CORTEZ  PROFILE

MARK GEARY Guitars

This guitarist extraordinaire hails from Mitchelstown. Unfussed and unphased on stage, Mark's razor performances could cut steel with the sounds that he create (as they used to say in `72 - " He can make it talk").

He had a mercifully brief sojourn with the now ill-fated "Black Pearl" (he apologises to both family and friends for any grievance or misunderstanding this may have caused). A craftsman of the fret board and a skilful surfer of the six string he plays like the dreamy amalgamation of a jazz master's brain with the hands of Radiohead. This ability was given a fine-tuning at London's G.I.T. - guitar institute (some think all of CORTEZ should be institutionalised!"). He has left many a packed bar forgetting they had drinks in their hands.

BEST MOMENT:  An improvised / Impresario solo in the Riverboat Song - a veritable feast of sounds befitting a riverboat trip into the heart of darkness.