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Bobby Gustafson is an American Guitarist, best known as a pioneer is the Heavy Metal Genre of Thrash metal with the New York based band 'Overkill'.
Bobby Gustafson was a key member in the quartlet of overkill, having been a composer from Overkill's debut album 1985's 'Feel the Fire' finishing by solely composing Overkill's most sold album, the 1989 record 'The Years of Decay'.
Gustafson's split from Overkill has been seen through two viewpoints - that he was sacked by Blitz and D.D Verni (Overkill version) or that he left following Verni trying to remove him from the band though management (Gustafson version). Whatever version is true, it is obvious that Gustafson helped to create the iconic Overkill sound, with brilliant guitar work. Later Overkill albums have featured two guitarists (a Rhythm player and a lead guitarist), while Overkill albums which Gustafson was present on had all guitar work solely done by him, really showing the ability of the man.
Such is the ability of Gustafson that following the 1987 Overkill album 'Taking Over' he was approached by Megadeth co-founder and band-leader Dave Mustaine to join Megadeth, following trouble with their Killing is My Business... and Peace Sells line up. However, Gustafson rejected the proposal, feeling that Overkill was turning big. Gustafson also later tried to form a side-project with Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo, however, it was to no avail.
Gustafson Interview.[1] http://www.metal-rules.com/where/BobbyGustafson.htm
Note for the admin
This post got classed as 'CSD A7' i.e. insignificant. This seems strange to me, classing a guitarist who helped create a known band which is still in existence and is still recieving good reviews. I thought wikipedia was supposed to be about sharing information, not sharing the information, then having your work deleted, when the page is of use.
Unless links can be provided, I don't think I would call Bobby a pioneer of the thrash metal genre. Also the article seems to be a bit bragging -- brilliant guitar work is a pretty subjective way to put his guitar style. And the point of mentioning that future incarnations of Overkill featured two guitarists seems to only be there to make Bobby seem impressive, especially as noted by the language 'really showing the ability of the man.' Having one or two guitarists in a band does not make any player better or worse.
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