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Artist
Scott McGill
12+ albums
Progressivejazzrockmetaljazz fusion
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Guitarist for McGill/Manring/Stevens (Michael Manring - Bass; Vic Stevens - Drums) Featured in Guitar Player Magazine Feb. 2007. Proclaimed "The Thinking Man's Yngwie Malmsteen" by celebrated fusion author/critic Bill Milkowski, Scott McGill has been playing guitar for over twenty five years. His formal training includes a B.M. in Jazz Performance/Composition from Temple University (Summa Cum Laude). For ten years he studied with noted composer Dennis Sandole (who also taught John Coltrane, Pat Martino, and James Moody, among others). In 1985-86 at the ripe old-age of 19, he was the lead guitarist for RCA recording artist Robert Hazard ("Escalator of Life," "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"). Performances included "Fourth of July on the Parkway" at the Philadelphia Art Museum with Jimmy Page, Joan Jett, and the Beach Boys (800,000 people in attendance). He formed his first group The Hand Farm in 1991 which went on to tour with international recording artists Spock's Beard, Transatlantic, and Maceo Parker. Praise for the first disc "The Hand Farm" (released in 1997) came from Bill Bruford (Yes, King Crimson, U.K.), Wayne Krantz (Steely Dan), Greg Howe (Shrapnel Records), and Jens Johansson (Yngwie Malmsteen, Stratovarius). McGill became the guitarist for the prog-rock band Finneus Gauge (1997-1999) releasing "More Once More" and "One Inch Of The Fall" to critical acclaim in progressive rock circles and the mainstream press (1997-Guitar World's "Top 10 Prog Bands" and Keyboar
