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California
California (pronounced
i/kælɨˈfɔrnjə/) is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third most extensive (after Alaska and Texas). It is home to the nation's second- and sixth-largest census statistical areas (Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and San Francisco Bay Area), and eight of the nation's fifty most populated cities (Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Fresno, Sacramento, Long Beach and Oakland). The capital city is Sacramento.
California's diverse geography ranges from the Pacific Coast in the west, to the Sierra Nevada mountains in the east – from the Redwood–Douglas-fir forests of the northwest, to the Mojave Desert areas in the southeast. The center of the state is dominated by Central Valley, a major agricultural area. California contains both the highest and lowest points in the contiguous United States (Mount Whitney and Death Valley), and has the third-longest coastline of all states (after Alaska and Florida). Earthquakes are a common occurrence due to the state's location along the Pacific Ring of Fire: about 37,000 are recorded annually.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (
i/lɒs ˈændʒələs/ loss-AN-jə-ləs; Spanish: [los ˈaŋxeles], which is written Los Ángeles; British pronounciation /lɒs ˈændʒəliːz/ loss-AN-jə-leez) with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in the state of California, and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of 468.67 square miles (1,213.8 km2), and is located in Southern California. Often known by its initials L.A., the city is the focal point of the larger Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana metropolitan statistical area and Greater Los Angeles Area region, which contain 12,828,837 and nearly 18 million people respectively as of 2010, making it one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world and the second largest in the United States. Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the United States, while the entire Los Angeles area itself has been recognized as the most diverse of the nation's largest cities. The city's inhabitants are referred to as "Angelenos".
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San Fernando Valley
The San Fernando Valley (locally known as "The Valley") is an urbanized valley located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area of southern California, United States, defined by the dramatic mountains of the Transverse Ranges circling it. Home to 1.76 million people, it lies north of the larger and more populous Los Angeles Basin.
Nearly two thirds of the Valley's land area is part of the city of Los Angeles. The other incorporated cities in the valley are Burbank, Glendale, San Fernando, Hidden Hills and Calabasas.
The San Fernando Valley is about 260 square miles (670 km2) bounded by the Santa Susana Mountains to the northwest, the Simi Hills to the west, the Santa Monica Mountains and Chalk Hills to the south, the Verdugo Mountains to the east, and the San Gabriel Mountains to the northeast. The northern Sierra Pelona Mountains, northwestern Topatopa Mountains, southern Santa Ana Mountains, and Downtown Los Angeles skyscrapers can be seen from higher neighborhoods, passes, and parks in the San Fernando Valley.
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United States
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km2) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.
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Adam Clayton
Adam Charles Clayton (born 13 March 1960) is a musician, best known as the bassist of the Irish rock band U2. Clayton has resided in County Dublin since the time his family moved to Malahide when he was five years old in 1965. Clayton is well known for his bass playing on songs such as "New Year's Day", "Bullet the Blue Sky", "With or Without You", "Mysterious Ways", "Get on Your Boots", and "Magnificent". His work on No Line on the Horizon has been cited as his best bass playing. He has worked on several solo projects throughout his career, such as his work with fellow band member Larry Mullen Jr. on the theme of 1996's Mission: Impossible. Clayton, as a part of U2, has won 22 Grammy awards.
Clayton is the elder child of Brian and Jo Clayton, born on 13 March 1960 in Chinnor, Oxfordshire, England. When Clayton was five years old, his family moved from Oxfordshire to Malahide, County Dublin, where Clayton's brother Sebastian was born. The Clayton family became friends with the Evans family, with their sons Dik and Dave (more commonly known as The Edge), who were both in the original group, Feedback, that spawned U2.
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Adrian Legg
Adrian Legg is an English guitar player who has been called "impossible to categorize". He plays custom guitars that are a hybrid of electric and acoustic, and his fingerstyle picking technique has been acknowledged by the readers of Guitar Player who voted Legg the "best acoustic fingerstyle" player four years in a row (1993–1996).
From his early start as a bench technician customising electric guitars, Legg moved into guitar instruction, publishing books and videos on guitar technique. In 1996 and 1997, Legg shared the stage with acclaimed guitar experts Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson and Steve Vai as part of the G3 tour. Vai called Legg "Uncle Adrian" and Satriani said of Legg's musicianship "He's simply the best acoustic guitar player I've ever heard. I don't know anyone else who can create such a cascade of beautiful notes... Adrian plays like he's got hammers for fingers."
Legg was born May 16, 1948 in Hackney, east London. He studied the oboe as a child but in teenage years his interest shifted to the guitar.
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Al Di Meola
Al Di Meola (born Al Laurence Dimeola, July 22, 1954, in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an acclaimed American jazz fusion and Latin jazz guitarist, composer, and record producer of Italian origin. With a musical career that has spanned more than three decades, he has become respected as one of the most influential guitarists in jazz to date. Albums such as Friday Night in San Francisco have earned him both artistic and commercial success with a solid fan base throughout the world.
Di Meola grew up in Bergenfield, New Jersey, and attended Bergenfield High School. He is now a resident of Bergen County, New Jersey.
In 1971, he enrolled in the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1974 he joined Chick Corea's band, Return to Forever, and played with the band until a major lineup shift in 1976.
Di Meola went on to explore a variety of styles, but is most noted for his Latin-influenced jazz fusion works. He is a four-time winner as Best Jazz Guitarist in Guitar Player Magazine's Reader Poll.
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Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer, songwriter, and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, boa constrictors, and baby dolls, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a grandly theatrical and violent brand of heavy metal designed to shock.
Originating in Detroit in the late 1960s, Alice Cooper was originally a band consisting of Furnier on vocals and harmonica, lead guitarist Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, and drummer Neal Smith. The original Alice Cooper band broke into the international music mainstream with the 1971 hit "I'm Eighteen" from the album Love It to Death, which was followed by the even bigger single "School's Out" in 1972. The band reached their commercial peak with the 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies.
Furnier's solo career as Alice Cooper, adopting the band's name as his own name, began with the 1975 concept album Welcome to My Nightmare; in 2011 he released Welcome 2 My Nightmare, his 19th album as a solo artist, and his 26th album in total. Expanding from his Detroit rock roots, in his career Cooper has experimented with a number of musical styles, including conceptual rock, art rock, hard rock, New Wave, pop rock, experimental rock and industrial rock.
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Allan Holdsworth
Allan Holdsworth (born 6 August 1946) is an English guitarist and composer. He has released twelve studio albums as a solo artist and played a variety of musical styles spanning a period of more than four decades, but is best known for his work in jazz fusion. A player noted for his advanced knowledge of the fretboard and unique playing, Holdsworth is cited as an influence by such renowned rock and instrumental guitarists as Eddie Van Halen,Joe Satriani,Greg Howe,Shawn Lane,Richie Kotzen,John Petrucci and Alex Lifeson.Frank Zappa once lauded him as "one of the most interesting guys on guitar on the planet".
Holdsworth first recorded in 1969 with the band 'Igginbottom on their lone release, Igginbottom's Wrench (later reissued under the group name of "Allan Holdsworth & Friends"). In 1971 he joined Sunship, an improvisational band featuring keyboardist Alan Gowen, future King Crimson percussionist Jamie Muir and bassist Laurie Baker. They played live but would never release any recorded material. Next came a brief stint with jazz rock band Nucleus, with whom Holdsworth played on their 1972 album, Belladonna; likewise with progressive rock band Tempest, on their self-titled first studio album in 1973. His playing can also be heard on a live BBC Radio concert from that year, which was released several decades later in 2005 as part of Under the Blossom: The Anthology, a Tempest compilation album.
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Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and pianist. In a recording career that has spanned over half a century, Franklin's repertoire has included gospel, jazz, blues, R&B, pop, rock and funk. Franklin is known as one of the most important popularizers of the soul music genre and is referred to as the Queen of Soul, a title she was given early in her career. Franklin, the daughter of prominent Baptist minister and activist C. L. Franklin, began her singing career singing in her father's church at the age of ten and started recording four years later. After several years in the gospel circuit and with her father's blessing, she formed a secular pop music career at the age of eighteen, signing with Columbia Records, where she was branded by its CEO John Hammond as his most important act since Billie Holiday. Franklin's Columbia period wasn't as successful as hoped and in late 1966, Franklin switched over to Atlantic Records, where she began recording a string of popular hits including "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "Think", "Chain of Fools" and what later became her signature song, "Respect".
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Bill Champlin
William Bradford "Bill" Champlin (born May 21, 1947, Oakland, California) is an American singer, guitarist, keyboard player, arranger, producer, and songwriter. His performance work is principally associated with the bands Chicago and the Sons of Champlin. He has won multiple Grammy Awards for songwriting.
As a child, Champlin demonstrated a talent for piano, and eventually picked up the guitar after being inspired by Elvis Presley. He started a band, The Opposite Six, while at Tamalpais High School, in Mill Valley, California and went on to study music in college, but was encouraged by a professor to drop out of school and pursue music professionally.
The Opposite Six, Champlin's band from high school, changed their name to the Sons of Champlin, and eventually recorded a number of well-reviewed but poorly-selling albums (including Loosen Up Naturally and Circle Filled With Love) by 1977, when the 30 year old Champlin moved to Los Angeles.
In LA he began extensive studio session work. He was especially in demand for his singing, appearing on hundreds of recordings throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) awarded Champlin the Most Valuable Player peer award for male background vocalists in 1980.
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Billy Idol
William Michael Albert Broad (born 30 November 1955), better known by his stage name Billy Idol, is an English rock musician. A member of the Bromley Contingent of Sex Pistols fans, Idol first achieved fame in the punk rock era as a member of the band Generation X. He then embarked on a successful solo career, aided by a series of stylish[citation needed]music videos, making him one of the first MTV stars. Idol continues to tour with guitarist Steve Stevens and has a worldwide fan base.[citation needed]
Idol was born in Stanmore, Middlesex, the son of a salesman.. The name Billy Idol was inspired by a schoolteacher's description of Broad as "idle".
In 1958, when Idol was two years old, his parents moved to Patchogue, New York, on Long Island. The family returned to England four years later with Idol and a younger child Jane (who had been born in the US), settling in Dorking, Surrey. In 1971 the family moved to Bromley, southeastern London, where Idol attended Ravensbourne School for Boys. Idol (rather William Broad) also attended Worthing High School for Boys (later becoming Worthing College), in West Sussex. In October 1975, Idol went to the University of Sussex, near Brighton, to pursue an English degree and lived on campus (East Slope) but left after year one (1976). He then went on to join the Bromley Contingent of Sex Pistols fans, a loose gang that travelled into town when the band played.
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Billy Joel
William Martin "Billy" Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American pianist, singer-songwriter, and composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man," in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to the RIAA.
Joel had Top 40 hits in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, achieving 33 Top 40 hits in the United States, all of which he wrote himself. He is also a six-time Grammy Award winner, a 23-time Grammy nominee and has sold over 150 million records worldwide. He was inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame (1992), the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1999), the Long Island Music Hall of Fame (2006), and the Hit Parade Hall of Fame (2009). In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart's 50th anniversary, with Billy Joel positioned at No. 23. With the exception of the 2007 songs "All My Life" and "Christmas in Fallujah," Joel stopped recording pop/rock material after 1993's River of Dreams, but he continued to tour extensively until 2010.
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Billy Sheehan
William "Billy" Sheehan (born on March 19, 1953, in Buffalo, New York) is an American bassist known for his work with Talas, Steve Vai, David Lee Roth, Mr. Big, and Niacin. Sheehan has won the "Best Rock Bass Player" readers' poll from Guitar Player Magazine five times for his "lead bass" playing style. Sheehan's repertoire includes the use of chording, two-handed tapping, right-hand "three-finger picking" technique and controlled feedback.
Billy Sheehan's first electric bass was a Hagström FB, which was soon sistered[clarification needed] by a Precision bass similar to Tim Bogert's. After acquiring the Precision bass, he removed the frets from the Hagström. Over the years, he heavily modified the Precision bass as well, adding a neck pickup and additional support for the bolt-on neck, which Sheehan considers its greatest weakness. The neck pickup was added for what Sheehan referred to as "super deep low end" modelled after Paul Samwell-Smith of the Yardbirds. The Gibson EB-0 type pickup in the neck and the original split Precision bass pickup each have their own separate output jacks on the bass itself, allowing for control of the tone via the bass. Sheehan also uses two amps to achieve his signature tone (as do Chris Squire of Yes and Doug Pinnick of King's X), one with full distortion and notch filtering to sound more guitar-like for solos, and one super-clean for the low end of the neck pickup. This bass has been retired, but he affectionately refers to it as "The Wife"."Gear article". Billysheehan.com. http://billysheehan.com/gear/instruments_34.html. Retrieved 2011-08-09. Sheehan's signature Yamaha bass is based on this Bass.
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Bobby Kimball
Robert Troy "Bobby" Kimball (born March 29, 1947) is an American singer, best known as the longtime frontman of the rock band Toto.
Robert (Bobby) Troy Kimball was born in Orange, Texas, and was raised in nearby Vinton, Louisiana, as Vinton did not have a hospital (thus, he was born across the state line). Kimball started singing as a child, dabbling on voice and piano in a musical household throughout his youth. Throughout the 1970s, Kimball performed as a vocalist in various New Orleans area bands, including The Levee Band, which would later become Le Roux after Kimball left. In 1976, Kimball joined S.S. Fools in which he was the lead vocalist as well as keyboard player. That same year, the band released their self-titled album. The band broke up during its first tour.
In 1974, Bobby Kimball left Louisiana and moved to Los Angeles where he joined 3 members from the defunct band, Three Dog Night, to form a new band called S.S. Fools. They released one album on CBS Records, but the band split up within a year and a half. About 6 months later, Kimball was asked by David Paich and Jeff Porcaro, the two initial founding members of Toto, to join the five session musicians to form Toto. He submitted a self-penned audition song for the band, "You are the Flower", which was included on their debut album. Kimball performed on the first four studio albums by Toto. He was asked to leave Toto in 1984 during the sessions for Isolation due to tensions with other band members that included widespread drug abuse.
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Bobby McFerrin
Robert "Bobby" McFerrin, Jr. (born March 11, 1950) is a virtuoso American vocalist and conductor. He is best known for his 1988 hit song "Don't Worry, Be Happy". He is a ten-time Grammy Award winner. He is well known for his unique vocal techniques and singing styles.
Bobby McFerrin was born in Manhattan, New York City, the son of operatic baritone Robert McFerrin and singer Sara Copper. Robert Sr. was the first African American to be a regular with New York's Metropolitan Opera. Sara is a former soloist with regional opera companies and in Broadway shows, and is a professor emeritus of music at Fullerton College in Fullerton, California.
Bobby McFerrin married Debbie Green in 1975. They have three children.
McFerrin's song "Don't Worry, Be Happy" was a No. 1 U.S. pop hit in 1988 and won Song of the Year and Record of the Year honors. McFerrin has also worked in collaboration with instrumental performers, including pianists Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and Joe Zawinul, drummer Tony Williams, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
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Bono
Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), most commonly known by his stage name Bono (/ˈbɒnoʊ/ BON-oh), is an Irish singer, musician, and humanitarian best known for being the main vocalist of the Dublin-based rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Alison Stewart, and the future members of U2. Bono writes almost all U2 lyrics, often using political, social, and religious themes. During their early years, Bono's lyrics contributed to U2's rebellious and spiritual tone. As the band matured, his lyrics became inspired more by personal experiences shared with members of U2.
Outside the band, he has collaborated and recorded with numerous artists, is managing director and a managing partner of Elevation Partners, and has refurbished and owns The Clarence Hotel in Dublin with The Edge. Bono is also widely known for his activism concerning Africa, for which he co-founded DATA, EDUN, the ONE Campaign and Product Red. He has organised and played in several benefit concerts and has met with influential politicians. Bono has been praised and criticised for his activism and involvement with U2. He has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, was granted an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, and was named as a Person of the Year by Time, among other awards and nominations.
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Boz Scaggs
William Royce "Boz" Scaggs (born June 8, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He gained fame in the 1960s as a guitarist and occasional lead singer with the Steve Miller Band and in the 1970s with several solo Top 20 hit singles in the United States, along with the #2 album, Silk Degrees. Scaggs continues to write, record music and tour.
Scaggs was born in Canton, Ohio, the son of a traveling salesman. The family moved to McAlester, Oklahoma, then to Plano, at that time a Texas farm town just north of Dallas. He attended a Dallas private school, St. Mark's, where a schoolmate gave him the nickname "Bosley"; this was later shortened to "Boz".
After learning guitar at the age of 12, he met Steve Miller at St. Mark's. In 1959, he became the vocalist for Miller's band, The Marksmen. The pair later attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison together, playing in blues bands like The Ardells and The Fabulous Knight Trains.
Leaving school, Scaggs briefly joined the burgeoning rhythm and blues scene in London. After singing in bands such as The Wigs and Mother Earth, he traveled to Sweden as a solo performer, and in 1965 recorded his solo debut album, Boz, which was not a commercial success. Scaggs also had a brief stint with the band The Other Side with Mac MacLeod and fellow American Jack Downing.
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Brett Garsed
Brett Edward Garsed (born April 20, 1964) is an Australian musician, best known for his work as a guitarist with John Farnham and T. J. Helmerich, as well as being a former member of the American band Nelson. Garsed was featured on Derek Sherinian's debut solo release Planet X (1999) and Planet X's Quantum (2007), and more recently Molecular Heinosity (2010).
Garsed was born in rural Victoria, Australia and began playing guitar at age 12 after hearing Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore play "Speed King". After about a month of initial lessons, he continued to teach himself and formed a band composed of his two cousins and a mutual friend and began playing live.
In July 1985, Brett was featured in Guitar Player magazine’s “Spotlight” column, which was devoted to exposing new talent to the rest of the world. This encouraged Brett to give up his job as a licensed plumber and pursue a career as a professional musician, prompting him to send demo tapes to as many record companies and management companies as he could find. “I wasn’t looking for a record deal. I just wanted to get into a good band.” One of the tapes was heard by Ross Fraser of the Wheatley Organization, which led to an audition for a short tour by Australian superstar John Farnham. Farnham, at this time still a member of the Little River Band, was planning a solo album and invited him to be a part of the project. The resulting album, Whispering Jack, went on to become the biggest selling album in Australian history, followed by sellout tours of Australia and Europe.
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Brian Eno
Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948), commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno (
/ˈiːnoʊ/[citation needed]), is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.
Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex, England, taking inspiration from minimalist painting. During his time on the art course at the Institute, he also gained experience in playing and making music through teaching sessions held in the adjacent music school.
He joined the band Roxy Music as keyboard and synthesiser player in the early 1970s. Roxy Music's success in the glam rock scene came quickly, but Eno soon tired of touring and of conflicts with lead singer Bryan Ferry.
Eno's solo music has explored more experimental musical styles and ambient music. It has also been extremely influential, pioneering ambient and generative music, innovating production techniques, and emphasising "theory over practice". He also introduced the concept of chance music to popular audiences, partially through collaborations with other musicians.
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Brian Tichy
Brian Tichy (born on August 18, 1968 in Denville, New Jersey) is an American musician, best known as having been drummer for Whitesnake, Billy Idol, Foreigner, and Ozzy Osbourne. He has been the drummer of Whitesnake since 2010. Tichy began playing drums at age eight and started playing guitar at age 12. His earliest influences include Led Zeppelin, Kiss, Aerosmith, AC/DC, and Van Halen.
After attending Berklee College of Music from 1986 until 1990, Tichy has toured/recorded with a multitude of artists including Billy Idol, Ozzy Osbourne, Seether, Velvet Revolver, Foreigner, Pride & Glory, Glenn Hughes, Sass Jordan, Slash's Snakepit and most recently Whitesnake
Brian also played the New Jersey club scene in the late 1980s early 1990s with a great grunge cover band called "Aluminum Jew" along with Jeff Steele Zugale on Vocals/Guitar, Chris Durante on Guitar and Steve Witschel on Bass.
While Brian has primarily toured and recorded with others playing drums, he has fronted his own band (BALL) in which he sings and plays guitar. Due to the untimely demise of his record label (Time Bomb Recordings), Ball’s American Aggression CD never was formally released. Ball did manage to release a CD, The Grand Human Disaster Scenario (only in Japan) in May, 1999. This CD contains what were essentially the demos that led to the record deal with Time Bomb at the end of 1999. His increasing role as co-songwriter with Billy Idol that started at the end of 2003 limited his time to focus on Ball.
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Chad Smith
Chadwick "Chad" Gaylord Smith (born October 25, 1961) is an American musician, best known as the longtime and current drummer of Red Hot Chili Peppers whom he joined in 1988. Smith is also the drummer of the hard rock supergroup Chickenfoot, which formed in 2008.
Smith has also worked with Deep Purple vocalist Glenn Hughes' backing band and on his own instrumental side-project, Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats. In 2010 Smith released a children's record, Rhythm Train which he recorded with legend, Dick Van Dyke, and Leslie Bixler. In April 2010 MTV named Rhythm Train one of the best children's records of all time.
In addition to Smith's bands, he also records with many other musicians including The Dixie Chicks, Kid Rock, George Clinton and Outernational. Smith was ranked #87 on Rolling Stone list of "100 Greatest Drummers of All time". He entered the Guinness book of the world records for playing the world's largest drum kit consisting of 308 pieces. In March 2012 Modern Drummer named Smith #2 on its list of best living drummers.
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Christopher Cross
Christopher Cross (born Christopher Charles Geppert; May 3, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter from San Antonio, Texas. His debut album earned him five Grammys. He is perhaps best known for his US Top Ten hit songs, "Sailing", "Ride Like the Wind", and "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)", the last of which he recorded for the film Arthur starring Dudley Moore. "Sailing" earned three Grammy Awards in 1981, while "Arthur's Theme" won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 1981 (with co-composers Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager and Peter Allen).
Cross first played with a San Antonio-based cover band named Flash (not to be confused with the early 1970s English band of the same name) before signing a solo contract with Warner Bros.
Cross released his self-titled debut album, Christopher Cross, in 1979, which garnered him five Grammy Awards. He was the first solo artist to win all four General Field Grammy Awards (Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Best New Artist) in the same year. Hot 100 top 20 hits from this album included "Ride Like the Wind" (featuring backing vocals by Michael McDonald), "Sailing", "Never Be the Same", and "Say You'll Be Mine" (featuring backing vocals by Nicolette Larson).
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Daniel Lanois
Daniel Lanois ( /lænˈwɑː/ lan-WAH; born September 19, 1951 in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian record producer, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He has released a number of albums of his own work and has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Brandon Flowers and Ron Sexsmith. Lanois is best known for his work with Brian Eno, the pair collaborating on a number of projects together and producing several platinum albums for U2, including The Joshua Tree. Three albums produced or co-produced by Lanois have won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and four others received nominations.
Lanois started his production career when he was 17, working in his own studio with his brother Bob Lanois in the basement of their mother's Ancaster, Ontario home, recording local artists including Simply Saucer. Later Daniel started Grant Avenue Studios in an old house he purchased in Hamilton, Ontario. He worked with a number of local bands, including Martha and the Muffins (for whom his sister Jocelyne played bass), Ray Materick, as well as the Canadian children's singer Raffi.
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David Gilmour
David Jon Gilmour,CBE (born 6 March 1946) is an English rock musician and multi-instrumentalist who is best known as the guitarist, one of the lead singers and main songwriters in the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. It is estimated that as of 2010, the group have sold over 250 million records worldwide, including 74.5 million units sold in the United States.
In addition to his work with Pink Floyd, Gilmour has worked as a producer for a variety of artists, and has enjoyed a successful career as a solo artist. Gilmour has been actively involved with many charities over the course of his career.
In 2003, he was appointed CBE for his charity work and was awarded with the Outstanding Contribution title at the 2008 Q Awards. In 2011, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him number 14 in their list of the greatest guitarists of all time.
Gilmour was born in Cambridge, England. His father, Douglas Gilmour, was a senior lecturer in zoology at the University of Cambridge and his mother, Sylvia (née Wilson), was a teacher and film editor who raised her family at Grantchester Meadows, later immortalised by a Roger Waters song on Pink Floyd's Ummagumma. He has a younger brother who is also a musician.
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David Hungate
David Hungate (b. August 5, 1948) is a bass player noted as a member of Los Angeles pop-rock band Toto from 1977 to 1982. Along with most of his Toto bandmates, Hungate did sessions on a number of hit albums of the 1970s, including Boz Scaggs's Silk Degrees and Alice Cooper's From the Inside.
Hungate played on Toto's first four records, including multiple Grammy award-winning album, Toto IV. He left the band shortly after its release for a career as a session musician in Nashville. Hungate also plays guitar and has produced and recorded with several country artists such as Chet Atkins. Currently residing in Nashville, Hungate has collaborated with both former and current members of Toto for occasional recordings and gigs over the years. He was also a primary member of AOR supergroup Mecca fronted by Joe Vana and Fergie Frederiksen, the latter also of Toto fame. In 1990 he released a solo album entitled "Souvenir" (on CBS). Jeff Porcaro played drums on some of the tracks on the album.
Hungate attended North Texas State University College of Music, where he played bass in the One O'Clock Lab Band the year that it performed at the 1970 Montreaux Jazz Festival. He is the son of the late US Congressman (and later Federal District Judge) William L Hungate.
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David Paich
David Frank Paich (born June 25, 1954 in Los Angeles, California) is a multi-disciplined musical contributor. His contibutions include performing as a live and studio session musician, keyboard player, recording producer, arranger, vocalist and main composer of the Los Angeles-based rock/pop band Toto. With Toto, Paich has released 17 albums and sold over 30 million records. Additionally, Paich has contributed to a host of artists with his songwriting and arrangements including working with Boz Skaggs extensively in the 1970s and Michael Jackson in the 1980s.
He is the son of the late jazz composer, musician, and arranger Marty Paich, having adopted many of his father's skills for his contribution to music.
A prolific writer of chart-breakers, Paich wrote or co-wrote hits such as "Hold the Line", "Lowdown", "Lido Shuffle", "Georgy Porgy", "Rosanna", "Got To Be Real", and "Lady Love Me (One More Time)". He also performed lead vocals on the Toto hits "Africa", "Lovers in the Night", and "Stranger in Town".
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Dennis Frederiksen
Dennis Hardy "Fergie" Frederiksen (born May 15, 1951, Grand Rapids, Michigan) is an American rock singer, best known for his work with Angel, Le Roux and Toto during the 1980s. He got his start in the mid to late '70s fronting Chicago pomp rock bands MSFunk and Trillion and was also the background vocalist for Survivor. He contributed to hit singles in three consecutive years all with different bands: Survivor's "American Heartbeat" in 1982, Le Roux's "Carrie's Gone" in 1983 and Toto's "Stranger in Town" in 1984.
Frederiksen started his musical career at the age of 13, and he played clubs and pubs at the age of 15 with a group called the Common People in Grand Rapids, MI. In 1975, while he was still attending college at Central Michigan, Frederiksen was asked by his friend Tommy Shaw to replace him as the lead vocalist for the band MSFunk, as Shaw was leaving to join Styx. Frederiksen was with MSFunk for a year before disbanding in 1976. While living in Chicago, he formed a local band called Trillion with keyboardist Patrick Leonard. Trillion's debut album was released in 1978 and was produced by Gary Lyons (co-producer of Foreigner's debut album); all but one of its nine tracks were co-written by Frederiksen. The band went on to tour with Styx and Heart, where Frederiksen began performing his trademark back-flips during live shows to fire up crowds, a gimmick he would continue with later bands. Overwhelmed with having to commute back and forth between college and recording, he left the band soon after.
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Derek Sherinian
Derek Sherinian (born August 25, 1966) is an American keyboardist who has toured and recorded for Alice Cooper, Billy Idol, Yngwie Malmsteen, Kiss, and Alice In Chains. He was also a member of Dream Theater from 1994–1999, and is the founder of progressive metal/instrumental rock supergroup Planet X. Sherinian is also one of the founding members of Black Country Communion. His solo albums often feature a variety of prominent guest musicians, including guitarists Slash, Yngwie Malmsteen, Allan Holdsworth, Steve Lukather, Joe Bonamassa, Billy Sheehan, Zakk Wylde and Al Di Meola.
Sherinian has distinguished himself by his aggressive "guitaristic" approach to his keyboard style. He has appeared on the cover of keyboard magazines across the world, including the November 2011 issue of Keyboard Magazine, which declared Sherinian a "Keyboard hero for a new generation". He has also been called the "King of the Keys" by Guitar World magazine and the "Caligula of Keyboards" by Alice Cooper. His main musical influences include Elton John, Van Halen and Jeff Beck.
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Djivan Gasparyan
Djivan Gasparyan (var. Jivan Gasparyan;Armenian: Ջիվան Գասպարյան, Armenian pronunciation: [dʒiˈvɑn ɡɑspɑɾˈjɑn]; born October 12, 1928) is an Armenian musician and composer. He plays the duduk, a double reed woodwind instrument related to the orchestral oboe. Gasparyan is known as the Master of the duduk.
Born in Solag, Armenia, Gasparyan started to play duduk when he was six. In 1948 he became a soloist of the Armenian Song and Dance Popular Ensemble and the Yerevan Philarmonic Orchestra. He has won four medals at UNESCO worldwide competitions (1959, 1962, 1973, and 1980). In 1973 Gasparyan was awarded the honorary title People's Artist of Armenia and in 2002, he received the WOMEX (World Music Expo) Lifetime Achievement Award. A professor at the Yerevan State Musical Conservatory, he has instructed and nurtured many performers to professional levels of performance in duduk.
He has toured the world several times with a small ensemble playing Armenian folk music. He has collaborated with many artists, such as Hossein Alizadeh, Sting, Erkan Ogur, Michael Brook, Peter Gabriel, Brian May, Lionel Richie, Derek Sherinian, Ludovico Einaudi, Boris Grebenshchikov, David Sylvian, Hans Zimmer and Andreas Vollenweider.
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Donna Summer
LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012), known by the stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer and songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the late 1970s. She had a mezzo-soprano vocal range, and was a five-time Grammy Award winner. Summer was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach number one on the United States Billboard chart, and she also charted four number-one singles in the United States within a 13-month period.
Born into a devoutly Christian lower middle class African American family in Boston, Massachusetts, Summer first became involved with singing through church choir groups before joining a number of bands influenced by the Motown Sound. Influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, she became the front singer of a psychedelic rock band named Crow and moved to New York City. Joining a touring version of the musical Hair, she spent several years living in West Germany, where she married Helmut Sommer, whose surname she adopted as her stage name.
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Dweezil Zappa
Dweezil Zappa (born September 5, 1969) is an American rock guitarist and occasional actor.
Zappa was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of musician Frank Zappa and Gail Zappa, who worked in business. He is the second of four siblings: his older sister, Moon, younger sister Diva and younger brother Ahmet. He is the cousin of actress Lala Sloatman. Zappa's father was of Sicilian, Greek, Arab and French descent and his mother was of Danish, French, Irish and Portuguese ancestry.
Dweezil's registered birth name was Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa. The hospital at which he was born refused to register him under the name Dweezil, so Frank listed the names of several musician friends. "Dweezil" was a nickname coined by Frank for an oddly-curled pinky-toe of Gail's. At five years old, Dweezil learned that his legal name was different, and he insisted on having his nickname become his legal name. Gail and Frank hired an attorney and soon the name Dweezil was official.
In the 1980s, Zappa worked as an MTV VJ and was promptly fired after badmouthing MTV on The Howard Stern Show. He also recorded some solo albums, as well as playing for other artists. Zappa can be heard playing lead guitar on The Fat Boys' "Wipe Out" (1987) and can be seen in the music video for Don Johnson's top 40 song, "Heartbeat". He also played co-lead guitar (along with Reb Beach) on Winger's cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze". Dweezil has said that Eddie Van Halen was his favorite guitar player, and he began copying Van Halen's distinctive guitar style. He also had a part in the futuristic Arnold Schwarzenegger film The Running Man as Stevie ("Don't touch that dial!"), and gave his most famous cameo role in John Hughes's Brat Pack film, Pretty in Pink (starring Molly Ringwald), as Andie's friend, Simon.
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Eddie Van Halen
Edward Lodewijk "Eddie" Van Halen (born January 26, 1955) is a Dutch-born American guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter and producer. He is best known as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the eponymous hard rock band Van Halen. Allmusic described him as "Second to only Jimi Hendrix... undoubtedly one of the most influential, original, and talented rock guitarists of the 20th century." He is ranked 8th in Rolling Stone's 2011 list of the Top 100 guitarists.
Born in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Edward Lodewijk van Halen is a son of clarinetist, saxophonist and pianist father Jan van Halen and mother Eugenia. Eugenia van Halen was originally from Indonesia which was a former Dutch colony. Eugenia was half Dutch and half Indonesian. Edward's middle name "Lodewijk" was derived from composer Ludwig van Beethoven (Lodewijk is the Dutch version of Ludwig). Edward continued this naming tradition by naming his son Wolfgang Van Halen after composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.. In February 1962, at the age of seven, Edward moved with his family to the United States, settling in Pasadena, California.[1]
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Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, (born 30 March 1945) is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time. Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and fourth in Gibson's Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.
In the mid 1960s, Clapton departed from the Yardbirds to play blues with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. In his one-year stay with Mayall, Clapton gained the nickname "Slowhand". Immediately after leaving Mayall, Clapton formed Cream, a power trio with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce in which Clapton played sustained blues improvisations and "arty, blues-based psychedelic pop." For most of the 1970s, Clapton's output bore the influence of the mellow style of J.J. Cale and the reggae of Bob Marley. His version of Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff" helped reggae reach a mass market. Two of his most popular recordings were "Layla", recorded by Derek and the Dominos, another band he formed and Robert Johnson's "Crossroads", recorded by Cream. A recipient of seventeen Grammy Awards, in 2004 Clapton was awarded a CBE for services to music. In 1998, Clapton, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, founded the Crossroads Centre on Antigua, a medical facility for recovering substance abusers.
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Eric Johnson
Eric Johnson (born August 17, 1954) is an American musician, songwriter, and vocalist from Austin, Texas. Best known for his electric guitar skills, Johnson is also a highly proficient acoustic, lap steel, resonator, and bass guitarist as well as an accomplished pianist and vocalist.
Johnson has mastered a wide array of musical genres evidenced by the many different styles incorporated in both his studio and live performances including rock, blues, jazz, fusion, soul, folk, New Age, classical, and country and western.
Guitar Player magazine has called Johnson "one of the most respected guitarists on the planet". Johnson's stylistic diversity and technical proficiency with the guitar have been praised by Bill Hicks. His 1990 platinum-selling, full-length album, Ah Via Musicom, produced the single, "Cliffs Of Dover", for which Johnson won the 1991 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.
Born into a musically-inclined family, Johnson and his three sisters studied piano and his father was a whistling enthusiast. Johnson started learning the guitar at age 11 and rapidly began progressing through the music that would heavily influence his future style, including Eric Clapton, Mike Bloomfield, Chet Atkins, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Wes Montgomery, Jerry Reed, Bob Dylan and Django Reinhardt, among others. At the age of 15, he joined his first professional band—Mariani, a psychedelic rock group. In 1968, Johnson and the group recorded a demo, which saw extremely limited release; years later the recording became a prized collector's item.
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Fee Waybill
John Waldo "Fee" Waybill (born 17 September 1950, Omaha, Nebraska), is the lead singer and songwriter of the band the Tubes. Waybill has also worked with other acts, including Toto, Richard Marx, and projects headed by Billy Sherwood.
Waybill, along with The Tubes, appeared in Robert Greenwald's Xanadu, and the 1982 independent Canadian film, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains. He played the character Lou Corpse, the washed-up frontman of a band called The Metal Corpses. In 1984, a year after The Tubes released one of their most successful albums, Waybill released his first solo album called Read My Lips. In 1996, Waybill released another album called Don't Be Scared By These Hands. It was revealed in a video blog by Richard Marx that Waybill was in the process of recording a third solo album. The album title and release date have yet to be announced.
During the early 1980s, Waybill appeared as himself on a short-lived television program called Rock-N-America, usually performing as a street reporter who annoyed pedestrians with nonsensical interviews. He also made a cameo in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure as one of "The Three Most Important People In the World" and in a Fishin' Musician episode from Second City TV.
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Frank Gambale
Frank Gambale (born 22 December 1958) is an Australian jazz fusion guitarist. He has released eleven studio albums over a period of more than two decades, and is renowned for his use of the sweep picking and economy picking techniques.
Gambale graduated from the Guitar Institute of Technology in Hollywood, with Student of the Year honors. He also taught there from 1984 to 1986. After graduation, he played the jazz club circuit with his own band and in 1985 released his first studio album, Brave New Guitar, through Legato Records (owned by Mark Varney, brother of Shrapnel Records founder Mike Varney) in what was to be a three-album contract. In that same year, he toured with Jean-Luc Ponty and shortly afterwards began a six-year stint with the Chick Corea Elektric Band in 1987. During his time with the latter, he has participated in five albums and shared a Grammy Award (with two nominations).
In the 1980s, he released two studio albums and a live album. In 1988, he released Monster Licks & Speed Picking, the first of many instructional videos. An endorsement deal with Ibanez guitars resulted in the 1987 debut of the Frank Gambale Model (FGM) signature series, modeled after the Ibanez S. Yamaha also manufactured a signature guitar after he left Ibanez later in the 1990s. He signed with Victor Entertainment in 1989 as part of a five-album agreement, and released Thunder from Down Under the following year.
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George Benson
George Benson (born March 22, 1943) is a ten time Grammy Award winning American musician, whose production career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist.
Benson first came to prominence in the 1960s playing soul jazz with the likes of Jack McDuff. Benson then launched a successful solo career, alternating between jazz, pop, R&B singing, and scat singing. This one-time child prodigy topped the Billboard 200 in 1976 with the triple-platinum album, Breezin', He was also a major live attraction in the UK during the 1980s and continues to attract a large following today. Benson uses a rest-stroke picking technique similar to that of gypsy jazz players such as Django Reinhardt.
Benson was born and raised in the Hill District in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At the age of 7, Benson first played the ukulele in a corner drug store for which he was paid a few dollars; at the age of 8, he was playing guitar in an unlicensed nightclub on Friday and Saturday nights which was soon closed down by the police. At the age of 10, George recorded his first single record with RCA-Victor in New York, called 'She Makes Me Mad'.
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George Harrison
George Harrison,MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison became over time an admirer of Indian culture and mysticism, and introduced it to the other Beatles, as well as their Western audience. Following the band's break-up he was a successful solo artist, and later a founding member of the Traveling Wilburys. Harrison was also a session musician and a film and record producer. He is listed at number 11 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
Although most of The Beatles' songs were written by Lennon and McCartney, Beatle albums generally included one or two of Harrison's own songs, from With The Beatles onwards. His later compositions with The Beatles include "Here Comes the Sun", "Something" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". By the time of the band's break-up, Harrison had accumulated a backlog of material, which he then released as the triple album All Things Must Pass in 1970, from which two hit singles originated: a double A-side single, "My Sweet Lord" backed with "Isn't It a Pity", and "What Is Life". In addition to his solo work, Harrison co-wrote two hits for former Beatle Ringo Starr, as well as songs for the Traveling Wilburys—the supergroup he formed in 1988 with Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Roy Orbison.
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George Michael
George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (Greek: Γεώργιος Κυριάκος Παναγιώτου); 25 June 1963) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. Michael rose to fame in the 1980s when he formed the pop duo Wham! with his school friend, Andrew Ridgeley. His first solo single, "Careless Whisper", was released when he was still in the duo and sold about six million copies worldwide.
As one of the world's best-selling music artists, Michael has sold more than 100 million records worldwide as of 2010. His 1987 debut solo album, Faith, has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and made several records and achievements in the United States. Michael has garnered seven number one singles in the UK and eight number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked Michael the 40th most successful artist on the Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists list.
Michael has won numerous music awards throughout his 30-year career, including three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male twice, four MTV Video Music Awards, four Ivor Novello Awards, three American Music Awards, and two Grammy Awards from eight nominations.
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Greg Phillinganes
Greg Phillinganes (born Gregory Arthur Phillinganes on May 12, 1956 in Detroit, Michigan) is an active session keyboardist in Los Angeles, California. He is a graduate of Cass Technical High School, Detroit Michigan.[citation needed] Phillinganes was discovered by Stevie Wonder who heard a cassette of instrumental renditions of his own songs done by Phillinganes.[citation needed] Wonder recruited Phillinganes for his Wonderlove band, where Phillinganes stayed from 1976 to 1981.
In 1981, he released his first solo album, Significant Gains. While the album itself was not very successful, he did manage to score a minor R&B hit with "Baby, I Do Love You." Three years later, he released his follow-up album Pulse, which featured another minor hit (and perhaps his best-known solo hit), a cover of Yellow Magic Orchestra's song "Behind the Mask" (with additional lyrics written by Michael Jackson). This single was much more successful on the Dance music charts. When he later joined Eric Clapton's backing band, Phillinganes would introduce the tune to Clapton, who covered it on his 1986 August album. Amidst his solo recordings and touring with Clapton throughout the 1980s, he became well known as a prominent session musician for a multitude of different artists, performing on many hit albums of the time. His session work has continued into the present.
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Gregg Bissonette
Gregg Bissonette, (born June 9, 1959, Detroit, Michigan) is an American drummer.
Bissonette was born in a family of musicians. His father Bud Bissonette plays drums, his mother Phyllis plays piano and vibraphone, and brother Matt Bissonette plays bass guitar. Bissonette started learning to play the drums at age 5 from his father. Bissonette went on to study at the University of North Texas where he was a music education major. He was also featured in the famed One O'Clock Lab Band. After college, he joined Matt in the Maynard Ferguson Big Band and recorded "Live from San Francisco".
One of Bissonette's first recordings was Brandon Field's "The Other Side of the Story" in 1985. It also featured David Garfield on keyboards. A few years later Bissonette would start playing shows with Brandon, David, and Steve Lukather on guitar and with John Pena on bass as "Los Lobotomys" to standing room only audiences. These shows took place at The Baked Potato, a jazz club and restaurant located in Los Angeles, California, playing rock, Latin, jazz and more.
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Hugh Padgham
Hugh Padgham is a British record producer. He has won many awards, including four Grammys, with Producer of the Year (1985) and Engineer of the Year. A 1992 poll in Mix magazine voted him one of the world's Top Ten Most Influential Producers.
Padgham started out as a tape operator at Advision Studios, working in recording sessions for Yes and Emerson, Lake and Palmer. From there he went to Lansdowne Studios and moved from tape-operator/assistant engineer to head engineer. In 1978, Padgham got a job at The Townhouse, where he engineered and/or produced acts including XTC, Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins.
Padgham's previous work with Gabriel and Collins led to a long and enormously successful collaboration with Genesis in the 1980s, which produced a string of hit albums and singles including Genesis and Invisible Touch. In addition to his work with Genesis and XTC, Padgham co-produced two albums with The Police: Ghost in the Machine and Synchronicity, as well as Paul McCartney's Press to Play and The Human League's Hysteria.
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Jan Hammer
Jan Hammer (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈɦamɛr]) (born 17 April 1948, in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, today the Czech Republic) is a composer, pianist and keyboardist. He first gained his most visible audience while playing keyboards with the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early 1970s, as well as his film scores for television and film including "Miami Vice Theme" and "Crockett's Theme", from the popular 1980s program, Miami Vice. He continued to work as both a musical performer and producer, expanding to producing film later in his career.
Hammer has collaborated with some of the era's most influential jazz and rock musicians such as Jeff Beck, Al Di Meola, Mick Jagger, Carlos Santana, Stanley Clarke, Neal Schon, Steve Lukather, and Elvin Jones among many others. He has composed and produced at least 14 original motion picture soundtracks, the music for 90 episodes of Miami Vice and 20 episodes of the popular British television series Chancer.
His compositions have won him several Grammy awards.[citation needed]
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Jay Graydon
Jay Graydon is a Los Angeles songwriter, recording artist, guitarist, singer, producer, arranger, and recording engineer. He is the winner of two Grammy Awards (in the R&B category) with twelve Grammy nominations, among them the title "Producer of the Year" and "Best Engineered Recording". Jay Graydon has mastered many different styles and genres. In his career his recordings have been featured on record, film, television, and on stage.
Graydon made his singing debut on his second birthday on the "Joe Graydon Show," the first music/talk television show in Los Angeles, hosted by his father, Joe Graydon.
During and for a brief time after his college days Jay Graydon played in the Don Ellis Band, whose style can be described as experimental post-bop jazz. He can be heard on the live double album "Don Ellis at Fillmore".
From the late 60s to the late 70s he was a session musician in Los Angeles, working with such artists as Gino Vannelli, Barbra Streisand, Dolly Parton, Diana Ross, The Jackson Five, Alice Cooper, Cheap Trick,Al Jarreau, Christopher Cross, Ray Charles, Cher, Joe Cocker, Marvin Gaye, Hall & Oates, Olivia Newton-John, and Albert King. He is perhaps best known for his guitar solo for Steely Dan's "Peg".
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Jeff Beck
Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck (born 24 June 1944) is an English rock guitarist. He is one of three noted guitarists to have played with The Yardbirds (Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page are the other two). Beck also formed The Jeff Beck Group and Beck, Bogert & Appice.
Much of Beck's recorded output has been instrumental, with a focus on innovative sound and his releases have spanned genres ranging from blues-rock, heavy metal, jazz fusion and an additional blend of guitar-rock and electronica. Although he recorded two hit albums (in 1975 and 1976) as a solo act, Beck has not established or maintained the sustained commercial success of many of his contemporaries and bandmates. Beck appears on albums by Mick Jagger, Kate Bush, Roger Waters, Donovan, Stevie Wonder, Les Paul, Zucchero, Cyndi Lauper, Brian May and ZZ Top. In 1988, he made a cameo appearance in the movie Twins.
He was ranked 5th in Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and the magazine has described him as "one of the most influential lead guitarists in rock".MSNBC has called him a "guitarist's guitarist". Beck has earned wide critical praise and received the Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance six times and Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance once. He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice: as a member of The Yardbirds (1992) and as a solo artist (2009).
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Jeff Porcaro
Jeffrey Thomas "Jeff" Porcaro (April 1, 1954 – August 5, 1992) was an American session drummer and a founding member of the Grammy Award winning band Toto. Porcaro was one of the most recorded drummers in history, working on hundreds of albums and thousands of sessions. While already an established studio player in the 1970s, he shot to prominence in the US as the drummer on the Steely Dan album Katy Lied. Allmusic has characterized him as "arguably the most highly regarded studio drummer in rock from the mid-'70s to the early '90s", further stating that "It is no exaggeration to say that the sound of mainstream pop/rock drumming in the 1980s was, to a large extent, the sound of Jeff Porcaro."
Porcaro was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the eldest son of Los Angeles session percussionist Joe Porcaro. His brothers Steve and Mike are both still active session musicians. Porcaro was raised in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles and attended Ulysses S. Grant High School.
On October 22, 1983, Porcaro married Susan Norris, a Los Angeles television newscaster. They had three sons, Christopher Joseph (born July 3, 1984), Miles Edwin Crawford (born June 12, 1986), and Nico Hendrix (born December 26, 1991).
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Jerry Goodman
Jerry Goodman (Chicago, Illinois, March 16, 1949) is an American violinist best known for playing electric violin in the bands The Flock and the jazz fusion Mahavishnu Orchestra. Goodman actually began his musical career as The Flock's roadie before joining the band on violin. Trained in the conservatory, both of his parents were in the string section of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. His uncle was the noted composer and jazz pianist Marty Rubenstein.
After his 1970 appearance on John McLaughlin's album My Goal's Beyond, he became a member of McLaughlin's original Mahavishnu Orchestra lineup until the band broke up in 1973, and was viewed as a soloist of equal virtuosity to McLaughlin and drummer Billy Cobham.
In 1975, after Mahavishnu, Goodman recorded the album Like Children with Mahavishnu keyboard alumnus Jan Hammer. Starting in 1985 he recorded three solo albums for Private Music -- On the Future of Aviation, Ariel, and the live album It's Alive with luminaries such as Fred Simon and Jim Hines -- and went on tour with his own band, as well as with Shadowfax and The Dixie Dregs. He scored Lily Tomlin's The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe and is the featured violinist on numerous film soundtracks, including Billy Crystal's Mr. Saturday Night and Steve Martin's Dirty Rotten Scoundrels . His violin can be heard on more than fifty albums from artists ranging from Toots Thielemans to Hall & Oates to Styx to Jordan Rudess to Choking Ghost to Derek Sherinian. Goodman has appeared on keyboardist Sherinian's last four solo records - Inertia (2001), Black Utopia (2003), Mythology (2004), and Blood of the Snake (2006)
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Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American musician and singer-songwriter. He is widely considered to be the greatest electric guitarist in music history, and one of the most influential musicians of his era despite mainstream exposure limited to just three years. After initial success in Europe with his group The Jimi Hendrix Experience, he achieved fame in the United States following his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. Later, he headlined the iconic 1969 Woodstock Festival and the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival. He often favored raw overdriven amplifiers with high gain and treble and helped develop the previously undesirable technique of guitar amplifier feedback.
Hendrix helped to popularize use of the wah-wah pedal in mainstream rock, which he often used to deliver tonal exaggerations in his solos, particularly with high bends, complex guitar playing, and use of legato. As a record producer, he also broke new ground in using the recording studio as an extension of his musical ideas. He was one of the first to experiment with stereophonic phasing effects for rock recording.[citation needed] He was influenced by blues artists such as B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Albert King and Elmore James,rhythm and blues and soul guitarists Curtis Mayfield and Steve Cropper, and the jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery. Hendrix began dressing and wearing a moustache like Little Richard when he performed and recorded in his band from March 1, 1964 through to the spring of 1965. In 1966, he stated, "I want to do with my guitar what Little Richard does with his voice".
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Jimmy Page
James Patrick "Jimmy" Page, OBE (born 9 January 1944) is an English guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968, after which he founded the English rock band Led Zeppelin.
Jimmy Page is viewed by critics, fans and fellow musicians alike as one of the most influential and important guitarists and songwriters in rock music.Rolling Stone magazine has described him as "the pontiff of power riffing & probably the most digitally sampled artist in pop today after James Brown." In 2010, Jimmy Page was ranked No.2 in Gibson's list of "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time" and, in 2007, No.4 on Classic Rock Magazine's "100 Wildest Guitar Heroes". Page was ranked third in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" in 2011. He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice; once as a member of The Yardbirds (1992), and once as a member of Led Zeppelin (1995).
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Jimmy Wyble
James Otis Wyble (January 25, 1922 – January 16, 2010) was an American guitarist, noted for his contributions to both jazz and Western swing. He was born in Port Arthur, Texas and died in Los Angeles, California.
Wyble played country music in the early 1940s with fellow guitarist Cameron Hill on local Houston radio. He was playing in Foreman Phillips's band when Bob Wills hired him and Hill to play in his group, the Texas Playboys. He served in the Army from 1942 to 1946, and returned to work with Western swing groups into the 1950s.
In 1953, he released his first record as a bandleader, The Jimmy Wyble Quintet. The album featured accordion, clarinet, guitar, bass, and drums. That same year, he recorded with Barney Kessel. Soon after he played in the bands of Benny Goodman and Red Norvo; he spent eight years touring and recording with Norvo, including a tour of Australia backing Frank Sinatra.
Wyble's output decreased in the 1960s and 1970s, playing mainly as a session musician in Los Angeles. In 1977 he recorded an album entitled Jimmy Wyble & Love Brothers, which featured neither a musician nor an ensemble called "Love Brothers". During this time Wyble played on TV shows such as The Flip Wilson Show and Kraft Music Hall, and studied classical guitar with Laurindo Almeida. Wyble also became a revered and highly sought-out teacher; among his students were Howard Roberts, Steve Lukather, Howard Alden and Larry Koonse. Wyble played guitar on movie soundtracks, including The Wild Bunch, Ocean's Eleven, Woody Allen's "Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex", and Kings Go Forth. In the 1970's he also developed a unique and personal two-line contrapuntal approach to guitar, and composed numerous etudes in this style. Many of these pieces were published in various book, including "Classical/Country"(Howard Roberts-Playback 1973), "The Art of Two-Line Improvisation(PMP 1979), and "Concepts for the Classical and Jazz Guitar"(Mel Bay 2000).
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Joe Bonamassa
Joe Bonamassa (born May 8, 1977) is an American blues rock guitarist and singer. He began his career playing guitar in the band Bloodline, which featured the offspring of several famous musicians (such as Miles Davis, Robby Krieger and Berry Oakley of The Allman Brothers Band). He released his first solo album A New Day Yesterday in 2000, and has since released nine more solo studio albums, four live albums and three live DVDs, along with two albums with the band Black Country Communion and one album in collaboration with vocalist Beth Hart. He tours the world regularly, and has developed a large following in the U.K. especially. His most recent album, Driving Towards The Daylight, reached #2 on the U.K. Top 40 Albums Chart, and he completed an arena tour there in 2012. In 2009 he was the recipient of the Classic Rock Magazine "Breakthrough Artist of the Year" award, and The Guardian said of him: "the 32-year-old from upstate New York has consolidated a reputation as the pre-eminent blues-rock guitarist of his generation".
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Joe Porcaro
Joseph (Joe) Porcaro (born April 29, 1930 in Hartford, Connecticut, currently residing in Los Angeles, California) is an American jazz drummer, percussionist and educator.
His three sons were all musicians in the band Toto: keyboardist Steve Porcaro, bassist Mike Porcaro and late drummer Jeff Porcaro. Joe guested on every Toto album from Turn Back through Kingdom of Desire, including Toto IV. He also has a daughter, Joleen Porcaro Duddy. Along with fellow music educator and drummer, Ralph Humphrey, Joe was one of the founders of the Los Angeles Music Academy (LAMA) located in Pasadena, California.
Porcaro has recorded with Pink Floyd, Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan, Freddie Hubbard, Don Ellis, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughn, Natalie Cole, The Monkees, Gladys Knight and Madonna. He has also done film score work, including with James Newton Howard, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner, Danny Elfman, John Frizzell and his son Steve.
With Lalo Schifrin
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Joe Satriani
Joseph "Joe" Satriani (born July 15, 1956) is an American instrumental rock guitarist of Italian origin, multi-instrumentalist and multiple Grammy Award nominee. Early in his career, Satriani worked as a guitar instructor, and some of his former students have achieved fame such as Steve Vai, Larry LaLonde, Rick Hunolt, Kirk Hammett, Andy Timmons, Charlie Hunter, Kevin Cadogan and Alex Skolnick. Satriani has been a driving force in music credited to other musicians throughout his career, as a founder of the G3 tour, as well as performing in various positions with other musicians.
In 1988, Satriani was recruited by Mick Jagger as lead guitarist for Jagger's first solo tour. In 1994, Satriani was the lead guitarist for Deep Purple. Satriani worked with a range of guitarists, including Steve Vai, John Petrucci, Eric Johnson, Larry LaLonde, Yngwie Malmsteen, Brian May, Patrick Rondat, Andy Timmons, Paul Gilbert, Adrian Legg, and Robert Fripp through the annual G3 Jam Concerts. He is currently the lead guitarist for the supergroup Chickenfoot. Since 1988, Satriani has been using his own signature guitar, the Ibanez JS Series, which is sold in music stores worldwide.
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John Hartman
John Hartman (born March 18, 1950 in Falls Church, Virginia) is a U.S. drummer who was a co-founder and original drummer of the Doobie Brothers. At the band's inception, Hartman was the sole drummer. However, in late 1971, the group added second drummer Michael Hossack, and the dual-drummers formation has persisted ever since. (Hossack was replaced in 1974 by Keith Knudsen.)
Hartman played on all of the Doobie Brothers' major hits of the 1970s with both Tom Johnston and Michael McDonald. He left early in 1979 following a promotional tour in support of the award-winning Minute by Minute album to look after ponies on his ranch.
Hartman was enticed to join twelve Doobies alumni (including drummers Hossack, Knudsen, and Hartman's own 1979 replacement Chet McCracken) for a brief benefit tour in 1987. Hartman subsequently rejoined when the band was reconstituted the following year. He played on the reunion albums Cycles (1989) and Brotherhood (1991) as well as the accompanying promotional tours. However, following a 1992 alumni reunion for the benefit of terminally ill percussionist Bobby LaKind, Hartman retired permanently from the band. In typical Doobies fashion, he was replaced by his former partner, Keith Knudsen.
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John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founder members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Together with Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved as a teenager in the skiffle craze; his first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into The Beatles in 1960. As the group disintegrated towards the end of the decade, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced the critically acclaimed albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine". After his marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969, he changed his name to John Ono Lennon. Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to devote time to raising his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new album Double Fantasy. He was murdered three weeks after its release.
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John Petrucci
John Peter Petrucci (born July 12, 1967) is an American guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater. Along with his former bandmate Mike Portnoy, he has produced all Dream Theater albums since their 1999 release, Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory. He is also a backing vocalist for Dream Theater. Petrucci was named as the third player on the G3 tour six times, more than any other invited guitarists. In 2009 he was named the No. 2 Best metal guitarist by Joel McIver in his book The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists. He was also named as one of the "Top 10 Greatest Guitar Shredders of All Time" by GuitarOne magazine.
John Petrucci was born on July 12, 1967 in Kings Park, New York to an Italian American family. He picked up the guitar at the early age of 8 because his older sister was allowed to go to bed later in order to practice the piano. However he decided to quit the guitar when his attempts to stay up late were unsuccessful. He would later pick up the guitar again at the age of 12 when his childhood friend and future Dream Theater keyboardist Kevin Moore invited John to join his cover band.
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Keith Knudsen
Keith Knudsen (February 18, 1948 – February 8, 2005) was an American rock drummer, vocalist and songwriter.
Knudsen (pronounced 'K-noodsen') was born in Le Mars, Iowa. He began drumming while attending Princeton High School in Princeton, Illinois, where he graduated from in 1966. After short stints playing in a club band and the Blind Joe Mendlebaum Blues Band, he became the drummer for the organist/vocalist Lee Michaels. He played in The Hoodoo Rhythm Devils from late 1972 through mid 1973. He never did any formal studio recording with them, but recorded a live Texas Special on KSAN-FM in San Francisco with the Hoodoos and Johnny Winter. His big break came in 1974 when he was invited to join The Doobie Brothers, replacing the departing Michael Hossack. Knudsen, who joined the band during the recording of the 1974 Top 10 platinum album, What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits. He made his recording debut with the Doobies on What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits in 1974, performing backing vocals over instrumental tracks that included Hossack.
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Keith Richards
Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English musician and songwriter, and a founder member of The Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone magazine said Richards has created "rock's greatest single body of riffs", and has named him the 4th greatest guitarist of all time. Fourteen songs written by Richards and songwriting partner Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones' lead vocalist, are listed among Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Richards' notoriety for illicit drug use stems in part from several drug busts during the late 1960s and 1970s.
Keith Richards is the only child of Bert Richards and Doris Dupree Richards. He was born at Livingston Hospital in Dartford, Kent. His father was a factory worker injured in World War II during the Normandy invasion.
Richards' paternal grandparents were socialists and civic leaders whose family originated from Wales. His maternal grandfather, Augustus Theodore Dupree, who toured Britain with a jazz big band, "Gus Dupree and his Boys", fostered Richards' interest in guitar.
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Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Kenny Wayne Shepherd (born Kenny Wayne Brobst, June 12, 1977, Shreveport, Louisiana) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He has released several studio albums and experienced a rare level of commercial success both as a blues artist and a young musician.
Shepherd graduated Caddo Magnet High School in Shreveport, Louisiana. The guitarist is "completely self taught", and does not read music. Growing up, Shepherd's father (Ken Shepherd) was a local radio personality and some-time concert promoter, and had a vast collection of music. Shepherd got his first "guitar" at the age of three or four, when his grandmother purchased a series of several plastic guitars for him with S&H Green Stamps, which Shepherd has said he would "go through like candy".[clarification needed]
Shepherd stated in a 2010 interview that he began playing guitar in earnest at age seven, about six months after meeting and being "pretty mesmerized" by Stevie Ray Vaughan, in June 1984, at one of his father's promoted concerts. His self-taught method employed a process of learning one note at a time, playing and rewinding cassette tapes, utilizing "a cheap Yamaha wanna-be Stratocaster...made out of plywood, basically", learning Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Albert Lee licks from his father's vast music collection.
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Kim Carnes
Kim Carnes (born July 20, 1945 Hollywood, California) is an American singer-songwriter. She is a two-time Grammy Award winner noted for her distinctive raspy vocal style. Some people have called her "The Female Rod Stewart" due to her raspy voice.
As a young singer, Kim Carnes joined in 1966 The New Christy Minstrels together with Kenny Rogers and Karen Black. After writing songs for many years, Carnes signed her first publishing deal in 1969 with famed producer Jimmy Bowen. During this period, she shared demo-recording time with Bowen's other writers, including Don Henley, Glenn Frey, and J.D. Souther. Carnes also sang "Nobody Knows", written by Mike Settle, which was featured in the end credits of the 1971 film, Vanishing Point. The film also featured Carnes' first selection as a songwriter, "Sing Out for Jesus", which was recorded by Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton.
In the early 1970s Carnes and husband Dave Ellingson co-wrote several songs with David Cassidy, then at the peak of his career as an international idol, and toured the world with him as part of his band. These songs appear on Cassidy's albums Rock Me Baby, Dreams are Nuthin' More than Wishes and Cassidy Live!, where Carnes' backing vocals can be heard to great effect.
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Larry Carlton
Larry Carlton (born March 2, 1948, Torrance, California) is an American jazz, smooth jazz, jazz fusion, pop, and rock guitarist. He has divided his recording time between solo recordings and session appearances with various well-known bands. Over his career, Carlton has won four Grammy Awards for his performances and compositions, including performing on the theme song for the hit television series, Hill Street Blues (1981).
Carlton started learning to play guitar when he was six years old, studying under Slim Edwards near his Torrance home. Taking an interest in jazz while at high school, his playing style was influenced by Joe Pass, Wes Montgomery, Barney Kessel, and B.B. King. Saxophonist John Coltrane has also made a notable impression on Carlton, and Carlton's live albums have featured cuts from Miles Davis' Kind of Blue.
During the 1970s and early 1980s, Carlton was a session musician in Los Angeles, making up to five hundred recordings a year, including albums by Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, Billy Joel, Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, The Four Tops, Christopher Cross, Barbra Streisand, the Partridge Family, and Charly García's Clics Modernos. His guitar work on Steely Dan's "Kid Charlemagne" from their 1976 LP The Royal Scam has been listed as the third best guitar solo on record by Rolling Stone Magazine. From 1971 to 1976 he played with the jazz-rock group The Crusaders. In 1977 he signed with Warner Bros. Records for a solo career. In 1979 he played guitar on Michael Jackson's Off the Wall. Although still relatively unknown outside his fan-base, Carlton produced six albums from 1978 to 1984, during which his adaptation of Santo Farina's "Sleepwalk" climbed the pop and adult contemporary charts and his 1983 LP Friends garnered a Grammy nomination. In 1979, Carlton appeared on the Grammy award winning, self titled, debut album by Christopher Cross. Guitar great Eric Johnson also played on that same album.
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Leland Sklar
Leland Bruce "Lee" Sklar (born May 28, 1947 in Milwaukee) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and film score composer. A prominent bass guitarist, Sklar has contributed to dozens of albums as a session musician. He has collaborated with a number of well-known performers and recorded sound tracks to films and television shows.
Sklar studied music at California State University, Northridge. It was during that time he met James Taylor, who invited him to play bass at some venues. They both thought that the work would be short-term, but soon Taylor's career took off with his first hit records, and Sklar came into the limelight. He was soon asked to record with others, and his long beard began.
In 2010 Sklar joined the Troubadour Reunion Tour supporting James Taylor and Carole King.
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Lenny Castro
Lenny Castro (born 1957) is an American freelancing percussionist in the studio recording industry in the Los Angeles area.
Castro is a percussionist of Puerto Rican descent and was born and raised in New York City. His father, Hector Castro, played the keyboard in a Latin style and gave his son his first pair of congas when he was five years old. Along with the congas the junior Castro played the bongos, which he grew up performing on the streets. Unlike many of his “Latin brothers”, Castro listened and played percussion not to just Latin music but jazz, rock, classical, and anything else that could have percussion added in. He claims not to have planned on becoming a studio musician, only that he wanted to play music. Whether this meant live or in recordings, he didn’t care as long as he got to play.
Castro later began to make money with different gigs in New York, which he called a “playground” at the time, when he was around 14 or 15. This lasted him until he graduated from high school in 1974.
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Les Paul
Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 – August 13, 2009)—known as Les Paul—was an American jazz and country guitarist, songwriter and inventor. He was the inventor of the solid-body electric guitar which made the sound of rock and roll possible. He is credited with many recording innovations. Although he was not the first to use the technique, his early experiments with overdubbing (also known as sound on sound),delay effects such as tape delay, phasing effects and multitrack recording were among the first to attract widespread attention.
His innovative talents extended into his playing style, including licks, trills, chording sequences, fretting techniques and timing, which set him apart from his contemporaries and inspired many guitarists of the present day. He recorded with his wife Mary Ford in the 1950s, and they sold millions of records.
Among his many honors, Paul is one of a handful of artists with a permanent, stand-alone exhibit in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is prominently named by the music museum on its website as an "architect" and a "key inductee" along with Sam Phillips and Alan Freed.
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Lionel Richie
Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. (born June 20, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and actor. From 1968, he was a member of the musical group Commodores signed to Motown Records. Richie made his solo debut in 1982 with the album Lionel Richie and number-one hit "Truly".
Richie was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, the son of Alberta R. (Foster) and Lionel Brockman Richie. Richie grew up on the campus of Tuskegee Institute. His grandfather's house was across the street from the home of the president of the college. His family moved to Joliet, Illinois, where he graduated from Joliet Township High School, East Campus. A star tennis player in Joliet, he accepted a tennis scholarship to attend Tuskegee Institute, and graduated with a major in economics. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Tuskegee, Richie briefly attended graduate school at Auburn University. He is a member of Kappa Kappa Psi and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.
As a student in Tuskegee, Richie formed a succession of R&B groups in the mid-1960s. In 1968 he became a singer and saxophonist with the Commodores. They signed a recording contract with Atlantic Records in 1968 for one record before moving on to Motown Records initially as a support act to The Jackson 5. The Commodores then became established as a popular soul group. Their first several albums had a danceable, funky sound, as in such tracks as "Machine Gun" and "Brick House." Over time, Richie wrote and sang more romantic, easy-listening ballads such as "Easy," "Three Times a Lady," "Still," and the tragic breakup ballad "Sail On."
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Marco Mendoza
Marco Mendoza (born May 3, 1963) is an American rock musician, the bass guitarist with Thin Lizzy.
Mendoza started playing the guitar at an early age, adopting the bass guitar when he was invited to join a band that needed a player. He played in John Sykes' band Blue Murder, from 1991 until 1993. In 1994, he was recruited into a reformed lineup of Thin Lizzy, also featuring Sykes, with guitarist Scott Gorham, keyboard player Darren Wharton and drummer Brian Downey. After some preliminary one-off concerts, the band toured more consistently from 1996 until 2000, replacing the departing Downey with Tommy Aldridge and releasing the live album One Night Only.
From 2000 to 2003 Mendoza recorded and toured with Ted Nugent, and in 2004 he toured with Whitesnake, another band that once featured Sykes and Aldridge, and appeared on their DVD Live... In the Still of the Night. Also in 2004, Mendoza guested on keyboardist Derek Sherinian's solo album Mythology. However, he returned to Thin Lizzy in 2005, replacing Randy Gregg. He left the band in 2007, and subsequently toured with ex-Dokken guitarist George Lynch in his band Lynch Mob.
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Marty Paich
Martin Louis "Marty" Paich (January 23, 1925, Oakland, California – August 12, 1995, Santa Ynez, California) was an American pianist, composer, arranger, producer, music director and conductor.
In a career which spanned half a century, he worked in these capacities for such artists as Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Sarah Vaughan, Stan Kenton, Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Tormé, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Linda Ronstadt, Al Hirt, Jack Jones, Neil Diamond, Stan Getz, Sammy Davis Jr, Michael Jackson, Art Pepper, Ethel Azama, Mahalia Jackson, Toto, and many others.
His earliest music lessons were on the accordion, and thereafter on the piano. By age 10, he had formed the first of numerous bands, and by age 12 was regularly playing at weddings and similar affairs. Paich first attended Cole Elementary School in Oakland. After graduating from McClymonds High School, he attended a series of professional schools in music, including Chapman College, San Francisco State University, the University of Southern California, and the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music, where he graduated in 1951 magna cum laude with a Master's degree in composition.
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Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Often referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. His contribution to music, dance, and fashion, along with a much-publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1964, and began his solo career in 1971.
In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music. The music videos for his songs, including those of "Beat It", "Billie Jean", and "Thriller", were credited with transforming the medium into an art form and a promotional tool, and the popularity of these videos helped to bring the relatively new television channel MTV to fame. Videos such as "Black or White" and "Scream" made him a staple on MTV in the 1990s. Through stage performances and music videos, Jackson popularized a number of complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk, to which he gave the name. His distinctive musical sound and vocal style influenced numerous hip hop, post-disco, contemporary R&B, pop and rock artists.
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Michael Landau
Michael Landau (1 June 1958, Los Angeles) is a prolific session musician and guitarist who has played on a large number of albums since the early 1980s with artists as varied as Seal, Michael Jackson, James Taylor, Helen Watson, Richard Marx, Steve Perry, Pink Floyd and Miles Davis. Landau, along with fellow session guitarists Dean Parks, Steve Lukather and Dann Huff, played on many of the major label releases recorded in Los Angeles from the 1980s-1990s.
In addition to his session work, Landau has also fronted several bands including Raging Honkies and Burning Water. In the early 1980s, he was also in the band Maxus that featured future Los Angeles session musicians Robbie Buchanan, Jay Gruska, and Doane Perry. Landau was also in competition with high school bandmate Steve Lukather to become the guitarist for Toto in the late 1970s.
His brother Teddy Landau is married to pop singer Michelle Branch.
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Michael Omartian
Michael Omartian (born November 26, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, keyboardist, and music producer. He has been a participant in numerous albums, during a career that has spanned over 38 years. He is the first producer in recording history to have No. 1 records in three consecutive decades. He is a multiple Grammy Award winner, including a Grammy for keyboardist of the year. He spent five years on the A&R staff of ABC/Dunhill Records, as a producer, artist and arranger. He was subsequently hired by Warner Bros. Records as a producer and A&R staff member. Michael moved from Los Angeles to Nashville in 1993, where he served on the Board of Governors of the Recording Academy and has helped to shape the curriculum for the first Master’s Degree program in the field of Music Business at Belmont University.
Michael has produced albums for several artists including Rod Stewart, Cliff Richard, Christopher Cross, Michael Bolton, Whitney Houston, the Jacksons, Trisha Yearwood, Clint Black, Donna Summer, Joe "Bean" Esposito, Peter Cetera, Benny Hester, Steve Camp, The Imperials, Amy Grant, and Steely Dan. In 1985 Michael Omartian, along with Quincy Jones, co-produced the No. 1 hit "We Are the World" by a supergroup of popular musicians billed as USA for Africa.
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Michael Schenker
Michael Schenker (born 10 January 1955, Sarstedt, Lower Saxony) is a German rock guitarist, best known for his tenure in UFO, in addition to his solo band. He first rose to fame as an early member of the Scorpions, then achieved fame in the mid 1970s as the lead guitar player for UFO. Since leaving UFO in 1978, he has been leading the Michael Schenker Group in various incarnations. He is the younger brother of Rudolf Schenker, who is still a guitarist with the Scorpions. His career has had many ups and downs, partly due to a long history of alcoholism and personal problems; still, Schenker continues to perform and record and to maintain a following, and is called "a legendary figure in the history of metal guitar."
Michael Schenker started playing guitar at an early age, after his brother Rudolf brought home a Gibson Flying V guitar, which captured his imagination. He played his first gig when he was 11, with Rudolf and the Scorpions in a nightclub. Schenker debuted with Scorpions on their debut album Lonesome Crow at age 17.
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Mike Porcaro
Mike Porcaro (born Michael Joseph Porcaro, May 29, 1955, South Windsor, Connecticut) is an American bass player, best noted for his work with the Grammy Award winning band, Toto.
He is the middle brother of Toto members Jeff Porcaro and Steve Porcaro. Their father is jazz drummer/percussionist, Joe Porcaro.
He played bass on a few unofficial sessions with the band since their early days in the late 1970s, but was not made an official member until 1982 (shortly after the release of Toto IV); replacing David Hungate, who departed for a session career in Nashville. According to Toto guitarist Steve Lukather, Porcaro would have been an original member of the band, but the record label wanted to retain the successful chemistry of the line-up from Boz Scaggs' critically acclaimed Silk Degrees album (as Hungate, Lukather and other members of Toto were Scaggs' backing band at the time). He quickly replaced Hungate on bass for the album's music videos and subsequent tour.
Porcaro also played cello on the song "Good for You" on Toto IV, as well as "After You've Gone" on the 1999 album Mindfields.
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Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, modal jazz, and jazz fusion.
Miles Dewey Davis was born on May 26, 1926, to an affluent African American family in Alton, Illinois. His father, Dr. Miles Henry Davis, was a dentist. In 1927 the family moved to East St. Louis, Illinois. They also owned a substantial ranch in northern Arkansas, where Davis learned to ride horses as a boy.
Davis' mother, Cleota Mae (Henry) Davis, wanted her son to learn the piano; she was a capable blues pianist but kept this fact hidden from her son. His musical studies began at 13, when his father gave him a trumpet and arranged lessons with local musician Elwood Buchanan. Davis later suggested that his father's instrument choice was made largely to irk his wife, who disliked the trumpet's sound. Against the fashion of the time, Buchanan stressed the importance of playing without vibrato; he was reported to have slapped Davis' knuckles every time he started using heavy vibrato. Davis would carry his clear signature tone throughout his career. He once remarked on its importance to him, saying, "I prefer a round sound with no attitude in it, like a round voice with not too much tremolo and not too much bass. Just right in the middle. If I can’t get that sound I can’t play anything."Clark Terry was another important early influence.[citation needed]
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Nathan East
Nathan Harrell East (born December 8, 1955, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a jazz, R&B and rock bass player and vocalist. East holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from the University of California, San Diego (1978). He is a member of smooth jazz quartet Fourplay and has recorded, performed and co-written songs with performers such as Eric Clapton, Joe Satriani, Phil Collins, Stevie Wonder, Toto and Herbie Hancock.
Born to Thomas and Gwendolyn East, he is one of eight children (five boys and three girls) raised in San Diego, California, where the family moved when he was four. East first studied cello in seventh through ninth grades and played in local Horace Mann junior high school's orchestra. At age fourteen he developed an interest in the bass guitar, playing in church (Christ The King) for folk masses with his brothers Raymond and David. He was active in his (Crawford) high school's music programs along with a local top 40 band called "Power". He has said his early influences included Charles Mingus, Ray Brown and Ron Carter on upright bass; and James Jamerson, Paul McCartney and Chuck Rainey on electric bass. He studied music at UC San Diego. Nathan East is an accomplished amateur magician.
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Patrick Simmons
Patrick Simmons (born October 19, 1948) is an American musician best known as a guitarist and vocalist for the rock band The Doobie Brothers. His fingerstyle guitar playing complements the strumming style of Tom Johnston. Born in Aberdeen, Washington, he has been the band's only consistent member throughout their tenure. Simmons wrote many songs for the Doobie Brothers, including "South City Midnight Lady", “Dependin’ On You”, “Echoes of Love”, and "Black Water," the group's first #1 record.
In 1983, Simmons released his first solo album, Arcade. It yielded his only top 40 hit, "So Wrong", which peaked at #30 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album was reissued on compact disc in 2007 by label Wounded Bird Records.
In 1998, Simmons released a second solo album entitled Take Me to the High.
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Paul Gilbert
Paul Brandon Gilbert (born November 6, 1966 in Illinois, USA) is an American guitarist. He is well known for his technical guitar work with Racer X and Mr. Big, as well as many solo albums and numerous collaborations and guest appearances with other musicians.
He has been voted number 4 on a list in GuitarOne magazine of the "Top 10 Greatest Guitar Shredders of All Time", as well as a spot in Guitar World's 50 Fastest Guitarists of All Time list.
Gilbert was raised in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Around 1981-82, he first contacted Mike Varney, founder of Shrapnel Records, asking for a gig with Ozzy Osbourne. At the time, Varney couldn't think why Osbourne would want a 15 year old guitarist, but after listening to his demo he changed his mind. Gilbert was featured in Guitar Player magazine at the age of fifteen. They talked for the next 3 years, until Paul went to L.A. for the GIT (Guitar Institute of Technology), and then was ready to record Racer X's debut album Street Lethal.
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Paul Rodgers
Paul Bernard Rodgers (born 17 December 1949, Middlesbrough) is an English rock singer-songwriter, best known for his success in the 1970s as a member of Free and Bad Company. After stints in two less successful bands in the 1980s and early 1990s, The Firm and The Law, he became a solo artist. He has recently toured and recorded with another 1970s band, Queen. Rodgers has been dubbed "The Voice" by his fans. A poll in Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 55 on its list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time".
Rodgers has been cited as a significant influence on a number of notable rock singers, including David Coverdale, John Waite, Steve Overland, Lou Gramm, Jimi Jamison, Eric Martin, Steve Walsh, Joe Lynn Turner, Paul Young, Robin McAuley, Jimmy Barnes, Richie Kotzen and Joe Bonamassa. In 1991, John Mellencamp called Rodgers "the best rock singer ever."
Paul Rodgers played bass (he later moved onto vocals) in local band The Roadrunners, which just before leaving Middlesbrough for the London music scene changed its name to The Wildflowers. Other members of this band were Micky Moody (later of Whitesnake) and Bruce Thomas (later of Elvis Costello and The Attractions). Rodgers appeared on the British music scene in 1968 as singer/songwriter for bluesy rockers Free. In 1970, they shot up the international radio charts with "All Right Now", which Rodgers wrote with the group's bassist Andy Fraser.
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Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is a grammy award winning American singer-songwriter, poet and guitarist.
Simon's international fame and success began as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, launched in 1964 with musical partner Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote most of the pair's songs, including three that reached No. 1 on the U.S. singles charts: "The Sound of Silence", "Mrs. Robinson", and "Bridge Over Troubled Water". The duo split up in 1970 at the height of their popularity, and Simon began a successful solo career, recording three highly acclaimed albums over the next five years. In 1986, he released Graceland, an album inspired by South African township music. Simon also wrote and starred in the film One-Trick Pony in 1980 and co-wrote the Broadway musical The Capeman in 1998.
Simon has earned 12 Grammys for his solo and collaborative work, including the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2001, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 2006 was selected as one of the "100 People Who Shaped the World" by Time magazine. Among many other honors, Simon was the first recipient of the Library of Congress' Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in 2007. In 1986 Simon was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music where he currently serves on the Board of Trustees.
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Phil Collins
Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist.
Collins sang the lead vocals on several chart hits in the United Kingdom and the United States between 1975 and 2010, either as a solo artist or with Genesis. His singles, sometimes dealing with lost love, ranged from the drum-heavy "In the Air Tonight", dance pop of "Sussudio", piano-driven "Against All Odds", to the political statements of "Another Day in Paradise".
Collins's professional music career began as a drummer, originally in a band called The Real Thing with Andrea Bertorelli, who later became his first wife. Collins played drums and shared lead vocals (with Brian Chatton) in Flaming Youth which recorded one album, (Ark II). In 1970, he took over drums for Genesis, which had already recorded two albums. In Genesis, Collins originally supplied backing vocals for front man Peter Gabriel, singing lead on only two songs: "For Absent Friends" from 1971's Nursery Cryme album and "More Fool Me" from Selling England by the Pound, which was released in 1973. Following Gabriel's departure in 1975, Collins became the group's lead singer.
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Phil Ramone
Phil Ramone (born 1941) is a South-African violinist, composer, recording engineer, and record producer.
As a young child in South Africa, Ramone was a musical prodigy, beginning to play the violin at age three and performing for Queen Elizabeth II at age ten. In the late 1940s he trained as a classical violinist at The Juilliard School, where one of his classmates was Phil Woods.
In 1959, he established an independent recording studio A&R Recording (the initials were derived from the last initials of Ramone and his then-business partner Jack Arnold). There he quickly gained a reputation as a sound engineer and music producer, in particular for his use of innovative technology. Among those whose music he has produced are Clay Aiken, Burt Bacharach, Laura Branigan, Ray Charles, Karen Carpenter, Chicago, Peter Cincotti, Natalie Cole, Bob Dylan, Sheena Easton, Melissa Errico, Gloria Estefan, Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, Elton John, Quincy Jones, Patricia Kaas, B. B. King, Julian Lennon, Madonna, Barry Manilow, Richard Marx, Paul McCartney, George Michael, Liza Minnelli, Anne Murray, Olivia Newton-John, Sinéad O'Connor, Fito Páez, Luciano Pavarotti, Peter Paul and Mary, Andre Previn, Diane Schuur, Carly Simon, Paul Simon, Frank Sinatra, Rod Stewart, James Taylor, The Guess Who, and Dionne Warwick. He is also credited with recording Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday to You" to President John F. Kennedy [1].also Phoebe Snow
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Quincy Jones
Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, conductor, arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991. He is particularly recognized as the producer of the album Thriller, by pop icon Michael Jackson, which has sold more than 110 million copies worldwide, and as the producer and conductor of the charity song “We Are the World”.
In 1968, Jones and his songwriting partner Bob Russell became the first African Americans to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song "The Eyes of Love" from the Universal Pictures film Banning. That same year, he became the first African American to be nominated twice within the same year when he was nominated for Best Original Score for his work on the music of the 1967 film In Cold Blood. In 1971, Jones would receive the honor of becoming the first African American to be named musical director/conductor of the Academy Awards ceremony. He was the first African American to win the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in 1995. He is tied with sound designer Willie D. Burton as the most Oscar-nominated African American, each of them having seven nominations. At the 2008 BET Awards, Quincy Jones was presented with the Humanitarian Award. He was played by Larenz Tate in the 2004 biopic about Ray Charles, Ray.
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Randy Goodrum
Randy Goodrum (born July 7, 1947 in Hot Springs, Arkansas) is an American songwriter. Goodrum has written (or co-written) numerous popular songs, including Anne Murray's #1 hit "You Needed Me" (1978) and "Broken Hearted Me" (1979), Michael Johnson's "Bluer Than Blue" (1978), England Dan & John Ford Coley's "It's Sad to Belong" (1977), Steve Perry's "Oh Sherrie" (1984), DeBarge's "Who's Holding Donna Now", cowritten with David Foster and Jay Graydon, Toto's "I'll Be Over You" (1986) and Chicago's "If She Would Have Been Faithful..." (1987). He also co-wrote with Brent Maher a number of Dottie West's hits in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including her No. 1 Country hit in 1980, "A Lesson in Leavin'". He also has performed as a keyboardist on recordings by Amy Grant and other artists.
Randy Goodrum toured extensively with guitarist Chet Atkins and performed and produced cuts on many of Atkins’ albums. As a co-writer with Chet Atkins, Randy wrote “To B or not to B” and “Waltz for the Lonely” among others. Goodrum’s song “So Soft Your Goodbye” won a Grammy award for Chet Atkins, and Mark Knopfler, in 1991.
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Richard Marx
Richard Noel Marx (born September 16, 1963 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American adult contemporary and pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He had a string of hit singles in the late 1980s and 1990s, including "Endless Summer Nights", "Right Here Waiting", "Now and Forever", and "Hazard". Although most of his major hit songs were slow ballads, many of his songs had a classic rock style, such as "Don't Mean Nothing", "Should've Known Better," "Satisfied," and "Too Late To Say Goodbye". Marx placed himself in the record books by being the first solo artist to have his first seven singles hit the Top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart (3, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 4). His record sales worldwide exceed 30 million. Aside from songs that he's written and recorded for himself, he has written, co-written, and produced successful tracks for other artists such as "This I Promise You" by NSYNC and "Dance With My Father" by Luther Vandross. The latter song won several Grammy Awards. His 14th and latest chart topper, "Long Hot Summer," performed by Keith Urban, gave Marx the distinction of having a song he wrote or co-write top the charts in four different decades.
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Ringo Starr
Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940), better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He joined the Beatles in August 1962, taking the place of Pete Best. In addition to his drumming, Starr is featured on lead vocals on a number of successful Beatles songs (in particular, "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Yellow Submarine", and the Beatles version of "Act Naturally"). He is credited as a co-writer of the songs "What Goes On" and "Flying", and as the writer of "Don't Pass Me By" and "Octopus's Garden".
As drummer for the Beatles, Starr was musically creative, and his contribution to the band's music has received high praise from notable drummers in more recent times. Starr described himself as "your basic offbeat drummer with funny fills". Drummer Steve Smith said that Starr's popularity "brought forth a new paradigm" where "we started to see the drummer as an equal participant in the compositional aspect" and that Starr "composed unique, stylistic drum parts for The Beatles songs". In 2011, Starr was picked as the fifth-best drummer of all-time by Rolling Stone readers.
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Robert Fripp
Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946) is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He was ranked 42nd on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and No. 47 on Gibson.com’s "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time". Among rock guitarists, Fripp is a master of crosspicking, a technique often associated with the banjo. His compositions often feature unusual time signatures, which have been influenced by classical and folk traditions. His innovations have included Frippertronics following collaboration with Brian Eno, soundscapes, and New Standard Tuning.
As a guitarist for the progressive rock band King Crimson, Fripp has been the only member to have played in all of King Crimson's line-ups. As a studio musician, Fripp improvised the guitar solo to David Bowie's Heroes, and contributed sounds to the Windows Vista operating system. His complete discography lists more than seven hundred releases over four decades.
Fripp was born in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England. His earliest professional work began in 1967, when he responded to an ad looking for a singing organist for a band being formed by bassist Peter Giles and drummer Michael Giles, despite being neither a singer nor an organist. Though unsuccessful as a live act, Giles, Giles and Fripp released two singles, as well as an album, The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp.[citation needed]
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Roy Halee
Roy Halee is an American record producer and engineer, best known for working with Simon and Garfunkel.
Halee grew up on Long Island, New York. His father, also named Roy Halee, provided the singing voice for Mighty Mouse in late 1940s Terrytoons cartoons, as well as the voices of Heckle and Jeckle from 1951 through 1961.
He was best known for producing several albums with Simon and Garfunkel, including the Grammy-winning Bridge Over Troubled Water. He is mentioned in their 1965 song "A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission)", written by Paul Simon. He has also worked with other groups such as The Byrds, Journey (on their first album Journey), Willie Nile, Laura Nyro, Blood, Sweat & Tears, and Blue Angel.
Halee was named to the TEC Awards Hall of Fame in 2001.
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Russ Titelman
Russ Titelman (born 16 August 1944, Los Angeles, California) is an American record producer and songwriter. He has to date won three Grammy Awards. He earned his first producing the Steve Winwood song "Higher Love", and his second and third for Eric Clapton's Journeyman and Unplugged albums. Titelman also produced the 24 Nights live album of 1990 and the all-blues album From The Cradle, released in 1994.
Beginning his career in the 1960s, he has worked with musicians such as The Monkees, Dion Dimucci, George Harrison, Bee Gees, Little Feat, Christine McVie, Meat Loaf, Paul Simon, Brian Wilson, The Allman Brothers Band, James Taylor, Rickie Lee Jones, Chaka Khan, Ry Cooder, Randy Newman, Gordon Lightfoot, Eric Clapton and Gerry Goffin. After having worked for Warner Bros. Records for 20 years, Titelman has been an independent producer since 1997.
Titelman started his independent music label Walking Liberty Records in New York. One of his first productions for the label was the debut album by the Oklahoma based singer-songwriter Jared Tyler. Released in 2005, Blue Alleluia included guest appearances from Emmylou Harris, Mac McAnally and Mary Kay Place.
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Simon Phillips
Simon Phillips (born 6 February 1957) is an English jazz, pop and rock drummer.
Phillips began to play professionally at the age of twelve in his father's (Sid Phillips) Dixieland band for four years. He was then offered the chance to play in the musical Jesus Christ Superstar. He quickly became a sought-after session player and in 1992, he released two instructional videos displaying some of his best work.
Phillips found an early prominence as the drummer on the 1976 LP 801 Live with Phil Manzanera and Brian Eno. He went on to play with a wide array of musicians including Big Jim Sullivan, Big Country, Toto, Steve Lukather and Los Lobotomys, Jeff Beck, Whitesnake, Jack Bruce, Brian Eno, Duncan Browne, Toyah, Mike Oldfield, Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Gary Moore, 10cc, Mick Jagger, Ph.D., Joe Satriani, Russ Ballard, Mike Rutherford, Phil Manzanera, John Wetton, flamenco guitarist Juan Martin, Asia, Stanley Clarke, Jimmy Earl, Derek Sherinian, Nik Kershaw, Gordon Giltrap, Camel and Jordan Rudess.
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Stan Lynch
Stanley Joseph "Stan" Lynch (born May 21, 1955) is an American songwriter and record producer. He was the original drummer for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for 18 years until his departure in 1994.
Lynch was born in the U.S. city of Cincinnati,Ohio, and moved to Gainesville, Florida, in the early 1960s. He began playing music as a small child. As a teenager growing up near Gainesville, Lynch determined that he would find a way to make a living with music. “As a kid I had very little opportunity. I was a marginal student. I wasn’t going to college. My parents didn’t have money.”
“I played guitar and piano, and I always thought I was going to be a guitar player,” said Lynch. “The drums were sort of a happy accident. I didn’t really think that they would be my ticket out of the ghetto. Choosing to be a musician back then was not like choosing a job, but an entire lifestyle. My father looked at me as if I were going to wear a dress and dance in the circus.”
Lynch was always getting into fights at school so his folks reasoned that the high-strung youth might be able expel some aggression with drums. His parents made him take lessons before they bought him a kit, and he recalls with a laugh, "as soon as I got my first set they took up tennis—they just split, and I don’t blame them."
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Steve Lukather
Steven Lee "Luke" Lukather (born October 21, 1957) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger, and record producer best known for his work with the rock band Toto. A prolific session musician, Lukather has recorded guitar tracks for more than 1,500 albums representing a broad array of artists and genres. He has also contributed to albums and hit singles as a songwriter, arranger, and producer. Lukather has released six solo studio albums and is working on his seventh.
In 1976, when Lukather was nineteen years old, he was invited by his high school friends David Paich and the Porcaro brothers Steve and Jeff to join them in forming their band, Toto. He remained a member until the band split up in 2008, and has been involved in their periodic reunion tours. Lukather's reputation as a guitarist and his association with Paich and Jeff Porcaro, who also became established artists, allowed him to secure a solid flow of session work in the 1970s and 1980s. Lukather has been nominated for twelve Grammy awards, and has won five. While his work with Toto was predominantly based on pop rock music and his solo work ventures into progressive rock and hard rock, many of Lukather's side-projects are focused on jazz fusion. He held a long-time collaboration with jazz guitarist Larry Carlton that produced a Grammy-winning live album, and he was a member of the jazz fusion band Los Lobotomys, a collaboration of notable session musicians.
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Steve Morse
Steven J. "Steve" Morse (born 28 July 1954) is an American guitarist and composer, best known as the founder of the Dixie Dregs, and the guitar player in Deep Purple since 1994. Morse's career has encompassed rock, country, funk, jazz, classical, and fusion of these musical genres. In addition to a thriving solo career, he enjoyed a brief stint with Kansas in the mid 80s.
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Steve Porcaro
Steven Maxwell "Steve" Porcaro (born September 2, 1957, Hartford, Connecticut) is an American keyboardist and composer, who was an original member of the rock/pop band Toto.
Porcaro wrote or co-wrote at least one song on each of Toto's first six albums, with the exception of Isolation. Unlike most of his bandmates, he generally did not contribute lead or even backing vocals; he considered himself a weak singer, and sang lead on two of his compositions only because he felt that the vocal styles of his bandmates, with the exception of Joseph Williams, were not appropriate for his songs. He left Toto in 1986 after the Fahrenheit album in order to pursue a more full-time songwriting and composing career. Porcaro composed the music for the song "Human Nature" from Michael Jackson's album Thriller, and also played with Gary Wright during his tour in 1977, supporting the latter's The Dream Weaver album.
However, Porcaro has continued working with Toto in various supporting capacities, assisting with keyboards, drum looping, synthesizers and arranging/composing. He has also done session musician work for many other acts, including Yes (on Union) and Jefferson Airplane (on their self-titled 1989 reunion album). He was also a member of Chris Squire's short lived band, The Chris Squire Experiment, in 1992.
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Steve Stevens
Steve Stevens (born Steven Schneider, May 5, 1959, Brooklyn, New York) is an American guitarist and songwriter. He is best known for playing for other artists (most notably Billy Idol, Michael Jackson, and Vince Neil) and less so for his solo efforts (Atomic Playboys and Flamenco A Go-Go), collaborations (Bozzio Levin Stevens, a.k.a. Black Light Syndrome), and as an in-demand session guitarist. He is also a television personality on the E! show Married to Rock, alongside his wife, Josie Stevens. He is also known for his diverse collaborations. One notable example is his spanish guitar stylings for the trance group Juno Reactor in the song Pistolero.
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Steve Vai
Steven Siro Vai (born June 6, 1960) is an American guitarist, songwriter and producer who has sold over 15 million albums. After starting his career as a music transcriptionist for Frank Zappa, Vai recorded and toured in Zappa's band for two years, from 1980 to 1982. He began a solo career in 1983, has released eight solo albums and won three Grammy Awards. He has also recorded and toured with Public Image Ltd., Alcatrazz, David Lee Roth and Whitesnake. Vai has been a regular touring member of the G3 Concert Tour which began in 1996. In 1999 Vai started his own record label Favored Nations, intending to showcase as he describes, "...artists that have attained the highest performance level on their chosen instruments."
Vai began playing guitar in 1973, at the age of 13. In 1974, he took guitar lessons from guitarist Joe Satriani and played in local bands, one of which was called "The Steve Vais". He was influenced by guitarists including Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Brian May, Jimmy Page, Glen Buxton, and jazz fusion guitarist Allan Holdsworth. Vai attended the Berklee College of Music, afterwards recording a promotional piece for them in which he spoke about auditioning for Frank Zappa at age 20.
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Steve Winwood
Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood (born 12 May 1948) is an English songwriter and musician whose genres include blue-eyed soul, R&B, rock, blues-rock, pop-rock, and jazz. A multi-instrumentalist, he plays the electric organ, synthesizers, bass, drums, guitar, mandolin, violin and other strings. A star performer for nearly 50 years, he has also done notable work as a producer.
In addition to his solo career, Winwood was a key member of The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith and Go. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Traffic in 2004.
In 2005, Winwood was honoured as a BMI Icon at the annual BMI London Awards for his "enduring influence on generations of music makers." In 2008, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Winwood #33 in its 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. Winwood has won numerous Grammy Awards in the United States.
Stephen Lawrence Winwood was born in Handsworth, Birmingham, England. His father, Lawrence, a foundryman by trade, was a semi-professional musician, playing mainly the saxophone and clarinet. Young Winwood became interested in swing and Dixieland jazz as a boy and began playing drums, guitar, and piano. He first performed with his father and older brother Muff in the Ron Atkinson Band at the age of eight. Winwood was a choirboy at St John's Church Perry Barr and later admitted to having "sneaked a few plays" of the organ there. While he was still young the family moved from Handsworth to the semi-rural suburb of Kingstanding at the northern edge of the city.
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Ted Templeman
Ted Templeman (born October 24, 1944, in Santa Cruz, California) is an American record producer.
He began his career in the mid 1960s in the Santa Cruz area as a drummer in a band called The Tikis. At the suggestion of Lenny Waronker, the group decided to change their name. Harpers Bizarre was born in 1966, with Templeman switching to guitar and vocals. In 1967 the group released the album, Feelin' Groovy (Warner Bros.), which included some material by Randy Newman that later appeared on the songwriter's 1972 album Sail Away. Harpers Bizarre disbanded in 1970.
That same year, Templeman recorded what is now considered a cult classic. Using doubletracking, he appeared as "The Templeton Twins" backed by "Teddy Turner & his Bunsen Burners," recording contemporary hits of the time such as "Hey Jude" and "Light My Fire" in a pseudo-1920s style.
Much of his work has been done collaborating with recording engineer Donn Landee at Sunset Sound in Hollywood, California. In 1970 Templeman (at the suggestion of Waronker) began working as a producer for Warner Bros. Records. That year he produced the unheralded eponymous The Doobie Brothers debut album, followed the next year by the Doobies' Toulouse Street album which achieved platinum record status on the strength of the hit single "Listen to the Music". Templeman continued a long professional relationship with The Doobie Brothers, producing many more hit singles and albums for the group.
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Terry Britten
Terry Britten is a prolific English singer-songwriter, who has written songs for Tina Turner and Sir Cliff Richard, Olivia Newton-John, Status Quo, Michael Jackson and many others.
A native of Manchester, Britten began writing for Adelaide, Australia bands Hurricanes[disambiguation needed
] and The Twilights, a popular 1960s band for which he played lead guitar. At times he co-wrote with Glenn Shorrock and Peter Brideoake. He also recorded a single under his own name, "2000 Weeks" / "Bargain Day".
Britten was a band member of Quartet with Kevin Peek, Alan Tarney and Trevor Spencer who recorded one album with Decca records in the UK which remains unreleased but 2 singles were released on Decca: "Joseph"/"Mama where did you fail" (1970) F13072 and "Now"/"will my lady come" (1969) F12974.
In 1973 he was part of Cliff Richard's Eurovision song contest entry in 1973 along with John Farrar, Tarney and Spencer with 6 songs in which Power to all our friends was chosen and came 3rd.
After the Twilights broke up, he moved to London and wrote for Cliff Richard; eventually coming up with "Devil Woman". He was a guitarist in Richard's band for years. Richard called "Devil Woman" his best song ever, and it brought him the heavier pop-rock image that partly typify his concerts up to today. The track became a Top 10 hit in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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The Edge
David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961), more widely known by his stage name The Edge (or just Edge), is a musician best known as the guitarist, backing vocalist, and keyboardist of the Irish rock band U2. A member of the group since its inception, he has recorded 12 studio albums with the band and has released one solo record. As a guitarist, The Edge has crafted a minimalistic and textural style of playing. His use of a rhythmic delay effect yields a distinctive ambient, chiming sound that has become a signature of U2's music.
The Edge was born in England to a Welsh family, but was raised in Ireland after moving there as an infant. In 1976, at Mount Temple Comprehensive School, he formed U2 with his fellow students and his older brother Dik. Inspired by the ethos of punk rock and its basic arrangements, the group began to write its own material. They eventually became one of the most popular acts in popular music, with successful albums such as 1987's The Joshua Tree and 1991's Achtung Baby. Over the years, The Edge has experimented with various guitar effects and introduced influences from several genres of music into his own style, including American roots music, industrial music, and alternative rock. With U2, The Edge has also played keyboards, co-produced their 1993 record Zooropa, and occasionally contributed lyrics. The Edge met his second and current wife, Morleigh Steinberg, through her collaborations with the band.
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Tina Turner
Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939) is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards. Turner started out her music career with husband Ike Turner as a member of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. Success followed with a string of hits including "River Deep, Mountain High" and the 1971 hit "Proud Mary". With the publication of her autobiography I, Tina (1986), Turner revealed severe instances of spousal abuse against her by Ike Turner prior to their 1976 split and subsequent 1978 divorce. After virtually disappearing from the music scene for several years following her divorce from Ike Turner, she rebuilt her career, launching a string of hits beginning in 1983 with the single "Let's Stay Together" and the 1984 release of her fifth solo album Private Dancer.
Her musical career led to film roles, beginning with a prominent role as The Acid Queen in the 1975 film Tommy, and an appearance in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. She starred opposite Mel Gibson as Aunty Entity in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome for which she received the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture, and her version of the film's theme, "We Don't Need Another Hero", was a hit single. She appeared in the 1993 film Last Action Hero.
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Tiran Porter
Tiran Porter (born September 26, 1948) is an American bass and guitar player, vocalist and composer, best known as a member of The Doobie Brothers from 1972 to 1980 and 1987 to 1992.
Porter graduated from Leuzinger High School in Hawthorne, CA in 1966. He rose to fame as a member of the Doobie Brothers, replacing bassist Dave Shogren on their second album Toulouse Street in 1972.
His vocals were mostly restricted to the background in the studio, although he contributed "For Someone Special" (a tribute to ill bandleader Tom Johnston) to Takin' It To The Streets (1976) and the creatively syncopated "Need A Lady" to Livin' On The Fault Line (1977). In concert, Porter usually performed lead vocals on one or two songs. During the 1989 tour, for example, he sang "Road Angel" while original vocalist Johnston rested his pipes.
Porter's most notable contributions to the Doobie Brothers' sound were his busy and punchy bass lines; his distinctive tone permeates all of the band's classic compositions and hits. Often pictured with his trusty Alembic or Gibson basses during the seventies (usually with a Thunderbird or Ripper bass and earlier with an EB-O Long Scale), Porter has also played Fender instruments, most notably the Jazz bass model, along with BC Rich Eagles. His early technique, with rich chordal attack, was based mostly on his picking style, favouring the guitar pick over fingerstyle playing. The hit title track from Takin' It To The Streets, which prominently features Porter's thundering, picked notes, is a prime example of this technique. More recently, even performing the old repertoire with the Doobies, Porter has been playing new, custom-made instruments almost exclusively fingerstyle.
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Tony Spinner
Tony Spinner (born June 9, 1963 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri), is an American rock and blues singer and guitarist who toured with Toto from 1999 until their break-up in 2008. Spinner was personally selected by David Paich as a backup guitarist and backing vocalist and would perform lead vocals on the song "Stop Loving You," originally performed by former Toto member Joseph Williams. When Toto reformed in 2010, Spinner was not part of the touring band.
In fall 2010, Tony Spinner joined Paul Gilbert on his "Fuzz Universe" European tour.
1993: Saturn Blues
1993: Various Artists - L.A. Blues Authority: Fit For A. King
1993: Various Artists - L.A. Blues Authority: Hats off to Stevie Ray
1994: Various Artists - Songs from the Better Blues Bureau
1994: My '64
1996: Crosstown Sessions
1996: Mark Sallings - Let It Be Known
1997: Mark Sallings & Famous Unknowns - Talkin' to Myself
1999: Livefields (Toto)
2003: Voodoo Crossing - a tribute to Jimi Hendrix
2003: Live in Amsterdam (Toto)
2004: Chicks And Guitars
2006: Falling In Between Live (Toto)
2008: Live in Europe
2009: Rollin´and Tumblin
2011: Down Home Mojo
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Uli Jon Roth
Ulrich Roth (born 18 December 1954), more commonly known as Uli Jon Roth, is a German guitarist and one of the earliest contributors to the neo-classical metal genre. He is also the founder of Sky Academy and inventor of the Sky Guitar. He is the older brother of fellow guitarist and artist Zeno Roth.
In the early 1970s, Roth formed a band called Dawn Road. In 1973, guitarist Michael Schenker left the Scorpions to join UFO, which then disbanded. The two remaining Scorpions members, Rudolf Schenker and Klaus Meine merged with the four members of Dawn Road, (Uli Jon Roth, Achim Kirschning, Francis Buchholz, Jürgen Rosenthal) using the name Scorpions as they were more well known than Dawn Road.
During his tenure as lead guitarist, main songwriter and occasional lead singer for the Scorpions, the band released four studio albums between 1974 and 1977. In 1978, the Scorpions released the live album Tokyo Tapes, which was recorded in Japan and sold nearly one million copies and went gold in several countries. However, Roth had left the band before the album’s release.
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Val Garay
Val Garay is a record producer and engineer who has worked with Kim Carnes, The Motels, Mr. Big [disambiguation needed], Bonnie Raitt, Eric Burdon, Dolly Parton, Pablo Cruise, James Taylor, Queensrÿche, Neil Diamond, Dramarama, EZO, Ringo Starr, Linda Ronstadt, Sarah Brightman, Nicolette Larson, Kenny Rogers, Santana [disambiguation needed ], Reel Big Fish, plus many others.
In 1982 he shared a Grammy Award for Record of the Year with Kim Carnes, for the record "Bette Davis Eyes". He has received numerous entertainment industry awards and additional Grammy nominations including Best Engineered Recording for his work on the James Taylor album "JT" and Linda Ronstadt's "Simple Dreams," a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year for Kim Carnes "Mistaken Identity," a Grammy nomination for Producer of the Year, an Emmy nomination for Best Engineered Recording of a TV Special for Neil Diamond's "Glad You're Here With Me Tonight," as well as dozens of gold and platinum records.
In November 2010, he partnered with attorney George Woolverton to form a new label company, Red Red Records, and is currently working with up-and-coming new artists, as well as producing/engineering scores for motion picture and television projects.
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Virgil Donati
Virgil Donati (born 22 October 1958) is an Australian drummer, frequent drum clinician and a producer. He is currently playing with the band Planet X and Seven the Hardway among other projects. Virgil is perhaps most well known for his fast, highly technical drumming skills. He holds the drum sticks in the traditional style and is also proficient at the keyboard.
Virgil Donati was born on 22 October 1958 in Melbourne, Australia of Italian descent. He got his first drumset at age 2. He started playing soon after with his father's showband, and kept on doing these shows until he was around 6 years old.
He joined his first major rock band and signed with his first major record label at the age of 15. The band was first called Cloud Nine, but was later renamed Taste, with whom he recorded 3 albums. Soon after at age 16, Donati left school focusing mainly on the drums, but also piano. At age 19 Donati travelled to the U.S. to study with Philly Joe Jones, and at Dick Groves School in Los Angeles. He also took lessons from snare drum specialist Murray Spivack.
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Warren Zevon
Warren William Zevon /ˈziːvɒn/ (January 24, 1947 – September 7, 2003) was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician noted for including his sometimes sardonic opinions of life in his musical lyrics, composing songs that were sometimes humorous and often had political or historical themes.
Zevon's work has often been praised by well-known musicians, including Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, and Neil Young. His best-known compositions include "Werewolves of London", "Lawyers, Guns and Money", "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" and "Johnny Strikes Up The Band," all of which are featured on his third album, Excitable Boy (1978). Other well-known songs written by Zevon have been recorded by other artists, including "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" (a top 40 hit by Linda Ronstadt), "Accidentally Like a Martyr," "Mohammed's Radio", "Carmelita", and "Hasten Down the Wind".
Along with his own compositions, Zevon recorded or performed occasional covers, including Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" and Leonard Cohen's "First We Take Manhattan". He was a frequent guest on Late Night with David Letterman and The Late Show with David Letterman. Letterman later performed guest vocals on "Hit Somebody! (The Hockey Song)" with Paul Shaffer and members of the CBS Orchestra on Warren Zevon's "My Ride Is Here" album.
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Yngwie Malmsteen
Yngwie Johann Malmsteen (/ˈɪŋveɪ ˈmɑːlmstiːn/ ING-vay MAHLM-steen; born Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck on 30 June 1963) is a Swedish guitarist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and bandleader. Malmsteen became known for his neo-classical playing style in heavy metal. Steve Huey of Allmusic stated that, "Yngwie Malmsteen is arguably the most technically accomplished hard rock guitarist to emerge during the '80s."
Malmsteen was born Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck in Stockholm, Sweden, as the second child of a musically-talented family. At age seven, he saw a television news report on the death of Jimi Hendrix, an event which had a profound impact on his musical path. Malmsteen, however, has stated that Hendrix had no musical impact on him, but on 18 September 1970 he saw a TV special of Hendrix, where he smashed and burned his guitar, and Malmsteen thought: "this is really cool". To quote his official website, "The day Jimi Hendrix died, the guitar-playing Yngwie was born".
At the age of 10 he took his mother's maiden name Malmsten as his surname, slightly changed it to Malmsteen, and Anglicised his third given name Yngve to "Yngwie". Malmsteen created his first band "Track On Earth" at the age of 10, consisting of himself and a friend from school on drums (Armin). Malmsteen was a teenager when he first encountered the music of the 19th century violinist composer Niccolò Paganini, whom he cites as his biggest classical music influence. Ritchie Blackmore and Uli Jon Roth are also cited as being significant influences, as is Brian May of Queen.
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Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono (オノ・ヨーコ（小野 洋子）, Ono Yōko?, born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese artist, author, and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon. Ono brought feminism to the forefront in her music which prefigured New Wave music and is known for her philanthropic contributions to the arts, peace and AIDS outreach programs.
Yoko Ono was born in Tokyo in 1933 to mother Isoko Ono, the great-granddaughter of Zenjiro Yasuda of the Yasuda banking family, and to father Yeisuke Ono, a banker and one-time classical pianist who was a descendant of an Emperor of Japan. The name "Yoko" means "ocean child". Two weeks before she was born, her father was transferred to San Francisco by his employer, the Yokohama Specie Bank. The rest of the family followed soon after and Yoko met her father when she was two. Her younger brother Keisuke was born in December 1936. In 1937, her father was transferred back to Japan and Ono was enrolled at Tokyo's Gakushuin (also known as the Peers School), one of the most exclusive schools in Japan.
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Zakk Wylde
Zachary Phillip "Zakk" Wylde (born Jeffrey Phillip Wielandt, January 14, 1967), is an American musician, songwriter, and occasional actor who is best known as the former guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne and founder of the heavy metal band Black Label Society. He was the lead guitarist and vocalist in Pride & Glory, who released one self-titled album in 1994 before disbanding. As a solo artist he released Book of Shadows in 1996.
Wylde was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. Wylde started playing the guitar at the age of 14 and worked at Silverton Music in Silverton, New Jersey. He grew up in Jackson, New Jersey, and went to Jackson Memorial High School, where he graduated in 1985. Wylde has stated that he would practice playing the guitar as much as 12 hours per day and would often play the guitar almost non-stop between coming home from school and leaving for school the next morning, then sleeping through the school day.
Wylde played locally with his first band Stone Henge, then later with local Jersey band Zyris. Later, he landed the role as lead guitarist and co-writer for Ozzy Osbourne. He sent Ozzy a demo tape in 1987 and was hired to replace Jake E. Lee, who had replaced the deceased Randy Rhoads. Rhoads remains Wylde's foremost guitar-playing and stagecraft influence.
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- With A Second Chance - Steve Lukather
- Watching The World - Steve Lukather
- Twist The Knife - Steve Lukather
- Turns To Stone - Steve Lukather
- The Bomber - Steve Lukather
- Tears Of My Own Shame - Steve Lukather
- Swear Your Love - Steve Lukather
- It Looks Like Rain - Steve Lukather
- Steppin' On Top Of Your World - Steve Lukather
- Never Walk Alone - Steve Lukather
- Never Let Them See You Cry - Steve Lukather
- Love The Things You Hate - Steve Lukather
- Lonely Beat Of My Heart - Steve Lukather
- Hero With A 1000 Eyes - Steve Lukather
- Got My Way - Steve Lukather
- Freedom - Steve Lukather
- Flash In The Pan - Steve Lukather
- Fall Into Velvet - Steve Lukather
- Extinction Blues - Steve Lukather
- Drive A Crooked Road - Steve Lukather
- Don't Hang Me On - Steve Lukather
- Darkness In My World - Steve Lukather
- Darkest Night Of The Year - Steve Lukather
- Broken Machine - Steve Lukather
- Brody's - Steve Lukather
- Borrowed Time - Steve Lukather
- Born Yesterday - Steve Lukather
- Bag O' Tales - Steve Lukather
- Always Be There For Me - Steve Lukather
This town has got me running scared
We're running out of time girl
Slogans painted everywhere
Messin' up my dream world
I'm trying to make it on my own
Find it all by myself
I can take the overflow,
Could've been me or you
Just like somebody else
I ain't going anywhere
Without you by my side girl
Someone like you comes around just one time
Even the weakest of hearts will survive
With a second chance
I know we can make it girl
With a second chance
Love will last forever
Breathing in this filthy air
Is tearing me in two girl
I hear the sirens every night
Like echoes in a cruel world
Nothing that I say or do
Seems to matter at all
Everyone is so confused That's why I had to call
Just hearing you across the line
Is good enough for me girl
Someone like you comes around just one time
Even the weakest of hearts will survive
With a second chance
I know we can make it girl
With a second chance
Our love will go on forever
Someone like you comes around just one time
Even the weakest of hearts will survive
With a second chance
I know we can make it girl
With a second chance
Our love will last forever
With a second chance
I know we can make it girl
With a second chance
It's Been Many Years
So Much Has Changed
It's Not The Same
I'm So Full Of Pain
By The Things That I've Seen
But Who Could I Blame
(Pre-Chorus)
See, The Road That Were On
Never Changes
People Turn Their Heads
And Run From The Truth
Is There Any Hope At All
Chorus
Sitting Here Watching The World
Falling Apart Oh, What Can We Do
Standing In The Shadows Of Lies
And Deceivers, When Does It End
Promises Made By People
We Trust, Are All In Vain
The Things That We're Told,
The Lives That Are Lost
It Seems Insane
(Pre-Chorus)
And The News We Get
It's Certain They're Pro-Gender
And The Talking Heads
Just Read Another Screen
Is There Any Hope At All
Chorus
Sitting Here Watching The World
Falling Apart Oh, What Can We Do
Standing In The Shadows Of Lies
And Deceivers, When Does It End
It's Just A Matter Of Time (It's Just A Matter Of Time)
There's Nothing Left For Us To Say (Nothing Left To Say)
In A World So Unkind (In A World So Unkind)
Reach Out Your Hands
Let's Try To Change Their Hearts
(Solo)
Is There Any Hope At All?
Chorus
Sitting Here Watching The World
Falling Apart Oh, What Can We Do
Standing In The Shadows Of Lies
And Deceivers, When Does It End
Sitting Here Watching The World
Falling Apart Oh, What Can We Do
Standing In The Shadows Of Lies
A razor's edge
The speed of your thoughts
A heart as black as coal
A sudden change
A painted-on smile
A woman with no soul
Dancin' on the edge of my dreams
Dealin' with your mixed up scenes
Darlin' don't you know what I mean
Save me from this pain
[Chorus:]
Twist the knife
Turn it around
Oh-oh
Twistin' my life away
Twist the knife
Turn it around
Oh-oh
A liar's dream
A piece of your heart
Don't really mean a thing
Scream right out loud
You're feeling' my pain
See what your fantasy brings
Dancin' on the edge of my dreams
Dealin' with your mixed up scenes
Darlin' don't you know what I mean
Save me from this pain
Twist the knife
Turn it around
Oh-oh
Twistin' my life away
Twist the knife
Turn it around
Oh-oh
Twist the knife
Turn it around
Oh-oh
Twistin' my life away
Twist the knife
Turn it around
Oh-oh
Twist the knife
Turn it around
Oh-oh
Twistin' my life away
Twist the knife
Turn it around
Oh-oh
Twist the knife
Turn it around
Oh-oh
Twistin' my life away
Twist the knife
Turn it around
Oh-oh
Twist the knife
Twist the knife
Twist the knife
Keep on twistin'
Twist the knife
Twist the knife
Twist the knife
Bass: Lee Sklar
Background Vocals: John Keane, Randy Goodrum & Steve Lukather
Steve Lukather & Randy Goodrum: Drum Programming & Synthesizers
Steve Lukather: Keyboards, guitars & lead vocals
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A thousand miles underneath my emotions
Hidden from the eyes of everyone
No one must know
All the secrets of my soul anymore
No never again
Girl you've got the only key
To open up the door - only you, for now
Eventually, even that could change
I will wait for you
But I don't want to wait forever
Cause I'm on my own
I'm trying to keep the fire from getting cold
I will wait for you
But I don't want to wait
Until our love turns to stone
I don't want to turn to stone
I don't want to spend another night without you
I'm afraid my mind will start to wander
Time between us,
Hours turning into days, into years
Oh, oh, oh
Looking back at what went wrong
Some things we must let go
Eventually, something's got to give
I will wait for you
But I don't want to wait forever
Cause I'm on my own
I'm trying to keep the fire from getting cold
I will wait for you
But I don't want to wait
Until our love turns to stone
I don't want to turn to stone
I will wait for you
But I don't want to wait forever
Cause I'm on my own
I'm trying to keep the fire from getting cold
I will wait for you
But I don't want to wait
Until our love turns to stone
A thousand miles underneath my emotions
Hidden from the eyes of everyone
No one must know
All the secrets of my soul anymore
No never again
Girl you've got the only key
To open up the door - only you, for now
Eventually, even that could change
I will wait for you
But I don't want to wait forever
Cause I'm on my own
I'm trying to keep the fire from getting cold
I will wait for you
But I don't want to wait
Until our love turns to stone
I don't want to turn to stone
I don't want to spend another night without you
I'm afraid my mind will start to wander
Time between us,
Hours turning into days, into years
Oh, oh, oh
Looking back at what went wrong
Some things we must let go
Eventually, something's got to give
I will wait for you
But I don't want to wait forever
Cause I'm on my own
I'm trying to keep the fire from getting cold
I will wait for you
But I don't want to wait
Until our love turns to stone
I don't want to turn to stone
I will wait for you
But I don't want to wait forever
Cause I'm on my own
I'm trying to keep the fire from getting cold
I will wait for you
But I don't want to wait
Until our love turns to stone
I will wait for you
But I don't want to wait forever
Cause I'm on my own
I'm trying to keep the fire from getting cold
I will wait for you
But I don't want to wait
Until our love turns to stone
When I became of age
My momma sat me down
She said, son you've grown up
It's time to look around
So I began to notice some things i
Hadn't seen before
That's what brought me hope
Knockin' on your back door
A closet queen, the worst I've seen
She wants to shake my hand
I don't want to be there
When she decides she can
It's apple dan, he's just the man
To pick fruit off your branches
I can't sleep if he can't keep
His cattle off my ranches
It's too strong, something's wrong
And I guess I lost the feeling
I don't mind the games you play
But I don't like you dealing
The cards look bad, my luck's been had
And there's nothin' left to smoke
Will all be back tomorrow
Queen of Hearts and Sister Vanity
Took me by the hand to show me royalty
In this castle so many things to see
And all I could become, a knight wasted away
I said Ooh ooh...it's not any thing you did to me
It's not what you made me feel I did to you
I cry, angry that I played the fool
For these are the tears of my own shame
Even just a page I never thought to read
And writing on the wall became a tapestry
The blues I felt , the reds they blinded me
And all the greens only taught me jealousy
(REPEAT CHORUS)
And I am not what I care to be
And she is not what I came to see
And like some Shakespearean tragedy
That in the end have to question...finally
I'm holding on
It's all that I can do
I can't imagine
Me without you
All alone
I close my eyes
And wake up screaming in the middle of the night
This heart
Don't need it anymore
Swear your love
Say that you remember
Share your love
Hear me calling out your name
I swear my love
Wait a little longer
How will it feel to be left
Standin' there all alone
You're on your own
If you walk through that door
I'm just a man
I can't give anymore
Somewhere deep inside
There's a memory that keeps you run and hide
You gotta know
You got a place to go
Swear your love
Say that you remember
Share your love
Hear me calling out your name
I swear my love
Wait a little longer
How will it feel to be left
Standin' there all alone
Somewhere deep inside
There's a memory that keeps you run and hide
You gotta know
You got a place to go
Swear your love
Say that you remember
Share your love
Hear me calling out your name
I swear my love
Wait a little longer
How will it feel to be left
Standin' there all alone
Swear your love
Say that you remember
Share your love
Hear me calling out your name
I swear my love
Wait a little longer
How will it feel to be left
I stand at the window
Looking out, looking out at the grey
After getting up and reading the paper today
Sometimes I just want to crawl back in bed
Pull the covers over my eyes
This world is so full of trouble
All the war planes in the sky
And it looks like rain
Can't you hear the thunder
And it looks like rain
Don't it make you wonder
Killers make the front page
Good deeds go unnoticed
Seems like, like there's no change
No matter what the vote is
It used to be we were
All looking out for everybody else
But now it seems the only law is
Every man for himself
And it looks like rain
Can't you hear the thunder
It looks like rain
Don't it make you
And it looks like rain
Falling down my eyes
It looks like rain
Don't you wonder why
I hear, hear it pounding
In the courtrooms and halls
I hear, hear it sounding
Through these paper-thin walls
I can hear people lying under oath
Lovers breaking their vows
I don't want to give up hope
Is it too late now
And it looks like rain
Can't you hear the thunder
It looks like rain
Don't it make you
And it looks like rain
Falling down my eyes
It looks like rain
Don't you wonder why
And it looks like rain
Can't you hear the thunder
It looks like rain
Don't it make you
I've seen that look
A look I know well
I can't decide
If this is heaven or this is hell
Inside your mind
That twisted device
Made up of fire
But it comes across like ice
I need to know what you're thinkin'
And why you are here
If you had power
Who would make you disappear
Laughing without smiling
I can't take no more
Dancin' in the madness
With the rope you twist that's around my neck
You know you're making me feel
Like a cancelled check
I said hey, you
I'm steppin' on top of your world
(I'm steppin' on top)
Hey you
I'm steppin' on top of your world
Warped by the curse
You're puttin' on me
I lay awake at night
And revenge is all I see
Time's runnin' out
But what should I do
It seems like the worst
Just ain't good enough for you
There's talkin', there's doin'
There's writing
Of things you don't know
The story's the same
But the answer is always unknown
Trying to remember
What I've done to you
You don't even know me
With the rope that you twist
That's around my neck
You know you're making me feel
Like a cancelled check
I said hey, you
I'm steppin' on top of your world
(I'm steppin' on top)
Hey you
I'm steppin' on top of your world
Hey, hey
Laughing without smiling
I can't take no more
Dancin' in the madness
With the rope you twist that's around my neck
You know you're making me feel
Like a cancelled check
I said hey, you
Hey, you
Hey, you
I'm steppin' on top of your world
(I'm steppin' on top)
Hey, you
I'm steppin' on top of your world
Hey, you
I'm steppin' on top of your world
(I'm steppin' on top)
Hey, you
I'm steppin' on top of your world
Keep searchin' for someone to tell me the truth
It seems like the longer I wait
Hesitate, it comes down to you
Time won't heal
Love ain't real anymore
Halfway to daylight
And my heart is open wide
It seems like the time that we shared
When we cared
It has passed us by
Life ain't fair, when I stare
At this picture of you
I feel the touch of your hand
And the look in your eyes
Oh! don't ya know I feel just like dying
When the tears start to fall
And my heart turns to stone
I'm tellin' you baby
I never walk alone
Life ain't fair, when I stare
At this picture of you
I still feel the touch of your hand
And the look in your eyes
Oh! lord I feel like dying
Cause when the tears start to fall
And my heart turns to stone
No place left to hide
Fire and smoke on all sides
And you can't tell the sky
From the skeletons, anymore
But there's no time to wait to be saved
The wasteland will spread like the plague
And you'll wind up in somebody's cage
Without a door
Could've been me or you
But if the foot fits the shoe
It just might be a deadly dance
Paint your face
Pound your drum
But don't forget
To load the gun
Say your prayer
And drink your wine
But never let
Them see you cry
And so how will you know
When compromise offers no hope
Take a tip from that tv show
And head for the hills
Cause it's not like there's something to lose
It's only the truth
And it hasn't exactly been used
And it never will
This is not something strange
Don't expect it to change
Does it matter if it works out as planned
When the author is the pen in your hand
When your mind does what you don't understand
Remember that a sentiment changes every day
As every sun leaves shadows, arrows pointing every way
Hey, look around, this is you
Don't you worry 'cos it's fine to be confused
When you're questioning your fate
In time, you will see
All that makes you who you are, will become so clear to you
And don't you love the things you hate
Life will give it's gift if we don't hesitate
Some see the paper, then throw the present away
If you feel you're dying and the clock just makes you wait
Time may find us in tomorrow looking for today
Hey look around this is you
Don't you worry 'cos it's fine to be confused
When you're questioning your fate
In time, you will see
All that makes you who you are, will become so clear to you
Cold night, you're gone
I can't remember who was right or who was wrong
Warm days with you
Girl we had everything and nothing to lose
Used to own the world
When you were near me
Used to have it all
Now you're not here
Now all I'm hearin' is the
Lonely beat of my heart
I'm lost in loneliness
I can't hear nothing but
The lonely beat of my heart
That's how it's gonna be
Till you're beside me again
Night fades, day breaks
Another morning baby calling out your name
Walk down these streets, yeah
I see your face in everybody's face I see
I can't stand the pain
I need you near me
Baby don't you know,
Until you're here
All I'll be hearin's is the
Lonely beat of my heart
I'm lost in loneliness
I can't hear nothing but
The lonely beat of my heart
That's how it's gonna be
Till you're beside me again
Don't you know that I'd give anything
To have you back in my life
Well you know baby I would sell my soul
Just to hold you one more time
It's just a lonely beat of my heart
I'm lost in loneliness
I can't hear nothing but
The lonely beat of my heart
That's how it's gonna be
'Cause all I'm hearing is the
Lonely beat of my heart
Lonely beat of my heart
I'm lost in loneliness
I can't hear nothing but
The lonely beat of my heart
That's how it's gonna be
We were told how the story should go
Strangers in time fighting ancient foes
And that only the way we perceive it
Has changed, it still remains
Somehow it's always right against wrong
Always the chance of temptation
But it's never as simple as black or white
Day or night
Ever searching for secrets of life
Missing the moments of being alive
But most important things can't be told
They're in your soul
Put away all your worry and pain
Destiny doesn't change things
When you find out what you really need
How will you know
How will I know
Well we all need a hero
Of mythical size
To explain what we can't understand
And we all need a hero
To sacrifice his soul
Where's the hero
With a thousand eyes
With another foolproof plan
You only can see through
The strange disguise
Any maybe find yourself
Deep inside this living hell
That knows you oh so well, knows you so well
Now we won't need a hero
With a thousand eyes
To explain what we can't understand
We won't need a hero
To sacrifice his soul
Who's the hero
With a thousand eyes
With another useless plan
Now we see through
The strange disguise
So you can find yourself
Deep inside this living hell
That knows you oh so well
I can't take no more
I'm so tired of running in somebody else's shoes
What's it all been for
What's the use of paying for somebody else's dues
I've been on the road for someone else's dreams
Now I'm trying to claw my way back again
It's time to break some rules
And strike before the fire in me cools
I got my way
Of getting through to you
I got my way
And I'm going back (out) where no one's been before
Some day
I'll show you something new
Got my way
To try and wipe the tears (years) from my eyes
I'm half scared to death
Think I'm right but what if I'm wrong
I've got one shot left
The door is open now but not long
The room's full of faces that I've never seen
Like a million pair of eyes looking down
The smoke is blinding me
But I can still see my destiny
I got my way
Of getting through to you
I got my way
And I'm going back (out) where no one's been before
Some day
I'll show you something new
Got my way
To try and wipe the tears (years) from my eyes
I got my way
Of getting through to you
I got my way
And I'm going back (out) where no one's been before
Some day
I'll show you something new
Got my way
You got my pride
Hanging outta my bed
You messin' with my life
So I bought my lead
Even messin' with my children
And you're screaming at my wife baby
Get off my back
If ya wanna get outta here alive
Freedom that's what I want now
Freedom that's what I need now
Freedom to live
Freedom so I can give
You got my heart
Speak electric water
You got my soul
Screamin' and hollerin'
You know you hooked my girlfriend
You know the drugstore man
Well I don't know her now
I'm tryin' to slam it out of her hand
Freedom so I can live
Freedom so I can give
Freedom yeah!
Freedom that's what I need
You don't have to say that you love me
If you don't mean it you better believe
If you need me or you just wanna bleed me
We wait with bated breath
Oh my god your shit is so hot
With all the latest threads
Don't care if you get it or not
It's all about the look
And making sure your quaffing your quim
Just need to set the hook
And wait till someone reels you in
It doesn't matter if it's Paris or Perez
It's only hilton we hear
And we don't care if your from Texas or Juarez
Or if your strait or your queer
You may be a headline on TMZ
Cause Harvey Levin's the man
One thing for sure your a hunk of meat
But your manager won't tell ya
Your agent just sells ya
Your publicist, hell
Your just a flash in the pan
Don't have a record deal
Or any movie to push
But you got a demo reel
And you're good at flashing your bush
Just hoping that your 15 minutes can generate a career
If your lucky you'll get 15 seconds
Then get thrown out on your ear
You may be a headline on TMZ
Cause Harvey Levin's the man
One thing for sure your a hunk of meat
But your manager won't tell ya
Your agent just sells ya
Your publicist, hell
Your just a flash in the pan
It doesn't matter if it's Paris or Perez
It's only hilton we hear
And we don't care if your from Texas or Juarez
Or if your strait or your queer
You may be a headline on TMZ
Cause Harvey Levin's the man
One thing for sure your a hunk of meat
But your manager won't tell ya
Your agent just sells ya
You may be a star, the celeb du jour
With your own little legion of fans
But you won't get far on this fantasy tour
Cause your manager won't tell ya
Your agent just sells ya
Your publicist, hell
I was born as me alone
Isolation far from home
I was nurtured in the light
Mother's milk pure and white
I was told of a secret
To close my eyes
Fall into velvet
What I fear
This childhood dream
Must be real
I can feel it
Now I understand
This comfort of man
Take my hand
Fall into velvet
(Cindy)
You can touch where you've never been touched
See further than you've ever seen
Fall into velvet
I was touched by those who know
Of this power to fly alone
As the path will twist and wind
Leave for others, as we find
So the future may collect
Close their eyes
Fall into velvet
What I fear
This childhood dream
Must be real
I can feel it
Now I understand
This comfort of man
Take my hand
Fall into velvet
(Cindy)
You can touch where you've never been touched
See further than you've ever seen
Fall into velvet
(Cindy)
Fall into the spiral circle
Life supplies the mind's survival
Fall into the spiral circle
World of fear
Dying sun
Amber tears
Wars to be won
World grown old
Lost to man
All alone
All but forgotten
Same extinction blues
You've heard before the same old news
You and i
Last chance
Age of ice
Frozen romance
Time repeats
Death to life
Heartbeats
Save us tonight same extinction blues
It's great to be optimistic
And look at the world
Through rose colored eyes
Tell you what not to wish for
Mountains don't move
When you want them to
Same extinction blues
You've heard before
The same old news
Cruisin' down the street
Got the glaze in my eyes
Lookin' for a thousand reasons why
I don't want to be here
I don't want to die
What was I thinking we should have known
All the lights are one
But there's nobody home
Drive a crooked road
Stop inside a liquor store
Just to grab a taste
Man behind the counter
Don't recognize my face
Give me all your money
Got not time to waste
What was I thinking
We should have known
All the lights are one
But there's nobody home
Drive a crooked road
Drive a crooked road
Satisfy your soul
Drive a crooked road
I just ran out of time
I just ran out of luck
I've never been busted
And this ain't even my truck
Everybody's laughin'
Nobody cares
It seems like there's red
Flashin' lights everywhere
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Sittin' in the darkness
I'm staring at the bars
Couldn't drive too fast
I couldn't drive too far
I could have been somebody
I could have been a star
Should have stayed at home
Should have stayed in bed
Thought I heard this crazy
Screaming, screaming in my head, said
Drive a crooked road
Drive a crooked road
Satisfy your soul
Drive a crooked road
What was I thinking
We should have known
All the lights are one
But there's nobody home
Drive a crooked road
Drive a crooked road
Satisfy your soul
When will you touch the sky
Will you stop to wonder why
Excitement is your pain
While I am helpless once again
Take it out on me
If it makes you feel
That once again you're free
Don't try to hang me on
This rope of greed
This rope I feed you
'Cos if I'm hanging on
You won't be there to watch me bleed over you
Your eyes reveal your tale
When silence scares your words away
You only turn to me
When it becomes too hard to see
Take it out on me
If it makes you feel
That once again you're free
Don't try to hang me on
This rope of greed
This rope I feed you
'Cos if I'm hanging on
Don't forgive me when I'm gone
Please forgive me if I was wrong
Find the strenght to carry on
Woke up this morning
With an emptiness inside my heart
That never dies
No one seems to care at all
10, 000 miles away, tears in my eyes
As I fall on the broken glass
Of my hopes and dreams
And the truth starts to unfurl
There's darkness in my world
There's darkness in my world
52 it sure came fast
Decades seems to pass,
I'm looking deep inside myself
Wonder what my life is worth
I question every move I make
My mortal sins, and life itself
As I question the how's and why's
Could we be near the end
I'm parying for differeal
There's darkness in my world
I feel a change coming over me
It seems I felt this way before
I sense the sound your eyes won't let you see
I can't take it anymore
Crashing windows, crash
Laughing voices, keep on laughing,
Oh, Oh, Oh
Stop for a minute
I chase the shadows and light
To a palce no one knows
I hear the screams of the wind
And I know it's the
Darkest night of the year
Can't tell the dreams from reality
My fears are one and the same
So who made me part of destiny
Who made me part of their game
Can't you feel it hurt
Too much pain to endure
Stop for a minute
I chase the shadows and light
To a palce no one knows
I hear the screams of the wind
And I know it's the
Darkest night of the year
Cold wind on my skin
Is the pain that I feel when you're near
It's a midnight street
Where we'll meet
And we'll run from the
Darkest night of the year
Crashing windows, crash
Laughing voices, keep on laughing,
Oh, Oh, Oh
Stop for a minute
I chase the shadows and light
To a palce no one knows
I hear the screams of the wind
And I know it's the
Of rags and bones
Rusty old wheels on a cobblestone street
Everything I won
Follows me round like a ghost that won't leave me alone
Even sticks and stones
Can't leave a mark on this spirit of steel
Have you really grown
When you come back bleeding from your love torn battles
Wish I could feel bad for you
Or sympathize after all I've been through
I'm not as strong as I seem
While your heart is beating
I've got this broken machine
Those days have gone
Took so long just to pick myself up, and try to walk alone
No more afraid to let the sun stare at my face
See what you have done
Nuts, bolts and parts of dark days of broken dreams
Take so long to replace
As for your falling apart at the seams
Wish I could feel bad for you
Or sympathize after all that I've been through
How come you're not as you seem
You've got your problem
Your self-esteem
Wish I could feel bad for you
Or feel anything after all I've been through
I'm not as strong as I seem
While your heart is beating
Featuring: Steve Lukather
Tryin' to reinvent myself in a fucked up world
Watching CNN doing 12 once curls
I said yeah
The antichrist is screaming from the wide screen
He's living in a mansion near the hollywood sign
Another right wing cat getting busted for blow
He's cheating on his lady with Tiger Woods' ho
I said yeah
He's lying to the people with a straight face
Tripping up the truth every step he takes
chorus
What about the age of peace and love we tried
Text me with the reason why it had to die
I can hear the raor and rage
On my facebook page
from my back booth at Brody's
A chick's walking by she's had a nip and tuck
Got a tattoo on her ass and she says you wanna ...
I said yeah
Trying to fight a war that we can't win
Trying to pass the blame
with a Glen Beck spin
Just silence, from the thunder
The reflection of a life
Can't reveal the light inside
But it's no wonder
Never took the chance to say
For whatever reasons why
Good intentions aren't enough
Can't afford to put them off anymore
But there's nothing to do to make it right
Cause the path of our fate won't be turned aside
Can't expect anyone to understand
But the answer is in your hands
'Cause it's borrowed time
When's the dime running out
Yes it's borrowed time
Just so much life
Without a doubt
Only borrowed time
Who decides, I wonder why
I can't say goodbye
Daylight casts my shadow like the rest
Cause the world keeps going on
And I know that from beyond
You feel my helplessness
But if you were standing here
You would laugh about my fears
Like you always did before
You demanded nothing else
Than you ever save yourself
So what am I frightened for
You were the one
To lead the way
Never fooled by the lights
That lead us all astray
And the last one to think
The worst of things
Doesn't change what
Tomorrow brings
'Cause it's borrowed time
When's the dime running out
Yes it's borrowed time
Just so much life
Without a doubt
Only borrowed time
Who decides, I wonder why
The first quiet breath of the day
Recalls the night
And as I reflect on the pain
Through tears gone dry
Am I as blind as I remind myself
Or did I depend on a dried up wishing well
Only till the end of time
Is through
I will keep
A burning torch for you
Born yesterday
Thought I knew enough
I've never felt this way
Born yesterday
Guess you're not so tough
All hearts don't break the same
Now everything seems to have
A smoother edge
But what really changed was
Suspicion in my head
Was I relieved at my naive display
Put to rest a question I never could explain
You could fool me for a hundred years
But now I won't be
Tortured by my fears
I wasn't born yesterday
Thought I knew enough
I've never felt this way
Born yesterday
Guess you're not so tough
All hearts don't break the same
I finally cut the cord
And all that went with it
And nothing is all I have to give
I didn't know
How good it could feel
It's easy to believe some people don't care
Believe a gift is to be given but never shared
When your clothes are stripped you got what you got
When you drive your car to heaven there ain't no parking lot
Another builded up, another undone
Like every day dawn becomes another setting sun
I still believe you came to see
Bet you thought I'd comprehend
You wish for me, you wish to be
But I'm a hero who can't pretend
I should have riches after all that I've been through
Should have some peace of mind, I should shave somebody new
A silver locket or a painting just for you
But all I got's a big old bag of tales
I tell the stories, I write by my hand
The things I've felt another could never understand
Better to have lived and loved than never because
It's not the things it could have bee, it's that that never was
I should have riches after all that I've been through
Should have some peace of mind, I should have somebody new
A silver locket or a painting just for you
When it's over...your're always the last one to know
It's a feeling...that nobody wants to show
Even though it's killing me
I still blame myself
I wish I could change, but Lord knows I know that I can't All the feelings...
Twisting inside my head
I know it's too late...
The past I can't seem to forget
If I could change the circumstance
I'd never let you go
I can't hide from the thruth and I want you to know
When I reach out my hand there's nobody there I can touch anymore
When I call out your name
The painrips right through me like never before
Is it too much to aks for one last memory
'Cause yesterday you said, you'd always be there for me
Don't know what's harder...
The truth or reality
I hit a brick wall
Painted with honesty
I wish that I could give to you, all the things you need
But the one thing I can't is making you leave
Famous quotes by Steve Lukather:
"Dancin' in the moonlight"
"You know what? Maybe we should come back to New York."
"Another Brick In The Wall Part 3"
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ALBUMS
- Darkness In My World
- On My Way Home
- Can't Look Back
- Don't Say It's Over
- Flash In The Pan
- Watching The World
- You'll Remember
- Brody's
- Tumescent
- Joy to the World
- Greensleeves
- Jingle Bells
- Carol of the Bells
- Broken Heart for Christmas
- Angels We Have Heard On High
- Winter Wonderland
- Look Out for Angels
- Silent Night
- The Christmas Song
- Ever Changing Times
- The Letting Go
- New World
- Tell Me What You Want From Me
- I Am
- Jammin With Jesus
- Stab in the Back
- Never Ending Nights
- Icebound
- How Many Zeros
- The Truth
- The Real Truth
- Broken Machine
- Tears of My Own Shame
- Love the Things You Hate
- Hate Everything About U
- Reservations to Live (The Way It Is)
- Don't Hang Me On
- Always Be There for Me
- Open Your Heart
- Bag O' Tales
- Bluebird
- The Real Truth
- Broken Machine
- Tears of My Own Shame
- Love the Things You Hate
- Hate Everything About U
- Reservations to Live (The Way It Is)
- Don't Hang Me On
- Always Be There for Me
- Open Your Heart
- Bag o' Tales
- Bluebird
- The Pump
- Hero With a 1,000 Eyes
- Freedom
- Extinction Blues
- Born Yesterday
- Never Walk Alone
- Party in Simon's Pants
- Borrowed Time
- Never Let Them See You Cry
- Froth
- The Bomber
- Song for Jeff
- Twist the Knife
- Swear Your Love
- Fall Into Velvet
- Drive a Crooked Road
- Got My Way
- Darkest Night of the Year
- Lonely Beat of My Heart
- With a Second Chance
- Turns to Stone
- It Looks Like Rain
- Steppin' on Top of Your World
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Steve Lukather and Glen Campbell jamming
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- Duration: 8:21
- Updated: 02 Jan 2013
This is a cool studio-clip of Steve Lukather and Glen Campbell jamming and talking in the studio!
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This is a cool studio-clip of Steve Lukather and Glen Campbell jamming and talking in the studio!
Backstage with Steve Lukather
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- Duration: 5:34
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
We go backstage with Steve Lukather at the KLOS Christmas show!
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We go backstage with Steve Lukather at the KLOS Christmas show!
- published: 14 Dec 2012
- views: 3722
- author: KLOSwebmaster
Rock meets Classic - 25-01-2012 - Steve Lukather - Rosanna
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- Duration: 6:43
- Updated: 15 Jan 2013
A different approach of this Toto Classic. Seen Live @ The Arena Düren 25-01-2012
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A different approach of this Toto Classic. Seen Live @ The Arena Düren 25-01-2012
- published: 26 Jan 2012
- views: 26399
- author: pieke2001
Yamaha Guitars presents...Steve Lukather
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- Duration: 5:47
- Updated: 04 Jan 2013
Yamaha Guitars are proud to present Steve Lukather talking about his Yamaha L Series acoustic (LJX26C) which comes equipped with the great SRT pickup system. Steve Lukather is one of Yamaha Guitars latest high profile endorsees of it's electro acoustic and NX (electro nylon) guitars. Here Steve talks openly about how these great guitars are working for him on stage and in the studio. Steve is currently on tour in the USA, Europe and Japan ..Autumn 2011...see www.stevelukather.net and http for more details.
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Yamaha Guitars are proud to present Steve Lukather talking about his Yamaha L Series acoustic (LJX26C) which comes equipped with the great SRT pickup system. Steve Lukather is one of Yamaha Guitars latest high profile endorsees of it's electro acoustic and NX (electro nylon) guitars. Here Steve talks openly about how these great guitars are working for him on stage and in the studio. Steve is currently on tour in the USA, Europe and Japan ..Autumn 2011...see www.stevelukather.net and http for more details.
- published: 12 Aug 2011
- views: 32816
- author: gslam69
Larry Carlton Steve Lukather Cause We've Ended as Lovers
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- Duration: 9:57
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Wonderfull!!!
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STEVE LUKATHER & Los Lobotomys - Never walk alone
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- Duration: 9:51
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Steve Lukather in concert 1994, Simon Phillips drums.Steve es más conocido por su trabajo con Toto que por su carrera como solista, es un destacado guitarrista de sesión.
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Steve Lukather in concert 1994, Simon Phillips drums.Steve es más conocido por su trabajo con Toto que por su carrera como solista, es un destacado guitarrista de sesión.
- published: 01 Apr 2012
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- author: BestMasterGuitar
Steve Lukather Live 2009 - Traveling Guitar Performing Sponsor
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- Duration: 5:46
- Updated: 12 Jan 2013
Traveling Guitar Official Youtube Channel www.youtube.com Traveling Guitar Official Website www.TravelingGuitar.org Traveling Guitar Music Video http Performing Sponsors Include STEVE LUKATHER BRUCE KULICK RONNY NORTH JOHN DENNER Chris McKay Carl Verheyen Bill Leverty Devon Allman Vernon Neilly Marco Mendoza Damon Marks Bruce Kulick Bruce has been playing professionally since 1975. He first gained notoriety as a member of the touring band for Meat Loaf's classic "Bat Out Of Hell" album in 1977. Shortly after, Bruce formed the band Blackjack with a then aspiring singer named Michael Bolton. After the release of two albums, Blackjack folded and Bruce was asked to join KISS, where he remained as their lead guitarist for twelve years. After leaving KISS, Bruce formed UNION with John Corabi in 1997, who would go on to release three albums between 1998 and 2000. Bruce and John teamed up with Eric Singer and formed the Eric Singer Project (ESP), releasing an album in 1998. In early 2001, Bruce released his debut solo album Audio Dog, which was followed in 2003 with Transformer. In 2001 Bruce joined Grand Funk Railroad as lead guitarist after receiving a personal invitation from drummer Don Brewer. Bruce is still touring with GFR and is currently in his 9th year as their lead guitarist. Bruce has just completed his third solo disc titled BK3. The CD will feature Gene Simmons, Nick Simmons, Steve Lukather, John Corabi and Doug Fieger from the Knack and will be out in early 2010 ...
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Traveling Guitar Official Youtube Channel www.youtube.com Traveling Guitar Official Website www.TravelingGuitar.org Traveling Guitar Music Video http Performing Sponsors Include STEVE LUKATHER BRUCE KULICK RONNY NORTH JOHN DENNER Chris McKay Carl Verheyen Bill Leverty Devon Allman Vernon Neilly Marco Mendoza Damon Marks Bruce Kulick Bruce has been playing professionally since 1975. He first gained notoriety as a member of the touring band for Meat Loaf's classic "Bat Out Of Hell" album in 1977. Shortly after, Bruce formed the band Blackjack with a then aspiring singer named Michael Bolton. After the release of two albums, Blackjack folded and Bruce was asked to join KISS, where he remained as their lead guitarist for twelve years. After leaving KISS, Bruce formed UNION with John Corabi in 1997, who would go on to release three albums between 1998 and 2000. Bruce and John teamed up with Eric Singer and formed the Eric Singer Project (ESP), releasing an album in 1998. In early 2001, Bruce released his debut solo album Audio Dog, which was followed in 2003 with Transformer. In 2001 Bruce joined Grand Funk Railroad as lead guitarist after receiving a personal invitation from drummer Don Brewer. Bruce is still touring with GFR and is currently in his 9th year as their lead guitarist. Bruce has just completed his third solo disc titled BK3. The CD will feature Gene Simmons, Nick Simmons, Steve Lukather, John Corabi and Doug Fieger from the Knack and will be out in early 2010 ...
- published: 04 Jan 2010
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- author: TravelingguitarORG
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Incredible Steve Lukather live solo!!!
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- Duration: 8:49
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
A great performance by Steve Lukather at the Jason Becker's not dead yet festival
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A great performance by Steve Lukather at the Jason Becker's not dead yet festival
- published: 14 Apr 2011
- views: 121710
- author: guitarCHS
Larry Carlton and Steve Lukather Band - The Paris Concert (live music)
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- Duration: 91:33
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
World of Guitar: www.strinx.tv Für eine Hand voll Konzerte taten sich im Sommer 2001 zwei der meistbeschäftigten amerikanischen Studio-Gitarristen zusammen Larry Carlton und Steve Lukather. Die beiden Gitarristen kennen sich schon seit den siebziger Jahren, waren aber nie zusammen öffentlich aufgetreten. Kein Wunder, denn Carlton, der schon mit Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones und unzähligen anderen Stars gespielt hat, bringt es - nach eigener Aussage - pro Jahr auf etwa 300 Sessions. Nicht weniger viel beschäftigt ist Lukather, der mit Toto bekannt wurde und daneben für Rod Stewart, Van Halen, Lionel Richie, Cheap Trick oder die Pointer Sisters in die Saiten gegriffen hat. TITELAUFLISTUNG: 01 The Pump | 02 Blues Force | 03 It Was Only Yesterday | 04 Red House | 05 Don't Give It Up | 06 Room 335 | 07 Put It Where You Want It.
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World of Guitar: www.strinx.tv Für eine Hand voll Konzerte taten sich im Sommer 2001 zwei der meistbeschäftigten amerikanischen Studio-Gitarristen zusammen Larry Carlton und Steve Lukather. Die beiden Gitarristen kennen sich schon seit den siebziger Jahren, waren aber nie zusammen öffentlich aufgetreten. Kein Wunder, denn Carlton, der schon mit Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones und unzähligen anderen Stars gespielt hat, bringt es - nach eigener Aussage - pro Jahr auf etwa 300 Sessions. Nicht weniger viel beschäftigt ist Lukather, der mit Toto bekannt wurde und daneben für Rod Stewart, Van Halen, Lionel Richie, Cheap Trick oder die Pointer Sisters in die Saiten gegriffen hat. TITELAUFLISTUNG: 01 The Pump | 02 Blues Force | 03 It Was Only Yesterday | 04 Red House | 05 Don't Give It Up | 06 Room 335 | 07 Put It Where You Want It.
- published: 05 Jun 2012
- views: 161789
- author: Musikweltkino
Larry Carlton & Steve Lukather - The Paris Concert - Live Performance - #1
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- Duration: 14:39
- Updated: 21 Dec 2012
Larry Carlton - www.LarryCarlton.com 335 Records - www.335Records.com
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Larry Carlton - www.LarryCarlton.com 335 Records - www.335Records.com
- published: 03 Apr 2012
- views: 5925
- author: LarryCarltonMr335
Steve Lukather - Live in San Francisco - 2011
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- Duration: 10:30
- Updated: 04 Nov 2012
Steve Lukather, Live 3/26/11 at Slim's, San Francisco, CA Jason Becker Festival
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Steve Lukather, Live 3/26/11 at Slim's, San Francisco, CA Jason Becker Festival
- published: 30 Mar 2011
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Steve Lukather Live 2009 - Traveling Guitar Performing Sponsor
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- Duration: 5:46
- Updated: 12 Jan 2013
Traveling Guitar Official Youtube Channel www.youtube.com Traveling Guitar Official Website www.TravelingGuitar.org Traveling Guitar Music Video http Performing Sponsors Include STEVE LUKATHER BRUCE KULICK RONNY NORTH JOHN DENNER Chris McKay Carl Verheyen Bill Leverty Devon Allman Vernon Neilly Marco Mendoza Damon Marks Bruce Kulick Bruce has been playing professionally since 1975. He first gained notoriety as a member of the touring band for Meat Loaf's classic "Bat Out Of Hell" album in 1977. Shortly after, Bruce formed the band Blackjack with a then aspiring singer named Michael Bolton. After the release of two albums, Blackjack folded and Bruce was asked to join KISS, where he remained as their lead guitarist for twelve years. After leaving KISS, Bruce formed UNION with John Corabi in 1997, who would go on to release three albums between 1998 and 2000. Bruce and John teamed up with Eric Singer and formed the Eric Singer Project (ESP), releasing an album in 1998. In early 2001, Bruce released his debut solo album Audio Dog, which was followed in 2003 with Transformer. In 2001 Bruce joined Grand Funk Railroad as lead guitarist after receiving a personal invitation from drummer Don Brewer. Bruce is still touring with GFR and is currently in his 9th year as their lead guitarist. Bruce has just completed his third solo disc titled BK3. The CD will feature Gene Simmons, Nick Simmons, Steve Lukather, John Corabi and Doug Fieger from the Knack and will be out in early 2010 ...
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Traveling Guitar Official Youtube Channel www.youtube.com Traveling Guitar Official Website www.TravelingGuitar.org Traveling Guitar Music Video http Performing Sponsors Include STEVE LUKATHER BRUCE KULICK RONNY NORTH JOHN DENNER Chris McKay Carl Verheyen Bill Leverty Devon Allman Vernon Neilly Marco Mendoza Damon Marks Bruce Kulick Bruce has been playing professionally since 1975. He first gained notoriety as a member of the touring band for Meat Loaf's classic "Bat Out Of Hell" album in 1977. Shortly after, Bruce formed the band Blackjack with a then aspiring singer named Michael Bolton. After the release of two albums, Blackjack folded and Bruce was asked to join KISS, where he remained as their lead guitarist for twelve years. After leaving KISS, Bruce formed UNION with John Corabi in 1997, who would go on to release three albums between 1998 and 2000. Bruce and John teamed up with Eric Singer and formed the Eric Singer Project (ESP), releasing an album in 1998. In early 2001, Bruce released his debut solo album Audio Dog, which was followed in 2003 with Transformer. In 2001 Bruce joined Grand Funk Railroad as lead guitarist after receiving a personal invitation from drummer Don Brewer. Bruce is still touring with GFR and is currently in his 9th year as their lead guitarist. Bruce has just completed his third solo disc titled BK3. The CD will feature Gene Simmons, Nick Simmons, Steve Lukather, John Corabi and Doug Fieger from the Knack and will be out in early 2010 ...
- published: 04 Jan 2010
- views: 25248
- author: TravelingguitarORG
TOTO - Steve Lukather Guitar Solo "Live"
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- Duration: 6:31
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
TOTO: Falling in Between Live Le Zénith, Paris, France March 26, 2007 Personnel: Steve Lukather - guitars, vocals Bobby Kimball - vocals Greg Phillinganes - keyboards, vocals Simon Phillips - drums, percussion Additional musicians: Tony Spinner - guitars, vocals Leland Sklar - bass guitar Falling in Between Live is the fourth live album by American band Toto, released in 2007. It was recorded live at Le Zénith, Paris, France. The album is the first Toto record to feature bassist Leland Sklar, temporarily replacing Mike Porcaro due to a hand injury and second record featuring keyboardist Greg Phillinganes, replacing David Paich who has retired from touring, but is still an active member in the studio. It captures the band rocking at their hardest and most powerful and giving new life to all their best loved tracks. Songs such as "Africa," "Hold the Line," and "Rosanna" helped establish Toto as soft rock giants during the 1980s. The band, which is comprised of a group of former session musicians, scaled unexpected heights during their heyday, and went on to enjoy an unexpected 21st century renaissance. This 2007 concert finds the boys picking some of the best tunes from their back catalog and performing them before an expectant crowd at Le Zenith in Paris.
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TOTO: Falling in Between Live Le Zénith, Paris, France March 26, 2007 Personnel: Steve Lukather - guitars, vocals Bobby Kimball - vocals Greg Phillinganes - keyboards, vocals Simon Phillips - drums, percussion Additional musicians: Tony Spinner - guitars, vocals Leland Sklar - bass guitar Falling in Between Live is the fourth live album by American band Toto, released in 2007. It was recorded live at Le Zénith, Paris, France. The album is the first Toto record to feature bassist Leland Sklar, temporarily replacing Mike Porcaro due to a hand injury and second record featuring keyboardist Greg Phillinganes, replacing David Paich who has retired from touring, but is still an active member in the studio. It captures the band rocking at their hardest and most powerful and giving new life to all their best loved tracks. Songs such as "Africa," "Hold the Line," and "Rosanna" helped establish Toto as soft rock giants during the 1980s. The band, which is comprised of a group of former session musicians, scaled unexpected heights during their heyday, and went on to enjoy an unexpected 21st century renaissance. This 2007 concert finds the boys picking some of the best tunes from their back catalog and performing them before an expectant crowd at Le Zenith in Paris.
- published: 26 Jul 2012
- views: 7562
- author: RayStJohn21
Steve Lukather & Larry Carlton Band Live - Room 335
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- Duration: 6:21
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Live at the New Morning Paris Juy 2001.
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Steve Lukather & Los lobotomys - Dismemberment live.avi
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- Duration: 15:00
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
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Lee Ritenour with Steve Lukather Live - 6 String Theory - www.jhanamusic.com.mp4
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- Duration: 3:48
- Updated: 15 Jan 2013
Lee Ritenour Live with Steve Lukather from 6 String Theory - From Monster Music available as 5.1 surround download from www.jhanamusic.com
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Lee Ritenour Live with Steve Lukather from 6 String Theory - From Monster Music available as 5.1 surround download from www.jhanamusic.com
- published: 01 Dec 2010
- views: 13016
- author: johmbo
Steve Lukather Enschede 15.03.11 - VIP Experience
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- Duration: 4:06
- Updated: 14 Dec 2012
WHAT A GREAT MEETING AND SHOW , STEVE WE LOVE YOU !!!
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WHAT A GREAT MEETING AND SHOW , STEVE WE LOVE YOU !!!
- published: 21 Mar 2011
- views: 22480
- author: nickboersma
Steve Lukather - We Pretend (Live)
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- Duration: 5:30
- Updated: 12 Jan 2013
Steve Lukather - We Pretend (Live)
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Larry Carlton & Steve Lukather - The Paris Concert - Live Performance - #7
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- Duration: 3:47
- Updated: 13 Aug 2012
Larry Carlton - www.LarryCarlton.com 335 Records - www.335Records.com
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Larry Carlton - www.LarryCarlton.com 335 Records - www.335Records.com
- published: 03 Apr 2012
- views: 3509
- author: LarryCarltonMr335
Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, Steve Lukather - Super Boogie (Nagano, Japan 1986)
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- Duration: 9:51
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, Steve Lukather - Live at Karuizawa Prince Hotel Field Stage, Nagano, Japan 1986. On stage: Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, Steve Lukather - Guitars Doug Wimbish - Bass Simon Phillips - Drums Jan Hammer - Keyboards
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Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, Steve Lukather - Live at Karuizawa Prince Hotel Field Stage, Nagano, Japan 1986. On stage: Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, Steve Lukather - Guitars Doug Wimbish - Bass Simon Phillips - Drums Jan Hammer - Keyboards
- published: 20 Nov 2012
- views: 1589
- author: paata chakhnashvili
Toto-Falling in between live in Paris 2007
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- Duration: 112:39
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Steve Lukather - Guitars, Vocals Simon Phillips - Drums Bobby Kimball - Vocals Greg Phillinganes - Keyboards, Vocals Leland Sklar - Bass Guitar Tony Spinner - Guitars, Vocals 1. FALLING IN BETWEEN (1:30) 2. KING OF THE WORLD (5:25) 3. PAMELA (11:00) 4. BOTTOM OF YOUR SOUL (16:44) 5. CAUGHT IN THE BALANCE (23:48) 6. DON'T CHAIN MY HEART (30:32) 7. HOLD THE LINE (36:10) 8. STOP LOVING YOU (40:40) 9. I'LL BE OVER YOU (44:05) 10. CRUEL (46:36) 11. GREG SOLO (49:20) 1. ROSANNA (55:38) 2. I'LL SUPPLY THE LOVE (1:05:00) 3. ISOLATION (1:06:48) 4. GIFT OF FAITH (1:09:40) 5. KINGDOM OF DESIRE (1:12:18) 6. LUKE SOLO (1:14:48) 7. HYDRA (1:21:20) 8. SIMON SOLO (1:21:20) 9. TAINT YOUR WORLD (1:27:02) 10. GYPSY TRAIN (1:29:10) 11. AFRICA (1:36:20) 12. DRAG HIM TO THE ROOF (1:42:35:) I do not own this Video
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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Steve Lukather - Guitars, Vocals Simon Phillips - Drums Bobby Kimball - Vocals Greg Phillinganes - Keyboards, Vocals Leland Sklar - Bass Guitar Tony Spinner - Guitars, Vocals 1. FALLING IN BETWEEN (1:30) 2. KING OF THE WORLD (5:25) 3. PAMELA (11:00) 4. BOTTOM OF YOUR SOUL (16:44) 5. CAUGHT IN THE BALANCE (23:48) 6. DON'T CHAIN MY HEART (30:32) 7. HOLD THE LINE (36:10) 8. STOP LOVING YOU (40:40) 9. I'LL BE OVER YOU (44:05) 10. CRUEL (46:36) 11. GREG SOLO (49:20) 1. ROSANNA (55:38) 2. I'LL SUPPLY THE LOVE (1:05:00) 3. ISOLATION (1:06:48) 4. GIFT OF FAITH (1:09:40) 5. KINGDOM OF DESIRE (1:12:18) 6. LUKE SOLO (1:14:48) 7. HYDRA (1:21:20) 8. SIMON SOLO (1:21:20) 9. TAINT YOUR WORLD (1:27:02) 10. GYPSY TRAIN (1:29:10) 11. AFRICA (1:36:20) 12. DRAG HIM TO THE ROOF (1:42:35:) I do not own this Video
- published: 01 May 2012
- views: 422276
- author: Reginald Lucien Frank Roger Watts
Hold the Line Steve Lukather of Toto Live with Ringo Starr All-Starr Band Bethel Woods June 16 2012
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- Duration: 1:39
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Steve Lukather of Toto plays Hold the Line Live at Bethel Woods with Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band, on June 16, 2012. (Part 1 of 2) Front row view
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Steve Lukather of Toto plays Hold the Line Live at Bethel Woods with Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band, on June 16, 2012. (Part 1 of 2) Front row view
- published: 18 Jun 2012
- views: 1827
- author: EJandEF4ever
G3 Live New Zealand Steve Lukather
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- Duration: 8:25
- Updated: 05 Sep 2012
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Steve Lukather - Party in Simon's Pants (Hinz & Kunz Quintett Cover)
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- Duration: 6:17
- Updated: 15 Dec 2012
This is our funky saxophoned arrangement of Steve Lukather's "Party in Simon's Pants" (Candyman, 1994). Hope you enjoy it, we certainly had a blast playing it! There's more to come, so subscribe if you like it. Everything was recorded live in one take and one room (apart from the piano, as Frederic was out of town when we were recording the main tracks). We had never recorded all in one room before, so we were positively surprised when this experiment actually worked out quite well and mic bleeding didn't kill us. Filming was done with several cameras from several different angles. - Hinz & Kunz Quintett (hinzundkunzband.de) FACEBOOK www.facebook.com MYSPACE: www.myspace.com 'Party in Simon's Pants' originally performed by Steve Lukather Written by Steve Lukather & Simon Phillips Published by Buddy Love Music & Pants Party Publishing
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This is our funky saxophoned arrangement of Steve Lukather's "Party in Simon's Pants" (Candyman, 1994). Hope you enjoy it, we certainly had a blast playing it! There's more to come, so subscribe if you like it. Everything was recorded live in one take and one room (apart from the piano, as Frederic was out of town when we were recording the main tracks). We had never recorded all in one room before, so we were positively surprised when this experiment actually worked out quite well and mic bleeding didn't kill us. Filming was done with several cameras from several different angles. - Hinz & Kunz Quintett (hinzundkunzband.de) FACEBOOK www.facebook.com MYSPACE: www.myspace.com 'Party in Simon's Pants' originally performed by Steve Lukather Written by Steve Lukather & Simon Phillips Published by Buddy Love Music & Pants Party Publishing
- published: 05 Aug 2011
- views: 9419
- author: HinzUndKunzMusic
Steve Lukather All's Well that Ends Well EPK
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- Duration: 2:56
- Updated: 02 Jan 2013
More info on Steve Lukather: mascotlabelgroup.com Steve Lukather talks about the new album All's Well That Ends Well. This new studio album will be released through Mascot Records in Europe on October 11, 2010 and February 2011 in the USA. The release in Japan is through JVC on October 11, 2010. Video by Nigel Dick
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More info on Steve Lukather: mascotlabelgroup.com Steve Lukather talks about the new album All's Well That Ends Well. This new studio album will be released through Mascot Records in Europe on October 11, 2010 and February 2011 in the USA. The release in Japan is through JVC on October 11, 2010. Video by Nigel Dick
- published: 18 Aug 2010
- views: 98590
- author: Mascot Records
Interview with Steve Lukather
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- Duration: 10:30
- Updated: 02 Jan 2013
Mascot Label Group will release the highly anticipated seventh solo album "Transition" by guitarist, vocalist, composer/producer/arranger, Steve Lukather, on Monday 21st January 2013. The album will be followed by an extensive European tour. "Transition is a turning point for the album and a turning point for me," Lukather explains. "As we were writing the songs, I was thinking about everything I've seen — all the people I've lost in my life, the great and the difficult experiences I've had, and how ultimately it was time to get it together and embrace things for what they are. We've only got one life to live so we should make the most of it."
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Mascot Label Group will release the highly anticipated seventh solo album "Transition" by guitarist, vocalist, composer/producer/arranger, Steve Lukather, on Monday 21st January 2013. The album will be followed by an extensive European tour. "Transition is a turning point for the album and a turning point for me," Lukather explains. "As we were writing the songs, I was thinking about everything I've seen — all the people I've lost in my life, the great and the difficult experiences I've had, and how ultimately it was time to get it together and embrace things for what they are. We've only got one life to live so we should make the most of it."
- published: 16 Nov 2012
- views: 2057
- author: radiopunto
Lee Ritenour & Steve Lukather - "Cause We've Ended as Lovers"
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- Duration: 6:58
- Updated: 25 Oct 2012
Live from the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles (1990) For more info, www.stevelukather.net
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Live from the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles (1990) For more info, www.stevelukather.net
- published: 08 Sep 2011
- views: 47916
- author: Steve Lukather
Larry Carlton Steve Lukather Cause We've Ended as Lovers
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- Duration: 9:57
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Wonderfull!!!
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Joe Bonamassa, Steve Lukather & Lee Ritenour - "Give Me One Reason" - GUITAR GREATS: Episode 1
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- Duration: 7:51
- Updated: 15 Jan 2013
In this episode of Guitar Greats, watch as 3 legendary artists jam together for their rendition of Tracy Chapman's "Give Me One Reason." This episode features the diverse styles and solos of Joe Bonamassa, Steve Lukather and Lee Ritenour, with the accompaniment of Dave Weckl (drums) and Melvin Davis (bass). *GUITAR GREATS is a weekly web-series featuring live, uncut performances from the Crown of the Continent Guitar Festival (COCGF). The COCGF brings together some of the worlds most talented guitarists for a week of workshops, concerts, and musical creativity in Big Fork, Montana. New episodes of Guitar Greats will be released every Tuesday and Thursday leading up to, and during, this years festival running from August 26th-September 2, 2012. Find out more at: cocguitarfoundation.org Videography by Alan Kozlowski onthepathfilms.com Editing by Nic Davis www.youtube.com Logo by Richard Kurth richardkurthdesign.com
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In this episode of Guitar Greats, watch as 3 legendary artists jam together for their rendition of Tracy Chapman's "Give Me One Reason." This episode features the diverse styles and solos of Joe Bonamassa, Steve Lukather and Lee Ritenour, with the accompaniment of Dave Weckl (drums) and Melvin Davis (bass). *GUITAR GREATS is a weekly web-series featuring live, uncut performances from the Crown of the Continent Guitar Festival (COCGF). The COCGF brings together some of the worlds most talented guitarists for a week of workshops, concerts, and musical creativity in Big Fork, Montana. New episodes of Guitar Greats will be released every Tuesday and Thursday leading up to, and during, this years festival running from August 26th-September 2, 2012. Find out more at: cocguitarfoundation.org Videography by Alan Kozlowski onthepathfilms.com Editing by Nic Davis www.youtube.com Logo by Richard Kurth richardkurthdesign.com
- published: 25 Jul 2012
- views: 28964
- author: COCGuitarFoundation
Africa Steve Lukather of Toto Live with Ringo Starr All-Starr Band Bethel Woods June 16 2012
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- Duration: 5:07
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Steve Lukather of Toto plays Africa Live at Bethel Woods with Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band, on June 16, 2012. Front row view
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Steve Lukather of Toto plays Africa Live at Bethel Woods with Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band, on June 16, 2012. Front row view
- published: 18 Jun 2012
- views: 16462
- author: EJandEF4ever
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Steve Lukather - Master Session
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- Duration: 35:39
- Updated: 15 Jan 2013
The Steve Lukather Master Session (a volume in the Star Licks guitar video-tutor series), made in 1984 after the release of the fifth Toto album Isolation, is the only instructional Lukather video. It's a great tutorial, not only for (future) guitarists but also for those Lukather fans who frequently asked themselves 'how the hell did he do it'. After a one minute show-case intro, Lukather demonstrates his equipment (Mesa Boogie) and guitar (custom made by Valley Arts) at that time. In the heart of the video Lukather tutors (once slowly and once at regular speed) the solo's from nine songs. Meanwhile he reveals his personal tips on techniques like double-picking, speed picking, wang bar effects, chromaticism, bending, position shifting, false harmonics, travelling scales and melodic phrasing, all merged into the final solo of this video.
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The Steve Lukather Master Session (a volume in the Star Licks guitar video-tutor series), made in 1984 after the release of the fifth Toto album Isolation, is the only instructional Lukather video. It's a great tutorial, not only for (future) guitarists but also for those Lukather fans who frequently asked themselves 'how the hell did he do it'. After a one minute show-case intro, Lukather demonstrates his equipment (Mesa Boogie) and guitar (custom made by Valley Arts) at that time. In the heart of the video Lukather tutors (once slowly and once at regular speed) the solo's from nine songs. Meanwhile he reveals his personal tips on techniques like double-picking, speed picking, wang bar effects, chromaticism, bending, position shifting, false harmonics, travelling scales and melodic phrasing, all merged into the final solo of this video.
- published: 18 Mar 2012
- views: 434181
- author: AORCLOUD
In Studio with Steve Lukather
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- Duration: 27:42
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Raw footage shot during two days of recording Steve Lukather's "Ever Changing Times" album. January 15 and 16, 2007 at the Steakhouse Studio in North Hollywood.
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Raw footage shot during two days of recording Steve Lukather's "Ever Changing Times" album. January 15 and 16, 2007 at the Steakhouse Studio in North Hollywood.
- published: 13 Dec 2012
- views: 7932
- author: insidemusicast
Music Man Steve Lukather Luke III
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- Duration: 20:39
- Updated: 15 Jan 2013
Music Man Steve Lukather Luke III www.andertons.co.uk Rob Chapman Downloadable Guitar Lessons Store www.robchapman.tv Rob Chapman Facebook www.facebook.com Rob Chapman's band Dorje: www.youtube.com For all enquiries regarding Rob Chapman email: officialrobchappers@gmail.com All audio was recorded & produced by Paul 'Stick' Annis/Maplewood Studio www.youtube.com www.facebook.com www.soundcloud.com www.twitter.com www.maplewoodstudio.com
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Music Man Steve Lukather Luke III www.andertons.co.uk Rob Chapman Downloadable Guitar Lessons Store www.robchapman.tv Rob Chapman Facebook www.facebook.com Rob Chapman's band Dorje: www.youtube.com For all enquiries regarding Rob Chapman email: officialrobchappers@gmail.com All audio was recorded & produced by Paul 'Stick' Annis/Maplewood Studio www.youtube.com www.facebook.com www.soundcloud.com www.twitter.com www.maplewoodstudio.com
- published: 31 Aug 2012
- views: 55912
- author: RobChappers
Toto-Falling in between live in Paris 2007
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- Duration: 112:39
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Steve Lukather - Guitars, Vocals Simon Phillips - Drums Bobby Kimball - Vocals Greg Phillinganes - Keyboards, Vocals Leland Sklar - Bass Guitar Tony Spinner - Guitars, Vocals 1. FALLING IN BETWEEN (1:30) 2. KING OF THE WORLD (5:25) 3. PAMELA (11:00) 4. BOTTOM OF YOUR SOUL (16:44) 5. CAUGHT IN THE BALANCE (23:48) 6. DON'T CHAIN MY HEART (30:32) 7. HOLD THE LINE (36:10) 8. STOP LOVING YOU (40:40) 9. I'LL BE OVER YOU (44:05) 10. CRUEL (46:36) 11. GREG SOLO (49:20) 1. ROSANNA (55:38) 2. I'LL SUPPLY THE LOVE (1:05:00) 3. ISOLATION (1:06:48) 4. GIFT OF FAITH (1:09:40) 5. KINGDOM OF DESIRE (1:12:18) 6. LUKE SOLO (1:14:48) 7. HYDRA (1:21:20) 8. SIMON SOLO (1:21:20) 9. TAINT YOUR WORLD (1:27:02) 10. GYPSY TRAIN (1:29:10) 11. AFRICA (1:36:20) 12. DRAG HIM TO THE ROOF (1:42:35:) I do not own this Video
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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Steve Lukather - Guitars, Vocals Simon Phillips - Drums Bobby Kimball - Vocals Greg Phillinganes - Keyboards, Vocals Leland Sklar - Bass Guitar Tony Spinner - Guitars, Vocals 1. FALLING IN BETWEEN (1:30) 2. KING OF THE WORLD (5:25) 3. PAMELA (11:00) 4. BOTTOM OF YOUR SOUL (16:44) 5. CAUGHT IN THE BALANCE (23:48) 6. DON'T CHAIN MY HEART (30:32) 7. HOLD THE LINE (36:10) 8. STOP LOVING YOU (40:40) 9. I'LL BE OVER YOU (44:05) 10. CRUEL (46:36) 11. GREG SOLO (49:20) 1. ROSANNA (55:38) 2. I'LL SUPPLY THE LOVE (1:05:00) 3. ISOLATION (1:06:48) 4. GIFT OF FAITH (1:09:40) 5. KINGDOM OF DESIRE (1:12:18) 6. LUKE SOLO (1:14:48) 7. HYDRA (1:21:20) 8. SIMON SOLO (1:21:20) 9. TAINT YOUR WORLD (1:27:02) 10. GYPSY TRAIN (1:29:10) 11. AFRICA (1:36:20) 12. DRAG HIM TO THE ROOF (1:42:35:) I do not own this Video
- published: 01 May 2012
- views: 422276
- author: Reginald Lucien Frank Roger Watts
Larry Carlton and Steve Lukather Band - The Paris Concert (live music)
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- Duration: 91:33
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
World of Guitar: www.strinx.tv Für eine Hand voll Konzerte taten sich im Sommer 2001 zwei der meistbeschäftigten amerikanischen Studio-Gitarristen zusammen Larry Carlton und Steve Lukather. Die beiden Gitarristen kennen sich schon seit den siebziger Jahren, waren aber nie zusammen öffentlich aufgetreten. Kein Wunder, denn Carlton, der schon mit Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones und unzähligen anderen Stars gespielt hat, bringt es - nach eigener Aussage - pro Jahr auf etwa 300 Sessions. Nicht weniger viel beschäftigt ist Lukather, der mit Toto bekannt wurde und daneben für Rod Stewart, Van Halen, Lionel Richie, Cheap Trick oder die Pointer Sisters in die Saiten gegriffen hat. TITELAUFLISTUNG: 01 The Pump | 02 Blues Force | 03 It Was Only Yesterday | 04 Red House | 05 Don't Give It Up | 06 Room 335 | 07 Put It Where You Want It.
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World of Guitar: www.strinx.tv Für eine Hand voll Konzerte taten sich im Sommer 2001 zwei der meistbeschäftigten amerikanischen Studio-Gitarristen zusammen Larry Carlton und Steve Lukather. Die beiden Gitarristen kennen sich schon seit den siebziger Jahren, waren aber nie zusammen öffentlich aufgetreten. Kein Wunder, denn Carlton, der schon mit Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones und unzähligen anderen Stars gespielt hat, bringt es - nach eigener Aussage - pro Jahr auf etwa 300 Sessions. Nicht weniger viel beschäftigt ist Lukather, der mit Toto bekannt wurde und daneben für Rod Stewart, Van Halen, Lionel Richie, Cheap Trick oder die Pointer Sisters in die Saiten gegriffen hat. TITELAUFLISTUNG: 01 The Pump | 02 Blues Force | 03 It Was Only Yesterday | 04 Red House | 05 Don't Give It Up | 06 Room 335 | 07 Put It Where You Want It.
- published: 05 Jun 2012
- views: 161789
- author: Musikweltkino
Steve Lukather - Ever Changing Times FULL ALBUM
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- Duration: 54:38
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
For educational purposes only.
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Interview with Steve Lukather, December 18, 2012
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- Duration: 33:58
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
Three days before the Mayan-predicted end of the world, I sat down with the iconic guitarist Steve'Luke' Lukather to discuss his forthcoming seventh solo album, "Transition" which hits streets on January 22. Luke is one of the busiest men in music from making album guest appearances, to touring with Toto, Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band, and recently as part of the 2012 G3 tour with Steve Vai and Joe Satriani.
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Three days before the Mayan-predicted end of the world, I sat down with the iconic guitarist Steve'Luke' Lukather to discuss his forthcoming seventh solo album, "Transition" which hits streets on January 22. Luke is one of the busiest men in music from making album guest appearances, to touring with Toto, Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band, and recently as part of the 2012 G3 tour with Steve Vai and Joe Satriani.
- published: 07 Jan 2013
- views: 287
- author: Rustyn Rose
![Steve Lukather & Los Lobotomys: In Concert - Ohne Filter 1994 [Full DVD]](http://web.archive.org./web/20130115120524im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/3b6PirYBSdg/default.jpg "Steve Lukather & Los Lobotomys: In Concert - Ohne Filter 1994 [Full DVD]")
Steve Lukather & Los Lobotomys: In Concert - Ohne Filter 1994 [Full DVD]
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- Duration: 57:58
- Updated: 12 Jan 2013
1 Hero With A 1000 Eyes (S. Lukather, D. Garfield) 2 Freedom (J. Hendrix) 6:54 3 Extinction blues (S. Lukather, D. Garfield, F. Waybill) 12:07 4 Dismemberment (L. Castro, D. Garfield) 16:53 5 Never walk alone (S. Lukather, D. Garfield) 31:56 6 The bomber (J. Walsh) 42:09 7 Party in Simon's pants (S. Lukather, S. Phillips) 47:50 Musicians: Steve Lukather: guitars, voacals David Garfield: keyboards John Pêna: bass Simon Phillips: drums
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1 Hero With A 1000 Eyes (S. Lukather, D. Garfield) 2 Freedom (J. Hendrix) 6:54 3 Extinction blues (S. Lukather, D. Garfield, F. Waybill) 12:07 4 Dismemberment (L. Castro, D. Garfield) 16:53 5 Never walk alone (S. Lukather, D. Garfield) 31:56 6 The bomber (J. Walsh) 42:09 7 Party in Simon's pants (S. Lukather, S. Phillips) 47:50 Musicians: Steve Lukather: guitars, voacals David Garfield: keyboards John Pêna: bass Simon Phillips: drums
- published: 02 Nov 2012
- views: 5691
- author: Gabriele Dell'Aquila
Steve Lukather - Lukes Birthday Party (11.09.1998)
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- Duration: 99:51
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Steve Lukather - Lukes Birthday Party (11.09.1998)
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Steve Lukather - Lukes Birthday Party (11.09.1998)
- published: 28 Dec 2012
- views: 1097
- author: sztropacsekemil
Élet a Toto után (Steve Lukather riport)
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- Duration: 26:00
- Updated: 04 Dec 2012
Élet a Toto után Steve Lukather
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The Guitarist TV Show - Full interview with Steve Lukather
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- Duration: 50:02
- Updated: 04 Jan 2013
www.guitaristtv.com - The award winning legendary guitarist that shaped the way we play guitar...Toto guitarist, session guitarist of note and solo performer Steve Lukather chats to Guitarist TV founder Michael de Jager & presenter Ingerlise Pope during his UK tour in 2011.
http://wn.com/The_Guitarist_TV_Show_Full_interview_with_Steve_Lukather
www.guitaristtv.com - The award winning legendary guitarist that shaped the way we play guitar...Toto guitarist, session guitarist of note and solo performer Steve Lukather chats to Guitarist TV founder Michael de Jager & presenter Ingerlise Pope during his UK tour in 2011.
- published: 29 Sep 2011
- views: 3887
- author: GuitaristTV
Interview with Steve Lukather
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- Duration: 21:08
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
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Steve Lukather live in Karlsruhe (Germany) at Substage (collected moments) 06.11.11
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- Duration: 23:05
- Updated: 12 Jan 2013
amazing performance by amazing artist: please don't mind the poor video qualitiy. just enjoy the feeling.
http://wn.com/Steve_Lukather_live_in_Karlsruhe_Germany_at_Substage_collected_moments_061111
amazing performance by amazing artist: please don't mind the poor video qualitiy. just enjoy the feeling.
- published: 22 Jan 2012
- views: 289
- author: sivichkiqt
![Toto - Hydra [Full Album]](http://web.archive.org./web/20130115120524im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/jdKlpBd6Mig/default.jpg "Toto - Hydra [Full Album]")
Toto - Hydra [Full Album]
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- Duration: 41:13
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
1. "Hydra" (David Hungate, Bobby Kimball, Steve Lukather, David Paich, Steve Porcaro, Jeff Porcaro - Copyright Otot Music) Paich 7:31 2. "St. George and the Dragon" Kimball 4:45 3. "99" Lukather 5:16 4. "Lorraine" Paich 4:46 Side two No. Title Lead vocals Length 1. "All Us Boys" Paich 5:03 2. "Mama" (David Paich, Bobby Kimball - Copyright Hudmar Publishing/Sheetfire Music) Kimball 5:14 3. "White Sister" (David Paich, Bobby Kimball - Copyright Hudmar Publishing/Sheetfire Music/Porcaro Music) Kimball 5:39 4. "A Secret Love" (David Paich, Bobby Kimball, Steve Porcaro) Kimball 3:07
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1. "Hydra" (David Hungate, Bobby Kimball, Steve Lukather, David Paich, Steve Porcaro, Jeff Porcaro - Copyright Otot Music) Paich 7:31 2. "St. George and the Dragon" Kimball 4:45 3. "99" Lukather 5:16 4. "Lorraine" Paich 4:46 Side two No. Title Lead vocals Length 1. "All Us Boys" Paich 5:03 2. "Mama" (David Paich, Bobby Kimball - Copyright Hudmar Publishing/Sheetfire Music) Kimball 5:14 3. "White Sister" (David Paich, Bobby Kimball - Copyright Hudmar Publishing/Sheetfire Music/Porcaro Music) Kimball 5:39 4. "A Secret Love" (David Paich, Bobby Kimball, Steve Porcaro) Kimball 3:07
- published: 29 Aug 2012
- views: 29758
- author: FullAlbums80
Steve Lukather - Star Licks Instructional Complete - (1985)
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- Duration: 35:26
- Updated: 10 Jan 2013
This is the STEVE LUKATHER - STAR LICKS Complete Instructional that finally made it fo DVD thanks to Hal Leonard Publishing a few years ago. Enjoy!!! Here Luke goes over the licks and leads from Totos's Rosanna, Carmen, Hold The Line, and Lovers In The Night.
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This is the STEVE LUKATHER - STAR LICKS Complete Instructional that finally made it fo DVD thanks to Hal Leonard Publishing a few years ago. Enjoy!!! Here Luke goes over the licks and leads from Totos's Rosanna, Carmen, Hold The Line, and Lovers In The Night.
- published: 25 Dec 2012
- views: 142
- author: RayStJohn21
Toto Live in Paris (1990) Full Concert
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- Duration: 70:05
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Toto Live in Paris Full Concert. Steve Lukather: Vocals and Guitar David Paich: Keyboards/Vocals Jeffrey Porcaro (RIP): Drums Michael Porcaro: Bass John Jessel: Vocals/Aditional Keyboards Chris Trujillo: Percussion Background Vocals: Jenny Douglas Jacci McGhee Jean-Michel Byron 1. Intro 0:01:01 2. Africa 0:03:50 3. Georgy Porgy 0:10:53 4. I'll Be Over You 0:17:01 5. David Paige (Solo Spot) 0:22:15 6. I Wont Hold You Back 0:25:02 7. Little Wing (Tribute To Jimmy Hendriks) 0:30:58 8. Without Your Love 0:34:49 9. English Eyes 0:42:34 10. Rosanna 0:47:01 11. Afraid Of Love 0:54:39 12. Hold The Line 0:58:43
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Toto Live in Paris Full Concert. Steve Lukather: Vocals and Guitar David Paich: Keyboards/Vocals Jeffrey Porcaro (RIP): Drums Michael Porcaro: Bass John Jessel: Vocals/Aditional Keyboards Chris Trujillo: Percussion Background Vocals: Jenny Douglas Jacci McGhee Jean-Michel Byron 1. Intro 0:01:01 2. Africa 0:03:50 3. Georgy Porgy 0:10:53 4. I'll Be Over You 0:17:01 5. David Paige (Solo Spot) 0:22:15 6. I Wont Hold You Back 0:25:02 7. Little Wing (Tribute To Jimmy Hendriks) 0:30:58 8. Without Your Love 0:34:49 9. English Eyes 0:42:34 10. Rosanna 0:47:01 11. Afraid Of Love 0:54:39 12. Hold The Line 0:58:43
- published: 17 Oct 2012
- views: 23814
- author: Bryan Bello
Larry Carlton and Steve Lukather band - Live In Paris 2001
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- Duration: 91:33
- Updated: 02 Jan 2013
Larry Carlton and Steve Lukather band - Paris Concert, July 9th 2001. Line Up: Bass -- Chris Kent Drums -- Gary Ferguson Electric Guitar -- Larry Carlton , Steve Lukather Keyboards -- Rick Jackson Vocals -- Steve Lukather (tracks: 4) Tracklist: 1. The Pump 0:00:06 2. Blues Force 0:19:50 3. It Was Only Yesterday 0:45:10 4. Red House 0:56:30 5. Don't Give Up 01:08:00 6. Room 335 01:18:28 7. Put It Where You Want It 01:24:48
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Larry Carlton and Steve Lukather band - Paris Concert, July 9th 2001. Line Up: Bass -- Chris Kent Drums -- Gary Ferguson Electric Guitar -- Larry Carlton , Steve Lukather Keyboards -- Rick Jackson Vocals -- Steve Lukather (tracks: 4) Tracklist: 1. The Pump 0:00:06 2. Blues Force 0:19:50 3. It Was Only Yesterday 0:45:10 4. Red House 0:56:30 5. Don't Give Up 01:08:00 6. Room 335 01:18:28 7. Put It Where You Want It 01:24:48
- published: 25 Dec 2012
- views: 165
- author: Nigel Tufnel
Steve Lukather & Los Lobotomys - In Concert -
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- Duration: 57:57
- Updated: 15 Dec 2012
Ohne Filter was a 45-minute live television program by German public TV station SWF featuring international pop and rock groups. In contrast to Rockpalast (WDR), which was broadcast from larger venues such as the Grugahalle, Ohne Filter was produced at the more intimate setting of a regular TV studio. By the end of 1983, it had become one of the most popular German television music programs. Around 300 issues were produced including performances by Chaka Khan, Joe Cocker and Deep Purple, to name but a few. Translated from the German Wikipedia
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Ohne Filter was a 45-minute live television program by German public TV station SWF featuring international pop and rock groups. In contrast to Rockpalast (WDR), which was broadcast from larger venues such as the Grugahalle, Ohne Filter was produced at the more intimate setting of a regular TV studio. By the end of 1983, it had become one of the most popular German television music programs. Around 300 issues were produced including performances by Chaka Khan, Joe Cocker and Deep Purple, to name but a few. Translated from the German Wikipedia
- published: 15 Dec 2012
- views: 162
- author: JankoJoker
Toto - The Seventh One (Full album)
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- Duration: 54:04
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
All rights belong to their respective owners The Seventh One is Toto's seventh studio album. It was released on march 1, 1988 and became the best-received Toto album since Toto IV. This is the second and last album to feature Joseph Williams on lead vocals. The single "Pamela" reached number 22 in the Billboard charts. The title track, "The Seventh One," is only featured on the Japanese version of the album and on the b-side of the "Pamela" single. It was also released on some compilations on a later date. Track list: 1. "Pamela" (David Paich, Joseph Williams) - 00:00 2. "You Got Me" (David Paich, Joseph Williams) - 05:10 3. "Anna" (Steve Lukather, Randy Goodrum) - 08:23 4. "Stop Loving You" (Steve Lukather, David Paich) - 13:18 5. "Mushanga" (David Paich, Jeff Porcaro) - 17:49 6. "Stay Away" (David Paich, Steve Lukather) - 23:25 7. "Straight for the Heart" (David Paich, Joseph Williams) - 28:57 8. "Only the Children" (David Paich, Steve Lukather, Joseph Williams) - 33:10 9. "A Thousand Years" (Joseph Williams, Mark T. Williams, David Paich) - 37:20 10. "These Chains" (Steve Lukather, Randy Goodrum) - 42:14 11. "Home of the Brave" (D. Paich, S. Lukather, Jimmy Webb & J. Williams) - 47:14
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All rights belong to their respective owners The Seventh One is Toto's seventh studio album. It was released on march 1, 1988 and became the best-received Toto album since Toto IV. This is the second and last album to feature Joseph Williams on lead vocals. The single "Pamela" reached number 22 in the Billboard charts. The title track, "The Seventh One," is only featured on the Japanese version of the album and on the b-side of the "Pamela" single. It was also released on some compilations on a later date. Track list: 1. "Pamela" (David Paich, Joseph Williams) - 00:00 2. "You Got Me" (David Paich, Joseph Williams) - 05:10 3. "Anna" (Steve Lukather, Randy Goodrum) - 08:23 4. "Stop Loving You" (Steve Lukather, David Paich) - 13:18 5. "Mushanga" (David Paich, Jeff Porcaro) - 17:49 6. "Stay Away" (David Paich, Steve Lukather) - 23:25 7. "Straight for the Heart" (David Paich, Joseph Williams) - 28:57 8. "Only the Children" (David Paich, Steve Lukather, Joseph Williams) - 33:10 9. "A Thousand Years" (Joseph Williams, Mark T. Williams, David Paich) - 37:20 10. "These Chains" (Steve Lukather, Randy Goodrum) - 42:14 11. "Home of the Brave" (D. Paich, S. Lukather, Jimmy Webb & J. Williams) - 47:14
- published: 16 Aug 2012
- views: 43176
- author: TcSunde33
Larry Carlton Steve Lukather Band..Live in Paris - Blues Force
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- Duration: 22:53
- Updated: 03 Jan 2013
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TOTO | Live in Amsterdam (Netherlands, 2003) Tour Europa
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- Duration: 103:49
- Updated: 12 Jan 2013
Tracklist: 1 - Girl Goodbye, Goodbye Elenore, Child's Anthem, I'll Supply The Love (Medley) 2 - Gift With A Golden Gun 3 - While My Guitar Gently Weeps 4 - Bodhisattva 5 - Africa 6 - David Paich - Solo 7 - Steve Lukather - Solo 8 - Waiting For Your Love, Georgy Porgy, Lion,English Eyes, Till The End (Medley) 9 - I Won't Hold You Back 10 - Rosanna 11 - Afraid of Love 12 - Hold The Line 13 - Next To You 14 - Home Of The Brave 15 - White Sister 16 - End Credits
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Tracklist: 1 - Girl Goodbye, Goodbye Elenore, Child's Anthem, I'll Supply The Love (Medley) 2 - Gift With A Golden Gun 3 - While My Guitar Gently Weeps 4 - Bodhisattva 5 - Africa 6 - David Paich - Solo 7 - Steve Lukather - Solo 8 - Waiting For Your Love, Georgy Porgy, Lion,English Eyes, Till The End (Medley) 9 - I Won't Hold You Back 10 - Rosanna 11 - Afraid of Love 12 - Hold The Line 13 - Next To You 14 - Home Of The Brave 15 - White Sister 16 - End Credits
- published: 26 Aug 2012
- views: 3491
- author: schiatti22
Eddie Van Halen, Steve Lukather, Billy Sheehan 1996 (ALS Benefit J. Becker)
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- Duration: 33:03
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Eddie Van Halen, Steve Lukather, Billy Sheehan & Pat Thorpey 1996-11-17 Chicago, IL, Riviera Theater (ALS Benefit For Jason Becker) credits to VHFrance, who firstly uploaded this show, but in pieces...
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Eddie Van Halen, Steve Lukather, Billy Sheehan & Pat Thorpey 1996-11-17 Chicago, IL, Riviera Theater (ALS Benefit For Jason Becker) credits to VHFrance, who firstly uploaded this show, but in pieces...
- published: 25 Mar 2012
- views: 23056
- author: jaimejmarquez76
MATTHIEU GRILLET play TOTO and STEVE LUKATHER in Alsace Kingersheim 2011 France
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- Duration: 34:37
- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
Un concert organisé le samedi 10 décembre 2011 à Kingersheim en Alsace dans la célèbre salle de concert "Espace Tival" par Olivier Cellier et l'association "Un toit pour toi", avec Michaël Jones, Matthieu Grillet, Charlie Vanaret, Mélodie Chabod, Claude Bussard, Sébastien Grillet, Tex, Lionel, Céline Demoulin à Kingersheim en Alsace dans la salle Espace Tival. Matthieu jeune guitariste de 15 ans play Steve Lukather and Toto with Band. Carlines Records - (Thanks to tech-lights and Cam 1 ... Hahaha !!!!)
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Un concert organisé le samedi 10 décembre 2011 à Kingersheim en Alsace dans la célèbre salle de concert "Espace Tival" par Olivier Cellier et l'association "Un toit pour toi", avec Michaël Jones, Matthieu Grillet, Charlie Vanaret, Mélodie Chabod, Claude Bussard, Sébastien Grillet, Tex, Lionel, Céline Demoulin à Kingersheim en Alsace dans la salle Espace Tival. Matthieu jeune guitariste de 15 ans play Steve Lukather and Toto with Band. Carlines Records - (Thanks to tech-lights and Cam 1 ... Hahaha !!!!)
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 2539
- author: csfeditions
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The Guitarist TV Show - Full interview with Steve Lukather
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- Duration: 50:02
- Updated: 04 Jan 2013
www.guitaristtv.com - The award winning legendary guitarist that shaped the way we play guitar...Toto guitarist, session guitarist of note and solo performer Steve Lukather chats to Guitarist TV founder Michael de Jager & presenter Ingerlise Pope during his UK tour in 2011.
http://wn.com/The_Guitarist_TV_Show_Full_interview_with_Steve_Lukather
www.guitaristtv.com - The award winning legendary guitarist that shaped the way we play guitar...Toto guitarist, session guitarist of note and solo performer Steve Lukather chats to Guitarist TV founder Michael de Jager & presenter Ingerlise Pope during his UK tour in 2011.
- published: 29 Sep 2011
- views: 3887
- author: GuitaristTV
In Studio with Steve Lukather
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- Duration: 27:42
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Raw footage shot during two days of recording Steve Lukather's "Ever Changing Times" album. January 15 and 16, 2007 at the Steakhouse Studio in North Hollywood.
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Raw footage shot during two days of recording Steve Lukather's "Ever Changing Times" album. January 15 and 16, 2007 at the Steakhouse Studio in North Hollywood.
- published: 13 Dec 2012
- views: 7932
- author: insidemusicast
Steve Lukather - Master Session
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- Duration: 35:39
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
The Steve Lukather Master Session (a volume in the Star Licks guitar video-tutor series), made in 1984 after the release of the fifth Toto album Isolation, is the only instructional Lukather video. It's a great tutorial, not only for (future) guitarists but also for those Lukather fans who frequently asked themselves 'how the hell did he do it'. After a one minute show-case intro, Lukather demonstrates his equipment (Mesa Boogie) and guitar (custom made by Valley Arts) at that time. In the heart of the video Lukather tutors (once slowly and once at regular speed) the solo's from nine songs. Meanwhile he reveals his personal tips on techniques like double-picking, speed picking, wang bar effects, chromaticism, bending, position shifting, false harmonics, travelling scales and melodic phrasing, all merged into the final solo of this video.
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The Steve Lukather Master Session (a volume in the Star Licks guitar video-tutor series), made in 1984 after the release of the fifth Toto album Isolation, is the only instructional Lukather video. It's a great tutorial, not only for (future) guitarists but also for those Lukather fans who frequently asked themselves 'how the hell did he do it'. After a one minute show-case intro, Lukather demonstrates his equipment (Mesa Boogie) and guitar (custom made by Valley Arts) at that time. In the heart of the video Lukather tutors (once slowly and once at regular speed) the solo's from nine songs. Meanwhile he reveals his personal tips on techniques like double-picking, speed picking, wang bar effects, chromaticism, bending, position shifting, false harmonics, travelling scales and melodic phrasing, all merged into the final solo of this video.
- published: 18 Mar 2012
- views: 433735
- author: AORCLOUD
68 - Lee Ritenour, Steve Lukather, Neal Schon, Slash
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- Duration: 3:49
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
6 String Theory is a special project put together by legendary guitarist Lee Ritenour in celebration of the world's most popular instrument - the guitar! Joining him in this tribute to the guitar, the all-star line-up includes George Benson, BB King, Slash, Steve Lukather, John Scofield, Joe Bonamassa, Robert Cray and Vince Gill among many other superstars. Blending rock, blues, jazz, acoustic, country and classical, they come together for a seamless project that promises to take the listener on a musical journey and exploration of the guitar. Also featured on vocals are BB King, Robert Cray, Vince Gill, Keb' Mo', Taj Majal, Joe Bonamassa and Jonny Lang. Debuting on this release is sixteen-year-old guitarist Shon Boubil who was the grand prize winner of Lee Ritenour's Yamaha Six String Theory Guitar Competition.
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6 String Theory is a special project put together by legendary guitarist Lee Ritenour in celebration of the world's most popular instrument - the guitar! Joining him in this tribute to the guitar, the all-star line-up includes George Benson, BB King, Slash, Steve Lukather, John Scofield, Joe Bonamassa, Robert Cray and Vince Gill among many other superstars. Blending rock, blues, jazz, acoustic, country and classical, they come together for a seamless project that promises to take the listener on a musical journey and exploration of the guitar. Also featured on vocals are BB King, Robert Cray, Vince Gill, Keb' Mo', Taj Majal, Joe Bonamassa and Jonny Lang. Debuting on this release is sixteen-year-old guitarist Shon Boubil who was the grand prize winner of Lee Ritenour's Yamaha Six String Theory Guitar Competition.
- published: 02 Aug 2010
- views: 289143
- author: JazzVideoGuy
Music Man Steve Lukather Luke III
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- Duration: 20:39
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
Music Man Steve Lukather Luke III www.andertons.co.uk Rob Chapman Downloadable Guitar Lessons Store www.robchapman.tv Rob Chapman Facebook www.facebook.com Rob Chapman's band Dorje: www.youtube.com For all enquiries regarding Rob Chapman email: officialrobchappers@gmail.com All audio was recorded & produced by Paul 'Stick' Annis/Maplewood Studio www.youtube.com www.facebook.com www.soundcloud.com www.twitter.com www.maplewoodstudio.com
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Music Man Steve Lukather Luke III www.andertons.co.uk Rob Chapman Downloadable Guitar Lessons Store www.robchapman.tv Rob Chapman Facebook www.facebook.com Rob Chapman's band Dorje: www.youtube.com For all enquiries regarding Rob Chapman email: officialrobchappers@gmail.com All audio was recorded & produced by Paul 'Stick' Annis/Maplewood Studio www.youtube.com www.facebook.com www.soundcloud.com www.twitter.com www.maplewoodstudio.com
- published: 31 Aug 2012
- views: 55765
- author: RobChappers
Interview Steve Lukather (part 1)
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- Duration: 5:04
- Updated: 10 Jan 2013
Watch the whole interview on www.faceculture.com . Video interview with former Toto singer and guitarist Steve Lukather. FaceCulture spoke to Lukather about his youth, the Beatles, George Harrison, free thinking, conspiracy theories, asking questions, Toto, not getting credit, musical achievements, session musician, Michael Jackson, future of the world, broken marriage, the death of his mother, religion, church, Obama, his new solo album All's Well That Ends Well, lyrics, personal change and progression, and a lot more.
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Watch the whole interview on www.faceculture.com . Video interview with former Toto singer and guitarist Steve Lukather. FaceCulture spoke to Lukather about his youth, the Beatles, George Harrison, free thinking, conspiracy theories, asking questions, Toto, not getting credit, musical achievements, session musician, Michael Jackson, future of the world, broken marriage, the death of his mother, religion, church, Obama, his new solo album All's Well That Ends Well, lyrics, personal change and progression, and a lot more.
- published: 26 Oct 2010
- views: 25027
- author: FaceCulture
Interview Steve Lukather (part 2)
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- Duration: 5:12
- Updated: 10 Jan 2013
Watch the whole interview on www.faceculture.com . Video interview with former Toto singer and guitarist Steve Lukather. FaceCulture spoke to Lukather about his youth, the Beatles, George Harrison, free thinking, conspiracy theories, asking questions, Toto, not getting credit, musical achievements, session musician, Michael Jackson, future of the world, broken marriage, the death of his mother, religion, church, Obama, his new solo album All's Well That Ends Well, lyrics, personal change and progression, and a lot more.
http://wn.com/Interview_Steve_Lukather_part_2
Watch the whole interview on www.faceculture.com . Video interview with former Toto singer and guitarist Steve Lukather. FaceCulture spoke to Lukather about his youth, the Beatles, George Harrison, free thinking, conspiracy theories, asking questions, Toto, not getting credit, musical achievements, session musician, Michael Jackson, future of the world, broken marriage, the death of his mother, religion, church, Obama, his new solo album All's Well That Ends Well, lyrics, personal change and progression, and a lot more.
- published: 26 Oct 2010
- views: 14127
- author: FaceCulture
WLF TV: Steve Lukather - Interview
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- Duration: 10:00
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
Sydney, April 2012
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Steve Lukather shows his Music Man guitars ( Interview from Falling In Between 2007 )
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- Duration: 6:51
- Updated: 09 Jan 2013
Here is an interview from Falling In Between with Steve Lukather. He talks about his gear and demonstrates his unbelievable sound. Rate, Share and Subscribe ! :)
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Here is an interview from Falling In Between with Steve Lukather. He talks about his gear and demonstrates his unbelievable sound. Rate, Share and Subscribe ! :)
- published: 21 Jan 2011
- views: 157035
- author: Robin B.
Joe Bonamassa, Steve Lukather & Lee Ritenour - "Give Me One Reason" - GUITAR GREATS: Episode 1
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- Duration: 7:51
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
In this episode of Guitar Greats, watch as 3 legendary artists jam together for their rendition of Tracy Chapman's "Give Me One Reason." This episode features the diverse styles and solos of Joe Bonamassa, Steve Lukather and Lee Ritenour, with the accompaniment of Dave Weckl (drums) and Melvin Davis (bass). *GUITAR GREATS is a weekly web-series featuring live, uncut performances from the Crown of the Continent Guitar Festival (COCGF). The COCGF brings together some of the worlds most talented guitarists for a week of workshops, concerts, and musical creativity in Big Fork, Montana. New episodes of Guitar Greats will be released every Tuesday and Thursday leading up to, and during, this years festival running from August 26th-September 2, 2012. Find out more at: cocguitarfoundation.org Videography by Alan Kozlowski onthepathfilms.com Editing by Nic Davis www.youtube.com Logo by Richard Kurth richardkurthdesign.com
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In this episode of Guitar Greats, watch as 3 legendary artists jam together for their rendition of Tracy Chapman's "Give Me One Reason." This episode features the diverse styles and solos of Joe Bonamassa, Steve Lukather and Lee Ritenour, with the accompaniment of Dave Weckl (drums) and Melvin Davis (bass). *GUITAR GREATS is a weekly web-series featuring live, uncut performances from the Crown of the Continent Guitar Festival (COCGF). The COCGF brings together some of the worlds most talented guitarists for a week of workshops, concerts, and musical creativity in Big Fork, Montana. New episodes of Guitar Greats will be released every Tuesday and Thursday leading up to, and during, this years festival running from August 26th-September 2, 2012. Find out more at: cocguitarfoundation.org Videography by Alan Kozlowski onthepathfilms.com Editing by Nic Davis www.youtube.com Logo by Richard Kurth richardkurthdesign.com
- published: 25 Jul 2012
- views: 28400
- author: COCGuitarFoundation
Interview Steve Lukather (part 3)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:12
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Watch the whole interview on www.faceculture.com . Video interview with former Toto singer and guitarist Steve Lukather. FaceCulture spoke to Lukather about his youth, the Beatles, George Harrison, free thinking, conspiracy theories, asking questions, Toto, not getting credit, musical achievements, session musician, Michael Jackson, future of the world, broken marriage, the death of his mother, religion, church, Obama, his new solo album All's Well That Ends Well, lyrics, personal change and progression, and a lot more.
http://wn.com/Interview_Steve_Lukather_part_3
Watch the whole interview on www.faceculture.com . Video interview with former Toto singer and guitarist Steve Lukather. FaceCulture spoke to Lukather about his youth, the Beatles, George Harrison, free thinking, conspiracy theories, asking questions, Toto, not getting credit, musical achievements, session musician, Michael Jackson, future of the world, broken marriage, the death of his mother, religion, church, Obama, his new solo album All's Well That Ends Well, lyrics, personal change and progression, and a lot more.
- published: 05 Nov 2010
- views: 11625
- author: FaceCulture
Steve Lukather Interview 2012
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 12:18
- Updated: 16 Dec 2012
Nick Cavarretta interviews Steve Lukather about the G3 Jam, his place in Ringo Starr's band, his new solo album coming out and the Toto reunion. Check out Kill Your Scene: killyourscene.info Source killyourscene.info
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Nick Cavarretta interviews Steve Lukather about the G3 Jam, his place in Ringo Starr's band, his new solo album coming out and the Toto reunion. Check out Kill Your Scene: killyourscene.info Source killyourscene.info
- published: 12 Apr 2012
- views: 9567
- author: killyoursceneAU
DiMarzio Transition Guitar Pickups for Steve Lukather
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:22
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Legendary TOTO guitarist, solo artist, and first-call session player extraordinaire, Steve Lukather talks about the DiMarzio Transition™ pickups created for his Music Man LIII guitar and his new "Transition" album that will be released by Mascot Records on January 21, 2013.
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Legendary TOTO guitarist, solo artist, and first-call session player extraordinaire, Steve Lukather talks about the DiMarzio Transition™ pickups created for his Music Man LIII guitar and his new "Transition" album that will be released by Mascot Records on January 21, 2013.
- published: 07 Dec 2012
- views: 39547
- author: LarryDiMarzio
Incredible Steve Lukather live solo!!!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:49
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
A great performance by Steve Lukather at the Jason Becker's not dead yet festival
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A great performance by Steve Lukather at the Jason Becker's not dead yet festival
- published: 14 Apr 2011
- views: 121700
- author: guitarCHS
STEVE LUKATHER - Flash In The Pan
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:53
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
From Steve Lukather's new album "All's Well That Ends Well" www.stevelukather.net produced & directed by Nigel Dick © Steve Lukather / dickfilms 2010
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From Steve Lukather's new album "All's Well That Ends Well" www.stevelukather.net produced & directed by Nigel Dick © Steve Lukather / dickfilms 2010
- published: 10 Nov 2010
- views: 69362
- author: nigeldick
Steve Lukather Interview
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:51
- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
Cleaning out various tapes, DVDs etc and found some cool little clips of various guitar players and had to share.... more to follow
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Cleaning out various tapes, DVDs etc and found some cool little clips of various guitar players and had to share.... more to follow
- published: 26 Aug 2009
- views: 32090
- author: JoeSatrini
Steve Lukather Style - Quick Licks - Guitar Solo Performance by Michael Casswell
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:11
- Updated: 08 Jan 2013
bit.ly This Steve Lukather style Guitar Solo performance is from the DVD 'Quick Licks - Steve Lukather' which is available to buy from bit.ly . Michael Casswell teaches you licks in the style of Steve Lukather. The DVD also includes a guitar backing tracks to play your new licks along with. For more on this guitar lesson DVD info click the link - www.licklibrary.com
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bit.ly This Steve Lukather style Guitar Solo performance is from the DVD 'Quick Licks - Steve Lukather' which is available to buy from bit.ly . Michael Casswell teaches you licks in the style of Steve Lukather. The DVD also includes a guitar backing tracks to play your new licks along with. For more on this guitar lesson DVD info click the link - www.licklibrary.com
- published: 29 Apr 2010
- views: 192707
- author: licklibrary
Steve Lukather - "Transition" trailer
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:36
- Updated: 14 Dec 2012
Trailer for Steve Lukather's new album "Transition." Pre-order your copy here: stevelukather.mlgmerch.com "Transition" release date: Europe on January 21st US & World: January 22nd More info: www.mascotlabelgroup.com
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Trailer for Steve Lukather's new album "Transition." Pre-order your copy here: stevelukather.mlgmerch.com "Transition" release date: Europe on January 21st US & World: January 22nd More info: www.mascotlabelgroup.com
- published: 14 Dec 2012
- views: 10022
- author: Steve Lukather
Interview with Steve Lukather part 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:15
- Updated: 10 Jan 2013
Interview with Steve Lukather on September 8th, 2010 in Paris. New album "All's Well That Ends Well"
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Interview with Steve Lukather on September 8th, 2010 in Paris. New album "All's Well That Ends Well"
- published: 11 Sep 2010
- views: 16377
- author: wyattearp78
STEVE LUKATHER - Festering
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:40
- Updated: 18 Nov 2012
While working on his upcoming album Luke shares his innermost thoughts with his friends on Facebook. The new album All's Well That Ends Well will be released through Mascot Records in Europe on October 11, 2010 and February 2011 in the USA. The release in Japan is through JVC on October 11, 2010. www.stevelukather.net
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While working on his upcoming album Luke shares his innermost thoughts with his friends on Facebook. The new album All's Well That Ends Well will be released through Mascot Records in Europe on October 11, 2010 and February 2011 in the USA. The release in Japan is through JVC on October 11, 2010. www.stevelukather.net
- published: 08 Feb 2010
- views: 102504
- author: nigeldick
TOTO's STEVE LUKATHER Interview w/ Katie Shorey for Songwriters Vantage
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:41
- Updated: 17 Nov 2012
Steve Lukather talks with Katie Shorey about his music for Find him at SongwritersVantage.Join us on facebook! www.facebook.com
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Steve Lukather talks with Katie Shorey about his music for Find him at SongwritersVantage.Join us on facebook! www.facebook.com
- published: 25 Jan 2010
- views: 19646
- author: SongwritersVantage
Interview Steve Lukather (part 4)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:51
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Watch the whole interview on www.faceculture.com . Video interview with former Toto singer and guitarist Steve Lukather. FaceCulture spoke to Lukather about his youth, the Beatles, George Harrison, free thinking, conspiracy theories, asking questions, Toto, not getting credit, musical achievements, session musician, Michael Jackson, future of the world, broken marriage, the death of his mother, religion, church, Obama, his new solo album All's Well That Ends Well, lyrics, personal change and progression, and a lot more.
http://wn.com/Interview_Steve_Lukather_part_4
Watch the whole interview on www.faceculture.com . Video interview with former Toto singer and guitarist Steve Lukather. FaceCulture spoke to Lukather about his youth, the Beatles, George Harrison, free thinking, conspiracy theories, asking questions, Toto, not getting credit, musical achievements, session musician, Michael Jackson, future of the world, broken marriage, the death of his mother, religion, church, Obama, his new solo album All's Well That Ends Well, lyrics, personal change and progression, and a lot more.
- published: 26 Oct 2010
- views: 11145
- author: FaceCulture
Steve Lukather Interview
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:09
- Updated: 30 Oct 2012
ZenArt interviewed Steve Lukather.
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Incredible Steve Lukather live solo!!!
A great performance by Steve Lukather at the Jason Becker's not dead yet festival...
published: 14 Apr 2011
author: guitarCHS
Incredible Steve Lukather live solo!!!
A great performance by Steve Lukather at the Jason Becker's not dead yet festival
- published: 14 Apr 2011
- views: 121710
- author: guitarCHS
91:33
Larry Carlton and Steve Lukather Band - The Paris Concert (live music)
World of Guitar: www.strinx.tv Für eine Hand voll Konzerte taten sich im Sommer 2001 zwei ...
published: 05 Jun 2012
author: Musikweltkino
Larry Carlton and Steve Lukather Band - The Paris Concert (live music)
World of Guitar: www.strinx.tv Für eine Hand voll Konzerte taten sich im Sommer 2001 zwei der meistbeschäftigten amerikanischen Studio-Gitarristen zusammen Larry Carlton und Steve Lukather. Die beiden Gitarristen kennen sich schon seit den siebziger Jahren, waren aber nie zusammen öffentlich aufgetreten. Kein Wunder, denn Carlton, der schon mit Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones und unzähligen anderen Stars gespielt hat, bringt es - nach eigener Aussage - pro Jahr auf etwa 300 Sessions. Nicht weniger viel beschäftigt ist Lukather, der mit Toto bekannt wurde und daneben für Rod Stewart, Van Halen, Lionel Richie, Cheap Trick oder die Pointer Sisters in die Saiten gegriffen hat. TITELAUFLISTUNG: 01 The Pump | 02 Blues Force | 03 It Was Only Yesterday | 04 Red House | 05 Don't Give It Up | 06 Room 335 | 07 Put It Where You Want It.
- published: 05 Jun 2012
- views: 161789
- author: Musikweltkino
14:39
Larry Carlton & Steve Lukather - The Paris Concert - Live Performance - #1
Larry Carlton - www.LarryCarlton.com 335 Records - www.335Records.com...
published: 03 Apr 2012
author: LarryCarltonMr335
Larry Carlton & Steve Lukather - The Paris Concert - Live Performance - #1
Larry Carlton - www.LarryCarlton.com 335 Records - www.335Records.com
- published: 03 Apr 2012
- views: 5925
- author: LarryCarltonMr335
10:30
Steve Lukather - Live in San Francisco - 2011
Steve Lukather, Live 3/26/11 at Slim's, San Francisco, CA Jason Becker Festival...
published: 30 Mar 2011
author: schismc
Steve Lukather - Live in San Francisco - 2011
Steve Lukather, Live 3/26/11 at Slim's, San Francisco, CA Jason Becker Festival
- published: 30 Mar 2011
- views: 49242
- author: schismc
5:46
Steve Lukather Live 2009 - Traveling Guitar Performing Sponsor
Traveling Guitar Official Youtube Channel www.youtube.com Traveling Guitar Official Websit...
published: 04 Jan 2010
author: TravelingguitarORG
Steve Lukather Live 2009 - Traveling Guitar Performing Sponsor
Traveling Guitar Official Youtube Channel www.youtube.com Traveling Guitar Official Website www.TravelingGuitar.org Traveling Guitar Music Video http Performing Sponsors Include STEVE LUKATHER BRUCE KULICK RONNY NORTH JOHN DENNER Chris McKay Carl Verheyen Bill Leverty Devon Allman Vernon Neilly Marco Mendoza Damon Marks Bruce Kulick Bruce has been playing professionally since 1975. He first gained notoriety as a member of the touring band for Meat Loaf's classic "Bat Out Of Hell" album in 1977. Shortly after, Bruce formed the band Blackjack with a then aspiring singer named Michael Bolton. After the release of two albums, Blackjack folded and Bruce was asked to join KISS, where he remained as their lead guitarist for twelve years. After leaving KISS, Bruce formed UNION with John Corabi in 1997, who would go on to release three albums between 1998 and 2000. Bruce and John teamed up with Eric Singer and formed the Eric Singer Project (ESP), releasing an album in 1998. In early 2001, Bruce released his debut solo album Audio Dog, which was followed in 2003 with Transformer. In 2001 Bruce joined Grand Funk Railroad as lead guitarist after receiving a personal invitation from drummer Don Brewer. Bruce is still touring with GFR and is currently in his 9th year as their lead guitarist. Bruce has just completed his third solo disc titled BK3. The CD will feature Gene Simmons, Nick Simmons, Steve Lukather, John Corabi and Doug Fieger from the Knack and will be out in early 2010 ...
- published: 04 Jan 2010
- views: 25248
- author: TravelingguitarORG
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TOTO - Steve Lukather Guitar Solo "Live"
TOTO: Falling in Between Live Le Zénith, Paris, France March 26, 2007 Personnel: Steve Luk...
published: 26 Jul 2012
author: RayStJohn21
TOTO - Steve Lukather Guitar Solo "Live"
TOTO: Falling in Between Live Le Zénith, Paris, France March 26, 2007 Personnel: Steve Lukather - guitars, vocals Bobby Kimball - vocals Greg Phillinganes - keyboards, vocals Simon Phillips - drums, percussion Additional musicians: Tony Spinner - guitars, vocals Leland Sklar - bass guitar Falling in Between Live is the fourth live album by American band Toto, released in 2007. It was recorded live at Le Zénith, Paris, France. The album is the first Toto record to feature bassist Leland Sklar, temporarily replacing Mike Porcaro due to a hand injury and second record featuring keyboardist Greg Phillinganes, replacing David Paich who has retired from touring, but is still an active member in the studio. It captures the band rocking at their hardest and most powerful and giving new life to all their best loved tracks. Songs such as "Africa," "Hold the Line," and "Rosanna" helped establish Toto as soft rock giants during the 1980s. The band, which is comprised of a group of former session musicians, scaled unexpected heights during their heyday, and went on to enjoy an unexpected 21st century renaissance. This 2007 concert finds the boys picking some of the best tunes from their back catalog and performing them before an expectant crowd at Le Zenith in Paris.
- published: 26 Jul 2012
- views: 7562
- author: RayStJohn21
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Steve Lukather & Los lobotomys - Dismemberment live.avi
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published: 31 Mar 2012
author: Seppo Uotila
Steve Lukather & Los lobotomys - Dismemberment live.avi
- published: 31 Mar 2012
- views: 9578
- author: Seppo Uotila
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Lee Ritenour with Steve Lukather Live - 6 String Theory - www.jhanamusic.com.mp4
Lee Ritenour Live with Steve Lukather from 6 String Theory - From Monster Music available ...
published: 01 Dec 2010
author: johmbo
Lee Ritenour with Steve Lukather Live - 6 String Theory - www.jhanamusic.com.mp4
Lee Ritenour Live with Steve Lukather from 6 String Theory - From Monster Music available as 5.1 surround download from www.jhanamusic.com
- published: 01 Dec 2010
- views: 13016
- author: johmbo
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Steve Lukather Enschede 15.03.11 - VIP Experience
WHAT A GREAT MEETING AND SHOW , STEVE WE LOVE YOU !!!...
published: 21 Mar 2011
author: nickboersma
Steve Lukather Enschede 15.03.11 - VIP Experience
WHAT A GREAT MEETING AND SHOW , STEVE WE LOVE YOU !!!
- published: 21 Mar 2011
- views: 22480
- author: nickboersma
3:47
Larry Carlton & Steve Lukather - The Paris Concert - Live Performance - #7
Larry Carlton - www.LarryCarlton.com 335 Records - www.335Records.com...
published: 03 Apr 2012
author: LarryCarltonMr335
Larry Carlton & Steve Lukather - The Paris Concert - Live Performance - #7
Larry Carlton - www.LarryCarlton.com 335 Records - www.335Records.com
- published: 03 Apr 2012
- views: 3509
- author: LarryCarltonMr335
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Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, Steve Lukather - Super Boogie (Nagano, Japan 1986)
Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, Steve Lukather - Live at Karuizawa Prince Hotel Field Stage, Na...
published: 20 Nov 2012
author: paata chakhnashvili
Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, Steve Lukather - Super Boogie (Nagano, Japan 1986)
Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, Steve Lukather - Live at Karuizawa Prince Hotel Field Stage, Nagano, Japan 1986. On stage: Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, Steve Lukather - Guitars Doug Wimbish - Bass Simon Phillips - Drums Jan Hammer - Keyboards
- published: 20 Nov 2012
- views: 1589
- author: paata chakhnashvili
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Toto-Falling in between live in Paris 2007
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Steve Lukather - Guitars, Vocals Simon Phillips - Drums Bobby Kimball ...
published: 01 May 2012
Toto-Falling in between live in Paris 2007
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Steve Lukather - Guitars, Vocals Simon Phillips - Drums Bobby Kimball - Vocals Greg Phillinganes - Keyboards, Vocals Leland Sklar - Bass Guitar Tony Spinner - Guitars, Vocals 1. FALLING IN BETWEEN (1:30) 2. KING OF THE WORLD (5:25) 3. PAMELA (11:00) 4. BOTTOM OF YOUR SOUL (16:44) 5. CAUGHT IN THE BALANCE (23:48) 6. DON'T CHAIN MY HEART (30:32) 7. HOLD THE LINE (36:10) 8. STOP LOVING YOU (40:40) 9. I'LL BE OVER YOU (44:05) 10. CRUEL (46:36) 11. GREG SOLO (49:20) 1. ROSANNA (55:38) 2. I'LL SUPPLY THE LOVE (1:05:00) 3. ISOLATION (1:06:48) 4. GIFT OF FAITH (1:09:40) 5. KINGDOM OF DESIRE (1:12:18) 6. LUKE SOLO (1:14:48) 7. HYDRA (1:21:20) 8. SIMON SOLO (1:21:20) 9. TAINT YOUR WORLD (1:27:02) 10. GYPSY TRAIN (1:29:10) 11. AFRICA (1:36:20) 12. DRAG HIM TO THE ROOF (1:42:35:) I do not own this Video
- published: 01 May 2012
- views: 422276
- author: Reginald Lucien Frank Roger Watts
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Hold the Line Steve Lukather of Toto Live with Ringo Starr All-Starr Band Bethel Woods June 16 2012
Steve Lukather of Toto plays Hold the Line Live at Bethel Woods with Ringo Starr's All-Sta...
published: 18 Jun 2012
author: EJandEF4ever
Hold the Line Steve Lukather of Toto Live with Ringo Starr All-Starr Band Bethel Woods June 16 2012
Steve Lukather of Toto plays Hold the Line Live at Bethel Woods with Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band, on June 16, 2012. (Part 1 of 2) Front row view
- published: 18 Jun 2012
- views: 1827
- author: EJandEF4ever
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G3 Live New Zealand Steve Lukather
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published: 25 Mar 2012
author: Basitha Gajasinghe
G3 Live New Zealand Steve Lukather
- published: 25 Mar 2012
- views: 2032
- author: Basitha Gajasinghe
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Steve Lukather - Party in Simon's Pants (Hinz & Kunz Quintett Cover)
This is our funky saxophoned arrangement of Steve Lukather's "Party in Simon's Pants" (Can...
published: 05 Aug 2011
author: HinzUndKunzMusic
Steve Lukather - Party in Simon's Pants (Hinz & Kunz Quintett Cover)
This is our funky saxophoned arrangement of Steve Lukather's "Party in Simon's Pants" (Candyman, 1994). Hope you enjoy it, we certainly had a blast playing it! There's more to come, so subscribe if you like it. Everything was recorded live in one take and one room (apart from the piano, as Frederic was out of town when we were recording the main tracks). We had never recorded all in one room before, so we were positively surprised when this experiment actually worked out quite well and mic bleeding didn't kill us. Filming was done with several cameras from several different angles. - Hinz & Kunz Quintett (hinzundkunzband.de) FACEBOOK www.facebook.com MYSPACE: www.myspace.com 'Party in Simon's Pants' originally performed by Steve Lukather Written by Steve Lukather & Simon Phillips Published by Buddy Love Music & Pants Party Publishing
- published: 05 Aug 2011
- views: 9419
- author: HinzUndKunzMusic
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Steve Lukather All's Well that Ends Well EPK
More info on Steve Lukather: mascotlabelgroup.com Steve Lukather talks about the new album...
published: 18 Aug 2010
author: Mascot Records
Steve Lukather All's Well that Ends Well EPK
More info on Steve Lukather: mascotlabelgroup.com Steve Lukather talks about the new album All's Well That Ends Well. This new studio album will be released through Mascot Records in Europe on October 11, 2010 and February 2011 in the USA. The release in Japan is through JVC on October 11, 2010. Video by Nigel Dick
- published: 18 Aug 2010
- views: 98590
- author: Mascot Records
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Steve Lukather - Master Session
The Steve Lukather Master Session (a volume in the Star Licks guitar video-tutor series), ...
published: 18 Mar 2012
author: AORCLOUD
Steve Lukather - Master Session
The Steve Lukather Master Session (a volume in the Star Licks guitar video-tutor series), made in 1984 after the release of the fifth Toto album Isolation, is the only instructional Lukather video. It's a great tutorial, not only for (future) guitarists but also for those Lukather fans who frequently asked themselves 'how the hell did he do it'. After a one minute show-case intro, Lukather demonstrates his equipment (Mesa Boogie) and guitar (custom made by Valley Arts) at that time. In the heart of the video Lukather tutors (once slowly and once at regular speed) the solo's from nine songs. Meanwhile he reveals his personal tips on techniques like double-picking, speed picking, wang bar effects, chromaticism, bending, position shifting, false harmonics, travelling scales and melodic phrasing, all merged into the final solo of this video.
- published: 18 Mar 2012
- views: 434181
- author: AORCLOUD
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In Studio with Steve Lukather
Raw footage shot during two days of recording Steve Lukather's "Ever Changing Times" album...
published: 13 Dec 2012
author: insidemusicast
In Studio with Steve Lukather
Raw footage shot during two days of recording Steve Lukather's "Ever Changing Times" album. January 15 and 16, 2007 at the Steakhouse Studio in North Hollywood.
- published: 13 Dec 2012
- views: 7932
- author: insidemusicast
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Music Man Steve Lukather Luke III
Music Man Steve Lukather Luke III www.andertons.co.uk Rob Chapman Downloadable Guitar Less...
published: 31 Aug 2012
author: RobChappers
Music Man Steve Lukather Luke III
Music Man Steve Lukather Luke III www.andertons.co.uk Rob Chapman Downloadable Guitar Lessons Store www.robchapman.tv Rob Chapman Facebook www.facebook.com Rob Chapman's band Dorje: www.youtube.com For all enquiries regarding Rob Chapman email: officialrobchappers@gmail.com All audio was recorded & produced by Paul 'Stick' Annis/Maplewood Studio www.youtube.com www.facebook.com www.soundcloud.com www.twitter.com www.maplewoodstudio.com
- published: 31 Aug 2012
- views: 55912
- author: RobChappers
112:39
Toto-Falling in between live in Paris 2007
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Steve Lukather - Guitars, Vocals Simon Phillips - Drums Bobby Kimball ...
published: 01 May 2012
Toto-Falling in between live in Paris 2007
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Steve Lukather - Guitars, Vocals Simon Phillips - Drums Bobby Kimball - Vocals Greg Phillinganes - Keyboards, Vocals Leland Sklar - Bass Guitar Tony Spinner - Guitars, Vocals 1. FALLING IN BETWEEN (1:30) 2. KING OF THE WORLD (5:25) 3. PAMELA (11:00) 4. BOTTOM OF YOUR SOUL (16:44) 5. CAUGHT IN THE BALANCE (23:48) 6. DON'T CHAIN MY HEART (30:32) 7. HOLD THE LINE (36:10) 8. STOP LOVING YOU (40:40) 9. I'LL BE OVER YOU (44:05) 10. CRUEL (46:36) 11. GREG SOLO (49:20) 1. ROSANNA (55:38) 2. I'LL SUPPLY THE LOVE (1:05:00) 3. ISOLATION (1:06:48) 4. GIFT OF FAITH (1:09:40) 5. KINGDOM OF DESIRE (1:12:18) 6. LUKE SOLO (1:14:48) 7. HYDRA (1:21:20) 8. SIMON SOLO (1:21:20) 9. TAINT YOUR WORLD (1:27:02) 10. GYPSY TRAIN (1:29:10) 11. AFRICA (1:36:20) 12. DRAG HIM TO THE ROOF (1:42:35:) I do not own this Video
- published: 01 May 2012
- views: 422276
- author: Reginald Lucien Frank Roger Watts
91:33
Larry Carlton and Steve Lukather Band - The Paris Concert (live music)
World of Guitar: www.strinx.tv Für eine Hand voll Konzerte taten sich im Sommer 2001 zwei ...
published: 05 Jun 2012
author: Musikweltkino
Larry Carlton and Steve Lukather Band - The Paris Concert (live music)
World of Guitar: www.strinx.tv Für eine Hand voll Konzerte taten sich im Sommer 2001 zwei der meistbeschäftigten amerikanischen Studio-Gitarristen zusammen Larry Carlton und Steve Lukather. Die beiden Gitarristen kennen sich schon seit den siebziger Jahren, waren aber nie zusammen öffentlich aufgetreten. Kein Wunder, denn Carlton, der schon mit Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones und unzähligen anderen Stars gespielt hat, bringt es - nach eigener Aussage - pro Jahr auf etwa 300 Sessions. Nicht weniger viel beschäftigt ist Lukather, der mit Toto bekannt wurde und daneben für Rod Stewart, Van Halen, Lionel Richie, Cheap Trick oder die Pointer Sisters in die Saiten gegriffen hat. TITELAUFLISTUNG: 01 The Pump | 02 Blues Force | 03 It Was Only Yesterday | 04 Red House | 05 Don't Give It Up | 06 Room 335 | 07 Put It Where You Want It.
- published: 05 Jun 2012
- views: 161789
- author: Musikweltkino
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Interview with Steve Lukather, December 18, 2012
Three days before the Mayan-predicted end of the world, I sat down with the iconic guitari...
published: 07 Jan 2013
author: Rustyn Rose
Interview with Steve Lukather, December 18, 2012
Three days before the Mayan-predicted end of the world, I sat down with the iconic guitarist Steve'Luke' Lukather to discuss his forthcoming seventh solo album, "Transition" which hits streets on January 22. Luke is one of the busiest men in music from making album guest appearances, to touring with Toto, Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band, and recently as part of the 2012 G3 tour with Steve Vai and Joe Satriani.
- published: 07 Jan 2013
- views: 287
- author: Rustyn Rose
57:58
Steve Lukather & Los Lobotomys: In Concert - Ohne Filter 1994 [Full DVD]
1 Hero With A 1000 Eyes (S. Lukather, D. Garfield) 2 Freedom (J. Hendrix) 6:54 3 Extinctio...
published: 02 Nov 2012
author: Gabriele Dell'Aquila
Steve Lukather & Los Lobotomys: In Concert - Ohne Filter 1994 [Full DVD]
1 Hero With A 1000 Eyes (S. Lukather, D. Garfield) 2 Freedom (J. Hendrix) 6:54 3 Extinction blues (S. Lukather, D. Garfield, F. Waybill) 12:07 4 Dismemberment (L. Castro, D. Garfield) 16:53 5 Never walk alone (S. Lukather, D. Garfield) 31:56 6 The bomber (J. Walsh) 42:09 7 Party in Simon's pants (S. Lukather, S. Phillips) 47:50 Musicians: Steve Lukather: guitars, voacals David Garfield: keyboards John Pêna: bass Simon Phillips: drums
- published: 02 Nov 2012
- views: 5691
- author: Gabriele Dell'Aquila
99:51
Steve Lukather - Lukes Birthday Party (11.09.1998)
Steve Lukather - Lukes Birthday Party (11.09.1998)...
published: 28 Dec 2012
author: sztropacsekemil
Steve Lukather - Lukes Birthday Party (11.09.1998)
Steve Lukather - Lukes Birthday Party (11.09.1998)
- published: 28 Dec 2012
- views: 1097
- author: sztropacsekemil
50:02
The Guitarist TV Show - Full interview with Steve Lukather
www.guitaristtv.com - The award winning legendary guitarist that shaped the way we play gu...
published: 29 Sep 2011
author: GuitaristTV
The Guitarist TV Show - Full interview with Steve Lukather
www.guitaristtv.com - The award winning legendary guitarist that shaped the way we play guitar...Toto guitarist, session guitarist of note and solo performer Steve Lukather chats to Guitarist TV founder Michael de Jager & presenter Ingerlise Pope during his UK tour in 2011.
- published: 29 Sep 2011
- views: 3887
- author: GuitaristTV
21:08
Interview with Steve Lukather
www.musiciansfriend.com...
published: 06 May 2010
author: Musiciansfriend
Interview with Steve Lukather
www.musiciansfriend.com
- published: 06 May 2010
- views: 14267
- author: Musiciansfriend
23:05
Steve Lukather live in Karlsruhe (Germany) at Substage (collected moments) 06.11.11
amazing performance by amazing artist: please don't mind the poor video qualitiy. just enj...
published: 22 Jan 2012
author: sivichkiqt
Steve Lukather live in Karlsruhe (Germany) at Substage (collected moments) 06.11.11
amazing performance by amazing artist: please don't mind the poor video qualitiy. just enjoy the feeling.
- published: 22 Jan 2012
- views: 289
- author: sivichkiqt
41:13
Toto - Hydra [Full Album]
1. "Hydra" (David Hungate, Bobby Kimball, Steve Lukather, David Paich, Steve Porcaro, Jeff...
published: 29 Aug 2012
author: FullAlbums80
Toto - Hydra [Full Album]
1. "Hydra" (David Hungate, Bobby Kimball, Steve Lukather, David Paich, Steve Porcaro, Jeff Porcaro - Copyright Otot Music) Paich 7:31 2. "St. George and the Dragon" Kimball 4:45 3. "99" Lukather 5:16 4. "Lorraine" Paich 4:46 Side two No. Title Lead vocals Length 1. "All Us Boys" Paich 5:03 2. "Mama" (David Paich, Bobby Kimball - Copyright Hudmar Publishing/Sheetfire Music) Kimball 5:14 3. "White Sister" (David Paich, Bobby Kimball - Copyright Hudmar Publishing/Sheetfire Music/Porcaro Music) Kimball 5:39 4. "A Secret Love" (David Paich, Bobby Kimball, Steve Porcaro) Kimball 3:07
- published: 29 Aug 2012
- views: 29758
- author: FullAlbums80
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35:26
Steve Lukather - Star Licks Instructional Complete - (1985)
This is the STEVE LUKATHER - STAR LICKS Complete Instructional that finally made it fo DVD...
published: 25 Dec 2012
author: RayStJohn21
Steve Lukather - Star Licks Instructional Complete - (1985)
This is the STEVE LUKATHER - STAR LICKS Complete Instructional that finally made it fo DVD thanks to Hal Leonard Publishing a few years ago. Enjoy!!! Here Luke goes over the licks and leads from Totos's Rosanna, Carmen, Hold The Line, and Lovers In The Night.
- published: 25 Dec 2012
- views: 142
- author: RayStJohn21
70:05
Toto Live in Paris (1990) Full Concert
Toto Live in Paris Full Concert. Steve Lukather: Vocals and Guitar David Paich: Keyboards/...
published: 17 Oct 2012
author: Bryan Bello
Toto Live in Paris (1990) Full Concert
Toto Live in Paris Full Concert. Steve Lukather: Vocals and Guitar David Paich: Keyboards/Vocals Jeffrey Porcaro (RIP): Drums Michael Porcaro: Bass John Jessel: Vocals/Aditional Keyboards Chris Trujillo: Percussion Background Vocals: Jenny Douglas Jacci McGhee Jean-Michel Byron 1. Intro 0:01:01 2. Africa 0:03:50 3. Georgy Porgy 0:10:53 4. I'll Be Over You 0:17:01 5. David Paige (Solo Spot) 0:22:15 6. I Wont Hold You Back 0:25:02 7. Little Wing (Tribute To Jimmy Hendriks) 0:30:58 8. Without Your Love 0:34:49 9. English Eyes 0:42:34 10. Rosanna 0:47:01 11. Afraid Of Love 0:54:39 12. Hold The Line 0:58:43
- published: 17 Oct 2012
- views: 23814
- author: Bryan Bello
91:33
Larry Carlton and Steve Lukather band - Live In Paris 2001
Larry Carlton and Steve Lukather band - Paris Concert, July 9th 2001. Line Up: Bass -- Chr...
published: 25 Dec 2012
author: Nigel Tufnel
Larry Carlton and Steve Lukather band - Live In Paris 2001
Larry Carlton and Steve Lukather band - Paris Concert, July 9th 2001. Line Up: Bass -- Chris Kent Drums -- Gary Ferguson Electric Guitar -- Larry Carlton , Steve Lukather Keyboards -- Rick Jackson Vocals -- Steve Lukather (tracks: 4) Tracklist: 1. The Pump 0:00:06 2. Blues Force 0:19:50 3. It Was Only Yesterday 0:45:10 4. Red House 0:56:30 5. Don't Give Up 01:08:00 6. Room 335 01:18:28 7. Put It Where You Want It 01:24:48
- published: 25 Dec 2012
- views: 165
- author: Nigel Tufnel
57:57
Steve Lukather & Los Lobotomys - In Concert -
Ohne Filter was a 45-minute live television program by German public TV station SWF featur...
published: 15 Dec 2012
author: JankoJoker
Steve Lukather & Los Lobotomys - In Concert -
Ohne Filter was a 45-minute live television program by German public TV station SWF featuring international pop and rock groups. In contrast to Rockpalast (WDR), which was broadcast from larger venues such as the Grugahalle, Ohne Filter was produced at the more intimate setting of a regular TV studio. By the end of 1983, it had become one of the most popular German television music programs. Around 300 issues were produced including performances by Chaka Khan, Joe Cocker and Deep Purple, to name but a few. Translated from the German Wikipedia
- published: 15 Dec 2012
- views: 162
- author: JankoJoker
50:02
The Guitarist TV Show - Full interview with Steve Lukather
www.guitaristtv.com - The award winning legendary guitarist that shaped the way we play gu...
published: 29 Sep 2011
author: GuitaristTV
The Guitarist TV Show - Full interview with Steve Lukather
www.guitaristtv.com - The award winning legendary guitarist that shaped the way we play guitar...Toto guitarist, session guitarist of note and solo performer Steve Lukather chats to Guitarist TV founder Michael de Jager & presenter Ingerlise Pope during his UK tour in 2011.
- published: 29 Sep 2011
- views: 3887
- author: GuitaristTV
27:42
In Studio with Steve Lukather
Raw footage shot during two days of recording Steve Lukather's "Ever Changing Times" album...
published: 13 Dec 2012
author: insidemusicast
In Studio with Steve Lukather
Raw footage shot during two days of recording Steve Lukather's "Ever Changing Times" album. January 15 and 16, 2007 at the Steakhouse Studio in North Hollywood.
- published: 13 Dec 2012
- views: 7932
- author: insidemusicast
35:39
Steve Lukather - Master Session
The Steve Lukather Master Session (a volume in the Star Licks guitar video-tutor series), ...
published: 18 Mar 2012
author: AORCLOUD
Steve Lukather - Master Session
The Steve Lukather Master Session (a volume in the Star Licks guitar video-tutor series), made in 1984 after the release of the fifth Toto album Isolation, is the only instructional Lukather video. It's a great tutorial, not only for (future) guitarists but also for those Lukather fans who frequently asked themselves 'how the hell did he do it'. After a one minute show-case intro, Lukather demonstrates his equipment (Mesa Boogie) and guitar (custom made by Valley Arts) at that time. In the heart of the video Lukather tutors (once slowly and once at regular speed) the solo's from nine songs. Meanwhile he reveals his personal tips on techniques like double-picking, speed picking, wang bar effects, chromaticism, bending, position shifting, false harmonics, travelling scales and melodic phrasing, all merged into the final solo of this video.
- published: 18 Mar 2012
- views: 433735
- author: AORCLOUD
3:49
68 - Lee Ritenour, Steve Lukather, Neal Schon, Slash
6 String Theory is a special project put together by legendary guitarist Lee Ritenour in c...
published: 02 Aug 2010
author: JazzVideoGuy
68 - Lee Ritenour, Steve Lukather, Neal Schon, Slash
6 String Theory is a special project put together by legendary guitarist Lee Ritenour in celebration of the world's most popular instrument - the guitar! Joining him in this tribute to the guitar, the all-star line-up includes George Benson, BB King, Slash, Steve Lukather, John Scofield, Joe Bonamassa, Robert Cray and Vince Gill among many other superstars. Blending rock, blues, jazz, acoustic, country and classical, they come together for a seamless project that promises to take the listener on a musical journey and exploration of the guitar. Also featured on vocals are BB King, Robert Cray, Vince Gill, Keb' Mo', Taj Majal, Joe Bonamassa and Jonny Lang. Debuting on this release is sixteen-year-old guitarist Shon Boubil who was the grand prize winner of Lee Ritenour's Yamaha Six String Theory Guitar Competition.
- published: 02 Aug 2010
- views: 289143
- author: JazzVideoGuy
20:39
Music Man Steve Lukather Luke III
Music Man Steve Lukather Luke III www.andertons.co.uk Rob Chapman Downloadable Guitar Less...
published: 31 Aug 2012
author: RobChappers
Music Man Steve Lukather Luke III
Music Man Steve Lukather Luke III www.andertons.co.uk Rob Chapman Downloadable Guitar Lessons Store www.robchapman.tv Rob Chapman Facebook www.facebook.com Rob Chapman's band Dorje: www.youtube.com For all enquiries regarding Rob Chapman email: officialrobchappers@gmail.com All audio was recorded & produced by Paul 'Stick' Annis/Maplewood Studio www.youtube.com www.facebook.com www.soundcloud.com www.twitter.com www.maplewoodstudio.com
- published: 31 Aug 2012
- views: 55765
- author: RobChappers
5:04
Interview Steve Lukather (part 1)
Watch the whole interview on www.faceculture.com . Video interview with former Toto singer...
published: 26 Oct 2010
author: FaceCulture
Interview Steve Lukather (part 1)
Watch the whole interview on www.faceculture.com . Video interview with former Toto singer and guitarist Steve Lukather. FaceCulture spoke to Lukather about his youth, the Beatles, George Harrison, free thinking, conspiracy theories, asking questions, Toto, not getting credit, musical achievements, session musician, Michael Jackson, future of the world, broken marriage, the death of his mother, religion, church, Obama, his new solo album All's Well That Ends Well, lyrics, personal change and progression, and a lot more.
- published: 26 Oct 2010
- views: 25027
- author: FaceCulture
5:12
Interview Steve Lukather (part 2)
Watch the whole interview on www.faceculture.com . Video interview with former Toto singer...
published: 26 Oct 2010
author: FaceCulture
Interview Steve Lukather (part 2)
Watch the whole interview on www.faceculture.com . Video interview with former Toto singer and guitarist Steve Lukather. FaceCulture spoke to Lukather about his youth, the Beatles, George Harrison, free thinking, conspiracy theories, asking questions, Toto, not getting credit, musical achievements, session musician, Michael Jackson, future of the world, broken marriage, the death of his mother, religion, church, Obama, his new solo album All's Well That Ends Well, lyrics, personal change and progression, and a lot more.
- published: 26 Oct 2010
- views: 14127
- author: FaceCulture
10:00
WLF TV: Steve Lukather - Interview
Sydney, April 2012...
published: 05 Jun 2012
author: WhiteLineFeverTV
WLF TV: Steve Lukather - Interview
Sydney, April 2012
- published: 05 Jun 2012
- views: 4814
- author: WhiteLineFeverTV
6:51
Steve Lukather shows his Music Man guitars ( Interview from Falling In Between 2007 )
Here is an interview from Falling In Between with Steve Lukather. He talks about his gear ...
published: 21 Jan 2011
author: Robin B.
Steve Lukather shows his Music Man guitars ( Interview from Falling In Between 2007 )
Here is an interview from Falling In Between with Steve Lukather. He talks about his gear and demonstrates his unbelievable sound. Rate, Share and Subscribe ! :)
- published: 21 Jan 2011
- views: 157035
- author: Robin B.
7:51
Joe Bonamassa, Steve Lukather & Lee Ritenour - "Give Me One Reason" - GUITAR GREATS: Episode 1
In this episode of Guitar Greats, watch as 3 legendary artists jam together for their rend...
published: 25 Jul 2012
author: COCGuitarFoundation
Joe Bonamassa, Steve Lukather & Lee Ritenour - "Give Me One Reason" - GUITAR GREATS: Episode 1
In this episode of Guitar Greats, watch as 3 legendary artists jam together for their rendition of Tracy Chapman's "Give Me One Reason." This episode features the diverse styles and solos of Joe Bonamassa, Steve Lukather and Lee Ritenour, with the accompaniment of Dave Weckl (drums) and Melvin Davis (bass). *GUITAR GREATS is a weekly web-series featuring live, uncut performances from the Crown of the Continent Guitar Festival (COCGF). The COCGF brings together some of the worlds most talented guitarists for a week of workshops, concerts, and musical creativity in Big Fork, Montana. New episodes of Guitar Greats will be released every Tuesday and Thursday leading up to, and during, this years festival running from August 26th-September 2, 2012. Find out more at: cocguitarfoundation.org Videography by Alan Kozlowski onthepathfilms.com Editing by Nic Davis www.youtube.com Logo by Richard Kurth richardkurthdesign.com
- published: 25 Jul 2012
- views: 28400
- author: COCGuitarFoundation
6:12
Interview Steve Lukather (part 3)
Watch the whole interview on www.faceculture.com . Video interview with former Toto singer...
published: 05 Nov 2010
author: FaceCulture
Interview Steve Lukather (part 3)
Watch the whole interview on www.faceculture.com . Video interview with former Toto singer and guitarist Steve Lukather. FaceCulture spoke to Lukather about his youth, the Beatles, George Harrison, free thinking, conspiracy theories, asking questions, Toto, not getting credit, musical achievements, session musician, Michael Jackson, future of the world, broken marriage, the death of his mother, religion, church, Obama, his new solo album All's Well That Ends Well, lyrics, personal change and progression, and a lot more.
- published: 05 Nov 2010
- views: 11625
- author: FaceCulture
12:18
Steve Lukather Interview 2012
Nick Cavarretta interviews Steve Lukather about the G3 Jam, his place in Ringo Starr's ban...
published: 12 Apr 2012
author: killyoursceneAU
Steve Lukather Interview 2012
Nick Cavarretta interviews Steve Lukather about the G3 Jam, his place in Ringo Starr's band, his new solo album coming out and the Toto reunion. Check out Kill Your Scene: killyourscene.info Source killyourscene.info
- published: 12 Apr 2012
- views: 9567
- author: killyoursceneAU
5:22
DiMarzio Transition Guitar Pickups for Steve Lukather
Legendary TOTO guitarist, solo artist, and first-call session player extraordinaire, Steve...
published: 07 Dec 2012
author: LarryDiMarzio
DiMarzio Transition Guitar Pickups for Steve Lukather
Legendary TOTO guitarist, solo artist, and first-call session player extraordinaire, Steve Lukather talks about the DiMarzio Transition™ pickups created for his Music Man LIII guitar and his new "Transition" album that will be released by Mascot Records on January 21, 2013.
- published: 07 Dec 2012
- views: 39547
- author: LarryDiMarzio
8:49
Incredible Steve Lukather live solo!!!
A great performance by Steve Lukather at the Jason Becker's not dead yet festival...
published: 14 Apr 2011
author: guitarCHS
Incredible Steve Lukather live solo!!!
A great performance by Steve Lukather at the Jason Becker's not dead yet festival
- published: 14 Apr 2011
- views: 121700
- author: guitarCHS
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4:53
STEVE LUKATHER - Flash In The Pan
From Steve Lukather's new album "All's Well That Ends Well" www.stevelukather.net produced...
published: 10 Nov 2010
author: nigeldick
STEVE LUKATHER - Flash In The Pan
From Steve Lukather's new album "All's Well That Ends Well" www.stevelukather.net produced & directed by Nigel Dick © Steve Lukather / dickfilms 2010
- published: 10 Nov 2010
- views: 69362
- author: nigeldick
1:51
Steve Lukather Interview
Cleaning out various tapes, DVDs etc and found some cool little clips of various guitar pl...
published: 26 Aug 2009
author: JoeSatrini
Steve Lukather Interview
Cleaning out various tapes, DVDs etc and found some cool little clips of various guitar players and had to share.... more to follow
- published: 26 Aug 2009
- views: 32090
- author: JoeSatrini
4:11
Steve Lukather Style - Quick Licks - Guitar Solo Performance by Michael Casswell
bit.ly This Steve Lukather style Guitar Solo performance is from the DVD 'Quick Licks - St...
published: 29 Apr 2010
author: licklibrary
Steve Lukather Style - Quick Licks - Guitar Solo Performance by Michael Casswell
bit.ly This Steve Lukather style Guitar Solo performance is from the DVD 'Quick Licks - Steve Lukather' which is available to buy from bit.ly . Michael Casswell teaches you licks in the style of Steve Lukather. The DVD also includes a guitar backing tracks to play your new licks along with. For more on this guitar lesson DVD info click the link - www.licklibrary.com
- published: 29 Apr 2010
- views: 192707
- author: licklibrary
2:36
Steve Lukather - "Transition" trailer
Trailer for Steve Lukather's new album "Transition." Pre-order your copy here: stevelukath...
published: 14 Dec 2012
author: Steve Lukather
Steve Lukather - "Transition" trailer
Trailer for Steve Lukather's new album "Transition." Pre-order your copy here: stevelukather.mlgmerch.com "Transition" release date: Europe on January 21st US & World: January 22nd More info: www.mascotlabelgroup.com
- published: 14 Dec 2012
- views: 10022
- author: Steve Lukather
photo: AP / Mohamed Sheikh Nor
12 Jan 2013
Helicopter raid fails to rescue agent 'Denis Allex' from Islamist group al-Shabaab, as French combat pilot killed in Mali. French secret service hostage 'Denis Allex' pictured in Somalia in October 2012. Photograph. SITE Monitoring Service/AFP/Getty Images. A French hostage and two French soldiers have been killed during a failed secret service rescue mission in Somalia ... The group said it had also captured a wounded French commando ... ....(size: 4.7Kb)
photo: AP / Adj Nicolas-Nelson Richard, ECPAD
14 Jan 2013
Bamako/Paris - French fighter jets pounded Islamist rebel strongholds deep in northern Mali on Sunday as Paris poured more troops into the capital, Bamako, awaiting a West African force to dislodge al-Qaeda-linked insurgents from the country’s north ... Defence Minister Jean-Yves le Drian said France’s intervention on Friday prevented the advancing rebels from seizing Bamako and vowed air strikes would continue ... – ... Doubt....(size: 6.6Kb)
photo: AP / Kevin Frayer
14 Jan 2013
Allahabad. Hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims led by naked, ash-covered holy men streamed into the sacred river Ganges on Monday at the start of the world's biggest religious festival. The Kumbh Mela in the Indian town of Allahabad will see up to 100 million worshippers gather over the next 55 days to take a ritual bath in the holy waters, believed to cleanse sins and bestow blessings ... "I am ecstatic ... Agence France-Presse ....(size: 4.2Kb)
photo: US Navy / MCS2 Gretchen Albrecht
13 Jan 2013
The draft version of the US National Climate Assessment, released on Friday, makes remarkable reading – not just for Americans but for all humanity. Put together by a special panel of more than 240 scientists, the federally commissioned report reveals that the US is already reeling under the impact of global warming ... Nor is there any doubt about the cause of these rising temperatures ... A bitter struggle lies ahead ... Sender's name ... ....(size: 6.2Kb)
photo: White House / Pete Souza
14 Jan 2013
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama issued a strong warning to Republicans on Monday that he will not negotiate over the debt ceiling or allow Republicans to use it as a bargaining chip. "To even entertain the idea of the United States of America not paying our bills is irresponsible. It's absurd," Obama said in a press conference ... "They will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the economy," Obama said ... Also on HuffPost ... ....(size: 10.3Kb)
LA Weekly
14 Jan 2013
Keyboardist Steve Weingart and bassist-singer Renee Jones just might be contemporary music's odd ... These days they are far from their shared Ohio roots, touring the world with guitarist Steve Lukather....(size: 1.2Kb)
Stuff
12 Jan 2013
What a voice this man has ... Yes, that's right ... The Beatles ... The All Starrs is a clever concept; rather than Starr having to carry all the weight as a front man, he gets by with a little help from his friends, roping in mates from other bands, including Richard Page of Mr Mister, Steve Lukather from Toto, Gregg Rolie from Santana, and Todd Rundgren ... Gregg from Santana will do Black Magic Woman, Steve from Toto will do Africa ... ....(size: 12.1Kb)
LA Weekly
10 Jan 2013
Tonight Beasley offers up an evening of Brazilian music, backed by Cuban bassist Carlitos Del Puerto (Chris Botti/Steve Lukather) and drummer Gary Novak (Chick Corea) ......(size: 1.1Kb)
The Examiner
08 Jan 2013
The unofficial MC of the night was master guitar player, Steve Lukather, or LUUUC!, as his most avid fans like to call out to him ... The other two original members of the band, David Paich and Steve Porcaro, work as bookend keyboardists and back up singers, creating intricate harmonies. Steve is the only remaining Porcaro brother, still in the band....(size: 6.2Kb)
The Examiner
07 Jan 2013
Such is the case with Toto guitarist Steve ‘Luke’ Lukather ... Luke is one of the busiest men in music from making album guest appearances, to touring with Toto, touring with Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band, and recently as part of the 2012 G3 tour with Steve Vai and Joe Satriani ... Steve Lukather thrives in 'Transition' ... Lukather has had an amazing life ... Steve Lukather Transition interview....(size: 7.4Kb)
The Examiner
29 Dec 2012
As we prepare to say good-bye to 2012, we look back at the year's biggest Beatles headlines and take stock of their growing relevance. The Beatles are still making history, despite being disbanded for over forty years ... Here are some of the biggest headlines and stories from the year. ... Photo credit. ... Ringo Starr did his 13th All-Starr tour this summer with Steve Lukather (Toto), Gregg Rolie (Journey, Santana), Richard Page (Mr ... ....(size: 9.4Kb)
The Examiner
28 Dec 2012
Rock is dead they say, long live rock ... Picking the best out of a stellar year of over fifty classic rock concerts is not an easy task ... Photo credit. ... It’s been many years since original members David Paich, Steve Lukather and Steve Porcaro have played together ... Valley progressive rock fans got to see virtuoso guitarist Steve Howe and equally talented keyboard player Geoffrey Downes twice this year, once with Yes and once with Asia....(size: 7.1Kb)
The Examiner
19 Dec 2012
Guitarist Steve Lukather, keyboardists David Paich and Steve Porcaro, bassists Dave Hungate and Mike Porcaro, and drummer Jeff Porcaro have collectively performed on more than 8000 recordings ... Steve Lukather alone has played guitar, sung, produced or co-written songs for well over 1500 albums....(size: 12.5Kb)
The Examiner
17 Dec 2012
Rating for Cocnert. 5. Los Angeles rock radio station 95.5 KLOS ‘s Christmas concert is an incredible way to ROCK in the holiday season as it always has been ... The All Star band led by Marc Bonilla (Keith Emerson, CTA) included Steve Lukather (Toto), Lee Sklar (James Taylor, session great), Steve Porcaro (Toto), Gregg Bissonette (Ringo Starr, David Lee Roth), Robert Mason (Warrant), and Ed Roth (Chad Smith’s Bombastic Meatbats, CTA) ... ....(size: 2.9Kb)
LA Weekly
08 Dec 2012
Holiday variety shows are always more cuddly when rooted in family ties ... This year's guests are Julia Fordham, CJ Vanston, Richard Thompson, Weird Al Yankovic, Steve Lukather, Lee Sklar and Jo Pusateri ... Price....(size: 1.3Kb)
The Examiner
05 Dec 2012
Felder earned the nickname “Fingers” from fellow Eagle Glenn Frey two years before he would join the legendary band ... Don Felder 2012 ... Photo credit. ... Guys like Steve Lukather, Tommy Shaw, Randy Jackson and Crosby, Stills and Nash ... (laughs) Steve Lukather, from the time he walks in the room until the time he walks out the door you will be laughing until your stomach hurts, and we just had—everybody that came in had the best time ... ....(size: 6.5Kb)
NZ Herald
18 Nov 2012
The supergroup is the twelfth incarnation of the All-Starr Band and includes Steve Lukather from Toto, Gregg Rolie of Santana and Journey fame, Mr Mister's Richard Paige, Gregg Bissonette, who played drums for Dave Lee Roth, and multi-instrumentalists Todd Rundgren and Mark Rivera ... -AAP. ....(size: 1.3Kb)
Sydney Morning Herald
18 Nov 2012
| Steve Lukather | |
|---|---|
 Steve Lukather, July 2007 in Walker, Minnesota |
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| Background information | |
| Born | (1957-10-21) October 21, 1957 (age 54) San Fernando Valley, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Hard rock, pop rock, jazz fusion |
| Occupations | Musician, songwriter, producer |
| Instruments | Guitar, vocals |
| Years active | 1975–present |
| Labels | Mascot Records |
| Associated acts | Toto, Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band, Los Lobotomys, Larry Carlton |
| Website | http://www.stevelukather.net/ |
| Notable instruments | |
| Music Man "Luke" signature model Ibanez Roadstar RS-1010SL Yamaha acoustic–electrics Ovation Adamas |
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Steven Lee "Luke" Lukather (born October 21, 1957) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger, and record producer best known for his work with the rock band Toto. A prolific session musician, Lukather has recorded guitar tracks for more than 1,500 albums representing a broad array of artists and genres. He has also contributed to albums and hit singles as a songwriter, arranger, and producer. Lukather has released six solo studio albums and is working on his seventh.
In 1976, when Lukather was nineteen years old, he was invited by his high school friends David Paich and the Porcaro brothers Steve and Jeff to join them in forming their band, Toto. He remained a member until the band split up in 2008, and has been involved in their periodic reunion tours. Lukather's reputation as a guitarist and his association with Paich and Jeff Porcaro, who also became established artists, allowed him to secure a solid flow of session work in the 1970s and 1980s. Lukather has been nominated for twelve Grammy awards, and has won five. While his work with Toto was predominantly based on pop rock music and his solo work ventures into progressive rock and hard rock, many of Lukather's side-projects are focused on jazz fusion. He held a long-time collaboration with jazz guitarist Larry Carlton that produced a Grammy-winning live album, and he was a member of the jazz fusion band Los Lobotomys, a collaboration of notable session musicians.
Influenced by such blues-rock guitarists as Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page, and such jazz fusion players as Al Di Meola and Frank Gambale, Lukather is known for a "melodic and intense"[1] playing style. He is also recognized for his efficiency in the studio, often recording tracks in one take using minimal sound processing. While he once used many guitar effects in the studio and on stage, he now frequently disparages such practice, and instead advocates clean tones and minimal studio processing. Lukather plays primarily a signature electric guitar manufactured by Ernie Ball Music Man bearing his nickname, Luke. He also plays Yamaha and Ovation Adamas series acoustic–electric guitars.
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Biography[link]
Early life[link]
Steven Lee Lukather was born on October 21, 1957 in San Fernando Valley, California. He first played keyboards and drums, and then taught himself how to play the guitar starting at age seven, when his father bought him a Kay acoustic guitar and a copy of The Beatles album Meet the Beatles. Lukather claims that the album "changed his life" and that he was greatly influenced by the guitar playing of George Harrison in particular.[2][3]
In high school, Lukather met David Paich and the Porcaro brothers (Jeff, Steve, and Mike),[4] all of whom eventually became members of Toto. Lukather, who had been a self-taught musician, began taking guitar lessons from Jimmy Wyble. With Wyble, Lukather expanded his knowledge of wider aspects of music, including orchestration. It was during this period in the early 1970s that Lukather became interested in the idea of becoming a session musician, a vocation that provided opportunities to play with a variety of famous musicians.[2]
Jeff Porcaro, who had been playing drums with Steely Dan since 1973,[5] became a mentor to Lukather and furthered his interest in session work. Lukather's first job in the music industry was studio work with Boz Scaggs,[6] after which Paich and Jeff Porcaro—who had become prominent session musicians in their own right[7]—asked Lukather to join them in forming Toto in 1976 along with Bobby Kimball, David Hungate, and Steve Porcaro.[2] Lukather turned down an offer to join Miles Davis' band to accept their invitation.[8]
Toto[link]
See also: Toto (band)
Lukather was the original lead guitarist for Toto, serving in that capacity for the band's entire history, as well as a lead and backing vocalist and composer. Lukather won three of his five Grammy awards for work with Toto, twice as an artist and once as a producer.[9] David Paich led the band's songwriting efforts during the development of 1978's Toto—he penned all but two of the album's tracks, including all four of its singles. Lukather also credits Jeff Porcaro for his leadership within the band during that period. However, Lukather's role in Toto evolved over time owing to the changing needs of the band. He contributed songwriting to Toto albums starting with the eponymous lead track on 1979's Hydra. In August 1992, Jeff Porcaro collapsed while doing yard work at home and subsequently died of heart failure.[10] The death profoundly affected Toto and Lukather in particular, who considered Porcaro a mentor. Lukather felt that he needed to step up and make sure the band kept going. Thus, he began taking more of a leadership role.[2]
Toto went through several lead vocalists over the years, including Kimball, Fergie Frederiksen, and Joseph Williams. After the 1990 dismissal of their fourth vocalist, Jean-Michel Byron, Toto was without a lead singer until around 1997; Lukather assumed most of the vocal duties for the band during that time. He performed lead vocals for every track on 1992's Kingdom of Desire and 1995's Tambu except for two instrumental tracks. The Tambu single "I Will Remember", co-written by Lukather and Stan Lynch, reached #64 on UK charts.[2] Some Tambu reviewers contrasted Lukather's vocals with those of former singers Kimball and Williams (and indeed, heavily criticized the entire album),[11] some concert reviewers noted that he struggled vocally on certain songs, and a number of backup singers and guest vocalists accompanied the band's live shows during that period.[12] It was not until Toto brought back former lead singers Joseph Williams and Bobby Kimball to collaborate on 1998's Toto XX that Lukather returned to predominantly backup vocals.[2]
Lukather's songwriting contributions grew from a smattering of tracks on early Toto albums to almost every track starting in the late 1980s. He wrote very few of Toto's songs by himself, an exception being the hit single "I Won't Hold You Back" from Toto IV. Lukather has admitted that writing lyrics is not one of his strengths. Thus, he collaborated with other band members to complete song ideas and make them into viable album tracks. Lukather contributed to all of the songs on Toto's 2006 album Falling in Between.[13]
By 2008, Lukather was the only remaining original Toto member still performing with the band. In June of the same year, Lukather decided to leave Toto.[14] This decision directly led to the official dissolution of the band. In a 2011 interview discussing his career with Toto, Lukather indicated that the band had evolved too far from its original incarnation and that he was dealing with the physical and mental toll of recording and performing.[15] In February 2010, the band announced that they would reunite to support Toto bassist Mike Porcaro, who was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease.[16] They continued to tour on a limited basis in 2011 and 2012;[17] however, Lukather has indicated that the band will not record any further material.[15]
Session work[link]
Lukather achieved notability in the 1970s and 1980s as one of the most sought-after session guitarists in Los Angeles,[18] playing with a wide range of artists from Aretha Franklin to Warren Zevon.[18][19] He has performed on over 1,500 records spanning 36 years.[15] Music journalist Jude Gold noted, "It's hard to name a guitarist who has had a more prolific and fulfilling career than Steve Lukather."[18] Lukather credits fellow Toto members David Paich and Jeff Porcaro for getting him exposure in the industry—although he lamented in an April 2011 interview that opportunities for session musicians have curtailed in recent years: "There is no 'session guy' thing any more—not like it was. It's not like the old days when I was doing 25 sessions a week. All the studios are gone. The budgets are gone. The record companies are all gone."[15] His own output as a session musician has slowed along with the rest of the industry—as of 2009, Lukather stated he was only doing a few sessions a year.[14]
Named by Gibson Guitar Corporation as one of the top 10 session guitars of all time,[20] Lukather has performed on many notable tracks. He performed the guitar solo for Olivia Newton-John's popular 1981 single "Physical", which was Billboard's #1 single of the 1980s. Other notable session performances include Michael Jackson's "Beat It",[4] two tracks from the Lionel Richie album Can't Slow Down, and the Richard Marx album Repeat Offender.[21] Lukather and Jeff Porcaro were heavily involved in the recording of virtually all of Michael Jackson's Thriller.[4][14] In addition to recording guitar tracks, Lukather has also written or produced music for Lionel Richie, Richard Marx, Chicago, Donna Summer, and The Tubes.[21][22] He won a Grammy award in 1982 for the George Benson song "Turn Your Love Around".[9][22]
Solo albums[link]
Lukather has released six solo studio albums: Lukather (1989), Candyman (1994), Luke (1997), Santamental (2003), Ever Changing Times (2008), and All's Well That Ends Well (2010).[23] In December 2011, he began work on his seventh, a collaboration with C. J. Vanston featuring musicians Chad Smith, Gregg Bissonette, Leland Sklar, and others. The album is scheduled to be released in early 2013.[24]
[edit] 1989–1997: Lukather, Candyman, and Luke
The 1989 album Lukather came about after Toto had been recording and playing for 11 years, and the consensus among the band members was to take a break. As Lukather had written a number of songs that did not appear on Toto albums, he decided to pursue a solo album, with the intention of presenting a dimension of his music that fans would be unfamiliar with. He collaborated with many notable musicians, including Eddie Van Halen, Richard Marx, Jan Hammer, Steve Stevens, and fellow Toto members Jeff Porcaro and David Paich. Lukather has said that the album was produced very simply, and that a lot of ambient studio noise—counting off on various tracks, for instance—is audible on it. He also credits bands Pink Floyd, Cream, Led Zeppelin, and guitarists Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmour, Jeff Beck, and Eric Clapton as influences on the album. The single "Swear Your Love" came from the album.[25]
Candyman, recorded and mastered from March 1993 through November 1993, was a collaboration of musicians who were for the most part also in Lukather's band Los Lobotomys.[26] Toto familiars Simon Phillips and David Paich participated as well as David Garfield, John Peña, Chris Trujillo, Lenny Castro, Larry Klimas, Fee Waybill, Richard Page, and Paul Rodgers. Lukather recorded the album in mostly live takes with little overdubbing.[27] Some international fans were confused about whether Candyman was a Steve Lukather album or a Los Lobotomys album. The Japanese and US releases of Candyman were under the Los Lobotomys name rather than Lukather's; the Japanese release also featured a version of the Hendrix song "Red House". The European release of Candyman was credited to Lukather alone. Additionally, the touring band for the album was sometimes introduced as "Steve Lukather and Los Lobotomys" and sometimes as just "Los Lobotomys".[28] The song "Borrowed Time" was released as a single in Europe and included "Red House" as a B-side.[27]
Lukather describes 1997's Luke as a much different and more "introspective" album than his previous two solo efforts. The album is a concentrated collection of many of Lukather's musical influences, and he deliberately let those influences come out on the album. Luke is an experimental album, and like Candyman it was recorded mostly in live sessions with minimal overdubbing and processing afterwards. Luke also features instrumentation not heard on previous Lukather albums: pedal steel, harmonicas, Mellotrons, and experimental guitar, bass, and drum sounds. The US version of Luke includes a version of the Jeff Beck song "The Pump". The song "Hate Everything About U" was released as a single.[29]
[edit] 2003: Santamental
Santamental, released in October 2003,[30] is a collaborative project featuring several prominent musicians such as guitarists Edward Van Halen, Slash, Steve Vai, and drummer Gregg Bissonette.[31] When Lukather's record company, Bop City Records, approached him about recording a Christmas album, he responded with a quip about his suitability for the project. The company wanted him to do the record knowing he would approach the project with a unique angle and produce something different from the typical Christmas album. Lukather recruited keyboardist Jeff Babko and guitarist Larry Carlton, who Lukather had worked with previously, to help arrange the songs. The project was a challenge to Lukather, who had to be creative to turn the traditionally simple songs into something interesting for listeners without altering the fundamental structures. He said of the album, "But I never dreamt in a million years that I'd do a Christmas record."[18]
The musicians Lukather chose for Santamental, most of whom were involved in the hard-rock genre, lent a heavy feel to the album. Van Halen recorded guitar tracks for "Joy to the World" after not having been in the studio for some time but immediately made an impression on Lukather with his level of playing. Vai provided guitar work for "Carol of the Bells" along with Lukather's son Trevor, then 14 years old. Slash, who recorded his part in one take, played on the Lukather/Stan Lynch composition "Broken Heart for Christmas". Lukather spoke highly of Slash after the project, calling him the "Keith Richards of our generation". Well-known session guitarist Michael Landau played on the song "Look Out For Angels",[18] and there is a version of "Jingle Bells" featuring a big band and sung by Sammy Davis, Jr.[18] Santamental was recorded in six days, after which Lukather proclaimed it "his first and last Christmas album".[32]
[edit] 2008–2010: Ever Changing Times and All's Well That Ends Well
Ever Changing Times, released on February 22, 2008, is a collection of songs Lukather recorded in 2007 between Toto tours. The album contains contributions from fellow session musicians Bill Champlin, Abe Laboriel, Jr., Leland Sklar, Steve Porcaro, and many others. Lukather's son Trevor contributed as well. Joseph Williams provides backing vocals on five of the tracks. Lukather wrote the songs for the album in a hotel room with his son and a handful of other musicians, using basic equipment. His song-writing philosophy is that if a song sounds good with only guitars and vocals, it will likely sound good after a full production.[3] Lukather collaborated with Grammy Award-winning engineer and producer Steve MacMillan on the project, with the goal of introducing some new methods and techniques into the recording process. Lukather described the final tracks as "perfectly imperfect", preferring to record with the five-piece backing band in one room and in one take. MacMillan encouraged Lukather to use "organic, vintage tones". As a result, Lukather eschewed effects and played the guitar parts directly through tube amplifiers manufactured by Marshall, Vox, and some boutique brands. Lukather commented that MacMillan served as a valuable "second set of ears" in the studio, often encouraging him to keep parts that he normally would have discarded.[7] As Toto had recently disbanded when Ever Changing Times was released, Lukather embarked on a solo tour to promote the album. The shows featured a mixture of songs from the album, songs written for other side projects, and "a few Toto obscurities".[14]
Lukather's sixth studio album, All's Well That Ends Well, was released on October 11, 2010 in Europe and Japan, and November 16 as a digital download worldwide. The material was written predominantly in collaboration with longtime associate C. J. Vanston, and the album features stalwart musicians from Lukather's touring band. Songwriter Randy Goodrum, who has collaborated with Lukather many times over the years including on the 1986 Toto single "I'll Be over You", contributes to the track "Brody's".[15] All's Well That Ends Well draws from Lukather's personal experiences in the two years since Ever Changing Times. Critic Arlene Weiss noted that the album features three distinct flavors of music: one that "bares [Lukather's] soul and emotional heartache", one that pans elements of popular culture like TMZ.com, and one that expresses optimism and enthusiasm about the future. While Lukather focused on instrumental writing and production on previous albums but collaborated with lyricists, he wrote much of the lyrics for All's Well That Ends Well himself.[22] Lukather describes the album as being a "real" and "honest" reflection of the period between 2008 and 2010, when he experienced difficulties within his private life.[15]
Side projects[link]
When not working with Toto, Lukather has participated in numerous side projects including playing with jazz fusion band Los Lobotomys and with other session musicians, and touring with Larry Carlton, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, and others.
Lukather was a long-time member of the band Los Lobotomys, a collaboration of session musicians including jazz and be-bop player David "Creatchy" Garfield and Toto drummer Jeff Porcaro, replaced after his death by Simon Phillips, who also replaced Porcaro in Toto. Los Lobotomys formed in the mid-1980s and played regular shows in the Los Angeles area, often inviting whatever session musicians happened to be available and in the area. They recorded an album under the Los Lobotomys name in 1989, and the band was heavily involved in the recording of Lukather's Candyman.[26] Los Lobotomys recorded a live album in 2004 comprising several tracks from Candyman and from the 1989 album.[33]
In 1998, Lukather received an invitation to tour Japan with fellow guitarist Larry Carlton after Japanese promoters requested that Carlton's annual tours each be different from the last. Lukather and Carlton exchanged some recorded material and decided that a collaboration would be interesting. Lukather was flattered by the invitation to tour with Carlton, citing him as his favorite guitarist. Lukather speaks highly of their stage efforts, although the two were admittedly outside their normal realm of work. He stated in an interview that "you can hear us having fun on the record—you can hear the smiles on our faces."[34] After several shows, the duo realized that they should record their collaboration even if just for their own use. Guitarist and producer Steve Vai heard one of the subsequent recordings and expressed interest in releasing it under his Favored Nations label, also home to such artists as Eric Johnson and Dweezil Zappa. Vai and Lukather mixed and produced the recording, which is said to be a mixture of jazz, blues, and fusion music.[34] The resulting album, No Substitutions: Live in Osaka, won a 2001 Grammy award for Best Pop Instrumental Album.[9][35] Album reviewers described Lukather as having a heavier style than Carlton.[36] Lukather and Carlton later did an international tour in support of the album.[34]
In 2005, Lukather won critical praise for his rendition of the Jimi Hendrix song "Little Wing" at a gala 90th birthday celebration for jazz guitarist Les Paul.[37] Returning after a five year absence, the 2012 G3 Tour will feature Lukather alongside Joe Satriani and Steve Vai.[38] In February 2012, Ringo Starr announced that Lukather will be the guitarist in his All Starr Band for their summer tour.[39]
Lukather periodically contributes material and expertise to instructional and educational enterprises. In 1985, he released the instructional "Star Licks" guitar video featuring many of the guitar parts from the first five Toto studio albums. It was released on DVD in 2005.[40] The guitarist has also been participating in the Fermatta Master Class Series project, an educational cooperative organized by the Fermatta Music Academy in Mexico.[41]
Musical style and equipment[link]
Influenced by such blues-rock guitarists as Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page, and such jazz fusion players as Al Di Meola and Frank Gambale, Lukather is known for a "melodic and intense" playing style.[1] He has also cited Steely Dan as a major long-time influence—one that emerges prominently in later solo work such as All's Well That Ends Well.[42] Journalist Jude Gold notes that his vibrato is very pronounced and his "exaggerated wide bends" are distinctive and quickly recognizable. Well-versed in music theory, Lukather can follow chord charts and changes in a way typical of jazz musicians—this ability enhances his value as a session musician. In interviews, he has explained how he thinks of the guitar in a "chordal cluster" format, and not the typical "linear scale" format.[43]
Lukather's approach to engineering his sound in the studio is usually very simple. He is not known for doing a large number of takes or for incorporating much overdubbing—rather, he has a reputation for doing only single takes for many parts.[44] He has said about this approach: "If a solo didn't work—either because I didn't have the right sound, or because I wasn't inspired at that moment—I'd just move on. A part either works or it doesn't. You can't batter it into submission, or force inspiration to save you. It's always better to just surrender, and then come back later to give it a go with fresh ears."[7] Although he enjoys the technical mastery that is possible in the studio, Lukather prefers the dynamic of performing live on stage.[45] He has stated that dynamics are the most important element of producing a recording with good sound quality.[46]
Despite being known in the past for having an intricate set of effects units, Lukather now claims to play mostly free of such modifications after seeing some overdone commercial unit configurations named after him.[18] Other than some delay, he has not used many effects in recent years.[45] He has held a long association with Bob Bradshaw of Custom Audio Electronics, who designed and manufactured key elements of Lukather's effects rack. Lukather is one of the few official endorsers of EMG pickups, having collaborated on his own Lukather signature "SL20" pickup system, which is a single unit incorporating two different types of pickups (including a humbucker), single volume and tone knobs, and a pickguard.[47]
Lukather endorses Music Man guitars and has a signature model named "Luke" that incorporates his signature EMG pickup system. The guitar started out with only MusicMan specifications (including a Floyd Rose locking vibrato, later replaced with a vintage-style fulcrum bridge), but in 1998, the manufacturer made several customizations to the model to better fit Lukather's playing style.[48] Music Man also produces a Ball Family Reserve Steve Lukather Model that features upgraded hardware and materials.[49] Lukather has also been known to play Ibanez and Valley Arts guitars. His relationship with Ibanez and Valley Arts yielded an endorsement for a brief time in the 1980s with the release of the Ibanez Roadstar RS1010SL and Valley Arts Custom Pro Steve Lukather Signature guitars in 1984–85.[49] He has played Ovation Adamas series acoustic–electric guitars.[50] Starting before his 2010 All's Well That Ends Well tour, Lukather began playing and endorsing Yamaha Studio Response Technology acoustic–electric guitars.[51]
Discography[link]
Solo
Main article: Steve Lukather discography
- Lukather (1989)
- Candyman (1994)
- Luke (1997)
- No Substitutions: Live in Osaka (2001)
- Santamental (2003)
- Ever Changing Times (2008)
- All's Well That Ends Well (2010)
With Toto
Main article: Toto discography
With Los Lobotomys
- Los Lobotomys (1989)
Awards[link]
- 1982 – Grammy Award for Best R&B Song: Steve Lukather, Jay Graydon, Bill Champlin (for George Benson) – "Turn Your Love Around"
- 1982 – Grammy Award for Producer of the Year: Toto – Toto IV
- 1982 – Grammy Award for Album of the Year: Toto – Toto IV
- 1982 – Grammy Award for Record of the Year: Toto – "Rosanna"
- 2002 – Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album: Larry Carlton & Steve Lukather – No Substitutions: Live in Osaka
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| Date of birth | October 21, 1957 |
| Place of birth | San Fernando Valley, California |
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| Lee Ritenour | |
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 Ritenour at the Stockholm Jazz Festival in 2009. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Lee Mack Ritenour |
| Also known as | Captain Fingers |
| Born | (1952-01-11) January 11, 1952 (age 60) Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Genres | Jazz, jazz-funk, jazz fusion, smooth jazz |
| Occupations | Musician, composer, producer |
| Instruments | Guitar, SynthAxe |
| Years active | 1975–present |
| Labels | Epic, Elektra, GRP, PolyGram, Decca, Peak, Concord |
| Website | leeritenour.com |
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| Gibson ES-335 Gibson L-5 |
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Lee Mack Ritenour (born January 11, 1952) is an American jazz guitarist who has recorded over 42 albums, appeared on over 3000 sessions, and has charted over 30 instrumental and vocal contemporary jazz hits since 1976.[1] One of his most popular songs was the smash hit, “Is It You” in 1981. Ritenour is considered to be a pioneer in the Contemporary Jazz and jazz-funk genres of music.[citation needed]. Guitar Player Magazine awarded him with a Lifetime Achievement Award for the year 2010. His highly acclaimed and popular 2010 hit album Lee Ritenour's 6 String Theory had numerous awards in 2011 including, Guitar Album of the Year – Guitar International Magazine. UK’s Guitarist Magazine: The #1 Best 50 Guitar Albums of 2010. JAZZIZ Magazine Publisher’s Album of the Year. Top Albums of 2010 from Canada’s “The Guardian”. Lee was awarded at the 2011 Echo Awards in Germany (the German Grammy awards) for Best International Instrumentalist (Guitar) in conjunction with the album, 6 String Theory)
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Biography[link]
Ritenour was born January 11, 1952 in Los Angeles, California. He played his first session when he was 16 with the Mamas & the Papas and given the moniker, "Captain Fingers", because of his manual dexterity on the guitar. Ritenour was a sought-after session guitarist by the mid-1970s, and won Guitar Player Magazine's Best Studio Guitarist twice in the 1970s. He is noted for playing his red Gibson ES-335 and his Gibson L5 guitars.
One of his most notable influences is the pioneering jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery among others like Joe Pass, Kenny Burrell and John McLaughlin. His prolific career includes a Grammy Award for the collaborative work Harlequin (1985), and 19 other Grammy nominations. Ritenour also holds the distinction of having two of the promotional videos for his songs "Is It You" and "Mr. Briefcase" being played during MTV's first day. Ritenour has been at the top of many guitar polls throughout the world.
Throughout his career, Ritenour has experimented with different styles of music. A true fusionist, he has often incorporated elements of funk, pop, rock, blues, Brazilian and most recently with Amparo (2008), classical music with jazz. In the early 1980s, Ritenour was given his own Ibanez signature model guitar, the LR-10. The LR-10 was produced from 1981 to 1987. It can be heard exclusively on his album Rit. Currently, Ritenour plays the Gibsons that he first played in the 1970s (the ES-335 and L5), and now also plays his signature Lee Ritenour Model archtop guitar made by Gibson.
Style[link]
Ritenour's solo career began in 1975 with the recording of his album First Course. Released in 1976, the album gave a strong representation of the mid-1970s L.A. Jazz/Funk sound. Critics did, however, complain that his first album was "lightweight." So Lee countered this with his strongly crossover-based follow up, Captain Fingers. This was followed by two more crossover efforts—The Captain's Journey (1978) and Feel The Night (1979). On these albums, Ritenour primarily used something of a rich, yet rock-oriented distorted guitar sound, coming from his Gibson ES-335 guitar. In other instances on these albums, clean sounds were heard coming from his Gibson L5 and classical acoustic guitars (he played his classical acoustic guitars almost exclusively on his album Rio in 1979). In the 1970s, Ritenour would often use effects like wah-wah, phasers, chorus, and flangers on his electric instruments. Also, during the late 1970s, Ritenour can be heard using the 360 Systems guitar synthesizer (he is pictured sitting in front of it on the back cover of his Captain Fingers album). He can be heard using the synthesizer on the track Captain Fingers (from the album with the same title), and can also be heard playing solo with the synthesizer on the song "What Do You Want?" from The Captain's Journey.
In 1979, Ritenour "was brought in to beef up one of Pink Floyd's The Wall's heaviest rock numbers, "Run Like Hell"."[2] He also played "uncredited rhythm guitar" on "One Of My Turns".[3][4]
As the 1980s began, Ritenour began to add stronger elements of pop to his music, beginning with Rit in 1981. For this, he kept with his distorted sound, now using his Ibanez LR-10 signature model guitar. One of tracks from "Rit", entitled, "Is It You" featuring vocals from Eric Tagg became a hit reaching number fifteen on the pop chart and number twenty-seven on the soul chart.[5] He continued with the pop-oriented music for two albums after Rit (Rit/2 in 1982 and Banded Together in 1984), while releasing a slick, yet more crossover-styled, Direct-Disk instrumental album in 1983 called On The Line. He also provided rhythm guitar on Tom Browne's hit, Funkin' for Jamaica.
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The Lee Ritenour Gibson L5 Signature archtop guitar.
In 1985, he recorded his first album for GRP with Dave Grusin, entitled Harlequin. It featured Lee primarily on his classical acoustic guitar and also featured Brazilian singer/songwriter Ivan Lins. Up to this point, this album along with Rio arguably gave the strongest representation of Lee's Brazilian influences.
The following year, 1986, Ritenour released the album Earth Run, which featured him using the then-newly designed SynthAxe guitar. He used nine different guitars on the album, most notably the SynthAxe, his Valley Arts guitar, and his Gibson Chet Atkins acoustic. The album also featured long-time collaborator Phil Perry for the first time, on the track "If I'm Dreaming, Don't Wake Me" — a song also featuring David Foster and Maurice White. He also produced songs and played guitar on Deniece Williams's LP Hot on the Trail during that same year.
Ritenour continued in a direction strongly featuring other artists in 1987, with Portrait. The album itself has something of a strong smooth-jazz sound, and Ritenour can be heard here playing with The Yellowjackets, Djavan, and Kenny G.[citation needed]!
In 1988, his smooth jazz-influenced Brazilian music came to the forefront with Festival — another album strongly featuring his work on nylon-string acoustic guitars. The following album, Color Rit, continued with a similar mood. He did however, change direction completely again with his straight-ahead jazz album Stolen Moments. Sounding similar to Wes Montgomery, Ritenour played alongside long-time collaborator, saxophonist Ernie Watts, pianist Alan Broadbent, bassist John Patitucci (playing only acoustic) and drummer Harvey Mason. Continuing in a Wes Montgomery mood, Ritenour paid tribute to the man himself in 1992, with his album Wes Bound. The album featured a number of covers of Montgomery compositions, as well as some seemingly tributary pieces from Ritenour himself.
Also seen in this decade was a 1994 collaboration album with guitarist Larry Carlton called Larry & Lee.
In 1991 Lee Ritenour, together with keyboard player Bob James, formed the Grammy-nominated contemporary jazz group Fourplay. Lee left the hugely successful group in 1998 to continue with his own solo works. He was replaced by Larry Carlton.
2002 saw the release of his album, Rit's House.
In February 2004, Ritenour completed a project looking back on his career involving musicians he has worked with throughout his career called Overtime. Overtime was recorded live in a studio in front of a small audience. It was released in early 2005, and is currently available as a singular audio CD, double-DVD set or singular HD DVD. Some of the musicians featured include Dave Grusin, Patrice Rushen, Harvey Mason, Alex Acuna, Taylor Dayne, Nathan East, Chris Botti, Anthony Jackson, Melvin Lee Davis, and Ernie Watts, amongst many others.
His album entitled Smoke n' Mirrors was released in late August 2006. His son Wesley makes his debut appearance as a drummer on the album at the age of 13. This album contains Ritenour's version of Bill Withers' 1978 hit "Lovely Day".
Ritenour joined the 10th annual Independent Music Awards judging panel to assist independent musicians' careers.[6] [7] [8] He was also a judge for the 8th and 9th Independent Music Awards.[9]
In June 2010, in order to celebrate his fifty years as a guitarist, Lee Ritenour released the album 6 String Theory (in reference to 6 musical areas covered by the use of guitar).[10] The album featured famous guitarists such as Steve Lukather, Neal Schon, John Scofield, Slash, Pat Martino, Mike Stern, George Benson and B.B.King, but also younger players such as Andy McKee, Joe Robinson and Guthrie Govan. Ritenour, YamahaCorporation, The Berklee College of Music, Concord Records, Monster Cable, and D'Addario Strings collaborated to create the 2010 Yamaha 6 String Theory Guitar Competition. The winner of that international competition, that included guitarists from over 45 countries, was 16-year-old Canadian classical guitarist Shon Boublil. The competition in 2011 is continuing.
Discography[link]
| Date | Title | Label |
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| 1976 | First Course | Epic #EK 46114 |
| 1977 | Lee Ritenour and His Gentle Thoughts | JVC #VDJ-1001 |
| 1977 | Captain Fingers | Epic #PE 34426 |
| 1977 | Sugar Loaf Express | JVC #JIMI-2008-2 |
| 1978 | Friendship (Different from 1979 release) | Jasrac #VDJ-1003 |
| 1978 | The Captain's Journey | Elektra #6E-136 |
| 1979 | Rio | GRP Records #GRD-9524 |
| 1979 | Feel the Night | Discovery #71010 |
| 1979 | Friendship (Currently reissued with The Captain's Journey on Wounded Bird Records) | Elektra 6E-241 |
| 1980 | The Best of Lee Ritenour | Epic #EK 36527 |
| 1981 | Rit | Discovery #71013 |
| 1982 | Rit 2 | Discovery #71017 |
| 1982 | Dave Grusin and the N.Y. /L.A. Dream Band, with Dave Grusin | GRP Records #A 1001 & GRD 9501, JVC #28022 |
| 1983 | On The Line (This version differs in some takes to the 1985 GRP Release, and is available reissued with Rio on Wounded Bird Records), with Dave Grusin | GRP Records #GRD-9525 |
| 1984 | Banded Together | Discovery #71018 |
| 1985 | Harlequin, with Dave Grusin | GRP Records #GRD-9522 |
| 1985 | GRP Live in Session, with Dave Grusin | GRP Records #A-1023 & #GRD 9032 |
| 1986 | Earth Run | GRP Records #GRP-D-9538 |
| 1987 | Portrait | GRP Records #GRD-9553 |
| 1988 | Festival | GRP Records #GRD-9570 |
| 1989 | Color Rit | GRP Records #GRD-9594 |
| 1990 | Stolen Moments | GRP Records #GRD-9615 |
| 1991 | Collection | GRP Records #GRD-9645 |
| 1991 | Fourplay, Fourplay | Warner Bros. #26656-2 |
| 1993 | Wes Bound | GRP Records #GRD-9705 |
| 1993 | Fourplay, Between The Sheets | Warner Bros. #45340-2 |
| 1995 | Larry & Lee, with Larry Carlton | GRP Records #GRD-9817 |
| 1995 | Fourplay, Elixir | Warner Bros. #WPCR-293 |
| 1997 | Alive In L.A. | GRP Records #GRD-9882 |
| 1997 | A Twist of Jobim | I.E. Music #314 533 893-2 |
| 1997 | Fourplay, Best Of Fourplay | Warner Bros. #9 46661-2 |
| 1998 | This Is Love | i.e. Music #314 557 290-2 |
| 1999 | Two Worlds, with Dave Grusin, Renée Fleming, Gil Shaham and Julian Lloyd Webber. | Decca #012 157 960-2 |
| 2001 | A Twist Of Marley | GRP Records #UCCR-1003 |
| 2002 | Rit's House | GRP Records #VERF 01197-2 |
| 2003 | The Very Best Of Lee Ritenour | GRP Records #314-589-281-2 |
| 2003 | The Best Of Lee Ritenour | Sony Music Entertainment Inc #EK 85795 |
| 2003 | A Twist of Motown | GRP Records #B0000115-02 |
| 2005 | Overtime | Peak Records #PKD-8531-2 |
| 2005 | World Of Brazil | GRP Records #B0004926-02 |
| 2006 | Smoke N Mirrors | Peak Records #PKD-30018-2 |
| 2008 | Amparo, with Dave Grusin | Decca Records #UCCU-1192 |
| 2010 | Lee Ritenour's 6 String Theory | Concord Records #CRE-31911-02 |
As sideman[link]
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With Brass Fever
- Brass Fever (Impulse!, 1975)
- Time Is Running Out (Impulse!, 1976)
With Dizzy Gillespie
- Free Ride (Pablo, 1977) composed and arranged by Lalo Schifrin
With Alphonse Mouzon
- Mind Transplant (Blue Note, 1974)
- The Man Incognito (Blue Note, 1975)
With Lalo Schifrin
- Rollercoaster (soundtrack) (MCA, 1977)
References[link]
- ^ www.leeritenour.com
- ^ Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story Of Pink Floyd by Mark Blake, page 270
- ^ The Complete Guide To The Music Of Pink Floyd by Andy Mabbett, page 80
- ^ "Inside the Mind of Pink Floyd: David Gilmour". Guitar. September 1995. http://www.pinkfloydfan.net/t1480-david-gilmour-inside-mind-pink.html. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 494.
- ^ Independent Music Awards
- ^ MicControl
- ^ Top40-Charts.com
- ^ Independent Music Awards - 8th Annual IMA Judges
- ^ Lee Ritenour discusses his "6 String Theory" for Guitar International
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| Neal Schon | |
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| Background information | |
| Born | (1954-02-27) February 27, 1954 (age 58) Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, USA |
| Genres | Hard rock, instrumental rock, pop rock, progressive rock, glam metal, jazz fusion, smooth jazz |
| Occupations | Musician, songwriter |
| Instruments | Guitar, vocals |
| Years active | 1969–present |
| Labels | Columbia, Higher Octave |
| Associated acts | Santana, Betty Davis, Journey, Schon & Hammer, HSAS, Hear 'n Aid, Michael Bolton, Jimmy Barnes, Bad English, Hardline, Paul Rodgers, Abraxas Pool, Planet Us, Soul SirkUS |
| Website | Official website |
| Notable instruments | |
| Neal Schon Signature Les Paul | |
Neal George Joseph Schon (born February 27, 1954)[1] is an American rock guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist best known for his work with the band Journey. He is the only member to have recorded on all of Journey's albums. He was also a member of the rock band Santana before forming Journey.
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Early life and career[link]
Schon was born at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma,[2] the son of Barbara and Matthew Schon.[3] His father was an accomplished musician, arranger, composer and played and taught all reed instruments with emphasis on jazz tenor saxophone; his mother was a big band singer. Schon first picked up the guitar at the age of 5. A quick learner, he joined Santana as a teenage prodigy at the age of 15.[4] He went to Aragon High School in San Mateo, but dropped out (with his parents' blessing) before graduating. Schon had famously been asked by Eric Clapton to join Derek and the Dominos, but since Santana called him first, he decided to join Santana for the album Santana III.[5] Schon also played in Azteca before moving on in 1973 to form Journey, a group he continues to lead today.
Schon's guitar style has been described as soulful, taking inspiration from 1960s-era soul singers such as Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, and blending it with blues runs similar to B. B. King. He was influenced by guitarists such as Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix and Wes Montgomery.
In addition to his five solo albums and 14 studio albums with Journey, his work also includes: a pair of albums with keyboardist Jan Hammer, short-term collaborations with Sammy Hagar (HSAS and Planet Us) and Paul Rodgers, stints with Bad English (a supergroup that featured Journey’s Jonathan Cain and Deen Castronovo and Jonathan Cain's former Babys bandmates John Waite and Ricky Phillips) and Hardline (which also featured Deen Castronovo). Even as Journey’s latest lineup plays to a still-faithful body of fans, Schon has immersed himself in side projects such as Piranha Blues (1999) and "Black Soup Cracker" a funk outfit that features former Prince associates Rosie Gaines and Michael Bland, and more recently Soul SirkUS with Jeff Scott Soto.
Schon can be heard on other albums including three tracks on Michael Bolton's The Hunger, with the Schon sound most recognizable on "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay". He also joined Larry Graham to play in an all-star band for cult funk artist and ex-wife of Miles Davis, Betty Davis. In addition, Schon (along with then Journey manager Herbie Herbert) also contributed to Lenny White's 1977 album "Big City", specifically the instrumental jam "And we meet again".
Guitars[link]
Schon's first guitar was an acoustic Stella, followed two years later by a Gibson ES-335 which was subsequently stolen and replaced with a '56 Les Paul Goldtop reissue that he used for many years.[5][6] Schon currently endorses Gibson guitars, and has a limited edition signature Les Paul model entitled the "Neal Schon Signature Model Custom Les Paul", of which only 35 were made according to the Gibson Custom website, (80 according to Neal Schon's website.)[5] He has previously employed Godin guitars on his 1995 solo album Beyond the Thunder, and more recently uses Paul Reed Smith guitars. In the late 1980s, Schon manufactured (through Jackson Guitars and later Larrivee) and played his own line of guitars. Simply named Schon, about 200 of the Jackson-produced models were made.[7] A white Schon guitar can be clearly seen in the music video for the Journey song "Girl Can't Help It", as well as a gold version in the Journey videos for "I'll Be Alright Without You" and "Be Good to Yourself". A Gibson Les Paul Super Custom can be seen in the video for the Journey song "Anyway You Want It." Recently he has been seen using a Seven String Ibanez Universe, which was a gift from Steve Vai as documented in the liner notes of the Hardline - Double Eclipse album.[8] On the song "Lights", he uses a Fender Stratocaster equipped with a Floyd Rose tremolo.
As of 2008, Schon currently prefers guitar pedals from Xotic, a Vox Satriani model and occasionally uses a Buddy Guy wah pedal.[9]
Personal life[link]
Schon married three times and has five children; first born, Miles 23, Elizabeth 20, Sarah, 15, Aja 10 and Sophia 6.[10] In a 2007 interview, Neal confirmed that he has had tinnitus for years stemming from excessive loud playing.[11] Schon's father, Matthew Schon, was a jazz musician and composer who provided the arrangements on the Journey song "Mother, Father."
In September 2011, Schon publicly confirmed he was in a relationship with Michaele Salahi . The two said they had also dated years previously. The confirmation followed Michaele's brief disappearance, during which her husband, Tareq, reported to the authorities and press that he feared Michaele had been kidnapped. Michaele was found by Oregon law enforcement and she announced her voluntary presence in Schon's company. Tareq responded by filing for divorce from Michaele September 16.[12][13][14]
In November 2011, Ava Fabian, former Playboy bunnie, filed a lawsuit against Schon, claiming he owed her more than $25,000 for their "express oral nonmarital relationship agreement," stating not that they were married, but "in a marriage-like relationship" from February 2010 to September 2011. The lawsuit claimed that Schon agreed to support Fabian during the relationship and, if it ended, provide additional support for "a period of time."[15]
He then married Dina Gioeli, and had Sarah Schon. Dina's brother's Johnny Gioeli, and Joey Gioeli were in a band called Hardline with Neil. Dina and Neil then got a divorce a few years later.
Discography[link]
Solo[link]
- Late Nite (1989)
- Beyond the Thunder (1995)
- Electric World (1997)
- Piranha Blues (1998)
- Voice (2001)
- I on U (2005)
- The Calling (2012)
with Santana[link]
- Santana III (1971)
- Caravanserai (1972)
with Journey[link]
Main article: Journey discography
with Jan Hammer[link]
- Untold Passion (1981)
- Here to Stay (1982)
with HSAS[link]
- Through the Fire (1984)
with Bad English[link]
- Bad English (1989)
- Blacklash (1991)
with Hardline[link]
- Double Eclipse (1992)
with Paul Rodgers[link]
- Muddy Water Blues: A Tribute to Muddy Waters (1993)
- The Hendrix Set (1993)
- Now (1997)
- Paul Rodgers & Friends Live at Montreux 1994 (2011)
with Abraxas Pool[link]
- Abraxas Pool (1997)
with Soul SirkUS[link]
- World Play (2005)
Guest appearances[link]
- Betty Davis – Betty Davis (1973)
- Sammy Hagar - Danger Zone (1980)
- Silver Condor - Trouble at Home (1983)
- Hear 'n Aid - Stars (1985)
- Triumph - The Sport of Kings (1986)
- Joe Cocker - Cocker (1986)
- Gregg Rolie - Gringo (1987)
- Michael Bolton - The Hunger (1987)
- Jimmy Barnes - Freight Train Heart (1987)
- Various artists - Merry Axemas, Vol. 2: More Guitars for Christmas (1998)
- Trichromes - Trichromes (2002)
- Sammy Hagar - Cosmic Universal Fashion (2008)
- Lee Ritenour - Lee Ritenour's 6 String Theory (2010)
References[link]
- ^ Schon Interview – 2001
- ^ Schon Interview – 1996
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ Schon Biography
- ^ a b c Modern Guitars interview – March 2005
- ^ Neal Schon on Gibson.com – 2004
- ^ Schon guitars – specs from http://www.nsblues.com
- ^ [2][dead link]
- ^ Bowcott, Nick (2009-06-09). "The Setlist: Neal Schon of Journey". Guitar World. http://www.guitarworld.com/the_setlist_neal_schon_of_journey. Retrieved 2009-06-12.
- ^ "The Journey Zone". The Journey Zone. http://www.journey-zone.com/Sections/Band/journey.htm#1. Retrieved 2012-03-27.
- ^ Schon interview with Express & Star – March 8, 2007
- ^ Sara Hammel (September 16, 2011). "Tareq Salahi Files for Divorce from Runaway Wife Michaele". People. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20529195,00.html. Retrieved September 19, 2011.
- ^ Emily Christianson (September 17, 2011). "Tareq Salahi to divorce Michaele; he's reportedly banned backstage at Journey". Los Angeles Times. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2011/09/tareq-salahi-divorce-michaele-journey-concerts-.html. Retrieved September 19, 2011.
- ^ TJ Winick (September 17, 2011). "Tareq and Michaele Salahi: White House Party Crashers to Divorce". ABC News. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/tareq-michaele-salahi-white-house-party-crashers-divorce/story?id=14542577. Retrieved September 19, 2011.
- ^ Gary Klien (November 23, 2011). "Playboy model sues Journey guitarist over 'marriage like' deal in Marin". Marin Independent Journal. http://www.marinij.com/sananselmo/ci_19393374/.
External links[link]
- Neal Schon Official Site
- Neal Schon Official MySpace Site
- List of Authorized links from Neal's Official webpage
- Neal Schon Biography
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| Joe Bonamassa | |
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 Bonamassa in Manchester, 2010 |
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| Background information | |
| Born | (1977-05-08) May 8, 1977 (age 35) New Hartford, New York United States |
| Genres | Blues rock, hard rock, rock and roll |
| Occupations | Musician, singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, theremin |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Labels | J&R Adventures, Provogue |
| Associated acts | Bloodline, Black Country Communion, Beth Hart |
| Website | Official website |
| Notable instruments | |
| Gibson Les Paul Gibson ES335 Fender Stratocaster Fender Telecaster Gibson Flying V |
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Joe Bonamassa (born May 8, 1977) is an American blues rock guitarist and singer. He began his career playing guitar in the band Bloodline, which featured the offspring of several famous musicians (such as Miles Davis, Robby Krieger and Berry Oakley of The Allman Brothers Band)[1]. He released his first solo album A New Day Yesterday in 2000, and has since released nine more solo studio albums, four live albums and three live DVDs, along with two albums with the band Black Country Communion and one album in collaboration with vocalist Beth Hart[2]. He tours the world regularly, and has developed a large following in the U.K. especially. His most recent album, Driving Towards The Daylight, reached #2 on the U.K. Top 40 Albums Chart, and he completed an arena tour there in 2012. In 2009 he was the recipient of the Classic Rock Magazine "Breakthrough Artist of the Year" award[3], and The Guardian said of him: "the 32-year-old from upstate New York has consolidated a reputation as the pre-eminent blues-rock guitarist of his generation"[4].
Bonamassa has collaborated with numerous artists, including B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Beth Hart, Paul Rodgers, Leslie West, Jon Lord, Vince Gill, Sandi Thom and Glenn Hughes. He also plays with Hughes in Black Country Communion, along with Jason Bonham and Derek Sherinian[5].
Joe Bonamassa's music contains a mix of several different genres: although it is primarily blues rock, since relocating to Santorini, Greece in 2009 to record the album Black Rock (named after the studios in which it was created), his music has gained eastern influences, with the addition of instruments such as the bouzouki and clarino (for instance, on Black Lung Heartache from Dust Bowl and Athens to Athens from Black Rock [6]). He has also covered songs by John Hiatt and Leonard Cohen[7].
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Early life[link]
Bonamassa was born and raised in New Hartford, New York. His parents owned and ran a guitar shop. He is a fourth-generation musician; with a great-grandfather and grandfather who both played trumpet, and a father who plays guitar, Bonamassa credits his parents with fostering an appreciation of music in his life as early as he can remember. When he was a young child, he would listen to his parents' large record collection. He recalls at age 7, sitting with his parents on Saturdays and listening to Guitar Slim, Bonnie Raitt, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, Eric Clapton, and Jethro Tull. Thus, he sees his music as an amalgam of all the various rock and blues he heard as a child.[8]
He received his first guitar from his father at the age of 4, and by age 7 he was playing Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimi Hendrix tunes note for note. At the age of 11, during a short period of being mentored by Danny Gatton, he learned such styles as country and jazz as well as polka. During this time with Gatton, Bonamassa sat in with Gatton's band whenever they played in New York. He first opened for B. B. King at 12 years of age. At 14, he was invited to attend a Fender guitar event; during that trip to the West Coast he met Berry Oakley, Jr., with whom he founded the group Bloodline, along with Miles Davis' son Erin and Robby Krieger's son Waylon. They released one album which produced two chart singles — "Stone Cold Hearted", and "Dixie Peach." He has since played with Buddy Guy, Foreigner, Robert Cray, Stephen Stills, Joe Cocker, Gregg Allman, Steve Winwood, Paul Jones, Steve Lukather, Ted Nugent, Warren Haynes, Eric Clapton, Derek Trucks, and Jack Bruce.
Influences[link]
Unlike other successful blues-rock guitarists, Bonamassa cited his influences as being British and Irish blues acts, rather than American artists. Within the blues genre, hearing the traditional blues players, as with Guitar Slim, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, and all the traditional American blues players, (with the exception of B.B. King), comparing the music in the United States to the "European" versions of the blues, Bonamassa found the English blues, fostered by the Jeff Beck Group, Eric Clapton and the Irish blues player Rory Gallagher, to be far more interesting to him than the original Delta blues players.[8] In an interview in Guitarist magazine (issue 265), he cited the three albums that had the biggest influence on his playing: John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton (the Beano album), Rory Gallagher's Irish Tour and Goodbye by Cream. He also stated that Stevie Ray Vaughan's Texas Flood was a big influence at a young age.
He elaborated further on his influences in his interview:
"You know, my heroes were the Columbine guys – Paul Kossoff, Peter Green, Eric Clapton. There’s so many - there’s Gary Moore, Rory Gallagher – another Irish musician who played the same things, but don’t tell him that. But those guys were my guys – Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page. There’s a certain sophistication to their approach to the blues that I really like, more so than the American blues that I was listening to. B. B. King’s a big influence – he’s probably my biggest traditional influence. I love Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson and T-Bone Walker and stuff like that, but I couldn’t sit down… I was always forcing myself to listen to whole records by them, where I’d rather listen to Humble Pie do "I'm Ready" than Muddy Waters, you know? I think, the English interpretation of the blues just hit me a lot better, you know?"
And in his October 2008 interview with Express & Star:
“When I heard Kossoff playing "Mr. Big" and when I heard Clapton playing "Crossroads" and when I heard Rory Gallagher playing "Cradle Rock", I was like, 'This is way cooler'.... "British blues are my thing. When I heard Rod Stewart and the Jeff Beck Group singing "Let Me Love You", it changed my life. I knew exactly what I wanted to do. Those are my influences".
These influences are evident in his music, but Bonamassa has been influenced by other artists; notable examples include B.B. King, Robert Johnson, Danny Gatton, Eric Johnson, Albert Collins, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Buddy Guy. Bonamassa's style of playing incorporates rock, blues-rock, Delta blues, electric blues, jazz, country - and even prog rock as evidenced by Yes's "Heart of the Sunrise" and the "Würm" section of "Starship Trooper" being regular features of live performances.
Solo career[link]
Bonamassa's solo début, in 2000, was his Top 10 Blues disc A New Day Yesterday, named after the 1969 Jethro Tull classic that Bonamassa makes his own with what allmusic.com called “a jaw-dropping performance”. Produced by the late Tom Dowd, the album featured guest shots by Gregg Allman, Rick Derringer and Leslie West. "Miss You, Hate You" remains a cornerstone of Bonamassa's repertoire, as does "Cradle Rock". Bonamassa followed it up in 2002 with "So, It's Like That", which included "Pain And Sorrow". The album was his first to hit #1 on Billboard's Blues Chart.
In 2003 – designated "Year Of The Blues" by Congress – Bonamassa returned with Blues Deluxe. In the liner notes, Harris Cohen observed that Bonamassa, "never loses touch with the raw emotion that makes the blues what it is." Reviewing "Blues Deluxe", former Creem editor Jaan Uhelszki added, "New York guitar phenom walks tall in the blues tradition…jettisoning fiery riffs inspired by John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, Elmore James, and Albert Collins into the future with furious playing, a hard-rock sensibility, and a grizzled voice that owes a debt to Gregg Allman. Equally inspired by the Delta blues and the mid-'60s British blues boom, the young firebrand … is able to fuse those two schools together, creating edgy blues rock." Had To Cry Today followed in 2004.
In 2006, Bonamassa released his fifth full-length studio album, You & Me. This album also reached #1 on the Billboard Blues Album Chart. For the recording of this album, he enlisted Jason Bonham, while "Your Funeral And My Trial", featured harmonica player L.D. Miller, and the bassist Carmine Rojas. The title of the album was taken from the Django Reinhardt song "Vous et Moi" (1942). The violin introduction of that song inspired Bonamassa to write "Django", the seventh track on the album. Longer live versions would later appear on Live From Nowhere in Particular in 2009, and at the Royal Albert Hall Concert (Live DVD). For this tour, Bonamassa used former Johnny Winter Bassist Mark Epstein and former Kenny Wayne Shepherd drummer Bogie Bowles.
Sloe Gin was released in August 2007, and spent several weeks at the top of the Billboard Blues Chart. Bonamassa's touring band underwent another change for this album's tour; bassist Carmine Rojas replaced Mark Epstein, and keyboardist Rick Melick was added. Both of the new band members took part in the recordings of You & Me and Sloe Gin, and toured on select dates during promotion of You & Me.
Bonamassa presented his first live show as a DJ on the UK radio station Planet Rock on November 9, 2008, playing tracks from B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Rory Gallagher and Eric Clapton.
In November 2008, Bonamassa announced he would be playing at the Royal Albert Hall in London on May 4, 2009. Tickets for the concert sold out in less than a week. Bonamassa described the event to the Express & Star as "the complete culmination of 20 years of work for me."[citation needed]
At the Royal Albert Hall concert, Bonamassa mentioned that the first song that he learned to play was "Further on Up the Road" and he then introduced Eric Clapton and together they performed the song. Later Bonamassa paid tribute to the Paul Jones Radio Hour on BBC Radio for playing his material on the air, then introduced Paul Jones who played the harmonica on a Sonny Boy Williamson II song, "Your Funeral, My Trial."
In March 2010, Bonamassa released his tenth full-length solo album Black Rock[9] which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Blues Charts and #38 on the Billboard 200.
In May 2010, Ian Anderson guested at his concert at London's Hammersmith Apollo, and they played "A New Day Yesterday" along with "Locomotive Breath". At the end of 2010, Bowles announced his departure and Tal Bergman took over as touring drummer.
The Bonamassa, Glenn Hughes, Jason Bonham, Derek Sherinian supergroup is now called Black Country Communion. The band were forced to add 'Communion' to their original name Black Country after another band with the same name raised an objection.
In March 2011, Bonamassa released his eleventh full-length solo album, Dust Bowl, followed in September of the same year by a collaboration with Beth Hart called "Don't Explain".
In early 2012, Bonamassa completed the recording of his twelfth studio album. The title was confirmed by Bonamassa in a post on his official Facebook page on March 12 2012 as Driving Towards The Daylight[10]. Bonamassa debuted the title track during his UK Tour in the same month[11]
Discography[link]
Main article: Joe Bonamassa discography
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DVDs[link]
Live at the Rockpalast was released in 2005, and recorded at the Burg Satzvey in Mechernich, Germany.[12]
A live DVD titled A New Day Yesterday, Live was given away for a short period of time with So, It's Like That. This concert was later re-released as a full CD and DVD.
An instructional DVD, Signature Sounds, Styles and Techniques, was released in 2006.
A live DVD, Joe Bonamassa: Live From Royal Albert Hall was released in September 2009, featuring Eric Clapton as a guest performer.
Bonamassa's performance with pedal-steel guitarist Robert Randolph, Randolph's Family Band and Pino Daniele at the 2010 edition of Crossroads Guitar Festival appears on the Crossroads 2010 DVD. The song they played is Going Down.
A live DVD, "Joe Bonamassa Live from New York Beacon Theatre" was released in 2012.
References[link]
- ^ [1] Allmusic.com
- ^ [2] Allmusic Joe Bonamassa discography
- ^ [3] Joe Bonamassa accepting the Classic Rock Magazine Breakthrough Artist of the Year award. Posted to Youtube 3-11-2009
- ^ [4] Alfred Hickling, The Guardian. Published 24/4/09
- ^ [5] Allmusic: Black Country Communion
- ^ Black Rock credits
- ^ Allmusic: Black Rock
- ^ a b Bonamassa, Joe (2008 (Posted to YouTube: August 27, 2009)). "Guitar Center Sessions: Joe Bonamassa, Influences". Guitar Center Hollywood, CA: Guitar Center TV. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRn3DOrAmzs&feature=channel. Retrieved 2 July 2010.
- ^ Mascot Records Releases, Mascotrecords.com
- ^ Joe Bonamassa | Facebook
- ^ Joe Bonamassa Driving Towards the Daylight - YouTube
- ^ "DVD Review: Joe Bonamassa Live At Rockpalast". Blogcritics.org. http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/02/25/194712.php. Retrieved 2012-02-29.
External links[link]
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Me One (born Eric Martin on August 19, 1970) is a multi-instrumentalist singer, song-writer and music producer born in Cardiff, Wales.
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Me One at rehearsals
Educated in London and New York, he is the son of an English teacher (mother) from Kingston and a Pentecostal Church minister (father) from Port Antonio. He holds dual citizenship of both Jamaica and the UK.
His debut album as Me One was released in May 2000 on Universal-Island U.K.[1] The 12 track release was titled As Far as I'm Concerned[1] and featured Guru (from Gang Starr) on Do You Know and Michelle Gayle on a cover version of The Beach Boys track In My Room. The latter was released as a single, along with Game Plan and Old Fashioned. [2]
Aside from his solo work, Martin has written with (or for) Jeff Beck, Maxi Priest, The Roots, Capleton, Lynden David Hall and The Sugababes.[citation needed]
He formed his own record label, Frenemy Records in 2005.[3]
In 2011 he signed a recording deal with Glasgow based record label Innovation Music [4].
In addition to the Me One project, Eric Martin is known as an original member of Technotronic.
References[link]
- ^ a b Kang, Millane (19 August 2000). "Keepin' it real around the world". Billboard. p. 40. http://books.google.com/books?id=UBAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA40&dq=%22me+one%22+%22As+Far+as+I'm+Concerned%22&as_pt=MAGAZINES&cd=2#v=onepage&q=%22me%20one%22%20%22As%20Far%20as%20I'm%20Concerned%22&f=false. Retrieved 30 May 2010.
- ^ Official Vevo channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/MeOneVEVO?ob=0
- ^ Official Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/therealmeone
- ^ Innovation Music Official site - Artists page: http://www.innovationmusic.co.uk/artists/
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