Kelly Gray

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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 Yanni "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 Yanni 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).

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