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Daryl Stuermer
Background information
Born	(1952-11-27) November 27, 1952 (age 59) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Genres	Progressive rock, rock, jazz rock, pop, pop rock
Instruments	Guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals
Years active	1975–present
Associated acts	Genesis, Phil Collins, Era
Website	Official site

Daryl Mark Stuermer (born November 27, 1952) is an American musician who plays guitar and bass for Genesis during live shows, and lead guitar for Phil Collins during most of his solo tours and albums.^[1]

Biography[link]

Stuermer was born on November 27, 1952 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin^[2] and is a 1970 graduate of St. Francis High School. Discovered playing with his Milwaukee band Sweetbottom, Stuermer auditioned for and won a spot backing up jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty^[2] in 1975, with whom he recorded four albums. In late 1977, Stuermer, on insistence of friend Alphonso Johnson was recommended as a replacement for Steve Hackett. He joined up with Genesis as touring guitarist and bass player at first and retained that position until 1992, only to resume his role in 2007 on the Genesis Turn It On Again Tour. (While with Genesis, Stuermer alternated guitar and bass with Mike Rutherford as needed.) In 1982, Stuermer followed Genesis front man Phil Collins as the lead guitarist for Collins' solo career. In doing so, he went from what Collins called a "permanent-temporary-part-time member" of Genesis to a "permanent-touring-recording member" of Collins' new group.^[2] The collaboration has been a successful one for both musicians, and Stuermer has earned co-writer credits on several of Collins' songs.

On stage with Genesis, c. 1980

Stuermer has recorded eight solo albums, Steppin' Out, Live and Learn, Another Side of Genesis, Waiting in the Wings, Retrofit, "The Nylon String Sampler", "Rewired: the Electric Collection" and most recently Go!. Released in 2002 was a Sweetbottom live reunion album, recorded at Shank Hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is a graduate of St. Francis High School in St. Francis, Wisconsin, and returned to his hometown in the summer of 2002 to play a free concert.

His album Go! was released in early 2007. It contains many older tracks from Stuermer's Sweetbottom days, and includes appearances from Alphonso Johnson, Kostia, John Calarco, and Eric Hervey. Stuermer rejoined Genesis for their 2007 Turn It On Again: The Tour reunion effort. His current project is called Daryl Stuermer - Symphony Concert, which involves band members Kostia, Alan Arber and Eric Hervey and singer Forrest "Woody" Mankowski, recreating classic Genesis material mixed with Daryl's instrumentals from his solo career.

Stuermer has been a Fender Stratocaster user for most of his career with Phil Collins. His main guitars have been a Candy Apple Red and a 3 Tone Sunburst, though he also played banjo on the Phil Collins song "The Roof Is Leaking". In addition to the Fender Stratocaster in his tenure with Collins and Genesis, he played Gibson RD Artist bass guitars and Ibanez electric guitars in 1978. He then switched to a SUNTECH Model SA-MFSC "Stratocaster Style" guitar from 1978 to 1984 and used a Shergold Bass Guitar (1980), a Fender Precision Bass guitar in 1981/1982, a Status bass guitar and Ibanez guitar (1983–84), a Steinberger bass guitar (1986–87) and guitars (1986/1987), a Yamaha bass guitar in 1992 and again in 2007. As of 2007 he has largely been using a Godin LGXT electric guitar. He also uses the reintroduced Fender American Standard Stratocaster and the Fender Eric Clapton Signature Stratocaster^{[citation needed]}

Discography[link]

Solo Albums[link]

[edit] With Jean-Luc Ponty

[edit] With George Duke

[edit] With Joan Armatrading

[edit] With Frida Lyngstad (ABBA)

[edit] With Tony Banks (Genesis)

[edit] With Mike Rutherford (Genesis)

[edit] With Philip Bailey

[edit] With Phil Collins

[edit] With Genesis

References[link]

External links[link]

• Daryl Stuermer's Website
• Genesis' Website
• In-Depth 2007 Interview by Anil Prasad of Innerviews
• Daryl Stuermer-Genesis Rewired Website

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Eric Andersen
Background information
Born	(1943-02-14) February 14, 1943 (age 69) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Genres	Folk, Folk rock, Blues
Occupations	Singer-Songwriter
Instruments	Guitar, Harmonica, Piano, Keyboards, Vocals
Years active	1964–present
Website	http://www.ericandersen.com/

Eric Andersen (born February 14, 1943, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American singer-songwriter.^[1]

Biography[link]

In the early 1960s, Eric Andersen was part of the Greenwich Village folk scene in New York.^[1] His best-known songs from that time are "Violets of Dawn", "Come to My Bedside", and "Thirsty Boots" (the latter recorded by Judy Collins, amongst others).^[2]

In 1964, Andersen made his debut at Gerdes Folk City in a live audition for Vanguard Records. Later that year he performed at the Newport Folk Festival. Coincidentally, on both occasions he was preceded by Jose Feliciano, who was also making his debut performances. In 1966, Andersen starred in the Andy Warhol movie Space. He also took part in the Festival Express tour across Canada in 1970 with the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, Delaney Bramlett and others.

Andersen signed with Columbia in 1972 and issued his most commercially successful album Blue River. The master tapes of his follow-up album Stages were lost before the album could be released, resulting in the loss of much of the momentum he had gained with Blue River.^[1] The Stages tapes were found nearly two decades later and issued in 1991 as Stages: The Lost Album.

Andersen parted ways with Columbia and recorded sporadically for a number of labels throughout the remainder of the 1970s and into the early 1980s. In 1975 he performed at the opening show of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue at Gerde's Folk City and again in Niagara Falls.

In the late 70s, Andersen was also a member of The Woodstock Mountains Revue, a unique folk group that also featured Artie Traum, Happy Traum and John Sebastian.^[3]

After falling into obscurity for a number of years, he reemerged in 1988 with a new album, Ghosts Upon the Road. Though the album only did modestly well, it was widely praised and placed on a number of critics' year-end "best of" lists.

At this time in his career, Andersen was living in Oslo, Norway, and, in the early 1990s, Andersen formed the trio Danko/Fjeld/Andersen together with Rick Danko (The Band) and the Norwegian singer-songwriter, Jonas Fjeld. The trio recorded three albums and performed together for nine years. In 1998, Andersen released his first solo album in a decade, Memory of the Future. Praised as "dreamy and introspective", the album was followed two years later by You Can't Relive The Past, which included original blues numbers as well as a selection of songs co-written with Townes Van Zandt. A double album Beat Avenue followed in 2003. Besides mostly rock-dominated ballads, the album's 26-minute title track was a jazzy beat poem relating his experiences among San Francisco's beat community of artists on the day of President John F. Kennedy's assassination.

Andersen's next albums, The Street Was Always There in 2004 and Waves in 2005, were both produced by multi-instrumentalist Robert Aaron. In addition to covers of his own songs, the albums featured new versions of classics by his sixties contemporaries and friends, including David Blue, Bob Dylan, Richard Fariña, Tim Hardin, Peter La Farge, Fred Neil, Phil Ochs, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Paul Siebel, Patrick Sky, Tom Paxton, John Sebastian, Happy Traum, Lou Reed, and Tom Rush. His next album Blue Rain, released in 2007, was his first live album. It was recorded in Norway and contains a blend of blues, jazz and folk.

In 2009, Andersen contributed an essay titled "The Danger Zone" to the Naked Lunch @ 50: Anniversary Essays, a book volume edited by Oliver Harris and Ian MacFadyen devoted to William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch, considered one of the landmark publications in the history of American literature.

In 2011 Andersen released his second live album The Cologne Concert featuring Michele Gazich on violin and Eric's wife Inge Andersen on backing vocals.

In 2012 the filmmaker Paul Lamont (Toward Castle Films) started the production of "The Eric Andersen Story", a documentary film, which is expected to be ready for global distribution in 2014.

In his lengthy career, Andersen has issued more than 25 albums to which many artists have contributed, including Joan Baez, Dan Fogelberg, Al Kooper, Willie Nile, Joni Mitchell, Lou Reed, Leon Russell, Richard Thompson, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Eric Bazilian, Tony Garnier, Howie Epstein, and many others. His songs have been recorded by artists all over the world, including the Blues Project, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Peter, Paul & Mary, John Denver, The Dillards, Ricky Nelson, Fairport Convention, Grateful Dead, Ratdog (Bob Weir), Linda Ronstadt, Gillian Welch, and Pete Seeger.

Discography[link]

• Today Is the Highway (1965)
• 'Bout Changes 'n' Things (1966)
• 'Bout Changes 'n' Things Take 2 (1967)
• More Hits From Tin Can Alley (1968)
• single: "Think About It" / "So Hard To Fall" (1968)
• A Country Dream (1969)
• Avalanche (1969)
• Eric Andersen (1970)
• Blue River (1972)
• Be True To You (1975)
• Sweet Surprise (1976)
• Midnight Son (1980)
• Tight In The Night (1984)
• Istanbul (1985) original soundtrack
• Ghosts Upon The Road (1989)
• Stages: The Lost Album (1991) mostly recorded in 1972-73, with three brand new tracks
• Danko/Fjeld/Andersen - Rick Danko, Jonas Fjeld & Eric Andersen (1991)
• Ridin' on the Blinds - Rick Danko, Jonas Fjeld & Eric Andersen (1994)
• Kerouac - Kicks Joy Darkness - Various Artists (1997)
• Memory Of The Future (1998)
• You Can't Relive The Past (2000)
• One More Shot - Rick Danko, Jonas Fjeld & Eric Andersen (2001) (2 CD's)
• Beat Avenue (2002) (2 CD's)
• Street Was Always There: Great American Song Series, Vol. 1 (2004)
• Waves: Great American Song Series, Vol. 2 (2005)
• Blue Rain - live (2007)
• So Much on My Mind: The Anthology (1969–1980) (2007)
• Avalanche (2008, reissue)^[1]
• The Cologne Concert - live (2011)

DVDs[link]

• Judy Collins Wildflower Festival - Judy Collins, Eric Andersen, Tom Rush & Arlo Guthrie (2003) (2 DVDs)
• Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind (2003)
• Festival Express - Various Artists (2004) (2 DVDs)

Sources[link]

• —,"Eric Andersen", The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (Simon & Schuster, 2001).
• Anthony DeCurtis, "Eric Andersen distills the present from the past", New York Times (27 April 2003).
• James Ketchell, "Review: So Much On My Mind by Eric Andersen", Rockbeatstone (August 2007).
• "Paul Lamont", "Documentary: The Eric Andersen Story", (April 2012).

References[link]

External links[link]

• http://www.ericandersen.com/
• http://www.ghostsupontheroad.org/
• http://www.deaddisc.com/
• http://www.allmusic.com/artist/eric-andersen-p1915
• http://theband.hiof.no/albums/danko_fjeld_andersen.html
• http://theband.hiof.no/albums/ridin_on_the_blinds.html
• http://theband.hiof.no/albums/one_more_shot.html
• Naked Lunch @50