Anthony Gallo
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Anthony "Bob" Gallo is an American
lead and rhythm
guitarist
. He started out at age 16 in the early eighties punk
scene and progressed into heavy metal
and rock
. His career has spanned over 30 years, playing and recording with Megadeth
drummer Nick Menza
, L.A. punk band New Regime, Venice Skate Punk locals Suicidal Tendencies
/Los Cycos
, Dead Kennedys
drummer DH Peligro and heavy alternative band Chodle's Trunk. He has collaborated with many artists including Quiet Riot
guitarist Carlos Cavazo
, Hurricane
bassist brother Tony Cavazo
, singer songwriter Scott Weiland
(STP
/ Velvet Revolver
) and Bullet Boys frontman and ex-Ratt
lead guitarist Marq Torien
.
, California
. His father was Emil Frank Gallo an east coast financier and his mother, Gigi Perreau
. Gallo grew up in the Hollywood Hills
and at age four moved north to Studio City in the San Fernando Valley
. There he met local neighborhood guitarist Steve Goertzen, who inspired him to learn the instrument turning him onto such artists as Jeff Beck
, Jimi Hendrix
, Jimmy Page
and Johnny Winter
. In 1978 at age 13, Gallo took guitar lessons at Valley Arts Guitar
for the sole purpose to learn how to read music. He attended Walter Reed
Jr. High, where he met future New Regime band mates, Todd Payden, Marc Woodson and Michael Brevetz.
, "Be a Man Go to War" on (Party Animal 2) and "Night Stix" on the (Copulation Compilation), both were produced by label owner Doug Moody. After those recordings, they were offered the opening act slot for Suicidal Tendencies
in Sacramento after suggestion from Black Flag
bassist Chuck Dukowski
who caught one of their shows and thought they sounded a lot like them. Gallo and Mike Muir
became fast friends and when Jon Nelson
left the band, Muir asked Gallo to help out with guitar duties. "We just sat around Mikes house and jammed and wrote songs...one day I got a call from Mike and he asked if I wanted to play guitar in Los Cycos
, a side project he was just starting."
Los Cycos was originally Mike Muir, Anthony Gallo, Bob Heathcote
and Amery Smith
but after only a few rehearsals the line up had changed to include Grant Estes
on Leads and Louiche Mayorga
to replace Heathcote and Sal Troy to replace Smith. "We rehearsed in Santa Monica
in the basement of Louiche Mayorga's moms house." With the final line up established and two songs "It's Not Easy" and "A Little Each Day" completed, Los Cycos were now ready for their debut recording on Suicidal Records. The Skate Punk compilation "Welcome to Venice
" which features local Venice bands Suicidal Tendencies, Beowülf
, Los Cycos, No Mercy and Excel
, was the first record released on the new label but because of band politics and Muir's responsibilities with Suicidal Tendencies, Gallo left the band before the release of "Welcome to Venice" and appears on the record's cover. Los Cycos disbanded that same year and in 1989 Suicidal Tendencies re-recorded "It's Not Easy" for their 1989 release Controlled By Hatred/Feel Like Shit... DejaVu album.
Frustrated, Gallo decided to form a heavy metal band and recruited singer songwriter Adam Murray, bassist Erin Bartley, and drummer Rikki Baggett calling the band "Cold Shot" (named after the song title by Stevie Ray Vaughn). They played alongside such bands as the Bullet Boys, Bang Tango
, Guns and Roses and Motörhead. Cold Shot disbanded in 1994.
Gallo co-founded a band with Megadeth
drummer Nick Menza
, named "Chodle's Trunk". "All we got offered was a Japanese deal for like 10 grand and we thought WOW we spent more on recording it!" The recordings were shelved and in 1998 when Nick left Megadeth
, they decided to record together. Recording for Menzas Life After Deth was done over a two year period and was written and performed entirely by Menza. Guest guitarist Christian Nesmith
did some leads and Menza hired producer Max Norman
to come in and produce it. "It was a lot of fun to record and I was looking forward to the live shows" only Gallo and Menzas excitement was short lived. Ty Longley
a guitarist whom they hired for the live shows, had left rehearsals for a few months to go on the road with the re-forming Great White
. Longley perished in the Station nightclub fire
in Rhode Island
. A year later bass player Jason Levin suddenly died of a heart failure and plans for the 2003 Tour were suspended indefinitely. Gallo and Menza are still writing and recording material together.
. Collaborating with Singer songwriter Adam Murray, heavy metal guitarist Carlos Cavazo
of (Quiet Riot
) and brother (Bassist) Tony Cavazo of (Hurricane
) for the song "Higher". The other title "Juicy Lucy" was written and performed by Cold Shot.
style guitars, he has four that he's built on his own throughout the years. One has an alder body and a Performance neck, including a Floyd Rose
locking vibrato bridge with Seymour Duncan
JB's in it. The other is an American Strat (replaced with a vintage-style fulcrum bridge) Performance neck and active EMG's
. For acoustic guitars he uses a Baby Taylor
and a vintage Martin. His amp set up is a modified Marshall
JCM 800 series run through a series of modified effects and a Line 6 through four Marshall cabinets each with vintage 30 Watt Celestion
s and sometimes he uses 25 watt Celestion
Greenbacks. He sometimes A-B's his clean channel with standard Fender
Twin reverb running through a Boss Chorus Ensemble CE-5 and a Boss Digital Delay DD-3.
United States
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lead and rhythm
Rhythm guitar
Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
guitarist
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
. He started out at age 16 in the early eighties punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
scene and progressed into heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
and rock
Rock and roll
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...
. His career has spanned over 30 years, playing and recording with Megadeth
Megadeth
Megadeth is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California which was formed in 1983 by guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine, bassist Dave Ellefson and guitarist Greg Handevidt, following Mustaine's expulsion from Metallica. The band has since released 13 studio albums, three live albums, two...
drummer Nick Menza
Nick Menza
Nick Menza is an American drummer best known for his work in Megadeth from 1989 to 1998, appearing on four of the band's studio albums.-Early life:...
, L.A. punk band New Regime, Venice Skate Punk locals Suicidal Tendencies
Suicidal Tendencies
Suicidal Tendencies is a U.S. crossover thrash band founded in 1981 in Venice, Los Angeles, California by Mike Muir, its leader and only permanent member. The band is sometimes credited as one of "the fathers of crossover thrash"...
/Los Cycos
Los Cycos
Los Cycos is a U.S. crossover thrash band founded in 1984 in Venice, Los Angeles, California by Suicidal Tendencies frontman Mike Muir. The only recording of the band appears on the rare 1985 release "Welcome to Venice," the debut album and first release from Suicidal Records.-Band biography and...
, Dead Kennedys
Dead Kennedys
Dead Kennedys are an American punk rock band formed in San Francisco, California in 1978. The band became part of the American hardcore punk movement of the early 1980s. They gained a large underground fanbase in the international punk music scene....
drummer DH Peligro and heavy alternative band Chodle's Trunk. He has collaborated with many artists including Quiet Riot
Quiet Riot
Quiet Riot is an American Heavy Metal band. They are best known for their hit singles "Metal Health" and "Cum On Feel the Noize". They were founded in 1973 by guitarist Randy Rhoads and bassist Kelly Garni, under the original name Mach 1, before changing the name to Little Women and finally Quiet...
guitarist Carlos Cavazo
Carlos Cavazo
Carlos Cavazo is a Mexican-born American guitarist best known as the guitarist for Quiet Riot during their commercial peak. Born July 8, 1957, Cavazo is originally from Mexico City where their first band with his brother Antonio Cavazo was called Speed of Light...
, Hurricane
Hurricane (band)
Hurricane was a 1980s heavy metal / glam metal rock band originally featuring current Foreigner lead vocalist Kelly Hansen , Robert Sarzo , Tony Cavazo , and Jay Schellen...
bassist brother Tony Cavazo
Hurricane (band)
Hurricane was a 1980s heavy metal / glam metal rock band originally featuring current Foreigner lead vocalist Kelly Hansen , Robert Sarzo , Tony Cavazo , and Jay Schellen...
, singer songwriter Scott Weiland
Scott Weiland
Scott Weiland is an American musician, lyricist, and vocalist, most notable for his work with Grammy Award-winning rock band Stone Temple Pilots. Weiland is also known for his five-year career with supergroup Velvet Revolver as well as his own solo career...
(STP
Stone Temple Pilots
Stone Temple Pilots is an American rock band from San Diego, California that consists of Scott Weiland , brothers Robert DeLeo and Dean DeLeo , and Eric Kretz ....
/ Velvet Revolver
Velvet Revolver
Velvet Revolver is an American hard rock supergroup consisting of former Guns N' Roses members Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum, alongside Dave Kushner formerly of punk band Wasted Youth. Stone Temple Pilots vocalist Scott Weiland was Velvet Revolver's lead singer from their formation until...
) and Bullet Boys frontman and ex-Ratt
Ratt
Ratt is an American heavy metal band that had significant commercial success in the 1980s. The band is best known for songs such as "Round and Round," "Wanted Man," "Lay It Down," "You're in Love", "Slip of the Lip", "Back For More", "Dance", "Body Talk", "I Want a Woman", and "Way Cool Jr." Ratt...
lead guitarist Marq Torien
Marq Torien
Marq Torien is the lead singer of the hard rock act BulletBoys. He is the only member to have remained with the group since the release of their self-titled debut album in 1988....
.
Early life
Born Robert Anthony Gallo April 10,1965 in Los AngelesLos Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. His father was Emil Frank Gallo an east coast financier and his mother, Gigi Perreau
Gigi Perreau
Gigi Perreau, , is an American actress.-Biography:She achieved success as a child actress in a number of films. She played the daughter of Claude Rains and Bette Davis's characters in the 1944 film Mr. Skeffington. In Shadow on the Wall , she starred as the sole witness to a murder...
. Gallo grew up in the Hollywood Hills
Hollywood Hills
The Hollywood Hills is an affluent and exclusive neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, in the southeastern Santa Monica Mountains. It is bound by Laurel Canyon Boulevard to the west, Vermont Avenue to the east, Mulholland Drive to the north, and Sunset Boulevard to the south.-Hollywood Hills...
and at age four moved north to Studio City in the San Fernando Valley
San Fernando Valley
The San Fernando Valley is an urbanized valley located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area of southern California, United States, defined by the dramatic mountains of the Transverse Ranges circling it...
. There he met local neighborhood guitarist Steve Goertzen, who inspired him to learn the instrument turning him onto such artists as Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck
Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an English rock guitarist. He is one of three noted guitarists to have played with The Yardbirds...
, Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...
, Jimmy Page
Jimmy Page
James Patrick "Jimmy" Page, OBE is an English multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968, after which he founded the English rock band Led Zeppelin.Jimmy Page...
and Johnny Winter
Johnny Winter
John Dawson "Johnny" Winter III is an American blues guitarist, singer, and producer. Best known for his late 1960s and 1970s high-energy blues-rock albums and live performances, Winter also produced three Grammy Award-winning albums for blues legend Muddy Waters...
. In 1978 at age 13, Gallo took guitar lessons at Valley Arts Guitar
Valley Arts Guitar
Valley Arts Guitar is an American electric guitar manufacturer currently owned and operated by the Gibson Guitar Corporation. Mike McGuire and Al Carness founded the company in the mid-1970s in North Hollywood, California, a district of Los Angeles, California in the San Fernando Valley; the name...
for the sole purpose to learn how to read music. He attended Walter Reed
Walter Reed
Major Walter Reed, M.D., was a U.S. Army physician who in 1900 led the team that postulated and confirmed the theory that yellow fever is transmitted by a particular mosquito species, rather than by direct contact...
Jr. High, where he met future New Regime band mates, Todd Payden, Marc Woodson and Michael Brevetz.
Career
Gallo joined his first group L.A. band, New Regime in 1981. The line up consisted of Todd Payden (vocals), Marc Woodson (drums) and Michael Brevetz (bass). In 1983 New Regime recorded two tracks for Mystic RecordsMystic Records
Mystic Records is a record label and music production company that was based in Hollywood CA one block south of Hollywood and Vine and later moved to Oceanside, California...
, "Be a Man Go to War" on (Party Animal 2) and "Night Stix" on the (Copulation Compilation), both were produced by label owner Doug Moody. After those recordings, they were offered the opening act slot for Suicidal Tendencies
Suicidal Tendencies
Suicidal Tendencies is a U.S. crossover thrash band founded in 1981 in Venice, Los Angeles, California by Mike Muir, its leader and only permanent member. The band is sometimes credited as one of "the fathers of crossover thrash"...
in Sacramento after suggestion from Black Flag
Black Flag (band)
Black Flag was an American punk rock band formed in 1976 in Hermosa Beach, California. The band was established by Greg Ginn, the guitarist, primary songwriter and sole continuous member through multiple personnel changes in the band...
bassist Chuck Dukowski
Chuck Dukowski
Chuck Dukowski is an American punk rock musician, best known as a founding member and bass player for Black Flag. Dukowski wrote some of Black Flag's most popular songs, including "My War," "What I See," "I've Heard It Before" and "Spray Paint." He left the band before the release of My War, and...
who caught one of their shows and thought they sounded a lot like them. Gallo and Mike Muir
Mike Muir
Mike Muir is the lead vocalist of the Venice skate punk bands Suicidal Tendencies Los Cycos and the funk rock band Infectious Grooves...
became fast friends and when Jon Nelson
Jon Nelson (guitarist)
Jonathan D. "Jon" Nelson is best known for playing lead guitar in the controversial punk band Suicidal Tendencies.-Early life:...
left the band, Muir asked Gallo to help out with guitar duties. "We just sat around Mikes house and jammed and wrote songs...one day I got a call from Mike and he asked if I wanted to play guitar in Los Cycos
Los Cycos
Los Cycos is a U.S. crossover thrash band founded in 1984 in Venice, Los Angeles, California by Suicidal Tendencies frontman Mike Muir. The only recording of the band appears on the rare 1985 release "Welcome to Venice," the debut album and first release from Suicidal Records.-Band biography and...
, a side project he was just starting."
Los Cycos was originally Mike Muir, Anthony Gallo, Bob Heathcote
Bob Heathcote
Bob Heathcote is best known for his bass playing in the crossover thrash band Suicidal Tendencies.-Early Life:Robert ”Bob” Heathcote was born May 27th, 1964. He grew up in Westchester, California. His main bass guitar influences were Geddy Lee of Rush and Chris Squire of Yes. One of his first bands...
and Amery Smith
Amery Smith
Amery "AWOL" Smith is a drummer from Los Angeles, California. He is best known for playing drums in the Venice punk band "Suicidal Tendencies."-Early Life:...
but after only a few rehearsals the line up had changed to include Grant Estes
Grant Estes
Grant Estes is an American guitarist from Santa Monica, California. He was one of the guitarists for the highly influential band Suicidal Tendencies, during the band's hardcore punk era.-Suicidal Tendencies/Los Cycos:...
on Leads and Louiche Mayorga
Louiche Mayorga
Louiche Mayorga is best known for his bass playing in the Venice punk band "Suicidal Tendencies."He co-wrote many of their earlier songs including the punk classic "Institutionalized" from their 1983 debut album on Frontier, as well as" "War Inside My Head," "Possessed To Skate." and the title...
to replace Heathcote and Sal Troy to replace Smith. "We rehearsed in Santa Monica
Santa Mônica
Santa Mônica is a town and municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil.-References:...
in the basement of Louiche Mayorga's moms house." With the final line up established and two songs "It's Not Easy" and "A Little Each Day" completed, Los Cycos were now ready for their debut recording on Suicidal Records. The Skate Punk compilation "Welcome to Venice
Welcome to Venice
Welcome to Venice is a crossover thrash album that features local Venice Beach, California punk and metal bands. It was released in 1985 on Suicidal Records.-Album History:...
" which features local Venice bands Suicidal Tendencies, Beowülf
Beowülf
This article is about the American heavy metal band. For the epic poem, see Beowulf; for other uses see Beowulf .Beowülf is a crossover thrash metal band formed Venice Beach, California in 1981 by Michael Alvarado, Dale Henderson, Mike Jensen and Paul Yamada...
, Los Cycos, No Mercy and Excel
Excel (band)
Excel was a punk/metal fusion band from Venice, California founded in 1983 by singer Dan Clements and guitarist Adam Siegel. They were influenced by famous 70's punk rock musicians like The Police and The Sex Pistols, and heavy metal bands like Black Sabbath, Trouble, Slayer, Corrosion of...
, was the first record released on the new label but because of band politics and Muir's responsibilities with Suicidal Tendencies, Gallo left the band before the release of "Welcome to Venice" and appears on the record's cover. Los Cycos disbanded that same year and in 1989 Suicidal Tendencies re-recorded "It's Not Easy" for their 1989 release Controlled By Hatred/Feel Like Shit... DejaVu album.
Frustrated, Gallo decided to form a heavy metal band and recruited singer songwriter Adam Murray, bassist Erin Bartley, and drummer Rikki Baggett calling the band "Cold Shot" (named after the song title by Stevie Ray Vaughn). They played alongside such bands as the Bullet Boys, Bang Tango
Bang Tango
Bang Tango is an American funk-infused hard rock and glam metal band.-Biography:The band formed in 1987 in Los Angeles, California and were signed to MCA Records that same year. The band's line-up has fluctuated since its inception, with the one mainstay of the group being frontman Joe Lesté...
, Guns and Roses and Motörhead. Cold Shot disbanded in 1994.
Gallo co-founded a band with Megadeth
Megadeth
Megadeth is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California which was formed in 1983 by guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine, bassist Dave Ellefson and guitarist Greg Handevidt, following Mustaine's expulsion from Metallica. The band has since released 13 studio albums, three live albums, two...
drummer Nick Menza
Nick Menza
Nick Menza is an American drummer best known for his work in Megadeth from 1989 to 1998, appearing on four of the band's studio albums.-Early life:...
, named "Chodle's Trunk". "All we got offered was a Japanese deal for like 10 grand and we thought WOW we spent more on recording it!" The recordings were shelved and in 1998 when Nick left Megadeth
Megadeth
Megadeth is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California which was formed in 1983 by guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine, bassist Dave Ellefson and guitarist Greg Handevidt, following Mustaine's expulsion from Metallica. The band has since released 13 studio albums, three live albums, two...
, they decided to record together. Recording for Menzas Life After Deth was done over a two year period and was written and performed entirely by Menza. Guest guitarist Christian Nesmith
Christian Nesmith
Christian DuVal Nesmith is a musician, and the eldest son of former Monkee Michael Nesmith and Phyllis Gibson. He has worked with his father , Michael Sherwood , Ty Tabor , Doug Pinnick of King's X and formerly Cindy...
did some leads and Menza hired producer Max Norman
Max Norman
Max Norman is a retired record producer and recording engineer in the 1980s and 1990s. He produced many acclaimed heavy metal releases, and was renowned for his top notch production. Max got his "big break" while he was the resident engineer at Ridge Farm Studios in London, England...
to come in and produce it. "It was a lot of fun to record and I was looking forward to the live shows" only Gallo and Menzas excitement was short lived. Ty Longley
Ty Longley
Ty Longley was an American guitarist and vocalist. He was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Brookfield High School in Brookfield, Ohio....
a guitarist whom they hired for the live shows, had left rehearsals for a few months to go on the road with the re-forming Great White
Great White
Great White is an American hard rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1978. The band gained popularity during the 1980s and early 1990s. The band released several albums in the late 1980s and gained airplay on MTV with music videos for songs like "Once Bitten, Twice Shy"...
. Longley perished in the Station nightclub fire
The Station nightclub fire
The Station nightclub fire was the fourth deadliest nightclub fire in American history, killing 100 people. The fire began at 11:07 PM EST, on Thursday, February 20, 2003, at The Station, a glam metal and rock n roll themed nightclub located at 211 Cowesett Avenue in West Warwick, Rhode Island.The...
in Rhode Island
Rhode Island
The state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island , is a state in the New England region of the United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area...
. A year later bass player Jason Levin suddenly died of a heart failure and plans for the 2003 Tour were suspended indefinitely. Gallo and Menza are still writing and recording material together.
Work in film
In 1991 Gallo landed a two song recording contract for an American independent film entitled Across the TracksAcross the Tracks
Across the Tracks is a 1991 American independent film drama about track and field. It was directed and written by Sandy Tung.-Plot:Across the Tracks is the story of two brothers who have gone very different ways in their past, and who now must learn to deal with each other again. Joe is the older...
. Collaborating with Singer songwriter Adam Murray, heavy metal guitarist Carlos Cavazo
Carlos Cavazo
Carlos Cavazo is a Mexican-born American guitarist best known as the guitarist for Quiet Riot during their commercial peak. Born July 8, 1957, Cavazo is originally from Mexico City where their first band with his brother Antonio Cavazo was called Speed of Light...
of (Quiet Riot
Quiet Riot
Quiet Riot is an American Heavy Metal band. They are best known for their hit singles "Metal Health" and "Cum On Feel the Noize". They were founded in 1973 by guitarist Randy Rhoads and bassist Kelly Garni, under the original name Mach 1, before changing the name to Little Women and finally Quiet...
) and brother (Bassist) Tony Cavazo of (Hurricane
Hurricane (band)
Hurricane was a 1980s heavy metal / glam metal rock band originally featuring current Foreigner lead vocalist Kelly Hansen , Robert Sarzo , Tony Cavazo , and Jay Schellen...
) for the song "Higher". The other title "Juicy Lucy" was written and performed by Cold Shot.
Musical equipment
Anthony Gallo plays mainly StratFender Stratocaster
The Fender Stratocaster, often referred to as "Strat", is a model of electric guitar designed by Leo Fender, George Fullerton, and Freddie Tavares in 1954, and manufactured continuously by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation to the present. It is a double-cutaway guitar, with an extended top...
style guitars, he has four that he's built on his own throughout the years. One has an alder body and a Performance neck, including a Floyd Rose
Floyd Rose
The Floyd Rose Locking Tremolo, or simply Floyd Rose, is a type of locking vibrato arm for a guitar. The first of its kind, Floyd D. Rose invented the locking vibrato in 1977, and it is now manufactured by a company of the same name...
locking vibrato bridge with Seymour Duncan
Seymour Duncan
Seymour Duncan is a company that is best known for manufacturing of guitar pickups, and currently has a line of effects pedals. The company was founded in 1976 by guitarist and luthier Seymour W. Duncan and his then-wife Cathy Carter Duncan in Goleta, California, USA...
JB's in it. The other is an American Strat (replaced with a vintage-style fulcrum bridge) Performance neck and active EMG's
EMG, Inc.
EMG, Inc. is the current legal name of a company based in Santa Rosa, California which manufactures guitar pickups and EQ accessories. Founded in 1976, the company was originally called Dirtywork Studios. The name was changed to "Overlend" in 1978 and then to the current name in 1983...
. For acoustic guitars he uses a Baby Taylor
Taylor Guitars
Taylor Guitars is an El Cajon, California‐based luthier, specializing in acoustic guitars, as well as semi-hollow and solidbody electric guitars. It was established in 1974 by Bob Taylor and Kurt Listug.- History :...
and a vintage Martin. His amp set up is a modified Marshall
Marshall Amplification
Marshall Amplification is a British company, founded by drummer Jim Marshall, that designs and manufactures music amplifiers, brands personal headphones/earphones , and, after acquiring Natal Drums, drums and bongos. Marshall amplifiers, and specifically their guitar amplifiers, are among the most...
JCM 800 series run through a series of modified effects and a Line 6 through four Marshall cabinets each with vintage 30 Watt Celestion
Celestion
Celestion is a British maker of loudspeakers.-History:The work of what would become Celestion started in Hampton Wick in 1924. Celestion Radio Company and Celestion Limited were formed in 1927, and two years later the company moved across the Thames to Kingston. The company grew rapidly, but was...
s and sometimes he uses 25 watt Celestion
Celestion
Celestion is a British maker of loudspeakers.-History:The work of what would become Celestion started in Hampton Wick in 1924. Celestion Radio Company and Celestion Limited were formed in 1927, and two years later the company moved across the Thames to Kingston. The company grew rapidly, but was...
Greenbacks. He sometimes A-B's his clean channel with standard Fender
Fender Amplifiers
Fender Amplifiers have a long history. Leo Fender began building guitar amps before he started manufacturing guitars. The first of these amps were the K&F models, which were produced between 1945 and 1946...
Twin reverb running through a Boss Chorus Ensemble CE-5 and a Boss Digital Delay DD-3.
Discography
| Title | Release | Label | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Party Animal 2 | 1983 | Mystic Mystic Records Mystic Records is a record label and music production company that was based in Hollywood CA one block south of Hollywood and Vine and later moved to Oceanside, California... |
New Regime |
| The COPulation Compilation | 1983 | Mystic | New Regime |
| Welcome to Venice | 1984 | Suicidal | Suicidal Tendencies Suicidal Tendencies Suicidal Tendencies is a U.S. crossover thrash band founded in 1981 in Venice, Los Angeles, California by Mike Muir, its leader and only permanent member. The band is sometimes credited as one of "the fathers of crossover thrash"... /Los Cycos Los Cycos Los Cycos is a U.S. crossover thrash band founded in 1984 in Venice, Los Angeles, California by Suicidal Tendencies frontman Mike Muir. The only recording of the band appears on the rare 1985 release "Welcome to Venice," the debut album and first release from Suicidal Records.-Band biography and... |
| Life After Deth | 2002 | Menzanator | Nick Menza Nick Menza Nick Menza is an American drummer best known for his work in Megadeth from 1989 to 1998, appearing on four of the band's studio albums.-Early life:... |
| Abyss | 2003 | Independent | Dennis Lotka |