Mark Sullivan's lyrics & chords

Charlotte-based guitarist Mark Sullivan was born and raised in Detroit. Sullivan first picked up the guitar in the 60's as a teen inspired by the fuzz-tone pyrotechnics of Jimi Hendrix. His fondness for early effects pedals led him to a serious study of electronic composers such as Xenakis, Stockhausen and Cage while studying composition at the University of Michigan. Frustrated by the inaccessibility of the avant garde and the lack of improvisatory freedom in the form, Sullivan then turned to the late-60's electric jazz experiments of Miles...read more