"I was blown away. Absolutely brilliant!"
Owen Powell (Guitarist, Catatonia)

"This is Hendrix the way it should be played."
Burke Shelley (Singer & Bassist, Budgie)

The story begins in 1963 when a twelve year old Glyn was bought his first guitar by his parents …. it seemed the only logical progression following months of bedroom tennis-racket playing. Strangely, Glyn’s first musical influences had been piano players such as Fats Domino, Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, to name but a few, but it it wasn’t long before he was belting out rock ’n roll guitar standards like C’mon Everybody and Johnny B Goode. He joined his first band, The Fugitives, in 1965, playing rhythm guitar. They were a locally-based band and lead guitarist David Cooper had been idolised by Glyn for some time. To be given the chance to play alongside him was like a dream come true. It was also the ideal opportunity to pick up some hints and tips on how to develop his own playing style.

It was the mid-1960’s and the popular music scene was in a state of flux. Many styles of music previously confined to the underground clubs were finally beginning to graze the Top 20. Rhythm and Blues guitarists such as Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page were just coming into their own, and Glyn decided that their direction was to be his direction. He'd admired Clapton's resolve when he felt the Yardbirds' movement away from blues and towards pop, was too much to sustain. He thought that Clapton's move to John Mayall's Bluesbreakers was the ultimate in "cool". The ultimate in cool, that is, until he saw Jimi Hendrix performing on Top of the Pops for the first time.

"I'd never seen anything like Hendrix before", Glyn reminisces, "he was playing this upside-down Strat and the sound was like nothing on earth". The rest, as they say, is history. For Glyn, over the next few years, bands came and went, as did musical styles. Blues, Soul, Rock and Pop were all explored throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, but he knew at the end of the day what kind of music he wanted to play. Hendrix's death in September 1970 had affected Glyn terribly, but he made a conscious decision to continue playing and diversifying, so as to experience as much as possible of what the world of music could throw at him.

Throughout the 1970s, Glyn's playing earned him almost legendary status in the Welsh Valleys and surrounding areas, but he still hadn't found that elusive combination of musicians that he could really gel with. The 1980s brought a more fruitful period. More work, better gigs, better pay and still further diversification. It was during this period that Glyn joined his first fully professional band, the folk-rock outfit Rose among Thorns who he stayed with for two albums and whose success earned him two British tours as support act to Ralph McTell. It wasn't till 1992 that Glyn returned to his R'n'B roots when he joined the highly acclaimed Snatch it Back. The band already had four albums behind them and when Glyn joined, a further two albums and several tours of Britain and Europe, were to follow. At the 1994 Tramp Blues Festival in Holland, where the band were playing, Glyn was voted best guitarist. Shortly afterwards came the Stella Bier Festival in Budapest, Hungary where the band played to a live audience of over 30,000 people and a TV audience of almost a million. Again, Glyn was voted best guitarist of the day... a far cry from the Welsh valleys and the Class of '66, when he had been voted best guitarist in the National Boys' Club of Wales Competition. He was only fifteen.

Throughout the late 90's and early 00's Glyn toured extensively with Stone Free, a Hendrix Tribute band, playing countless gigs up and down the country along with several mini-tours of Holland.