(Photo by Jon Luini) Bryan Beller just has to sit back and laugh sometimes. “How did I end up in the Aristocrats, trying to keep up with Guthrie Govan and Marco Minnemann?” he chuckles. While Beller has carved out a career for himself over the past 20 years by supporting guitar gods Mike Keneally, Joe Satriani, and Steve Vai, as well as performing alongside Govan and Minnemann, he admits he never really trained to be that guy. “One of the weird jokes about my career is that I’ve been thrust into this role where I’m one of the guys who plays with the guys playing a lot of notes,” he explains, citing his first professional gig in 1993 with Dweezil and Ahmet Zappa in Z as the root cause of that perception. “It was like, ‘Oh, Zappa … he’s one of those guys.’ One gig led to another, and here I am. But all I ever really wanted to do was be the bass player in Rage Against The Machine or Pink Floyd.” Bryan Beller’s road to riffing started years ago, in Westfield