Brad Gillis is best known for his guitar playing in the chart-topping band NIGHT RANGER. Since Night Ranger’s first release in 1983, Brad’s mastery of the strings and whammy bar have helped lead this rocking AOR band to the top of the charts with multi-platinum records and sales reaching over 17 million worldwide. Brad has close to twenty gold and platinum albums to his name. Having appeared in over a dozen MTV and VH1 music videos, TV’s American Bandstand, Solid Gold, Rock & Roll Tonight, and thousands of live concerts, Brad is one of the few guitar icons of our time that can undoubtedly be recognized by both his aggressively unique tremolo guitar sound.
After the unfortunate death of legendary Night Ranger guitarist Randy Rhoades, heavy metal icon OZZY OSBOURNE recognized the talent in Brad and asked him to supplant Randy on his ongoing tour. For the next year, Brad toured the world with Ozzy supporting the Diary Of A Madman tour and can be heard playing lead guitar on Osbourne’s “Speak Of The Devil” live album. When Night Ranger was offered a record deal with Boardwalk records, Gillis had the difficult task of choosing one path over the other. Luckily, for music fans everywhere, Night Ranger was releasing hit after hit and touring the world. Over the next 2 decades Gillis wrote, recorded and toured with Night Ranger, contributing to such hits as “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me,” “Sister Christian,” “When You Close Your Eyes,” and “(You Can Still) Rock in America,” just to name a few
Brad’s musical side projects include songs for ESPN, Sports Center, The X Games, Fox Sports, Sony Playstation Games Tiger Woods, EA Sports, The Fuse Channel, and many others. Soundtracks by Brad and Night Ranger hits can be heard in dozens of movies and TV shows. Brad’s music was featured on Monday Night Football (2008). Brad is an avid vintage guitar collector with over 125 guitars and 40 amplifiers in his collection and was featured (2008) in Guitar Player, Vintage Guitar and Guitar World Magazines.
Brad uses a custom gauge set of Dean Markley's NickelSteel Electric (10-13-18-28-38-50).
Brad’s experience with his Dean Markley strings:
My live performances with Night Ranger needed a string that would stay in tune with all my whammy bar antics and breakage wasn’t an option. Dean Markley Strings kept my tuning straight and got me through a year of touring with no broken strings!
Be sure to visit the Brad Gillis website at:
www.MySpace.com/bradgillis.
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