Marc Rizzo: crusher interview

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17-03-2008:
Crusher on line magazine have posted and interview with the talented Marc Rizzo:

I grew up listening to a lot of instrumental guys. I’ve always been a huge fan of guitar playing and guitarists in general. When I grew up and was learning to play guitar – I started when I was eight and that was back in ’86 – I was listening to a lot of old Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax, but I also really like Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, and Marty Friedman; guys that were putting out instrumental records. I’ve always wanted to do that. I always told myself that at some point, I wanted to get into doing instrumental guitar records because I’ve always listened to that just as much as I did my favorite bands. Towards the end of my time in Ill Nino, I started to record some stuff. I was really getting some good feedback, so I put out my first CD, which was a little more acoustic-based. Mike Varney over at Shrapnel Records got his hands on it and called me. He offered me a record deal and wanted me to go in a more ‘metal’ direction, so that’s when I did Colossal Myopia. That was the first of many I plan to do. I want to put one of these records out every year or two.

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