Rusty Cooley
| Rusty Cooley | |
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| Background information | |
| Born |
April 27, 1970 Houston, Texas, United States |
| Genres | heavy metal, progressive metal, power metal |
| Instruments | Guitar |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Associated acts | Day of Reckoning, Outworld, Austrian Death Machine, Rings Of Saturn |
| Website | www.rustycooley.com |
| Notable instruments | |
| Dean Guitars | |
| Rusty Cooley | |
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| Studio album | |
| Released | 2003 |
| Genre | Speed metal, neoclassical metal, Progressive metal |
| Length | 1:01:47 |
| Label | Lion Music |
| Producer | Rusty Cooley |
Rusty Cooley (born April 27, 1970), is an American guitarist from Houston, Texas, United States, known for his highly refined guitar technique. He is regarded as one of the fastest guitarists in the United States and a master of the "shredding technique of guitar.Guitar Player magazine called him "the leading light of the post-Malmsteen shred-volution."
Rusty received his first equipment (a Peavey T27 guitar and a Peavey Decade amp) on his fifteenth birthday. From that day on Cooley immersed himself in music, practicing upwards of 4 hours a day. Rusty took guitar lessons for a while but became dissatisfied with local guitar instructors and decided to become self-taught. He relied on instructional books and videos like Doug Marks's Metal Method, Ted Greene's "Chord Chemistry" and "Modern Chord Progressions" books, REH instructional videos, as well as, Robben Ford's instructional DVD's.
His early musical influences were guitarists Randy Rhoads, Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, Paul Gilbert, Vinnie Moore and Tony MacAlpine.
After only three years of playing he became a guitar teacher at the music store where he had purchased his first guitar.
After high school Rusty went to the local college and studied Music Theory.
Rusty was unsatisfied with local musicians and began to work on solo music in early 1996. He also began playing 7-string guitars exclusively at this time. His debut solo album was the self-titled, Rusty Cooley, which was released in 2003 by Lion Music. It consists of 12 tracks of which one, "Under the Influence", was released as a video as well. The album featured Cooley on guitar, Brent Marches on bass, Eric Sands on fretless bass, and Bobby Williamson on keyboards. Music was by Cooley, Marches, and Kelly Carpenter; Carpenter also wrote the lyrics for, and handled the vocals on, the vocal versions of "Dominion" and "The Machine". Programming was done by Cooley and Williamson, while guitar engineering was accomplished by Sands. Cooley also was in charge of production.
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