Tony Pasko

For more that 15 years Tony has been a music industry professional and session guitarist. His vast playing background and knowledge of musical products has given him the opportunity to work and perform with some of the greatest musicians in the world. He has had the opportunity to design market and sell products for the music industry's top leading companies. His insight and perspective comes from working with manufacturers, artists, road crews and music instrument dealers. He has traveled the world performing clinics and assisting major tours, it's this real world experience and knowledge that he brings to any situation.

While at Peavey Electronics he was involved in nearly every aspect of the business including product design, in store-clinics, product training, market research, manufacturing and artist relations. He worked directly with the gear needs of Lynard Skynard, NickelBack, Duran Duran, Black Stone Cherry, Joe Satriani, Warrant and Poison to name a few.

At U.S. Music Corp., producers of brands such as Washburn Guitars, Randall Amplifiers, Eden Amplifiers and Parker Guitars, he traveled the world conducting clinics & in-store product training seminars and product design.

As a musician he has shared the stage with the P-Funk All-Stars, Vince Neil, Jack Bruce, Gary Hoey, David Ellefson (Megadeth), Black Stone Cherry, Johnny Hiland and many others. He released his own instrumental Christmas CD in 2008 for charity and is currently working on a new CD project.

Tony writes for the RockHouse Method, the #1 leading guitar lesson DVD series where he hosts their gear page known as the "Gear411": There will be a series of DVDs released later this year based on the Gear411, hosted by Tony. For more information go to: www.rockhousemethod.com There are many product reviews and articles in past issues of Premier Guitar magazine, and www.premierguitar.com/ Or visit his website/ www.paskoconsulting.com