Michael Richard Gee (3 July 1944 – 21 January 2009)[1] was a rock and roll guitarist who played alongside some of the most prominent Welsh musicians of the last forty years.
[2] Born at 13 Garth Street, Cardiff, Gee's early influences were Scotty Moore and Chet Atkins and, aged 18, he went to Nashville and Memphis, but failed to meet his heroes.
[3] Early in his career Gee was the musical director of The Senators, Tom Jones' backing band when he was still known as Tommy Scott, and subsequently The Squires.
During the same year, Gee was involved in Bill Wyman's Willie and the Poor Boys project which also featured Charlie Watts and Jimmy Page.
Gee provided the soundtrack of the 1997 film Twin Town,[3] and was still regularly performing until shortly before his death from emphysema at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales in January 2009.