Joe Bartnicki
Lead Guitar & Backing Vocals) Born in Small Heath Birmingham, I formed my first band "Witch Craf" at
the age of 15 before being poached at the age of 17 by one of Birmingham's premier unsigned band "SUPANOVA" in the mid 70's,playing original music. I continued to write, play and record with the likes of Bigfoot, Donna Blitzen & ultimately Red Ruth until the end of the 80's. After a 14 year break, I re-kindled my taste for live music in 2001 with a band local Lichfield outfit called Raised on Radio. This was thefirst time I'd ventured into playing cover songs. Still having the urge to write music I managed to slip in the odd original solo or two in to Raised on- Radios set previous musical foray soon caught up with me when Supanova decided to release an album in 2003 featuring our original mid 70's studio material including raw live recordings, the album was called " 100 Miles from Heaven". Since leaving Raised on Radio in 2003 I've worked on a project with my work colleagues and formed Audio Time Machine, this was the first time I'd experienced fronting a live band as a vocalist/guitarist. After which I then went on to perform & record with a band called Far-Cry (original music) before teaming up with Essential Journey. My favorite band and Mentors, Journey have always had pride of place in home, car, cassette & CD player respectively, "I'm so pleased to have the chance to perform my favorite bands music and emulate my all time guitar hero Neal Schon who I actually met in Manchester 2007.
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