Joey Tafolla

Joey Tafolla

Joey Tafolla is an American guitarist. He was a member of Jag Panzer, but started a solo career on Mike Varney's Shrapnel Records label in the 1980s, and emerged alongside other "shred" players such as Marty Friedman, Jason Becker, Paul Gilbert, Richie Kotzen, Tony MacAlpine and Vinnie Moore among others.

He became part of the neoclassical stream with his first studio album "Out Of The Sun", released in 1987, featuring Tony MacAlpine on keyboards and Paul Gilbert on guitars. Joey immediately demonstrated to be technically prepared and at the same time showed a lot of personality. Soon he got some collaboration to rock projects and guitar compilations on the shredding scene.

After four years from his first release, in 1991 he totally changed genre with his new studio album "Infra-Blue", an almost rock-fusion work by a new and completely different Joey, rich of shuffle ideas on his riffs and characterized by great shred licks mainly during legato sections. With this record Joey asserted himself enough to start clinics and seminaries all over the world, releasing a didactic tape for REH video, and starting to teach.

Joey currently owns JTM Merchandising, a apparel & gear manufacturing company in Huntington Beach, CA. who creates/prints apparel for such companies as Fender Musical Instruments, Line 6, Mesa/Boogie, the Rock Band video game franchise and many bands including Meldrum and others. Joey and JTM are longtime clients of Naturally Wired Designs, with both Joey's music site and JTM Merchandising site.

Discography

olo albums

* 1987 - "Out Of The Sun"
* 1991 - "Infra-Blue"
* 2001 - "Plastic"

Jag Panzer albums

* 1984 - "Ample Destruction"
* 1997 - "The Fourth Judgement"

Videography

* "Shredding"

External links

* [http://www.jtmmerchandising.com/ Joey's merchandise company]
* [http://www.joeytafolla.com/ The Official Joey Tafolla Website]
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:f9frxqe5ld0e~T0 Joey Tafolla at www.allmusic.com]
* [http://www.xtrememusician.com/info/artists/profiles/1865.html Joey Tafolla at www.xtrememusician.com]


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