oZZY OSBOURNE

gavin monaghan - multiplatinum producer

brian tatler - student

"After playing by ear all my life I decided I needed to learn some of the grown up stuff. As I have always played things that I have written I picked up some bad habits and with Des’ help I'm beginning to unlearn them and replace them with proper technical knowage. After a months worth of lessons, its all becoming a lot clearer. Des has an incredible ear and an even better eye, he can tell whether I'm playing an upstroke or downstroke just by looking. He's incredibly patient and wont let anything pass him by. A great player and teacher. I have no hesitation in recommending him."

Marco Pirroni - Adam And The Ants December 2024

"I've just listened to your CD and I'm really f***ing impressed man, really impressed. I'd like to meet you and see you play..."
Ozzy Osbourne. 2005

This was from a phone call I got from Ozzy when I sent him a demo CD after I heard he was looking for a new guitar player in late 2005.
(Unfortunately Zakk Wylde made himself available again shortly after and the search for a new guitarist was off.)

"Des Sherwood's professionalism is such, that if the studio were on fire, he would finish his overdub before leaving the building.....as an example, he is the only musician I have ever asked to repeat a double tracked part, not because it was sloppy, but because his second take was so close to the original, it still sounded like one guitar"
Gavin Monaghan, Multiplatinum producer.

"After 30 years I had reached a ceiling in my playing, I was not getting any better or faster and felt I was repeating myself so I spoke to Des about having a couple of guitar lessons and he was able to show me some new scales and exercises I had never seen before and even improve my technique. So if you're thinking of having a guitar lesson do it! You will save yourself a lot of time in the long run. Des is a great player and teacher."
Brian Tatler of Diamon Head and Saxon

STEVE VAI

"I was delighted to hear your record. You really are quite a good player. The production is very nice and your tone is outstanding. You have a great technique, vibrato, intonation and phrasing. Definitely a cut above so much I do receive. If I was to critique... hmmm, hard to do since you have all the elements nicely in place... I feel you have something great going on. All the best of luck. Peace, love and good happiness stuff" 
Steve Vai  2019.

KEVIN DUBROW

"Des plays in the Randy Rhoads school but makes it his own. He'd get the Quiet Riot gig in a heartbeat."
Kevin DuBrow Quiet Riot vocalist.
Sadly Kevin passed away late November 2007 aged just 52. He'd asked me to join his band Quiet Riot and we had plans to tour the UK in 2008. I liked him very much and he was always incredibly good to me. He was a great character and a very thoughtful and generous friend.
R.I.P Kevin, I miss you.

kelly garni

Hi Des, I listened to your tunes and they are VERY good. if I still played I'd want to be in a band with you. I might even move to England to do it! I especially liked the 'Bond' theme and the one with the strange tuning. As far as the Randy stuff goes it's dead on and you do justice to my good friend."
Kelly Garni original bass player from Quiet Riot.

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