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Howard Comfort, 45, (the Angus) is a professional guitarist and singer/songwriter from Tacoma , Washington. Born the son of an Ivy League college math professor, he inherited more of his drama major mother's gifts for theatre and music than his father's head for numbers. One of the two founding members of Soulstripper, he has also appeared in several previous local line-ups including such groups as the Lives in Being (1987-1995), the Kents (1993-1998), the Phobics (1997-2000), Bonfire, (2001-2003) and Swiftkick, (2005.). This latter group achieved local success on the club circuit and featured the vocal antics of Soulstripper singer Bon Johnson. Howard has a wide-ranging number of styles of guitar playing to draw from but his sound is heavily influenced by such greats as A.Young, E. Clapton, J. Hendrix, J. Page, P. Townsend, K. Richards, B. Gibbons, J. Garcia, etc. Although the list of influences goes on and on, the fact remains that his core style has always been remeniscent of an AC/DC-based sound, making him an ideal player in the Angus role. He prefers to play his Gibson SGs, Explorers, Flying V, Les Paul and Nighthawk guitars but has been known to rip up a couple of Fender Stratocasters on occasion when the mood strikes. It is his take-no-prisoners style of playing that resides at the heart of the Soulstripper sound; it is also the same aggressive philosophy behind this over-the-top style of playing that he shares with the other accomplished members of the group.
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