Rick Graham: shred knowledge interview

I guess I am more of a Rock player than anything else really. Having said that I've spent quite a lot of time studying other styles of music and was very serious about classical guitar during the latter half of the 1990's. That influence was pretty strong and it really exposed me to some wonderful music and in particular the music of J.S.Bach. Actually, my new album includes a classical guitar performance of a Fugue written by the man himself but that aside, yeah, I would say melodic rock would be an accurate description.

My new album is due out on June 1st and I'm very excited about getting it out there. I've been meaning to put this album together for quite some time now and early this year I decided that enough was enough, I need to get my act together and commit some of my tunes to disc. I bought some new studio gear and got together all of the demos I had made which I thought would work for the album and began to record everything. Once I had finished the recording I sent the sessions off to Carl Roa from Magic Elf Studios in New York for mixing and mastering and now here I am now days away from the release date. It's exciting stuff! full interview