Elliott West, from a very young age, has been immersed in musical influence. Being an inquisitive little boy, he watched his mother peck away at the piano in the living room. He wondered how she could bring the sound to life as she did.
At age six, he received his first guitar as a birthday gift. From that point on, he relished in the sounds and techniques of some of the greatest guitar players in the world. By the age of seven, he was playing right along with his favorite recordings, start to finish. He continued his studies all through his primary and secondary school years.
In high school, he became more interested in percussive sounds and joined the marching band, playing in the drum line. This new obsession caused him to put the guitar on a short hiatus. Upon his graduation, he digressed from his rhythmic training and reinstated himself in the guitar tones that he loved from a young age.
Now, fifteen years from the time he first picked up a guitar, he is compiling his ideas and has released his first album. A second album is in the works and will be released soon. The origin of all his songs is both new and old as well as experimental. He feels that his music is his only true medium of communication. He considers himself somewhat of a lonely soul.
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Elliott says, "Sometimes, I won't speak for long durations of time. Not for any ridiculous statement or anything like that. I'll just hum sounds
with inflections and body animation. People think I'm silly, but only
my close friends understand what I mean. It's great. It makes me feel closer to the people that are surrounding me, a greater communication. I guess what I'm saying with that is a person could honestly know every word in their language but still have trouble saying what they mean. People seem to pride themselves in their large vocabulary. I laugh at it. I think most definitions are so unstructured these days. It's almost all arbitrary. It seems..........when you can say practically nothing, and still communicate efficiently, that's when you know you're being listened to; absorbed. Rather than just being heard."
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