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Chris Traynor
Chris Traynor (born June 22, 1973) is an American musician, best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Bush, since 2001. He was previously active in the post-hardcore group Orange 9mm, and he had an on-and-off stint with Helmet while working with Gavin Rossdale in Bush, Institute, as well as on Rossdale's solo album. He has also played with his partner Sibyl Buck in the band High Desert Fires.
Traynor has performed live with the British rock band Blur and done studio work with Katy Perry, Peter Green, Blue Man Group, and Rival Schools.
Traynor grew up in Queens, New York. His parents enrolled him in the first Suzuki method music program in New York City, where he studied the violin.
Traynor has studied guitar with Mark Lonergan from Band of Susans, Richard Lloyd, and bluegrass musician Michael Daves. He has also taken Robert Fripp's Guitar Craft.
Traynor played guitar in the New York-based post-hardcore band Fountainhead in 1993–1994, and they released one album in 1994, titled Drain.[citation needed]
In 1994, he cofounded the post-hardcore band Orange 9mm with Chaka Malik. Traynor recorded three albums with them, namely the 1994 EP Orange 9mm, Driver Not Included (1996), and Tragic (1999), on the last of which he also played bass. "All the songs that I wrote for Orange 9mm, I wrote on bass. I wrote the bass lines off the first record, too. I bought a 70s stripped down jazz bass and I would sit in the corner and smoke cigarettes. When Davide [Gentile] left, I just felt like, well, I'll record the bass and it'll be closer to what the original intention was and we'll find a bass player later." Before touring for Tragic began, Traynor left to join Helmet.
Traynor originally joined Helmet as a touring guitarist in support of their fourth studio album, Aftertaste (1997). "Going to Helmet was an amazing move for me. I just played with the band and we did a week of rehearsals and he [Page Hamilton] showed up for the last one. Then we flew to Austria to play a huge festival with Tricky in Ebensee. I knew those songs and I felt like they were in my blood and Page was happy to not have to pay attention so much to what I was doing. He felt comfortable with me." He worked on-and-off with the band for ten years throughout their breakup and reunion, before departing in 2006. He later returned in 2010 to help record the album Seeing Eye Dog. "I think that record was a weird time certainly for Page and I. It's the only record that we've actually talked about rerecording. In my opinion and maybe Page would be mad at me for saying this but I think that record was rushed and some of those songs are the best songs that he's written. I went in and I did my tracks and I left so it wasn't as enjoyable as I thought it would be."
While on tour with Helmet, Traynor was noticed by producer Dave Sardy and recommended as a potential new guitarist in 2002 for the British rock band Bush. "He (Sardy) said, 'What are you doing right now?' and I said, 'Nothing'. And he said, 'There's a band that's looking for a guitar player. I'm gonna have them give you a call'. I knew he was working with Slayer so I thought it was Slayer." Bush's original guitarist, Nigel Pulsford, had recently retired to spend more time with his family, and Traynor joined in the middle of the Golden State Tour. "I have to be honest in saying that I wasn't entirely familiar with their catalog. I had known some of their songs and they said, 'Come down and meet us and if we get a vibe from you we'll fly you to Philadelphia'." The tour wrapped in July, and Bush went on pause for a number of years.[citation needed]
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Chris Traynor
Chris Traynor (born June 22, 1973) is an American musician, best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Bush, since 2001. He was previously active in the post-hardcore group Orange 9mm, and he had an on-and-off stint with Helmet while working with Gavin Rossdale in Bush, Institute, as well as on Rossdale's solo album. He has also played with his partner Sibyl Buck in the band High Desert Fires.
Traynor has performed live with the British rock band Blur and done studio work with Katy Perry, Peter Green, Blue Man Group, and Rival Schools.
Traynor grew up in Queens, New York. His parents enrolled him in the first Suzuki method music program in New York City, where he studied the violin.
Traynor has studied guitar with Mark Lonergan from Band of Susans, Richard Lloyd, and bluegrass musician Michael Daves. He has also taken Robert Fripp's Guitar Craft.
Traynor played guitar in the New York-based post-hardcore band Fountainhead in 1993–1994, and they released one album in 1994, titled Drain.[citation needed]
In 1994, he cofounded the post-hardcore band Orange 9mm with Chaka Malik. Traynor recorded three albums with them, namely the 1994 EP Orange 9mm, Driver Not Included (1996), and Tragic (1999), on the last of which he also played bass. "All the songs that I wrote for Orange 9mm, I wrote on bass. I wrote the bass lines off the first record, too. I bought a 70s stripped down jazz bass and I would sit in the corner and smoke cigarettes. When Davide [Gentile] left, I just felt like, well, I'll record the bass and it'll be closer to what the original intention was and we'll find a bass player later." Before touring for Tragic began, Traynor left to join Helmet.
Traynor originally joined Helmet as a touring guitarist in support of their fourth studio album, Aftertaste (1997). "Going to Helmet was an amazing move for me. I just played with the band and we did a week of rehearsals and he [Page Hamilton] showed up for the last one. Then we flew to Austria to play a huge festival with Tricky in Ebensee. I knew those songs and I felt like they were in my blood and Page was happy to not have to pay attention so much to what I was doing. He felt comfortable with me." He worked on-and-off with the band for ten years throughout their breakup and reunion, before departing in 2006. He later returned in 2010 to help record the album Seeing Eye Dog. "I think that record was a weird time certainly for Page and I. It's the only record that we've actually talked about rerecording. In my opinion and maybe Page would be mad at me for saying this but I think that record was rushed and some of those songs are the best songs that he's written. I went in and I did my tracks and I left so it wasn't as enjoyable as I thought it would be."
While on tour with Helmet, Traynor was noticed by producer Dave Sardy and recommended as a potential new guitarist in 2002 for the British rock band Bush. "He (Sardy) said, 'What are you doing right now?' and I said, 'Nothing'. And he said, 'There's a band that's looking for a guitar player. I'm gonna have them give you a call'. I knew he was working with Slayer so I thought it was Slayer." Bush's original guitarist, Nigel Pulsford, had recently retired to spend more time with his family, and Traynor joined in the middle of the Golden State Tour. "I have to be honest in saying that I wasn't entirely familiar with their catalog. I had known some of their songs and they said, 'Come down and meet us and if we get a vibe from you we'll fly you to Philadelphia'." The tour wrapped in July, and Bush went on pause for a number of years.[citation needed]
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