Ed Matzenik plays bass with Johnny Green’s Blues Cowboys, voted Australia’s Top Pub Band in 2001. He teaches guitar and bass at Hunter Valley School of Music.
His first band, formed in high school, was the Atlantics – who some time after Ed’s tenure were to score several international hits with their dynamic surf-style instrumentals. Meanwhile, Ed played guitar and pedal steel with many of Australia’s top country artists including Reg Lindsay, Buddy Williams and Arthur Blanch. In ’68 and ’69 he played night clubs in Thailand and the Philippines, and for six months American military bases in Vietnam.
During the Seventies he was studio manager for Track Records in London, working for the Who and recording artists and writers including Alexis Korner, the Grease Band, Shakin’ Stevens and Motorhead.
In the Eighties Ed produced many records for Enrec Studios in Tamworth, Australia – specializing in Aboriginal artists, including Roger Knox, the Koori Classic series and didgeridoo star Mark Atkins – sparking quite a boom at that time in indigenous music.
Ed has released three guitar instrumental CDs through CDBaby, several tracks are featured in YouTube videos.
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