Kelly Gray (musician)

Kelly Gray is an American record producer and musician. He started playing guitar in the late 1970s as a founding member (along with Geoff Tate on lead vocals, who would eventually front Queensrÿche) of MYTH, a progressive rock band in the suburbs of Seattle, Wash. After MYTH disbanded, Gray went into a recording engineer career, working on various albums in the capacity of recording engineer, mixer, and eventually, producer. A number of MYTH demos appeared on the deluxe edition of Queensryche's 2007 "Sign of the Times: The Best of Queensryche" release. Some of these songs contained the same song titles and partial lyrics to many classic Queensryche tracks.

In 1998, after achieving success as a producer for a variety of bands, including Candlebox and Brother Cane, Gray rejoined former MYTH bandmate Tate when he became a guitarist in the progressive metal group Queensrÿche from 1998 to 2001, having replaced co-founder Chris DeGarmo. Gray produced the group's 1999 album, Q2K. Shortly after the release of 2001's Live Evolution, he departed the group.

Gray has produced records for a number of artists, including the aforementioned Brother Cane and Candlebox, Dokken, Sven Gali, Bob Rivers, Nevermore, and Second Coming. In 2007, with Yianni "Johnny" Bacolas, Gray co-produced Darin Isaacs' Here With Me Now.

As of April 2008, Gray co-produced (with Jason Slater) and engineered Queensrÿche's newest album, titled American Soldier, and is co-producing (with Len Hotrum and Johnny Bacolas) the debut Crying Spell record, titled Through Hell to Heaven – I.

Kelly, along with Queensrÿche drummer Scott Rockenfield, is currently a member of the band Slave to the System, whose members also include Damon Johnson (Brother Cane, Whiskey Falls) and Roman Glick (Brother Cane, Jackyl).

In 2011, Gray was hired to produce Queensryche's 11th full length studio album Dedicated to Chaos. Sales for the album were the lowest ever in the band's career causing it to debut at #70 on the US Billboard 2000 chart with only 8,000 copies sold in the first week [1].

Links

• Yanni Bacolas
• Second Coming
• The Crying Spell
• Darin Isaacs