Bio
Hello, my fellow musicians!
My name is Richard Bessey, I am a lead guitar player from Western MA with 40 years of experience. I have played in bands all across the United States. No big names. I have studied just about every major style of guitar from Rock, Jazz, Blues, Metal, Country, Classical, and Reggae, to Flamenco. I have taken music classes/lessons from Berkley, and HCC, and have had many guitar great teachers. I have also read just about every guitar book, and popular guitar blog, and watched every popular guitar video to gain as much knowledge as I could to advance my guitar playing.
My Influences
My influences are too many to name (I could write pages on this and every day it would be different)! I have learned something from everyone, everywhere, and incorporated all that knowledge into my playing.
My Experiences
I have road crewed for some of the biggest acts and musicians out there and learned so much watching all of those great players. Lefty Fosters, The Sha Boo Allstars have had just about every big-name blues musician on stage with them at one time or another. Pantera, Great White, and Driver a semi-local/national band consisting of metal melodic singer Rob Rock (M.A.R.S. Impelliteri, Joshua, etc.), drum sensation BJ Zampa (Dokken, Yngwie Malmsteen, Metal Church, etc.), and Guitar/producer extraordinaire Roy Z
(Bruce Dickenson, Rob Halford, Sebastian Bach, Sepultura, Tribe of Gypsies, etc.) who was my guitar teacher that taught me everything about how to be a guitar player.