Tony Mckenzie started life in music after
visiting the last great music festivals in the UK at the end of the 60’s. He
often went to see live bands, many now legends in their own right.
At school Mckenzie had little interest in music – being thrown out of the
music class for fraternising with the girls. But in the times when Mckenzie
started his first job, the Beatles were gods, and others were all to follow.
Then Hendrix and Santana came along. That spirit found in those bands rubbed
off on to Mckenzie and the road was set for many years to follow.
Through the 70’s Mckenzie was a member of many different bands and honed his
guitar skills through long hours of practise, but when the 80’s arrived and
music focussed on electric guitar, Mckenzie was at the front of the queue to
hone those skills even further, while at the same time working in the early
days of the IT Industry.
Music, however, was always his first love and as time progressed, he
developed his song writing skills, with influences right across the music
scene, but primarily guitar based music.
Since those early days Mckenzie has continued to develop his style of
guitar, which in the early part of the 21st Century was instrumental rock.
When the idea of the ‘Berner Street’ Album came to him while thinking hard
about the unsatisfactory situation of the music industry in general, he knew
he was on to something really big. The marketing strategy included listeners
buying a ‘real’ music album, but behind that they had a great reason to buy
– to win $10,000.00 (or £5,000.00).
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Mckenzie had worked with Alan Bruce on an earlier album by Mckenzie –
‘Eniac’, an instrumental thing from 2006 which did not achieve the
recognition it deserved for many reasons, basically locked in the depressive
world of the music business of the 21st Century.
Mckenzie completed the technicalities for an album based on the ‘Jack the
Ripper’ scenario. While the ‘Jack’ theme has been covered before, nowhere
have you seen this idea extended to buying the CD. He commented ‘all you
have to do is listen to the CD, determine the answer to the puzzle, and
claim your $10,000! (or £5000)
The album was completed in March 2008 with Alan Bruce, who wrote lyrics,
played Bass Guitar and contributed to the album with a few of his own
tracks. The ‘Berner Street’ album was released by McKenzie’s own Record
Company ‘Bigdan Records Inc. Ltd’ worldwide on 13th April 2008 with targeted
audiences in the USA and the UK simultaneously.
