Rick Drago

RICK DRAGO
Guitarist and Founder of "CIRKUS FROM HELL"Rick hails out of NYC, and has been playing guitar, writing, arranging and producing music for about twenty years now. He was 17 years old when he picked up his first guitar, and still owns that Ibanez musician guitar.Rick has toured locally and nationally in such bands as : Dead ON Arrival
Krakatoa
Rosetta Stone
The buzz
Demonseed
Outrageous / Nitro
Stormtrooper
Among others.Now Rick has his own Band Called CIRKUS FROM HELL Which he has been the songwriter, producer and engineer. Under Rick's guidence and vision it took only one year for Cirkus From Hell to become a up and coming National Touring Act based out of NYC and Dallas Texas.Rick’s Guitar collection is now up to 25 guitars, Electric and acoustic from : Gibson , Fender , Washburn , Demon V , DiPinto , Minarik , Hamer , Guild , Charvel , BC Rich , Dean , Ibanez , Ovation , Epiphone, Halo, Greco , KXKRicks main pickups are Seymour Duncan Dimbuckers. they are loaded in 10 of his main stage guitars.Rick has Artist endorsements from;
Minarik guitars Rick uses 2 Infernos, a Lotus and a Diablo in the studio and for live shows, Coming Soon a custom Made one of a kind Flying V. and Rick can be found on their "artist around the world" page..
KXK Guitars Rick has a custom made one off red Warrior V soon to be on the KXK website.
Dipinto Guitars Rick uses a Hellion guitar and can be found on the Artist page #3
BBE Sound and uses their 482i Sonic maximizer in his rack and the plug-in for recordings. RotoSound strings and uses their strings on all of his axes.
Ricks Guitar straps are by Heartwoodes, the best straps around. I met Doug and Randy, a few years back in Orlando Florida and bought my first heartwoods strap and been using them ever since. I move around a lot on stage and I need a strap that moves with me. And these do.
Rotosound strings
wedgie picks
ISP TechnologiesRicks Rigg consist of : Roland GP 100 preamp/ effects unit. Rocktron Prophesy preamp / effects unit. Sampson CR-3M and a Airline 77 wireless units. (2) DBX 266 comp. / gates. Lexicon MPX 500 effects unit. Furman PL-8 conditioneer. BBE Sound Sonic Maximizer (3) Marshall 8008 power amps (500watts in stereo). mounted in a custom shock mount road case. All through 5 cabinets with boogie , EV and Emienence speakers. And controlled by a Berringer midi pedal and a ART midi pedal And Rick also uses for recording a Line-6 POD XT Live pedal board and also a Digitech GNX 2 pedal board.Rick does all of the bands recording and mixing with a custom built Alienware Area 51m 7700 notebook and a Alienware Area 51 desktop with Cubase SX 2.0 and Reason and a MOTU Traveler for studio and mobile recordings. And finishes with a BBE sonic maximizer plug-in when needed, "Special thanks go to BBE for having me as one of their Artist".Ricks webpage’s are;

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