1. Doug Aldrich was born on February 19,1963 and is an American hard rock guitarist.
17 Facts About Doug Aldrich
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Doug Aldrich founded the band Burning Rain with Keith St John in 1998 and has played with Whitesnake, Dio, Lion, Hurricane, House of Lords, Bad Moon Rising and Revolution Saints.
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Doug Aldrich began playing guitar at age 11, inspired by his older sister's Jeff Beck albums.
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Doug Aldrich's first guitar was a cheap Les Paul-copy purchased from a Sears catalog.
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Fresh out of high school, Doug Aldrich met the girlfriend of Kiss drummer Eric Carr, who told him that he was the type of guitarist Kiss was looking for to replace Ace Frehley.
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Doug Aldrich subsequently auditioned for Kiss in 1982 but the spot ultimately went to Vinnie Vincent.
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Doug Aldrich said that although the members of Kiss treated him very well during the audition process, Gene Simmons told him to "lose this number" when Doug Aldrich attempted to talk with him again months later.
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When Doug Aldrich was in Lion recording their first album at Scotti Brother's Recording Studio he was invited to join the Slaughter.
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Doug Aldrich was asked to join Slaughter but turned down the invite since the Lion project was just taking off.
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Doug Aldrich has played guitar for Slaughter during those early days.
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Doug Aldrich was briefly a member of Hurricane, replacing founding guitarist Robert Sarzo in 1989.
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Doug Aldrich participated in the writing and recording of Slave to the Thrill before leaving the band.
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In early 2014, Doug Aldrich joined the critically acclaimed production show Raiding the Rock Vault at the Tropicana Las Vegas, where he performed six shows a week with other rock 'n' roll greats including Robin McAuley, John Payne, Howard Leese, Paul Shortino and Andrew Freeman, among others.
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In late January 2016, it was announced that Doug Aldrich was replacing Richard Fortus as guitarist in The Dead Daisies, as Fortus would be participating in the Guns N' Roses reunion.
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In November 2016, Doug Aldrich performed with The Dead Daisies on the Kiss Kruise VI event.
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Doug Aldrich used their Dinky and Soloist Superstrats as well as his own signature model which has bridge and neck position humbucking pickups were "Full-shred" pickups which Seymour Duncan specially wired.
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In 2016, Doug Aldrich became an official endorsee of ESP Guitars.