Patrick Blair

Biography

Patrick Blair began playing in a band at the age of 16 for a school project playing drums at the time they recorded one song for the class project called Beowulf. After that he began playing guitar in a couple bands jamming Motley Crue songs, Metallica songs and Maiden.After graduating high school Patrick met up with a guitarist Lloyd Peckler who had a punk band named SnapNZippy. Patrick joined the band playing bass guitar. He played with the band for several years playing throughout NY including an infamous show with a band called Diest Requiem and a show at the Roxy opening for El Duce of the Mentors.After awhil atrick realized this was not the music he wanted to do and began writing and laying down demo tracks and began searching for people that wanted to play the same kind of music he was into.

Patrick has been playing guitar and touring for many years. He has played in the bands Snap N Zippy, Wind Wraith, and a Misfits Tribute band called Devilok. Along with writing music and doing web design Patrick is an avid gamer and buids custom PC's. After 20 years He is very excited to be creating new music to bring to the fans...

Wind Wraith

Wind Wraith was in formed in August of 2000 by Patrick Blair with one goal in mind, bring back heavy metal and the guitar solo in its true raw form. Influenced by bands such as Iron Maiden, Manowar, Metallica, Megadeth, and Pantera, Wind Wraith’s line up, which includes a heavily textured three guitar assault, was soon completed. Writing and rehearsals began immediately and in the spring of 2001 the band began recording their independently released debut album, “The Fortune Teller’s Gaze”. The recording process proved to be a major learning experience for the still new band, and by the time the dust settled so did the lineup. “The Fortune Teller’s Gaze” was completed and released in September 2001 with Patrick Blair and Diana Dellasala on rhythm guitar, Brian Fingerhut on Lead guitar, George Niesuchouski on drums, Joe Antonelli on bass And Steve Ronson as lead vocalist. Wind Wraith spent the next year promoting the album which received many positive reviews from local music magazines, music websites, and even the European heavy metal community. Unfortunately, Joe and Steve were unable to commit to the Wind Wraith because of prior band commitments and George soon felt the situation was not for him forcing the band to a halt. In the fall of 2002 Wind Wraith met up with bassist Brian Hobbie and drummer Rob Maresca, veterans of the local music scene, who like what they heard and decided to bring their talent and experience to the band. After an exhaustive year long search, Wind Wraith finally found the last piece of their puzzle when vocalist Scott Oliva answered the call. It took just over three years for Wind Wraith to be complete, the result: a much tighter, heavier, aggressive, talented and impressive version of its former self. The new Wind Wraith signed to Iron Glory Records in late 2003. “The Fortune Teller’s Gaze” was rerecorded to reflect the current lineup and true sound of Wind Wraith and released in the early spring of 2004. The band began writing material for the second album, “Minions of Metal”, with all the changes and strain within the band and in 2007 Patrick walked away from the whole music scene. In the summer of 2024 talks with Anthony and Scott began about releasing a 20th anniversary edition of The Fortune Teller's Gaze, during the remixing process while playing guitar again and remixing the CD Patrick and Anthony began working on new stuff. It took a life and speed of it's own the artwork is complete for the new album The Devil's Songbook currently the band has about 6 or 7 songs in the works and being recorded. So after 20 years the story begins again lets see where this takes us this time.

Patrick's Other Projects and Bands

DEVILOCK-MISFITS TRIBUTE