Artists

Steve White

Steve White, now owns a GURU snare, which was presented to Steve as a gift. It goes without saying that Steve remains one of the worlds foremost voices in modern education. Steve has a huge pedigree spanning from Paul Weller, The Who, Oasis and many more. Steve is now also the Patron of The Northern School of Contemporary Music, and was presented with a GURU snare drum during the course of the last NSCM student performance evening. Steve described the drum as "Simply World Class!" The drum itself is made up from around 250 individually cut and inlayed pieces of wood. Check out the pictures of the drum in our gallery section. It is truly an honour to have Steve as a friend of Guru Drums.

Bob Dalton (IT BITES!)

Bob Dalton started his musical career at the age of 13 years, playing working mens clubs in the North of England. For the next eight years he would learn his trade as a drummer playing covers of chart songs both old and new with three other musicians under the name of "IT BITES"

In 1984 "IT BITES" moved from the North of England to London in search of a record deal, and after two years of writing songs they finally signed a deal with Virgin Records. "IT BITES" went on to produce three studio albums: "Big Lad In The Windmill" "Once Around The World" "Eat Me In St Louis" and one live album "Thankyou And Goodnight". A total of 8 singles were released, one of which "CALLING ALL THE HEROS" reached number 5 in the UK charts.

After spending many years touring England, Europe, Japan and America headlining venues such as Hammersmith Odeon in the UK and supporting other bands such as "Go West" "Robert Plant" "Marillion" "Jethro Tull" "John Wetton" "Asia" "Fleetwood Mac" and "Saxon" the band eventually split up and went their seperate ways. Bob however, continued playing and recording with other artistes such as "Jethro Tull" "John Wetton" "Kim Wilde" and "Ray Davies" from "The Kinks".

In 2004 Bob was teaching at 'The Academy of Contemporary Music' in Surrey when he was asked to join "The Chris Norman Band". He was with the band until 2007 playing regular shows, travelling to places such as Moscow, New York and Chicago. The band was playing in front of 2000 people at Chris' indoor shows in Germany, and 25,000 or more at festivals around Europe. Bob also recorded two live DVS's and one studio album with Chris.

Bob plays on a regular basis in London and was involved in a new "IT BITES" album "The Tall Ships" released last year. They are constantly touring and have already played live shows in America, Japan and Europe, and are about to commence their second UK tour in September 2009.

Bob has also studied with the renowned drum tutor "Bob Armstrong" for five years.

It is truly an honour to have Bob onboard at GURU Drumworks. Drummers of this kind of pedigree don't come along too often, and to date he remains one of the most incredible rock drummers the world has ever seen.

Bob plays a GURU exclusively designed and handbuilt Maple shell 14 x 5 snare in Satin Green. Check out       "IT BITES" website for tour dates and venues near you.

Stuie Ellerton

Stuie Ellerton is the Director of "The Northern School of Contemporary Music" based in the North East of the UK. Stuie has some 30 years in the industry as a professional drummer/tutor. He started playing drums at the young age of 5 years and was a renown tutor on the drum kit by the age of 15 years. Stuie has been fortunate to have performed on a worldwide scale and lectured in some of the UK's most well respected educational establishments. He comes onboard GURU Drums with a wealth of experience to perform clinics/masterclasses and deliver seminars on STEAM BENDING and STAVE BUILDING drum shells on a regular basis. Stuie says..."In my time as a professional Drummer I have categorically NEVER come across the standard of workmanship that Dean Price is achieving. I have no doubt whatsoever that Guru Drums will be a serious contender in the bespoke drum manufacturing world when word gets out" Check out The Northern School of Contemporary Music website... http://www.thenscm.co.uk/ for more details on Stuie and the school. Stuie plays MAPEX drums and uses a personally designed and built GURU stave shell 12" x 7" Soprano Snare hand built and prepared by Dean Price of GURU DRUMS UK.