Graham Greene, guitarist from Australia with the group Jac Dalton.
Interview Focuses
- Graham Greene talks about bring the first Australian to get endorsed by Mesa Boogie amplification.
- Ormsby guitars endorsement.
- Greene talks about Ormsby guitars working on Kelly Garni’s (Quiet Riot) bass guitar as a tribute to Randy Rhoads. They embedded Randy Rhoads Thumbnail in it.
- Randy Rhoads DNA is in this bass guitar. Old Ibanez gems with Steve Vai’s DNA in the paint story.
http://www.grahamgreene.com.au
A professional musician for over 30 years, Graham Greene is widely considered to be a leading Australian exponent of electric rock guitar.
A master performer and craftsman, he has received accolades from Australian Guitar Magazine, who have stated Graham Greene to be Australia’s answer to Steve Vai and Joe Satriani, through to Hollywood where he was the recipient of the 2008 Star Music Award for Best Instrumental Rock Artist for his song “Impressive Hair”, (announced by DIO guitarist, Craig Goldy) and is the first Australian to be featured on the US Mesa/Boogie website (2007), and included in the international Mesa/Boogie catalogue for 2010/12.
Multi-Grammy Award winning engineer, John Hampton of Ardent Studios in Memphis, TN on Graham Greene; “Graham, you da man with the 6 string. Steve Stevens meets Eric Johnson meets Gibbons meets ….GRAHAM!”
Best remembered for his band, cult melodic rock giants of the late 80’s and early 90’s, Ice Tiger, ‘the boy from the Kimberley’ and much loved West Australian guitar shaman is Graham Greene and the name behind Guitar Gods, West Coast Guitar Heroes.
EARLY DAYS
The Kimberleys, Western Australia
Graham Greene was born in Perth, Western Australia, and at age 4 moved with his family to the far north-west of the state, where he grew up in the rugged and arid West Kimberley outback.
While attending boarding school in Perth, Graham discovered the guitar and quickly realized where his life’s journey would lead. He played in some small bands after leaving school, and found regular work as a sound engineer before returning to playing guitar and keyboards. In his late teens, a car accident temporarily prevented him from playing, so he took the time off to travel back to his adopted home town in the bush, where he could recover, and reconnect with his childhood roots.