{"id":39130,"date":"2020-08-01T09:52:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T07:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solar-guitars.com\/?post_type=artists&#038;p=39130"},"modified":"2024-01-26T10:14:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T09:14:38","slug":"bill-staley-farewell-to-fear-artizan-out-of-darkness","status":"publish","type":"artists","link":"https:\/\/www.solar-guitars.com\/artists\/bill-staley-farewell-to-fear-artizan-out-of-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Staley  &#8211;  FAREWELL TO FEAR \/ ARTIZAN \/ OUT OF DARKNESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally from Western Pennsylvania, Bill\u2019s playing career has taken him across the United States and even as far as Japan and Europe.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Bill was a student at the Musician\u2019s Institute (Los Angeles, CA) and has spent many years teaching guitar.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He was hired to be in the backing band of legendary 1950\u2019s band The Drifters and the group did a three month tour of Japan.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Bill was winner of the 1995 Pittsburgh Guitar Wars as well as the 2003 Pittsburgh Guitarmageddon (Guitar Center).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In 1998 Bill won \u201cBest Metal Guitarist\u201d for Guitar Player Magazine\u2019s 30<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary Competition.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015 Bill joined Pure Steel Records recording artist Artizan and released two successful albums.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The band also played the Keep It True Festival in Germany.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In 2021 Bill has joined National Artists Farewell To Fear and Out of Darkness, with former Iced Earth drummer, Brent Smedley.<\/p>\n<p>Farewell To Fear was scheduled to play the cancelled Rebel Rock Festival in Orlando, opening for Five Finger Deathpunch and Killswitch Engage.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This past Saturday they played Orlando\u2019s Earthday Birthday Festival, opening up for Shinedown, Candlebox and Fozzy.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>More large festivals are being booked for 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Bill will be heading out in late November across the Eastern US with Out of Darkness.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The band will be touring the full country in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Bill also plays in a local cover band in Northeast Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Bill\u2019s website is www.BillStaleyGuitarist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":39131,"template":"","class_list":["post-39130","artists","type-artists","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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