Michael Zachary Myers (born November 7, 1983) is an American musician, singer, and songwriter who founded and is currently the lead singer and guitarist for the

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band

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. He is also the former bassist and current guitarist for the hard rock band

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, and the manager of

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band Sore Eyes, as well as lead singer of Allen, Mack, Myers, & Moore.

Career

He has stated that, while growing up, his main guitar influences were

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, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmy Page,

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and

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The Fairwell

The Fairwell is a rock band from

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. The band was founded by lead singer and guitarist Zach Myers, a

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based, internationally touring blues artist from age 14. The other band members have changed over the years, with the notable exception of long-time and current guitarist and vocalist Chris Allen, who played and started a fanbase on

at an early age. Drummer Michael McManus is the most recent addition to the band, having joined in 2008. The group has opened for dozens of major recording artists including 3 Doors Down and

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, and has appeared in numerous magazine, radio, television appearances, as recently as March 24, 2008 on CBS televisions "Live at 9".

Shinedown

Zach joined

as a touring rhythm guitarist in 2005, before becoming their temporary bassist after the departure of

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in 2007. In early 2008, he assumed the role of permanent rhythm guitarist. On December 18, 2008

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departed Shinedown, leaving Zach to assume the role of the band's rhythm and lead guitarist. On March 23, 2010, Zach Myers appeared on the cover of ''guitar edge'' magazine.

Collaborations

Zach Myers toured with

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in 2004 and 2005 filling in for Dave Novotny. In 2011 Zach appeared as guest guitarist at

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concert playing their hit Bullet with a Name with them. On April 15, 2011 Zach joined

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as lead guitarist for their reunion show at Dallas International Guitar Festival. In 2022 Myers collaborated with

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, in " Don't Let Me Down" the third single from their upcoming album ''

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'', in which he plays the guitar and appears in the video.

Management

Myers runs his own artist management company, Cursed Management Group. Myers made his first foray into artist management with the Memphis rock band Sore Eyes. After having seen the band play around the local area and been suitably impressed, he asked Sore Eyes to support Shinedown for a few sold-out shows at the Machine Shop in

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in December 2008. Unbeknownst to the band these performances were being used by Myers as an audition to see whether they could cut it as potential clients. According to vocalist Shi Eubank, after the shows Myers had said, "Well, the reason I brought you out here is that I wanted to see if you'd sink or swim in front of a crowd like this ... and you guys are out here doing the breaststroke." He then told the band that he would like to step in and work on the management end with them.

Equipment

Guitars

His first guitar was a Series 10 - Strat.He was taught by Rick Forbus for six years at Yarbrough's Music, Inc.6120 Macon Road Memphis, TN 3813
Ax facts & Stats vol. 57: Shinedown guitarist Zach Myers!
/ref> Being a collector of vintage musical equipment, Myers currently owns over two hundred guitars of various makes. *

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**Charcoal Burst PRS Singlecut **Zach Myers Signature PRS Singlecut 3 Humbuckers **3 Humbucker Silverburst PRS, 2nd prototype for his signature model **Royal Blue PRS Singlecut, Zach's favorite guitar and one of the first singlecut guitar PRS ever made **Gold Starla Bigsby, 59'/09' PRS pickups **PRS Mira **PRS NF-3 **White PRS Hollowbody I **PRS Singlecut Hollowbody II * Fender **Black and Natural 72' Telecaster Thinline *

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**Black

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**Red Double Cut Les Paul Jr. **Original 58

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Burst finish *

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**Custom Grand Symphony * Built for Zach **GS Custom 12th Fret **916 W/ Custom Inlay **Grand Concert Non Cutaway **Koa T-5 **GS 8 **814 Standard *

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M-II Custom + Mark IV *Custom Built Bill Nash Telecaster * Saint Blues

Basses

* LTD M-IV BTT-MKAFBS Vinyl

Strings

*SIT - Nickelwounds

Amplifiers

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Herbert *

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HH-100 *Fuchs Mantis *Diamond Phantom

Picks

*IntuneGP ** InTune 0.73MM

Effects

*GCX Pedal Board *

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DC-2 Chorus Pedal * Digitech Hyper Phase * Digitech Whammy IV * Dunlop Bob Bradshaw Boost/Overdrive (Zach only uses the boost) *

CS-3 Compression Sustainer *

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TS-9

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XO Micro Pog Octave Pedal * Line 6 DL4 Delay Pedal * Furman Voltage Regulator

Guitar Rig & Signal Flow

A detailed gear diagram of Zach Myers' 2011 Shinedown guitar rig is well-documented.

References

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