Roy Lee grew up mostly in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He started his musical career taking piano lessons at age thirteen.

He received his first electric guitar at age fifteen, and this set him on a whole new path. Many nights throughout high school were spent foregoing homework in favor of practicing guitar until the odd-hours.

He also participated in Jazz Band during his junior year of high school, learning to develop phrasing and improvisational skills. Plus, growing up with the 80's hair-metal scene, he was very much influenced by such bands as Bon Jovi, Poison, Stryper, Dokken, Skid Row -- you name it. These formative times led him to play with some classmates in a band called Secret Service.

Later, he helped form the original 80's-rock band Dead River. They played often through the summers of 1993 and 1995, and partied more. Their travels took them as far away as Pensacola, Florida before the river ran dry.

In 1996, Roy Lee also helped form the original modern-rock band The Bitter Truth. They played extensively from then until June of 1999, having shared stages with such artists as Rob Thomas of Matchbox20 as well as Better Than Ezra.

After moving to Dallas to pursue other opportunities, Roy Lee was able to join up with a local classic-rock band, One Track Minds. This band lasted quite a while, playing often around the Dallas/Ft Worth area. Soon after that, he spent nearly 2 years with another local cover band, Plan-B.

Roy Lee has now been with Decades since August of 2004. While he speaks fondly of many of his experiences with previous bands, he is often heard to say he hasn't had this much fun in a long time. In Decades, there is a genuine spirit of comraderie and cooperation not seen in many bands, that one can't help but appreciate. This spirit can especially be seen eminating from the stage wherever and whenever they perform, and is most certainly contagious...

...but ain't it cool!

Roy Lee uses:

• Fender Fat-Strat Floyd Rose model electric guitar,
  with Bill Lawrence & OBL electronics.
• 1970 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe.
• Johnson JM-60 Tube-integrated digital modeling amplfier.
• Shure UT-14 UHF instrument wireless.
• Shure, EV & Audix microphones.