Multitalented guitarist Carlos Santana was born the son of a mariachi musician in the Mexican town of Autlan de Navarro in 1947. The family moved to Tijuana when he was nine, and Carlos, who first played violin before changing to guitar, became interested in rock’n’roll and blues. At 13, he was earning money playing in cantinas and ...
to acoustic guitar at six, and to electric at 11. After listening to a lot of Whitesnake, Van Halen and Def Leppard, she was wowed by Carlos Santana at a concert in Adelaide. By the time she was 15, she had performed in her first stage show for Steve Vai. When she was 18, Orianthi met ...
(Vocal/instrumental group, 1967–present) A Latin-American take on what became known as jazz rock, the group led by Mexican Carlos Santana (guitar) were a palpable hit at Woodstock in 1969. This coincided with an eponymous debut album penetrating the US Top 10. An optimum commercial period – embracing US chart-toppers Abraxas and Santana III – was followed by dwindling success ...
Al Di Meola (b. 1954) rose to the top tier of contemporary jazz guitarists through his work with Chick Corea’s Return To Forever in the Seventies. In addition to a prolific solo career, he has collaborated on projects with bassist Stanley Clarke, keyboardist Jan Hammer, violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and guitarists John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucía. Al Laurence ...
signature brand, the Burns Marvin, which he played from 1964 until The Shadows’ final tour. Marvin inspired countless guitarists, including Pete Townshend, Neil Young, Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck and Mark Knopfler. Essential Recordings 1961 The Shadows: The Shadows 1973 The Shadows: Rocking With Curly Leads 1979 The Shadows: String Of Hits 2002 Solo: Guitar Player ...
Hooker’s career began with an association with the Rosebud Agency, which handled Hooker’s bookings from the mid-1980s. Around that time, Hooker developed a friendship with rock star Carlos Santana and the fruit of that relationship was The Healer (1989). The album, which also featured diverse guest musicians including Bonnie Raitt, George Thorogood and Robert Cray, was ...
profile in the 1970s, but his career sagged in the 1980s, before a sudden and unlikely revival in 1989 with The Healer, which featured duets with Carlos Santana, Bonnie Raitt, George Thorogood, Los Lobos and the remnants of Canned Heat. The album’s success set Hooker up for the 1990s, as Van Morrison, Keith ...
influential albums (The Inner Mounting Flame, Birds Of Fire and Between Nothingness And Eternity), the group disbanded in 1973. McLaughlin, who recorded a powerful spiritual album with Carlos Santana that was influenced by John Coltrane, put together a new Mahavishnu Orchestra in 1974 that, despite the inclusion of Jean-Luc Ponty, failed to catch on and broke ...
Schon, son of a jazz saxophonist and composer, was born in Oklahoma in 1954. A precocious talent, he learned guitar at the age of 10 and joined Santana at 15, turning down an invitation to join Eric Clapton in Derek and the Dominos. Schon made two albums with the band, Santana III (1971), on which he ...
Now. Essential Recordings 1986 Bon Jovi: Slippery When Wet 1988 Bon Jovi: New Jersey 1991 Solo: Stranger In This Town 2005 Bon Jovi: Have A Nice Day Personalities | Carlos Santana | Santana’s Searing Colossus | Guitar Heroes ...
, personal animosity and drug addictions thwarting several reunions. Prater died in 1988; Moore guested on Bruce Springsteen’s Human Touch (1992). Styles & Forms | Sixties | Rock Personalities | Santana | Sixties | Rock ...
Theodore ‘Ted’ Nugent (b. 1948), the Motor City Madman, first gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes. With The Dukes, and later as a solo artist, Nugent’s intense playing formed the backbone of songs like ‘Journey To The Center Of The Mind’, ‘Stranglehold’, ‘Free For All’, ‘Cat Scratch Fever’, ‘Motor City Madhouse’, ‘Paralyzed’ and ‘Wango ...
America, and he was also in the repertory group VSOP with Herbie Hancock and Freddie Hubbard. Shorter left Weather Report in 1985, then toured with rock guitarist Carlos Santana and recorded with Joni Mitchell and Steely Dan. His own projects were intermittent until 1992, when a dying Miles Davis urged him to step forth. Shorter has led his ...
The rise of arena rock began in North America during the mid-1970s with a surge in the popularity of bands like Journey, Foreigner, Boston and Styx. Embraced by a network of FM radio stations, these bands and others like them became so profitable to their record companies that they almost represented a licence to print money. The formula ...
really understood the blues.’ Jimmy Page Leading Exponents Cream The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Canned Heat Jimi Hendrix The Rolling Stones Led Zeppelin The Allman Brothers Band Free Carlos Santana Rory Gallagher Blues Rock Style Sliding the fingers from one note to another, instead of lifting the fingers off the strings, creates the blues sound, characteristic of ...
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