Tony MacAlpine (born August 29, 1960) is an American musician and composer. Over a career spanning four decades, he has released twelve studio albums. MacAlpine is best known as an instrumental rock and heavy metal solo guitarist, although he has worked with numerous bands and musicians through guest appearances and collaborations. MacAlpine began playing piano at age five and guitar at twelve. He studied classical piano and violin for several years at the Springfield Conservatory of Music in Massachusetts, as well as in various music programs at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. One of his major musical influences is Frédéric Chopin, whose études he frequently interprets on his studio albums. Alongside his first studio releases — Edge of Insanity (1986) and Maximum Security (1987) — MacAlpine contributed to several notable projects during the shred‑guitar era. He performed keyboards on the debut albums of fellow guitarists Vinnie Moore (Mind’s Eye, 1986) and Joey Tafolla (Out of the Sun, 1987). Shortly after his own debut, he played guitar in the heavy metal supergroup M.A.R.S. (MacAlpine/Aldridge/Rock/Sarzo), resulting in the 1986 album Project: Driver. Under the band name MacAlpine, he released Eyes of the World in 1990, a more commercially oriented attempt to emulate contemporary hard rock acts. The project was short‑lived, and his next album, Freedom to Fly (1992), marked a return to instrumental work. Throughout the 1990s, he released a steady series of instrumental albums, most of them through the Shrapnel Records label.
See for more.
Concrete Gardens
Tears of Sahara
Hundreds of Thousands
Tony MacAlpine Guitar Solo
Edge Of Insanity
A Change Of Season – Acid Rain
Birds Of Prey
Apocalypse 1470 B.C.
Poison Cookies
Square Circles
This page contains text from Wikipedia. The content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution‑ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY‑SA 4.0). See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
This text is based on the original Wikipedia article.