THE OATH:
www.oathband.com
Greg Alan Moore - Vocals Guitar
Lynn Swanger - Vocals Drums
Kenny Swanger - Guitar, Vocals
Christof Dice - Bass Guitar, Vocals
Daughter and Son-in-Law and GrandsonGreg Alan Moore plays Frank Marino Style Blues Rock Solo
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Me with my old band KNOCKOUT in Detroit at a
Bowling Alley in Dearborn Heights.
I'm the SECOND Guitar Solo.
The chick singing was the Drummer's Sisiter.
Influences
A mad frenzy at Giraffes
Anonymous!
My Best Friend from OUTLAW SOCIAL CLUB, Rock Baker
Sounds Like
Who Do I sound Like?
Hmmm...
Well, I always Liked to
listen to these people:
Frank Zappa
- the biggest Influence of all. He was just the best...simply
put. He is why we all gravitate towards that God-loved Lydian
Mode.
Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush
- Number 2 on my list just because he was so cool, played that '62
SG, was so Psychedelic and had that awesome fat whooshy tone. C'mon,
LIVE was en epiphany for me.
Allan Holdsworth
- hit me from Jean Luc Ponty's Enigmatic Ocean and tore my head off!
It's been love head-on since then. We hung out at a pub once
in the 1980's He is SOO Modest.
Steve Morse and the Dixie Dregs
- 2nd Album with Take it
off the Top, the picking, the over-the-bar progressions. Man!
Al DiMeola -
Elegant Gypsy Made me practive my butt off for years.
Eddie VanHalen Came
Along in 1978 and Changed my whole view, darn him! I had to
start over, again.
Yngwie made me
start over another time in 1981
Shawn Lane
(R.I.P) when he was 15. Still my favorite guitarist to listen to.
Until I watched Shawn play, I had NO IDEA what he was doing...still
don't know HOW he was able to do that stuff!
Greg Howe - Took
Blues Metal and made Fusion out of it. in the past 11 years, Greg
Howe has become a monster and I had, without trying, added a lot of
his style into my own.
Scott Henderson -
OK, I TRIED to incorporate Scott's Style into mine but that is SO
HARD TO DO. I wish I had an ounce of his creativity and
technique
Steve Vai - I
HUGE INFLUENCE since he double tracked Frank's solo on Tinseltown
Rebellion in 1978, played the Impossible Guitar Parts all over FZ's
albums, Flexible, Alcatrazz, David Lee Roth (Lookin' For Trouble
Solo? Whew!), and when I got Passion and Warfare I had to Start over
ONE MORE TIME. I love Steve's Playing and I think it shows -
like it or not. But it think it comes from both Steve directly
and from Frank through Steve indirectly.
Of course I started @ age 8
with Beatles, Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore, Martin Barr,
Alice Cooper, Lots of Classical stuff, lots of 1940;s and 1950's
pop, Herp Albert, and weird Polka stuff and Lawrence Welk, too.
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Guitarist / Vocalist
with THE OATH From Detroit, Mi. to Upstate, SC
This is my latest guitar that I am building as of March 2009
I make guitars.
This one (above) is my latest...
a hand carved double headed Red Dragon.
It's got all Digital electronics from a LIN6 Variax 600. I also have a Snake, Two Giraffes, and others.
Kassie, my Daughter and my Grandson, Emerson
Check THIS guy out!!!
Rock Baker from Detroit, Mi
The Best Friend and guitarist a guy could have, the legendary Rock Baker.
About Greg Alan Moore: He plays the Guitar.
That's about it.
Thank you. Good night. Bio: Well, it all started in
a mid size town outside of Detroit, Michigan called Riverview. I started
playing guitar when I was only 8 years old. My cousin Tommy was turning 15
and wanted to buy a car and and sold his guitar and amp to my Mom for $18. So, I
was in Heaven...my own electric guitar and amp. And A Teisco, at that! I played
all day every day as soon as I came home from school.
Jump ahead to age 12 when it was decided that I would get
some formal lessons. So, I started at a local music store. Unfortunately,
the teacher sucked AND it was playing little league baseball that summer. So, I
quit lessons and continued on my own. That is not to say I wasn't without formal
education of music...it's just that I was self taught. I had started
teaching my self theory and how to read when I got the guitar (it came with
instruction books - Mel bay 3 and a Paganini Moto Perpetuo). I had also
started on Piano at age 7 so I made the connection between the two early on.
Jump ahead to age 15 and I found friend in Junior High and
started a band. That moved quite well and became quite the band by High School -
btw, the band was called The Motley Crew. Yeah, I was NOT happy when we had to
change it after ANOTHER band with that name came along.
After Graduation, I moved to another band with the
world famous Jimmy Jernigan. Then, in 1991 I joined a great band called KNOCKOUT
in Detroit. That's where I stayed until I moved to Anderson, SC in Jan 2007. I
joined the awesome fun, talented, and crazy band THE OATH in Feb 2008. LINKS
to Greg's stuff, band, websites, etc.
www.oathband.com
www.gregalanmoore.com
www.giraffeguitar.com
www.customsnares.com
www.knockout-band.com
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