PLASTINKIN IGOR

Born in the small village of N. Malykla that under Dimitrovgrad in Ulyanovsk region.

He graduated from the School of Music in piano.

The first acquaintance with the guitar held in the age of 9, when a local DJ from the DC show a few simple ones chords. But Igor is not impressed, but the guitar was carried away his elder brother, Oleg.

And only a couple of years, when my brother already was playing Deep Purple, Wings, and brought home a guitar from the club "Tornado", was involved in it, and Igor. Soon they had sat together in front of bobinnikom, note for note taking off gashes Blackmore, and at the dances in the club issued a zhivyaka things "Time Machine". However, Igor was still playing the drums, but with the class of the eighth he seriously decided to do a guitar.

At the age of 18 years arrives in Samara and goes to the Cultural Institute of the brass department for trumpet, where a couple of years blows military marches. Here he acquainted with local musicians, and began to rehearse with the group "PLV" (a la Deep Purple), and later took the guitar in, then fashionable, a group of "Synthesis". Frequent touring and decent wages forced him to leave Institute. But all this soon ended and "Synthesis" has collapsed, and Igor settled a studio musician at the studio Yakov Livshits.

At this time he began his work as a guitarist, instrumentalist, and record their first two songs. Here he met with Andrei Areninym - an excellent musician, drummer, arranger. Later joined by bassist Alexander Skobochkin, former keyboardist of "PLV". With them in 1994, he recorded his first guitar album (which is still popular in Samara), some tracks from which were sent to the competition of guitarists, the ongoing program of "Jam".

A year later, Igor was pleasantly surprised to learn that he was recognized as the best guitarist of Russia in the category "Hard & Heavy". And this, moreover, that in the authoritative international jury were the leading masters of American guitar music: Allan Holdsworth, Bruce Kulick, Scott Henderson, Steve Lukather.

Next was the work of Alexander Gala, Vika Tsiganova and even a concert with "Corrosion"! But the desire to engage in their own creativity made him the summer of 1997 to return to Samara. Feeling the impact of such guitarists as Joe Satriani, George Lynch, Ritchie Blackmore, songs Igor until recently been handled serially exclusively in the spirit of classic hard rock. Combining technical skill, bright and ringing tones, deep blues feeling, consistency and conceptual instrumental forms of his works, - Igor is one of the best hard-rock guitarists of our country. What he certainly once again and will confirm his new job.