KRIS BARRAS

Best known as the frontman and guitarist of the hard rocking and riffing Kris Barras Band, Barras loves prog metal supergroup Planet X.

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“It was their guitarist, Tony MacAlpine, who first drew me in, although Brett Garsed, who was the guitarist on their last album, Quantum, is a player that I’ve loved as well. From about the age of 15 and into my early 20s, I had this thing where I got heavily into guitar players. I grew up listening to the standard classic rock, bluesy stuff like Deep Purple, Gary Moore and that kind of thing because that’s what was brought down to me from my dad and that’s what I started off playing. Once I got into my teens, I started to discover my own stuff like Steve Vai and Joe Satriani. My introduction to Planet X was through Tony MacAlpine and the Universe album, which was the first one he…

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