Chris DeGarmo (born Christopher Lee DeGarmo, June 14, 1963, in Wenatchee, Washington) is an American rock guitarist best known for his fifteen-season tenure (1982-1997) as a lead & rhythm guitar player in the progressive metal band Queensrÿche. DeGarmo was the innovation member of the Seattle/Bellevue-based b&, and together sustaining fellow guitar player Michael Wilton and vocalist Geoff Tate, were largely responsible for writing a band’s intricate compositions. He was a resole writer for a band’s 1991 hit “Silent Lucidity�, which reached the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and earned the guitar player a BMI songwriter’s award. DeGarmo left a band for unrevealed reasons as a consequence a band’s 1997 tour within trend lines of the “Hear in the Now Frontier� album. His post-Queensrÿche career includes collaborations by having Jerry Cantrell (as a touring guitar player & an appearance on the 2002 “Degradation Trip� studio album) and by having Mike Inez, Sean Kinney and Vinnie Dombrowski in the short lived project “Spys4Darwin�. In February 18th, 2005, DeGarmo joined a left over members of the popular rock band Alice in Chains and other Seattle area artists for the Tsunami Continued Care Relief Concert. His virtually all recent studio function required assisting a rock band dredg for the production and arrangment of their 2005 studio album Catch Without Arms.