Vocal Stile is powerfull yet melodic, the influence is obviously main stream commercial metal with a bit of speed metal & a few power ballads thrown in.
GUITAR STYLE is fast high speed licks within a synchopated rythm vein with lightning fast run's to finish lead section's.
The Guitar sound is a work of art in itself! a digital layered basis with some extroadinary external effect's giving an individual twist to each note & phraze, it can be heard in developement through the earlier ROY STONE Track's up to the most recent CONQUEST Tracks, which feature the finished article.
Having played in all genres of Rock & Metal Bands, any stile from Led Zeppelin to Eric Clapton to Motley Crue, Status Quo right through to Anthrax, Slayer or AC/DC is within Roy Stones repatoire.
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Songwriting.....
Personaly Guitar is my inspiration, I love the feel of scales & phrazes & how the string positions & string guages give each chord a voice & the personal feel that your fingering style gives that is unique & recognisable regardless of electronics.
Once I have a guitar piece that realy gives me satisfaction & I have solidified the timing accents I transfer those accents to the drum track.
Being a Heavy Metal Musician my lyrics have to shock & normaly are accented vocaly like another guitar.
Avoiding long explanations is good & when you have something to communicate summerising it is worth while, or finding words that are a bit more substantial helps too.
I vocalise like I play Lead Guitar & thats my secret, you could work it out but then you would know anyway, hope this is helpfullin some way, getting a structured system is realy helpfull & gives a recognisable style.
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Influences are, bands like The Scorpions, Ratt, Motley Crue, Queensreich, U.F.O, ACDC, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Van Halen, to name a few band's, there are also influence's from band's like Slip Knot, Anthrax, Nine Inch Nail's, The Fu Fighter's & even The Red Hot Chilli Pepper's are
un-ignorable as are Motorhead & Hawkwind.
If you haven't some influences from Rock & Metal, Thrash, Death Metal & even Pop Rock like Jefferson Aeroplane, Boston & The Eagles your probably not informed enough to be playing Rock anyway!
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The Sound is realy based on original guitar work but there's a bit of Aerosmith, Ozzy Osbourne, AC/DC, Kiss, Megadeth, Metallica, Guns & Roses, Iron Maiden, Green Day, Foo Fighters, Alice Cooper, KISS, QUEEN, Brian Adams, Status Quo, Green Day, The Beasty Boy's, Black Label Club, Heavy Metal, Pop Rock, Metal, Power Ballad's, Meat Loaf, kind of stuff even Nirvana etc.
General main stream rock, but the sound is real, its like your in the room with it!
Check out many new mps's available from Roy Stone, including Vampyra, My Desire Black Hole Eye & Warrior, Rock fans should take the time to check this out.
After last years gigs Roy Stone is busy in the studio, producing new tracks, an April S.E. UK Gig is booked & more dates will be posted soon.
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ROY STONE 03rd OCT THE RAT & PARROT BEXLEYHEATH
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ROY STONE 26th NOV RM METAL MONDAYS
CONQUEST 17th DEC RM METAL MONDAYS
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CONQUEST 16th MARCH THE BULLET BAR CAMDEN
CONQUEST 25th APRIL THE CRYPT MANCHESTER
CONQUEST 5th JUNE RM METAL MONDAYS
CONQUEST 12th MAY THE PHOENIX DARTFORD
CONQUEST 17th MAY THE PHOENIX DARTFORD
CONQUEST 19th MAY RM METAL MONDAYS
CONQUEST 24th MAY LEO’S RED LION GRAVESEND
CONQUEST 28th MAY ALL TALK RADIO VEGAS
CONQUEST 31st MAY SITWELL TAVERN DERBY
CONQUEST 6th JUNE THE PHOENIX DARTFORD
ROY STONE 9th JUNE RM METAL MONDAYS
CONQUEST 14th JULY THE VIC & BULL DARTFORD
CONQUEST 19th JULY THE TURKS READING
CONQUEST 09th AUG BEDFORD PARK STREATHAM
CONQUEST 18th AUG OHM BEXLEYHEATH
CONQUEST 24th AUG PHOENIX DARTFORD (ALL DAY)
CONQUEST 24th AUG LEO'S RED LION GRAVESEND (ALL DAY )
CONQUEST 13th SEPT HOGSHEAD SIDCUP
ROY STONE 07th DEC OHM BEXLEYHEATH
CONQUEST 07th DEC OHM BEXLEYHEATH
ROY STONE 05th JAN '09 RM METAL MONDAYS
ROY STONE 12th JAN RM METAL MONDAYS
CONQUEST 26th JAN RM METAL MONDAYS
ROY STONE 23rd FEB RM DRAYMAN BEXLEYHEATH
CONQUEST 23rd Mar RM DRAYMAN BEXLEYHEATH
ROY STONE 11th APRIL RM LEOS RED LION
ROY STONE 04th MAY RM ALL DAY MAY-DAY
ROY STONE 25th May RM ALL DAY DARTFORD
ABOUT ROY STONE.....
Taking Bookings,
As VOCALIST & Lead guitarist, ROY STONE sings a powerfull Rock vocal style whilst playing Guitar that is sometimes 16 time's the beat of the music, punctuated with lead guitar runs that descend into musical changes & lead guitar breaks with howling long notes & runs so fast you'l miss it if your not concentrating!
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THE GIGS
Having recently split with Conquest, due to varying levels of commitment within the Band, Roy Stone is now Guitar & Vocals again, gigging a set of the solo material, to a backing recording, plus some of the wild lead guitar that is the Roy Stone trade mark. The idea being to build a band from the live platform whilst being out there playing live.
This means re-recording some the best earlier tracks, to get the material to make a backing recording, The Beast Rising & Satan, which interconnect live are definitely on the list for a re-vamp, as is The Reaper, Night Train To Nowhere, Chill Of The Night & Arabian Knights to mention a few,this will get the live set up to around an hour, with the advantage of some shiny new CD’s too!
THE SET.
The current set is 16 Tracks plus lead guitar opening, these are :
BLACK HOLE EYE
MY DESIRE
WARRIOR
VAMPYRA
WALK AWAY
ARRIVA DERCHI
PASSION
FAT BOB
THE REAPER
HUNGRY FOR YOUR LOVE
THE BEAST
SATAN THE BEAST Pt. 2
CHILL OF THE NIGHT
ROCK CRUSADER
NIGHT TRAIN
TONGUE IN CHEEK
METAL RULES
There over a HUNDRED & FIFTY Roy Stone DEMO’S for future tracks.
If your looking for a ROCK NIGHT OUT in South LONDON, the ROCK MATRIX Rock Club Night has now moved to THE DRAYMAN BEXLEYHEATH & the LIVE BAND VENUES are becoming more varied.
The Track's featured here are as CD's or MP3 DOWNLOADS......
The earlier ROY STONE material feature's IBANEZ & for the heavier material there are several B.C. RICH Guitar's, a red BEAST, a black IRONBIRD, a blue WARLOCK & a mighty red WARLOCK longscale Bass are among the collection of instrument's, also a sunburst FENDER STRATOCASTER the icon of all Rock instrument's & a Workstation keyboard by KORG.
All this is situated within a compact Digital Studio, along with Live Amp's, a P.A. System, Rack Compressor's & Effect's Processor's, in a back room in SOUTH LONDON
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Getting out there gigging is what its all about, the life blood of Rock!!
Lead Guitar Solo spots to start with & now gigging the tracks for the London Rock Matrix with many tracks recorded & available on mp3 or CD.
As VOCALIST & Lead guitarist, ROY STONE sings a powerfull Rock vocal style whilst playing Rythm Guitar that is sometimes 16 time's the beat of the music, punctuated with lead guitar runs that descend into musical changes & lead guitar breaks with howling long notes & runs so fast you'l miss it if your not concentrating!
Originaly a child Accordion player & always consistently playing, Roy Stone plays guitar at least an hour everyday. 3 BC Rich Guitars, which is the sound Roy favours, an ’87 Ibanez for Pop-Rock & the obligatory battered Strat, which is not a high quality instrument. Also a BC Rich active Bass.
Rock Guitarist & Vocalist, Roy can write quality Rock songs in an hour & record them himself in 3 days, Roy has written & recorded around 200 songs in various levels of recording quality. Also Vocalist & Accoustic style chord player, Roy can ad-lib lead guitar to cd quality over any chord sequence & have book’s of thousand’s of chord’s available, also a competent Bassist & a backing competent Keyboard player, though not an avid Pianist.
Many gigs this year, with a growing live set & much more material is in need of re-recording, so regular Album releases as well too!
The recording is all done on a Spirit 328 Desk to a Fostex D-16, Guitars through Boss GT units, with the Bass through Line 6, the Desk has 2 Lexicons & 2 dynamics processors, which are set up as compressor gate & limiter, the mix is a stereo bass, panned to about 3 L&R, a central vocal, stereo guitars panned to 8-15 L&R, the drums are a 7 condenser mic. recording, 2 Kick, Snare stereo tomtoms & stereo overheads, then I repeat the mix & feed it analogue at low level panned 1 outside the digital mix to loose the Pop sound & give it a bit of live feel, then it is fed via spdf to a DBX Auto compressor where it is compressed & limited again, with the addition of a dark Side-chain EQ, a gain setting below speaker distortion, dither & another gate.
Roy can also work by post, sending additional tracks un-EQ’d on CD’s & also
set up small live performances, with the equipment he is familiar with. Playing Gig’s on a regular basis with Conquest, which has a Vocalist frontman but Roy is also setting up a Band presently for the solo material, on which he sings, also doing Lead Guitar solo spot’s between Bands at Rock Gigs. Roy Stone is available for all of these. Available for professional Rock Bands & recording work.
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