Chad I Ginsburg  Chad I Ginsburg (born April 24, 1972), also credited as CiG, is an American musician and record producer. He is best known as the guitarist and replacement vocalist of West Chester-based band CKY, which he co-founded in 1998. Prior to CKY, Ginsburg performed in the alternative rock band Rudy & Blitz, and in July 2015 he released his debut solo album "Rock n Roll Alibis". Ginsburg began playing guitar at the age of nine years, having previously played the drums. He won his first guitar from a radio station, and later bought an Ibanez guitar based on Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen's model, which he says was eventually broken by a friend and sold. After initially taking lessons from a number of local instructors, Ginsburg later studied with Richie Kotzen. As a guitarist, Ginsburg draws inspiration from former teacher Kotzen, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Paul Gilbert and Yngwie Malmsteen; he has also indicated an affection for the band Black Sabbath. Prior to joining CKY, Ginsburg played in the band Rudy & Blitz, as well as "several other bands [he] could care less about". The group signed to Ruffhouse Records, a sub-label of Columbia Records, in 1995, but were allegedly neglected by the label in favour of other acts, with Ginsburg claiming in 1996 that "Our record has been held up for a really long time ... [it] fuckin' rules and they won't release it. They owe us a lot of money, and a couple vacations." Ruffhouse co-owner Joe Nicolo somewhat backed up the guitarist's claims, alleging that while Ruffhouse intended to release the record, it was held up by executives at parent label Columbia, who instead wanted to release it through independent label Contract Recordings. The album, "Reverb on the Click", was eventually released by Ginsburg's own labels years later. Ginsburg first met Deron Miller and Jess Margera when the duo began working on the first CKY album (under the band name Oil) at a local studio at which he was working as an engineer at the time. Completing the band's lineup in 1998, he performed guitar and bass on "Volume 1", and was also credited for the album's production, recording, engineering and mixing. The guitarist subsequently led production on every CKY album. During the filming of the music video for the song "Escape from Hellview", Ginsburg took part in a stunt which reportedly almost killed him.