Artists Chris Burns
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Mode Records / MODE 291 / 2016
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Drip Audio / DA 00820 / 2012
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[Independent] / CAL 2008 / 2008
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Various artistsNo Type / IMNT 0306/09 / 2003
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Born in Montréal in 1966, Chris Burns grew up a couple of hundred yards away from runway #9 of the Dorval airport; establishing the notion that window rattling screams of a jumbo jet could be a lullaby. Aged 12, unable to afford an electric guitar, he was forced to build one out of an old Cheerios box and discarded human hair he found behind the local barbershop. This, clearly, did not work but it did strike up the sympathy of legendary guitar man Blind Idiot McGhee, with whom Burns took up a three year apprenticeship ending when McGhee passed on his Stratocaster to Burns on his death bed. Since then, Burns has been struggling to unlearn everything Blind Idiot taught him and has been creating and refining his own unique brand of guitar playing, a style he has labeled “brain damaged.”
Chris Burns
Montréal (Québec), 1966
Residence: Montréal (Québec)
- Composer
- Performer (electric guitar)
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Appearances
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Mode Records / MODE 291 / 2016
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Drip Audio / DA 00820 / 2012
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[Independent] / CAL 2008 / 2008
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Various artists
No Type / IMNT 0306/09 / 2003
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Complements
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No Type / IMNT 0308i / 2003
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Blog
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Nicolas Caloia will be in concert at L’envers in Montréal on 15 mai 2009 with Lori Freedman, Chris Burns, and John Heward.…
Saturday, May 16, 2009 / In concert -
Nicolas Caloia will be in concert at L’envers in Montréal on 15 mai 2009 with Lori Freedman, Chris Burns and John Heward.…
Thursday, May 14, 2009 / In concert -
Glass Burns (Chris Burns, Will Glass, Gordon M Allen) and Bottom Feeders (Nicolas Caloia, Jason Sharp) will be at Le Cagibi on Tuesday February 17, 2009 as part of the Mardi spaghetti weekly series for creative music.…
Friday, February 13, 2009 / In concert