Guitar For The Practicing Musician
- May 1994
Resume Column by John Stix

PERSONAL STATEMENT: I started playing guitar when I was 12. After a year I joined my first metal band. During junior high and high school I performed throughout Indiana with rock and metal bands as well as with my school jazz band. At 16 I started teaching at two music stores and demoing musical gear. After high school I performed and recorded with several metal, Top 40, funk, and classic rock bands. Since moving to L.A. at age 20 I have been written up in Guitar Player, Kerrang!, BAM, Rock City News, Hijinx and G-Force magazines. I am endorsed by ESP guitars and Seymour Duncan pickups, for whom I have performed at the last three Anaheim NAMM shows. My instrumentals, including "Deadline" (which is available on the Shrapnel compilation disc Ominous Guitarists from the Unknown], have received airplay throughout the U.S. and Europe. Currently I am recording with an original hard rock band, doing sessions, giving lessons, gigging with a cover band and working on my instrumentals.

COMMENT: Joy shows that mega-chops, the imagination to do something with them, and a sense of dynamics all can exist simultaneously and harmoniously. Keep an ear out for Joy Basu

- By John Stix

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