Rich Hall~guitarist

Hi there 😊 The purpose of this original music and band is to point to and share to all ---> Jesus, Our Savior, The Savior of The World, The Author of Life and Best Friend You can and will ever have. 🙂 The band is called ----> SOLID HOPE --we are - Rich Hall on guitar and vocals, Jason Pocchiare on drums and vocals, and Terry Schmitt on bass and vocals Within these first 20 or so songs, there are four different groups of songs to show the diversity of sounds of this original band. Three to five songs that are clean guitar, full band songs with musically more of a focus on vocals and harmony. There are also heavier, crunchy guitar driven songs. Four to five songs which are stripped down to just guitar and vocals. Three songs that are guitar instrumental songs. Hope you are blessed by them and enjoy them. If you are interested in the band for an event, please feel free to contact through reverbnation or email Rich at up2overflo@protonmail.com Bio: Rich was born and raised in the Hudson Valley of New York in Poughkeepsie. Started playing guitar and singing at age 12. Began playing in bands in high school. Formed a cover band in my early 20's back in the 1990's and had plenty of gigging experience playing classic rock and 90's rock. Band disbanded in 1998 and I immediately pursued an original band, for I had a good amount of original songs coming to me. Formed the band project named Drive with a great young drummer named Ronnie Berg. We wrote and recorded songs together from 1998-2003. Out of our songs I believe the song - Dream from 2001, to be our best song which was with a lead vocalist named Ray LeGrand. Sadly, Ray moved out of state after 9-11-2001 and Ronnie passed away from long term illness in December of 2004. My wife Jenn and I moved to Central Florida in 2007. In 2010, began serving the Lord in church with lead guitar playing and onto acoustic/vocals leading a music ministry. In 2010, also brought fourth a new original Christian rock band named down2neptune, with a vocalist/lyricist named Rick Peterson. We recorded one full length CD and played a number of Christian concerts and benefits between 2011-2013 Hope you are inspired and blessed by the music and the message of the one true hope and Love, found only in JESUS 🙏👼🙌 In a video below is a song inspired completely from Revelation 5 NLT, You Are Worthy 👆👑 The Song of The Lamb Another video below is a song I wrote for my friend and great drummer Ronnie Berg who went to Heaven in December 2004. Ronnie's great friend, drummer Gregg Bissonette, plays drums on the song along with his brother Matt Bissonette on bass. My Musical Influences over the years~ 2000's - Newsboys, Chris Tomlin, Lincoln Brewster, Pat Barrett, Rita Springer, Passion Band, Fusebox, Kristian Stanfill , Brandon Heath, Paul Baloche, Gregg Bissonette, King's X, Jughead, Ty Tabor, Pound Hound, Terry Bozzio********** 1990's -VH, Steve Vai, Extreme, Tonic, Ty Tabor, Pound Hound, Big Wreck, Eric Johnson, Mr. Big, Paul Gilbert, Jars of Clay, Train, Cry of Love, Live, Lenny Kravitz, Soundgarden, Collective Soul, Stone Temple Pilots, Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd Sheryl Crow********** 1980's - Joe Satriani, Van Halen, David Lee Roth Band, Rush, U2, Journey, SRV, Yngwie Malmsteen, Motley Crue, Ratt, Y & T, Def Leppard, Dokken, Scorpions, Yes, ZZ Top, Bon Jovi, Living Colour, Gary Moore, Toto, Neil Young, Tesla, The Fixx, Terence Trent D'arby, Black Crowes, Night Ranger, 38 Special, Brian Adams********** 1970's - Boston, Bad Company, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Billy Joel, The Eagles, ELO, Foreigner, Badfinger, Grand Funk, Head East, Deep Purple, Steve Miller********** 1960's - The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Vanilla Fudge, Chambers Brothers, Cream, Mountain, Melanie, Arlo Guthrie, Sly And The Family Stone, Richie Havens, Spencer Davis Group, Joe Cocker, CSNY, Janis********** 1800's- Nicolo Paganini, Ludwig van Beethoven*** 1700's- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart***