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     Dennis Dennehy's
music

                                                                    
                                                                                             
                      Influences               Musical Pictures           Glimpse into Motion    Threesome

  The music is very varied and different, and cannot really be limited or canned into any one direction.   The countless influences from, Classical India Music such as Ravi Shankar, or the classics, or philosophers like Walt Whitman, R.W Emerson, or folk singers Peter Paul Mary, or Leonard Cohen, or even pop either the Beatles, Searchers from the 60-70’s or the latest Top 10 or The Corrs.  It all goes into making a very mixed bag of music. 

When one presents one’s own Music it is a little like exposing oneself. That’s why the poetical licence is so important, that is having the freedom to either let the cat out of the bag about the meaning behind his songs or not.  Normally Dennehy likes to give a little hint and direction of where the idea for songs or the titles of instrumentals come from.  Music is art, and just like a painter who wants to hang his pictures in a gallery, a musician needs to perform and exhibit his ideas and music to an audience. In his own words “I present musical pictures”. It is one thing playing critical and meaningful songs, and another putting them in a framework, which is also entertaining and not monotonous. 

Dennehys concerts are performed under the Title "Glimpse Into Motion" (the title of his first instrumental).   This 'glimpse into motion' stems from the fact that there is motion in everything in the universe, in the cells, atoms, and electrons or in the inter-personal and spiritual relationships.  The creative variety in his music is henceforth well presented under this motto, his music can move in any direction he wishes, whether it is in the topic, text or music.  It is one thing playing critical and meaningful songs, and another presenting them in a framework, which is both entertaining and critical.  Dennis Dennehy is able to combine original and catchy melodies with critical text.  Music is art, and just like a painter who wants to hang his pictures in a gallery, a musician needs to perform and exhibit his ideas and music to an audience.   In his own words “I present musical pictures”.    “I am never too sure whether I should explain my music as poems, love letters, aims, criticisms or whatever”, because as a total concert they do not fall into one nutshell.

His very first own guitar was a very cheap one that was his “One Penny Guitar”.  The guitar arm stayed on the body only by the fact that the strings were taut. When the strings were taken off the guitar the arm would just hang on like a loose limb.  After that first guitar was stolen in Italy, it took a lot of sampling to actually find one that had the right sound.  That’s when he bought his Ibanez six-string western.  The body was extra large and gave such a warm deep sound.  His technique of playing
the guitar upside down and left-handed limits so much how many chords one can play.  Re-tuning it in an open E, which can give a completely different fuller sound, bridged that problem.   Of course after a while a second guitar had to be found to avoid all that re-tuning.  His second guitar is a classical guitar that gave new impulses for new.  The third guitar, an American Lakewood western has such a clear sound in the high strings and a good base in the lower.