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Artist
Alex Masi
12+ albums
guitar virtuosoinstrumentalneo-classicalhard rockShred
about
Alex Masi was born in Venice, Italy where he studied at the Conservatory of Music in Verona. He formed the seminal Italian heavy rock band Dark Lord in 1983 and recorded two EPs with them. Alex Masi moved briefly to London in the early eighties where he played with several musicians belonging to the so called NWOBHM that was sweeping the country at the time. With Dark Lord he toured as opening act for several major acts of the period until 1986 when he was invited by Metal Blade Records to move to Los Angeles and join Sound Barrier, a promising up and coming band. Things didn't work out with Sound Barrier and Alex was put in charge of his own band that at that point assumed the name MASI. MASI recorded two albums for Metal Blade/Capitol Records after which Alex decided to record solo material. The first solo album was "Attack Of The Neon Shark", which received a Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Rock Album. "Attack Of The Neon Shark" featured several of Alex's friends like Frankie Banali of Quiet Riot, Allan Holdsworth, Jeff Scott Soto etc. The second solo album was called "Vertical Invader" and it featured only Alex Masi along with drummer John Macaluso (TNT, Malmsteen). After that Alex Masi played and started several projects that never came to full fruition with people such as Rhett Forrester (Riot), Steve Bailey (Jethro Tull), FRankie Banali etc. "Tales From The North" and "The Watcher" were two albums that were released in the nineties but flew under the rad
