Nick McCabe
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Nick McCabe is held by some to be one of the best guitarists ever. Played with The Verve during the 1990s.
Born Nicholas Joseph McCabe on July 14 1971 in St Helens.
Nick McCabe was the youngest of three children and had a life greatly influenced by music, He lead a normal life training to be a Quantity surveyor until he met Richard Ashcroft at Winstanley college near Wigan. Ashcroft heard McCabe's guitar jamming and thought he McCabe could "almost make the guitar talk". McCabe then united with Ashcroft along with Simon Jones and Peter Salisbury to form the Verve.
Tensions and power struggles between McCabe and Ashcroft would later cause the band's dissolution, twice. The first breakup happened when Ashcroft left after The Verve's unsuccessful second album, A Northern Soul. Shortly therafter Ashcroft reformed the band, but at first McCabe refused to return, though he later returned for the band's third album, Urban Hymns. McCabe's leaving The Verve after Urban Hymns was the cause of the second, final breakup.
Musically Nick has always expressed his fondness of synthesizers and explained his "psychedelic" sound as trying to make a guitar sound like a synthesizer by using effects pedals and Valve Amps.
Nick has currently remixed a single for The Music ("Freedom Fighters" - September 2004) but it is unknown what musical collaborations he is to participate in in the future.