rage, Christopher ignored the flavor of the day and turned to guitarists such as Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Jeff Beck for inspiration practicing for hours on end. He formed his first band, Raspberry Jam with a few neighborhood friends a few short months after picking up the guitar. Sharing lead vocal duties with the bass player, these youngsters again eschewed the popular rock music of the day playing songs by Chuck Berry, Joe Cocker and the Rolling Stones. Around the same time Christopher bought his first four-track tape recorder and discovered the thrill of writing and recording original music.
As time went on he started private guitar lessons and developed an almost insatiable appetite for learning music theory and composition. He soon turned to Jazz and Classical music, studying both to learn the basic building blocks of music. In his junior year of high school he started attending the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven Connecticut as a music major. In 1989 he appeared in his first Guitar Magazine article as an up and coming guitarist to wa
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