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Carl Roa is a consummate, self-motivated guitarist from Long Beach, New York (U.S.A.) who describes his style as instrumental rock, as documented on his latest release, "Heavy Meddle".  His guitar of choice is a Fender Stratocaster (modified). Roa has played guitar since 1980, and openly affirms his career goal, "To compose, record, and perform my own music."
When prompted to reveal his preferred effect for the guitar, Roa responded with, "Delay," and offered his musicial goals, "With my compositions I try to tell a story, each tune should have a unique identity. With instrumental writing the listener is free to conjure up their own meaning to the music, so the song can mean something different to each listener." He would love to someday study engineering and production ("I'd like to get into hard disc recording"), and is currently listening to great music from Guitar Nine. His greatest satisfaction? "Playing a gig and having people enjoy the music. It's a great feeling to be able to share the music with people and stir up an emotional response," he states unambiguously.
 Roa notes ongoing and upcoming projects thusly, "I'm in the process of writing music for the next record. We hope to start recording early in the new year."
Guitar Nine Records visitors have compared the playing style and/or musical approach of Carl Roa to guitarists such as Steve Morse, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, John Petrucci, Alex Lifeson, Eric Johnson and others.
Roa's discography (available here at Guitar Nine Records) includes one solo album ("Eternity") and participation on a number of other recordings (Matt Cafissi "Heat Of Emotion", Matt Cafissi "All The Little Things", Music Of Hendrix "The Spirit Lives On Vol. 1", Michael Knight "Mechanica Diablo", Magic Elf "Heavy Meddle", Joe Nardulli "Joe Nardulli", Rewired "A Tribute To Jeff Beck").
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