Bare Wires is four souls who started playing music many years ago, many bands ago, and many miles apart, finally coming together in Moscow, Idaho. Blues is the thread that holds it all together, with scraps of rock, and who knows what else woven in wherever it seems to fit. Lyrics and music from their heads and guts, spawned from life experiences, make Bare Wires truly "An Original Classic."



BARE WIRES is available to play for parties, bars, festivals, wakes, car shows.......almost anything where there isn't any shooting going on (unless arranged in advance).

Marty has played in a number of bands through the years, mainly in the Northwest. He considers himself to be primarily a Texas-style blues musician, but also plays rock, funk, and other styles of music. He uses Paul Reed Smith and Goya guitars, and plugs into Mesa Boogie and Vox amplifiers. While he tries not to model his guitar playing after other artists, he cites Albert Collins, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughan as inspirations.

Doug has been in many bands through the years, beginning when he was 15 years old. He grew up in Montana, but settled in Moscow roughly 20 years ago. Having been in a very musical family, he was exposed to a wide variety of musical styles, and all of these shaped his influences. Everything from classical, to folk, to pop, to rock, and yes, to blues. The Beatles, The Doobie Brothers, Chicago, and Eric Clapton are some of his favorites. He plays Martin, Music Man, and Peavey guitars, and plugs into Fender and Vox amps.

Dave was born in the corn belt of Iowa, then moved to California where his roots of music took hold. Surf music and the British Invasion were his first musical influences until the San Francisco / Haight Ashbury scene, and the new British rock of Cream, The Who, Jethro Tull, and Hendrix took over. The influences of the blues were also mixed in with the likes of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Canned Heat, John Mayall, and Muddy Waters. Playing in his first rock band at the age of 15, he has come ful circle back to the defining elements of his idea of rock. The blends of blues giving birth to rock in various forms such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, Eric Clapton, The Allman Brothers, Lynard Skynard, and ZZ Top.