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Greigg Fraser is an energetic and distinctive musician/guitarist currently based in London, Ontario (Canada) who denotes his playing style as melodic fusion/rock guitar, as one might want to hear on his most recent recording, "Tech Noir".  His workhorse guitars include a Paul Reed Smith Custom 24 and a Steinberger GL4T-A. Fraser has been playing guitar since 1975, and unreservedly relates his career objective, "To continue writing and recording my music and making enough to continue doing just that, with a new album/CD every year."
When asked to disclose his definitive or preferred effect for the guitar, Fraser purposefully responded with, "Compression," and outlined his musicial goals, "I want people to come away from listening to my music with a melody in their head -- so many guitar CDs are just forums for the guitarist to just noodle away with little thought to the song itself. Don't get me wrong, I love soloing just as much as the next guy, but if you have a strong sense of melody in your music, more people can enjoy it, not just musicians!" He keeps open the possibility to, at some point, study acoustic fingerstyle ("I see much more of it in my future"), and is at the moment listening to violinists Stephane Grappelli, Nigel Kennedy and Itzhak Perlman (and Jeff Beck's new disc, of course!). His most important gratification? "Composing, without question. Creating a piece of your own music has got to be the greatest high there is," he muses confidently.
Fraser winds up by mentioning long-term and forthcoming endeavors insightfully, by saying, "Even though I am not to the point in my career at this time where I make my living with my music alone, I still am able to do so with teaching guitar/bass, the odd gig and guitar repair. I practice every day, write new material and will either release another mainly "electric" style CD, or perhaps an all acoustic one. I have lots of material for both!"
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Vol. 17, No. 2: Feb.-Mar. 2012
