Richie Kotzen Biography

Richie Kotzen was known as a Rock Guitarist, He was famous as Poison Guitarist and replace paul gilbert as the Guitarist of MR.BIG. Richie mainly use fender telecaster and stratocaster on his performance. I'm sure that richie kotzen fans would familiar with richie warm guitar tone. He was a fast guitar player who are good on Arpeggio and Sweeping technique. You can hear his fast arpeggio and sweeping while he playing burn from Deep Purple together with MR.BIG.

Kotzen has a unique style, which he has described as a mix of rock, blues, jazz, fusion, and soul music. Of his albums, he claims he is most proud of Vertú. Kotzen utilizes a heavy amount of legato and sweeping in his playing

Kotzen prefers not to use many pedals (effects in general) when playing live. However, when not playing with the Cornford, he's been using over the years several versions of Sobbat Drivebraker and Glowvibe pedals on top of marshall amps. He also uses reverb and delay effects of his signature series Zoom G2R effects processor, which is connected in the effects loop of the amplifier.

Born February 3, 1970 (age 41)
Reading, Pennsylvania
United States
Genres Hard rock, Jazz fusion, Soul, Blues
Occupations Musician, Songwriter
Instruments Guitar, piano, bass, drums
Years active 1988–present
Labels DGC Records
Associated acts