Vinnie Moore

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Vinnie Moore (born April 14, 1964 i in New Castle, Delaware) took up his first guitar at the age of 12. He talks of Jeff Beck, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, and Queen as his main influenced in his early years.

After many hours of palying with different bands and creating tunes with his 4 track recorder, Vinnie sent a demo to Guitar Player magazine, and came to national attention via its "Spotlight" column, written by Mike Varney from Shrapnel Records.
Following this Moore recorded his first solo album, Mind's Eye, released on Shrapnel Records and featured Tony MacAlpine on keyboards.

As a performer, Vinnie Moore's resume is impressive. A member of Alice Cooper's band, he toured the U.S. on the Operation Rock'N'Roll tour. Vinnie's own band has toured extensively and was chosen as opening act for legendary rockers Rush on the Northeast leg. Vinnie also toured Japan as a member of the T.M. Stevens' band.
Vinnie has done hundreds of guitar clinics all over the world including such places as, Japan, Scandanavia, Italy, Poland, Mexico, Canada, New Zealand, England, Germany and Australia.

In 2003, Vinnie joined the legendary group UFO.Their first effort together as a band was the SPV Records release You Are Here (in 2004); Vinnie was a major songwriting contributor on this record. The band followed the ambum release with a worldwide tour (2004-2005). A live two-DVD from this tour was released in Nov 2005, titled UFO Showtime. The band toured Europe, Russia and the USA again in 2008 and 2010.

Artist website: www.vinniemoore.com

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