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Rick Plester

Producer/Guitarist

About Me

...... Rick Plester is a producer and guitarist. He has been involved in 105 records to date, including The Scorpions/ James Kottak , Michael Schenker, George Lynch, and many others. Rick plays guitar in and is the founding member of International recording artist Black Symphony. Black Symphony's 4th release is now available on Itunes ect... The band consists of Plester,basist Rev Jones, (Fuel, MSG, and Paul Gilbert) drummer Pete Holmes, (Ted Nugent, Ian Gillian, Yngwie Malmsteen, and MSG), keyboardist Robert Vasicek (Prague Symphony), they are joined by new found talent, Randy Reeman on lead Vocals and keybords. Ricks great chops and inspirational vision in song writing help him create his own unique style of rock music; some magazine writers have called him a true genius. Rick also won the LA Guitars Wars and several Canadian guitar wars contests.Rick has almost finished his debut instrumental record, recording will be finished in mid June. Rick will tour both Black Symphony and his instrumental projests in the spring / summer. Rick will also host a weekly blog on the Randall amps site starting very soon. Video plans are also in the works for both projects.Before Ricks music career he was a Pro Hockey player (goalie) for several years both in Ice Hockey and Roller Hockey. Both careers started overlapping so he picked music.Rick has also written music for ABC, NBC, ESPN, FOX, FOR SPORTS. and The NHL.Sign up for Ricks blogs and updates.div style="position:absolute;z-

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/2/2006
Band Website: blacksymphony.com
Band Members: Black Symphony: Rick Plester:Guitar Pete Holmes drums Rev Jones:bass Robert Vasicek:keys Randy Reeman:Vocals/keys
Influences: Hendrix/ SRV /Randy Rhodes/ Steve Vai/ Page / Beck/ Clapton/ Nugent/ Van Halen /Angus Young/ Billy Gibbons/Roth/ Bands Zepplin/ Pink Floyd/ Metallica (old) ACDC /Deep Purple/ Sabbath/ Classical music/ most every great band out there.
Record Label: FTM INTERNATIONAL
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

new song posted

I just posted another new song  (song 11).. they are still rough ideas as I am playing all the instruments. As soon as I get back from the road I will start recording the real versions with ...
Posted by Rick Plester on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 02:18:00 PST

make money

http://www.yourhangout.com/thewelder   Click this link first 10000 become virtual partner and get you paid. It' for real...
Posted by Rick Plester on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:15:00 PST

online vocal instruction that will blow your mind

To all my musicians freinds click this link it is absolutly the greatest vocal instrutional program ever. I have seen so many of these but this one rules. http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?a...
Posted by Rick Plester on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:58:00 PST

News

New songs I posted a couple of new ideas for my upcomming instumental record song 9 and song 8 please give them a listen and I welcome your feedback.I played all the instruments but when I do the ...
Posted by Rick Plester on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 04:26:00 PST

New song added

New song posted for solo intrumental record. (song 8) (C) Rick Plester Music ,BMI 2006 They are still rough tracks and only will be posted for a short time please send me your fedback.. Thanks Happy H...
Posted by Rick Plester on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:52:00 PST

Take a listen

Hi everyone I am posting for a short time an instrumental track I am working on for a Rick Plester solo record .I want some feed -back the track is 8 min. long please listen to the hole thing if you c...
Posted by Rick Plester on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:18:00 PST