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Bill Pierce is a distinctive and nimble-fingered axe wielder currently based in Hermon, Maine (U.S.A.) who represents his playing style as jazzed-out rock with influences from all styles of music, as a music fan can now experience on his most recent recording, "Ripped".  His workhorse guitars consist of a Fender and an ESP. Pierce has been playing guitar since 1982, and putting it simply, divulges his career objective, "Playing nothing but original music for a living."
When requested to let slip his favorite or most used effect for the guitar, Pierce resolutely answered, "Digitech 2101, 2120, 2112," and then outlined his musicial goals, "I want to create the ultimate music: Great tunes with artistic integrity and burning chops." He maintains a desire to, at some point, study with Allan Holdsworth, and is at the moment listening to Parliment, Funkadelic, Jeff Beck, Scott Henderson and Allan Holdsworth. His principal gratification? "Playing my own music and having the audience like it," he explains without hesitation.
Pierce wraps up by noting long-term and forthcoming endeavors enthusiastically, by saying, "Getting my band ready to play my stuff, writting tunes and songs, and teaching. I will be releasing a new CD very soon."
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Vol. 17, No. 2: Feb.-Mar. 2012
