DC - Lead Vocals, Harmonica Rick Ray - Guitars, Guitar Synth,
Keyboards, Percussion and Vocals Wally Spisak - Bass, Vocals Rick Schultz - Sax, Clarinet, Oboe Paul Geltch - Drums
Rick Ray has 32 CD's released all available from
Neurosis
Records.
They also recorded a track, "Poppy" for the Frank Marino
tribute album, "Second Hand Smoke" on
Wild
Mess Records. They've opened
for Robin Trower, Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush, Pat Travers
Band, Blue Oyster Cult, Peter Frampton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Allan
Holdsworth, Kansas, Lynch Mob, The Michael Schenker Group, The
Steve Morse Band, The Dregs, Gary Hoey and many more.
This line up of the Rick Ray Band came together at the very end of 2008 with
the last piece of the puzzle completing the band being Dennis Corrigan, and
they've been on fire ever since. The band loves writing and recording and
are very prolific but where the nuclear reaction really happens is in the
live environment...on stage.
Rick started playing live in 1973 with his band Neurotic which lasted till
1985, then The Rick Ray Band (version 1) took off in '85 and went till '89.
In 1990 Rick formed the band Riot Act which lasted till 2000. From 2000 The
Rick Ray Band (version 2) has been recording and performing in concert.
Some
quotes from reviews of the Rick Ray Band
"Guitarist Rick Ray and his band are masters of rock
who work with all its elements" - Mark Kirby MusicDish Network
"All songs
have a certain intensity to them, and even in the slower passages you get the impression the
band is impatient to get back to the driving, virtuoso
performances of the hard stuff" - Duncan Glenday
Progressive World
"Rick Ray is a guitarist (perhaps
one of Ohio's best) who burststhe shred-o-meter mercury with his
heavy brand of jamming,
progressive rock" - Jim Lascko Strange Trips
"absolute best guitarist" of 2002
(it also has the distinction of being one of the (few) albums that
stays in my CAR player)! - Rotcod ZZaj Impovijazzation Nation
and the guitar....well, the
guitar.....is out-of-this-world, silky,
smooth, gloriously fluid, fast, rocky - delicious! – Alex Torres
Sea Of Tranquility
Rick Ray and company remain one of America’s hidden
treasures – Craig Hartranft DangerDog Reviews
Old lightnin’ fingers is in top form once again – Phil Jackson –
Acid Dragon
