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Ryan & the Del-Rays
2+ albums
bluesguitarbluesrock
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Ryan Verthein, Guitar-Vocals -Birthday August 23, 1986 - Gear of choice: Fender Stratocaster with Texas Special pickups, roller nut, graphite bridge, steel tremelo block, modified tone capacitor and vintage style Kluson tuners. Effects-Cry Baby Wah, TS9 Tube Screamer, Milkbox Compressor, Rotovibe. Amp-Carvin Vintage 33 all tube. I guess the music thing really got me big when my father bought me a Harmony guitar 13 years ago for Christmas... I had a lot of fun learning all the oldies that I could...used to dress up like Buddy Holly all the time and come out singing a song to everyone in the living room. I had a hard time with the "F" chord when I was little...those little hands just don't do that chord...now my thumb helps me play! After that, I got a Squire Stratocaster, and when I was about 9 years old, went and saw Jonny Lang playing at Ironworld here on the range...he came into the crowd wireless and played right in front of me...it was very very cool....and I guess that's what really got me started on blues. I stole the CD from my dad when we got home and got a million percent hooked on it. I was trying to learn everything...how to sing them blues the right way...all the licks...everything. Finally, after I started getting used to it, I wanted to try new stuff. I had heard that Jonny Lang was supposed to be another SRV (and until now, I didn't realize that's what they compared every young blues guitar slinger to...including myself) so I checked out some CD's that my
