We watched Charlie Nieland celebrate the release of his new album “Stories From The Borderlines” on the intimate stage at the East Village basement club Berlin, but in another world, his heroic guitar solos would have been right at home bouncing off stadium walls.

His music taste has evolved over the years from his early love of The Beatles, which he inherited from his parents, to the days of listening to 1970s AM radio, to playing (a lot) of air guitar to David Bowie and Yes and “lots of prog rock stuff."

The bass was the “first instrument I was good at” and his high school band, Aurora, got adept at playing Supertramp, Jethro Tull, Bad Company covers, and, with the addition of a keyboard player, “went kind of crazy” playing tunes like The Who’s “Wont Get Fooled Again."

Nieland's years

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