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﻿<h1﻿>﻿Rick Pierpont﻿</h1>﻿
﻿<font﻿ ﻿color="BLUE"﻿>﻿Band Position:﻿</font>﻿ Lead/Rhythm Guitars and Backing Vocals﻿<br﻿>﻿
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﻿<font﻿ ﻿color="BLUE"﻿>﻿Influences/Favorites:﻿</font>﻿ Dream Theater, Symphony X, Fates Warning, Rush, 
Queensrÿche, Enchant, Pain of Salvation, Zero Hour﻿<br﻿>﻿
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﻿<font﻿ ﻿color="BLUE"﻿>﻿Guitars:﻿</font>﻿ 1985 Jackson USA Randy Rhoads "V", 
2002 Music Man John Petrucci Signature Series, 1987 Charvel Model 4﻿<br﻿>﻿
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﻿<font﻿ ﻿color="BLUE"﻿>﻿Rig:﻿</font>﻿ Mesa/Boogie Mark IV Rack Head,  Mesa/Boogie 4x12 Half-Open cabinet, 
Alesis Quadraverb Plus, Behringer FCB-1010 MIDI Foot Controller, RockMan Octopus﻿<br﻿>﻿
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﻿<font﻿ ﻿color="BLUE"﻿>﻿In My Own Words:﻿</font>﻿ I've have always been immersed into music since I was a 
little kid.  Probably the person that was most influential on me getting into music was my maternal 
grandmother.  She constantly had music playing where ever she went -- I am very much the same now.  
Of course, she wasn't listening to Dream Theater.  Instead she had a steady diet of Classical, Latin, 
and Italian music (she was born in Sicily and moved to Argentina when she was 8 years old).  That music 
has also influenced me.﻿<br﻿>﻿
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I started playing guitar when I was in the third grade (1977).  I played only acoustic guitar for the 
first five years.  During this time, I started playing for church services for school (6th grade) and got 
into the folk group that played for Sunday services (7th grade).  I got into AC/DC in the 6th grade and 
my taste for rock/metal was born.  I bought my first two albums shortly after, Blizzard of Ozz and Diary 
of a Madman.  Other favorites at the time were Iron Maiden and Judas Priest.  I then started getting into 
the more obscure, metal groups like Accept (before Balls to the Wall), Mercyful Fate, Fates Warning, 
Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Yngwie, etc...  I had a taste for the long complex songs with many parts; 
usually involving virtuoso playing so eventually I found a name that described most of the groups I enjoyed 
the most -- Progressive Metal.﻿<br﻿>﻿
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I played in a few bands in high school including an 80s glam metal band!  Hey, it was hard finding other 
musicians into the music I was into.  I was supposed to audition for Mystic-Force in 1988 (which was right 
up my alley), but they decided to drop the second guitar from the line-up.  From August 1990 to April 1991, 
I played in the Mid-Atlantic regional classic rock band, Archer.  We pretty much played out every weekend 
all over Baltimore, the rest of the state and the surrounding states of Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, 
Delaware, and Washington D.C. (I know, it's not a state). We did some cool stuff, but my heart wasn't really 
into playing classic rock and I think it showed in my playing.  That caused some friction, so I left.﻿<br﻿>﻿
﻿<br﻿>﻿
A few various auditions and jamming around I answered an ad in May 1992 for a local band doing *exactly* what 
I wanted to do.  We became known as Vortex.  We got along great, played some great music, and sounded really 
good.  We played out one gig with Mystic-Force on New Years 1992 and things subsequently fell apart.  I don't 
think I'll ever completely understand why, but I have my theory.﻿<br﻿>﻿
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Meanwhile, I had gotten involved with going back to school and stayed out of the scene for many years.  By the 
time I got out of school in December 1998, I was a father to two boys.  Needless to say, being married with 
kids, a house, and working full-time didn't leave much time for playing music.  The Internet allowed me to 
stay very much in touch with the whole progressive scene, so I hadn't forgotten about music -- far from it 
really.  The calling was getting stronger and stronger.﻿<br﻿>﻿
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And here I am now in Odin's Court.﻿<br﻿>﻿
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﻿<font﻿ ﻿color="BLUE"﻿>﻿Email:﻿</font>﻿ ﻿<a﻿ ﻿href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050910030631/mailto:rick@odinscourtband.com"﻿>﻿rick@odinscourtband.com﻿</a>﻿<br﻿>﻿

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