Joey Tafolla is an American guitarist. He was a member of Jag Panzer, but started a solo career on Mike Varney's Shrapnel Records label in the 1980s, and emerged alongside other "shred" players such as Marty Friedman, Jason Becker, Paul Gilbert, Richie Kotzen, Tony MacAlpine and Vinnie Moore among others. He became part of the neoclassical stream with his first studio album Out Of The Sun, released in 1987, featuring Tony MacAlpine on keyboards and Paul Gilbert on guitars. Joey immediately demonstrated to be technically prepared and at the same time showed a lot of personality. Soon he got some collaboration to rock projects and guitar compilations on the shredding scene. After four years from his first release, in 1991 he totally changed genre with his new studio album Infra-Blue, an almost rock-fusion work by a new and completely different Joey, rich of shuffle ideas on his riffs and characterized by great shred licks mainly du