Tony Perry | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | Tony Perry |
Also known as | Turtle |
Born | Tijuana, Mexico | February 25, 1986
Origin | San Diego, California, U.S. |
Genres | |
Occupation(s) | Musician |
Instrument | Guitar |
Years active | 2006–present |
Member of | Pierce the Veil |
Formerly of | Trigger My Nightmare |
Website | piercetheveil |
Spouse | Erin Perry (m. 2021) |
Tony Perry is an American musician, best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Pierce the Veil. He is also a co-owner of Living The Dream Foundation alongside bandmates Vic Fuentes and Jaime Preciado.
Perry was born in Tijuana, Mexico, but moved across the US border to San Diego, California with his family at a young age. He joined Pierce the Veil in 2007 at age 21.
For a brief period prior to joining Pierce The Veil, Perry was in a band known as Trigger My Nightmare alongside bassist Jaime Preciado, who also left alongside Perry to join Pierce the Veil in 2007.
Perry joined Pierce the Veil in 2007 for the release of the band's first full-length album A Flair for the Dramatic . In the following years, he released four albums with the band, Selfish Machines , Collide with the Sky , Misadventures , and The Jaws of Life .
He has toured in North America, South America, Australia, Asia and Europe several times. Perry has performed at multiple major music festivals such as Rock am Ring and Rock im Park, Reading and Leeds, Warped Tour, Soundwave Festival and Slam Dunk Festival. Pierce the Veil has shared the stage with acts such as Bring Me the Horizon, Black Veil Brides, All Time Low, Sleeping with Sirens, Tonight Alive, A Day to Remember and Blink-182 [1]
Perry has cited Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and Slash as his main influences. Perry's style takes on a mix of 2000s pop punk, metalcore and hardcore, along with Eddie Van Halen-esque styles seen in songs such as The Boy Who Could Fly. Perry's style also distinctly interworks flamenco guitar from his native Mexico, giving Pierce The Veil its signature "Mexicore" sound. [2]
When Perry initially joined Pierce the Veil, he heavily used a Gibson SG, which can be seen in the music videos for 'Chemical Kids and Mechanical Brides' and 'Yeah Boy and Doll Face', both off of A Flair for the Dramatic (2007). Perry later became an endorsee of ESP Guitars around the release of Collide with the Sky (2012) after heavily using a silverburst ESP EC1000 on the Selfish Machines tour, and later got his own signature model, the ESP Viper Slimer [3] . Perry began using Fender guitars heavily with the release of Misadventures (2016), in particular a modified American Professional Fender Jazzmaster with a Seymour Duncan pickup and hardtail bridge conversion. [4]
Since Pierce The Veil's return following the departure of founding drummer Mike Fuentes, Perry has very heavily used Fender Stratocaster guitars, including a collection of neon-painted Jim Root Stratocasters, which have been heavily used on music videos for The Jaws of Life (2023) and also during live sessions with Triple J in Sydney, Australia in July 2023. [5]
As of the launch of their run on Blink-182's One More Time... North American tour, Perry is running a collection of Jim Root Stratocasters for different tunings, continuing the use of the pale green (Drop C#), neon orange (D# standard), Black and Pink Cheetah pattern (Drop D/E Standard) and His custom 'Funeral' (Drop B) Stratocaster guitars from the Creative Control and The Jaws of Life tours.
Perry used Marshall Amplification amplifiers prior to the band's hiatus, often using vintage Marshall Plexi heads fitted with the 'Dookie' mod, popularised by Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong. Following Pierce the Veil's return, Perry has used Mesa/Boogie amplifiers, including the iconic Dual Rectifier, which was popular among Nu metal, Grunge and Pop punk guitarists.
Perry uses Ernie Ball slinky strings, as Pierce the Veil are endorsed by Ernie Ball, largely due to bassist Jaime Preciado using Music Man StingRay basses, and Ernie Ball's endorsement of Vans Warped Tour, where Pierce the Veil gained a majority of their initial traction.
Early in his career, Perry heavily used EMG pickups in his guitars, but has since switched towards Seymour Duncan JB pickups.
The Fender Starcaster is a series of semi-hollowbody electric guitars made by the Fender company. The Starcaster was part of Fender's attempt to enter the semi-hollowbody market, which was dominated by Gibson's ES-335 and similar designs.
Superstrat is a name for an electric guitar design that resembles a Fender Stratocaster but with differences that clearly distinguish it from a standard Stratocaster, usually to cater to a different playing style. Differences typically include more pointed, aggressive-looking body and neck shapes with increased cutaways to facilitate access to the higher frets, an increased number of frets on the fingerboard, a contoured heel at the neck joint facilitating easier higher fret access, the usage of humbucking pickups, and locking vibrato systems, most commonly the Floyd Rose.
Seymour Duncan is an American company best known for manufacturing guitar and bass pickups. They also manufacture effects pedals which are designed and assembled in United States. Guitarist and luthier Seymour W. Duncan and Cathy Carter Duncan founded the company in 1976, in Santa Barbara, California.
Music Man StingRay is an electric bass by Music Man, introduced in 1976.
Pierce the Veil is an American rock band formed in San Diego, California, in 2006. Founded by brothers Vic and Mike Fuentes after the disbanding of Before Today, which formed out of the San Diego punk scene, Jaime Preciado and Tony Perry joined the group in 2007, on bass and lead guitar respectively.
The Gibson ES-333 is a semi hollow body electric guitar made by Gibson Guitar Corporation.
Victor Vincent Fuentes is an American musician. He is the co-founder, lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the post-hardcore band Pierce the Veil, which he formed with his brother Mike Fuentes in 2006.
Michael Christopher "Mike" Fuentes is an American musician, best known as the co-founder and former drummer for the post-hardcore band Pierce the Veil, which he co-founded alongside his older brother Vic Fuentes in 2006.
Selfish Machines is the second album by American rock band Pierce the Veil, released by Equal Vision Records on June 22, 2010. Produced by Vic Fuentes and Mike Green, it was recorded in late 2009 and early 2010. Fuentes wrote most of the songs, and co-wrote three songs with former A Day to Remember guitarist Tom Denney.
Collide with the Sky is the third studio album by American post-hardcore band Pierce the Veil, released on July 17, 2012, by Fearless Records. The album spawned the hit songs "King for a Day", "A Match into Water", "Bulls in the Bronx" and "Hell Above", all of which remain staples of the group's discography.
The Fender Jim Root Telecaster is a signature model of the Fender Telecaster electric guitar customized for American musician Jim Root. In January 2010, Jim Root's Signature Fender Telecaster was unveiled on the Fender website, similar to the one he has been seen using on stage. As of March 2009, the difference being the headstock. The prototype originally made for Jim came with the 1970s style Stratocaster headstock, which Root had shaved down to a standard Telecaster shape. This made the 1970s Fender Telecaster logo go to the very edge of the headstock. The guitar build includes a mahogany body and EMG 81/60 Humbucker Pickups.
King for a Day is a song by American rock band Pierce the Veil, released on June 5, 2012, by Fearless Records. It features guest vocals by Kellin Quinn of Sleeping with Sirens. It was the first single released from their third album Collide with the Sky (2012).
"The Divine Zero" is a song by American rock band Pierce the Veil. It was released as the lead single off of their fourth studio album, Misadventures, on June 18, 2015, via digital download. The song was written by vocalist Vic Fuentes and produced by Dan Korneff. "The Divine Zero" was nominated for Song Of The Year at the 2016 Alternative Press Music Awards.
Misadventures is the fourth studio album by American rock band Pierce the Veil released by Fearless Records on May 13, 2016. Initially expected to be released during the summer of 2015, the album was postponed several times before its subsequent release. The album serves as a follow-up to the group's third studio album, Collide with the Sky (2012). It was produced by Dan Korneff and was recorded throughout 2014 and 2015 on Long Island, New York.
"Circles" is a song by American rock band Pierce the Veil. It was released as the third streaming single from the group's fourth full-length studio album, Misadventures, on April 27, 2016. It was co-written by frontman Vic Fuentes and Curtis Peoples and was produced by Dan Korneff.
"Pass the Nirvana" is a single by American rock band Pierce the Veil. Released on September 1, 2022, it was the first single by the band without drummer Mike Fuentes, and the first from their fifth studio album, The Jaws of Life.
The Jaws of Life is the fifth studio album by American rock band Pierce the Veil, released on February 10, 2023. This is the band's first album not to feature drummer Mike Fuentes, with Brad Hargreaves of Third Eye Blind filling in. The band parted ways with Fuentes in 2017, following allegations of sexual misconduct. It is their first album to have a title track. The first single, "Pass the Nirvana", was released on September 1, 2022, marking the first piece of new material from the band since their 2016 album Misadventures. The album was announced November 11, 2022, along with the release of a second single, "Emergency Contact". The third single, "Even When I'm Not with You", was released January 12, 2023. The album received mostly positive reviews from critics.
"Emergency Contact" is a single by American rock band Pierce the Veil. It was released on November 11, 2022 and is the second single from their fifth studio album, The Jaws of Life. The track peaked at number one on US alternative radio chart in August 2023.