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Vinnie Moore (April 14 1964, New Castle, Delaware) is a guitarist and a member of the English hard rock band UFO. Along with Yngwie Malmsteen, Tony MacAlpine, and others, Moore is known as one of the most influential guitarists to emerge out of the shredder boom in the mid 1980s.
BiographyMoore began his professional career at age of 12 and played clubs and bars until Shrapnel executive Mike Varney discovered him through a magazine article. His connection to Varney led to an opportunity to appear in a Pepsi commercial in 1985, (only Vinnie's hands appeared in the commercial as his guitar playing is heard. Following this Moore recorded his first solo album, ''Mind's Eye, released on Shrapnel Records and featured Tony MacAlpine on keyboards. The album received several awards from guitar magazines and sold over 100,000 copies.
Vinnie Moore played lead guitar with the heavy metal band Vicious Rumors on their debut album, Soldiers of the Night. The album features Moore's solo-song, "Invader", which was in the style of Van Halen's "Eruption". The shred guitar craze of the late eighties led to more releases for Shrapnel.
Guitar equipment history Moore has endorsed numerous guitar companies over the years, his most well known being Music Man guitars. In 2007 Moore left Music Man and began endorsing Dean guitars. At the winter NAMM show in January 2008, Dean Guitars unveiled a Vinnie Moore signature model. The Dean VM-2000 features a Vinnie Moore "ShredHead" Humbucker in the bridge position
. Moore also has an endorsement contract with Engl amplification.
Solo Albums - ''Mind's Eye (1986)
- Time Odyssey (1988)
- Meltdown (1991)
- Out of Nowhere (1996)
- The Maze (1999)
- Live! (2000)
- Defying Gravity (2001)
- Vinnie Moore Collection: The Shrapnel Years (2006)
- To The Core (2009)
Videos - Advanced Lead Guitar Techniques (1987)
- Speed, Accuracy, & Articulation (1989)
- 'SHOWTIME' 2-CD and 2-DVD set from UFO's European tour (2005)
Appears On - 1985 - Vicious Rumors - Soldiers of the Night
- 1989 - Guitar's Practicing Musicians - Free
- 1991 - Alice Cooper - Hey Stoopid (with Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, and Slash)
- 1994 - Various Artists - Deep Purple Tribute: Smoke On The Water
- 1998 - Sega - "Burning Rangers" Game soundtrack for the 'Saturn' video game
- 2004 - UFO - You Are Here
- 2004 - Jordan Rudess - Rhythm of Time
- 2005 - Various Artists - Subdivisions: A Tribute to the Music of Rush
- 2005 - UFO - "Showtime" - A double-live DVD and music CD release recorded earlier on in the year
- 2006 - UFO - The Monkey Puzzle
- 2009 - UFO - The Visitor
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