Jun 30, 2017 · My fav of Chris's guitars are his Black Kramer Voyager, his White Pacer Special (thinking it was an '82-'83?), and lastly his White ESP M-ll with the slanted neck single coil, and also his first Graffiti ESP Mll.

May 28, 2008 · Chris' tone was noticeably warmer than Wilton's, even in the band's early recordings. His sound has less upper midrange, more low end, and is much smoother. He got his sound using Kramer super strats through Marshall JCM800 100 watt heads, and Marshall 4x12 bottoms with Celestion Vintage 30s.

In 2018, DeGarmo played acoustic guitar on the track "Drone" from Alice in Chains' sixth album, Rainier Fog. While the band was recording at Studio X in the summer of 2017, Jerry Cantrell was struggling with the acoustic part that he described as a "spider-chord, weird plucking thing".

Jul 3, 2013 · Chris DeGarmo didn’t just leave Queensryche, he left the whole music business back in 1997. Just like another favourite of mine, Vito Bratta, they spent their whole lives making it only to walk away from it all.

Mar 25, 2023 · Despite being only 18 minutes long and containing just 4 songs, the talent and ambitiousness of the young band becomes immediately apparent with the opening song Queen Of The Reich, which showcases the blazing fast riffs and graceful twin guitar harmonies of Chris DeGarmo and Michael Wilton, the inventive drumming of Scott Rockenfield and the ...

May 10, 2017 · I believe I remember seeing Degarmo's rack on that tour and it was the same he described above, Soldano preamp/Carvin poweramp setup. It was one of the first racks I heard live that would spillover effects when changing patches.

Jun 25, 2012 · Around the time of Operation: Mindcrime both DeGarmo and Wilton switched to ESP guitars. Chris also obtained an ESP custom doubleneck (shown above) which he used for Silent Lucidity. Effects from this period were rack mounted Roland …

Jan 17, 2024 · Chris is mostly known as the guitarist of Queensrÿche, the band he co-founded, and (co-)wrote most of the material for, during their most commercially successful period. He quit Queensrÿche to become a commercial airline pilot.

According to a 1985 article from Circus magazine, as shared on the official Queensrÿche Facebook page, Chris DeGarmo uses Dean Markley 10-46 gauge strings on his Kramer Pacer Imperial guitar, equipped with a Floyd Rose tremolo and Seymour Duncan pickups, changing them after every other show.

Dec 12, 2024 · Queensrÿche guitarist Michael Wilton reflected on how the exit of founding member Chris DeGarmo affected the band. Speaking to My Global Mind, Wilton was asked if DeGarmo's exit in 1997...