Shane Gibson (musician)

Shane Gibson ("Mr. Stork")
Background information
Birth name	Shane Paul Gibson
Born	Houma, Louisiana (Raised in Fort Walton Beach, Florida
Genres	Hard rock, thrash metal, industrial metal, progressive, acoustic, experimental
Occupations	Musician
Instruments	Guitar, bass
Labels	Indie
Associated acts	Korn, Jonathan Davis and the SFA, L. Shankar, stOrk, Schwarzenator
Website	Shane Gibson Official Website

Shane Gibson is best known for being the backing guitarist for the American metal group Korn, after the departure of Brian "Head" Welch in February 2005. He also plays the lead guitar for the solo tour of Jonathan Davis from Korn. Shane spent most in his teenage years in Florida and graduated in 2002 from the Berklee College of Music where he attended on a scholarship basis. Moving then to Los Angeles, California, where he first worked as a roadie for Kiss and later on TV spots and music for movies, he was introduced to Jonathan Davis by Richard Gibbs, and then hired to play some dates with Korn.

Following the absence of Munky (aka James Shaffer) in January 2008, Gibson became the lead guitar player for Korn.

Jonathan Davis states that Shane "reminds him of Head" in that "he's kind of introverted and whenever he's in the room things just seem to fall around him."

However, with Munky's return to Korn on February 23, 2008, Gibson was back to playing the rhythm guitar parts only.^{[citation needed]}

His new main band, stOrk, with Thomas Lang and Eloy Palacios, is an experimental rock band that combines many different elements, including thrash metal and progressive rock. Their self titled album "stOrk" was released in January 2011. In addition there have been rumors that Shane is working with avant garde metal vocalist Godgray and his band project Elastttic.^{[citation needed]}

Shane is known around the shred community for his solo work, which features frequent use of odd times signatures, heavy riffing, poly-rhythms, innovative tapping sequences and his impressive sweep picking technique.

Shane has also formed a new heavy metal band called Schwarzenator featuring stOrk drummer Thomas Lang. Their first album was released February 23, 2010 self titled as "Schwarzenator".

Shane played guitars on Godhead singer Jason C. Miller's solo album Last to Go Home. In 2010 he recorded single "Free" with band Echoes the Fall.

Equipment

• Carvin Guitars DC747 7 String Shane Gibson Model
• Carvin Guitars C850 Cobalt Acoustc Guitar
• Carvin Guitars AG100D Acoustic Amplifier
• Nil Guitars Emotion Capture 7 String Shane Gibson Custom Model
• Fuchs Audio Technology Viper Amplifiers
• Curt Mangan Strings

Discography

• 2005: As a solo artist - Mr. Stork
• 2007: Jonathan Davis and the SFA - Alone I Play
• 2009: L. Shankar - Face to Face
• 2009: Jason C. Miller - Last to Go Home
• 2010: SchwarZenatoR - SchwarZenatoR
• 2010: stOrk - stOrk
• 2010: New World Man - A Tribute to Rush
• 2010: Echoes the Fall - "Free"
• 2011: Jonathan Davis and the SFA - Debut solo album