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Alive Alone
''Alive Alone'' is Mickey Thomas's 1981 album. After joining Jefferson Starship, Thomas was still under contract to record a second solo album. ''Alive Alone'' was released shortly after the Jefferson Starship album '' Modern Times'', and Grace Slick's album ''Welcome to the Wrecking Ball!'', but the Thomas album did not enter the Billboard chart. Track listing Side A #"She's Got You Running" (Andy Goldmark, Jim Ryan) – 4:35 #"Alive Alone" (Jules Shear) – 3:19 #"Maybe Tomorrow" ( Robbie Patton, Jonathan Cain) – 3:35 #"Following Every Finger" (Shear) – 3:37 #"This Time They Told the Truth" ( Frederick Knight) – 4:44 Side B #"Survivor" ( Cindy Bullens) – 4:08 #"You're Good With Your Love" (Eddie Schwartz) – 3:48 #"I Don't Wanna Talk About It" (Bret Bloomfield) – 3:59 #"Too Much Drama" (Don Henley, Glenn Frey) – 3:33 #"Badge" (Eric Clapton, George Harrison) – 4:16 Personnel * Mickey Thomas – Vocals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickey Thomas (singer)
John Michael Thomas (born December 3, 1949) is an American rock singer, best known as one of the lead vocalists of Jefferson Starship and Starship. Early life Thomas was born in Cairo, Georgia, on December 3, 1949. He was inspired to pursue a career in music after travelling to Atlanta with longtime childhood friends Charles Connell and Tommy Verran to see a Beatles performance in 1965. Thomas, Connell, and Verran formed their first band together; Verran was the lead vocalist. They disbanded while attending different colleges, but later reformed in the early 1970s along with friend Bud Thomas as the Jets. Thomas was the vocalist for the Lords of London, a garage band from Douglas, Georgia, for a brief time, along with guitarist Billy Folsom, bassist Bob Hutchinson, keyboardist Billy Corbi, and drummer Troy Blasingame. Career Elvin Bishop Group While singing lead for the Jets in 1974, Thomas joined the Elvin Bishop Group as a backing vocalist and eventually made it to lead voca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Henley
Donald Hugh Henley (born July 22, 1947) is an American musician and a founding member of the rock band Eagles. He is the drummer and one of the lead singers for the Eagles. Henley sang the lead vocals on Eagles hits such as "Witchy Woman", "Desperado", " Best of My Love", "One of These Nights", "Hotel California", "Life in the Fast Lane", " The Long Run" and " Get Over It". After the Eagles disbanded in 1980, Henley pursued a solo career and released his debut album '' I Can't Stand Still'', in 1982. He has released five studio albums, two compilation albums, and one live DVD. His solo hits include " Dirty Laundry", " The Boys of Summer", "All She Wants to Do Is Dance", "The Heart of the Matter", "The Last Worthless Evening", " Sunset Grill", "Not Enough Love in the World", and " The End of the Innocence". The Eagles have sold over 150 million albums worldwide, won six Grammy Awards, had five number one singles, 17 top 40 singles, and six number one albums. They were inducted int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Chaquico
Craig Clinton Chaquico (or Chaquiço, ; born September 26, 1954) is an American guitarist, songwriter, and composer. From 1974 to 1990 he was lead guitarist for the rock bands Jefferson Starship and Starship. In 1993, he started a solo career as an acoustic jazz guitarist and composer. Early life Chaquico was born and raised in Sacramento, California and attended La Sierra High School in the suburb of Carmichael. His mother, Muriel, was a state government employee, and his father, Bill, owned an upholstery business. Both were of Portuguese descent. He had an older brother named Howard. The household was a musical one; Chaquico recalls, "My mom and dad were musicians and played around the house all the time. I thought everybody played the piano and organ like Mom and the sax and accordion like Dad together after dinner." He began playing the guitar as a young boy, when his parents bought him his first guitar at the age of ten. When Chaquico was twelve, the car he and his father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marty Grebb
Marty may refer to: Names * Marty (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters, also includes stage names * Marty (surname), a list of people Places in the United States * Marty, California, a former settlement * Marty, Minnesota, an unincorporated community * Marty, South Dakota, a census-designated place Arts and entertainment * "Marty" (teleplay), a 1953 teleplay by Paddy Chayefsky * ''Marty'' (film), a 1955 American film based on the teleplay * ''Marty'' (musical), a 2003 musical version of the film * ''Marty'' (TV series), a 1968–1969 British television comedy series starring Marty Feldman * "Marty", a song by the band Five Iron Frenzy Other uses * Tropical Storm Marty (other), various storms and hurricanes * , a patrol vessel in United States Navy service from 1917 to 1918 * FM Towns Marty The FM Towns Marty is a fifth-generation home video game console released in 1993 by Fujitsu, exclusively for the Japanese market. It is oft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oren Waters
Oren Waters is an American vocalist best known for his work with the backup singing group The Waters, his siblings: Luther, Maxine and Julia. As an ensemble, Waters has been a part of 260 gold and over 100 platinum albums with artists ranging from Johnny Rivers, Dan Fogelberg, Neil Diamond, Patti La Belle, Paul Simon, Pet Shop Boys, Helen Reddy, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, John Fogerty, Janet and Michael Jackson. He has also provided the vocals for TV themes such as " Baretta's Theme," and "Movin' on Up" for The Jeffersons. Oren has also contributed to movie soundtracks including ''Happy Feet'', ''The Lion King'', ''The Matrix'', '' Saint Seiya: The Legend of Crimson Youth'', ''Avatar'' and '' American Gangster''. He currently teaches vocal performance at the California College of Music. The Waters In 2013, the group featured in the film '' 20 Feet from Stardom'' (Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 86th Academy Awards). The movie is dedicated to the role of backgro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Porcaro
Steven Maxwell Porcaro (born September 2, 1957) is an American keyboardist, songwriter, and film composer, known as one of the founding members of the rock band Toto and the last surviving Porcaro brother (after the deaths of Jeff in 1992 and Mike in 2015); as the songwriter of "Human Nature" by Michael Jackson and songs by Toto; and as the composer of the TV series '' Justified''. He has won three Grammys, including Record of the Year for "Rosanna" and Album of the Year for ''Toto IV'', and three nominations. Porcaro has appeared as a session musician on recordings by Yes (on ''Union'' and '' Open Your Eyes'') 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. Early life Porcaro is a native of Connecticut. Just like his brothers Jeff and Mike, Steve Porcaro started out as a drummer under the tutelage of his father Joe Porcaro, before taking up piano. In 1967, his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Harris (musician)
Paul Harris is an American keyboard player and musician. Harris appears on several albums of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s by leading artists such as Stephen Stills, B. B. King, allmusic album credits''Completely Well'' Judy Collins, Grace Slick, Al Kooper, ABBA, Eric Andersen, Rick Derringer, Nick Drake, John Martyn, John Sebastian, John Mellencamp, Joe Walsh, Seals & Crofts, Bob Seger and Dan Fogelberg. In the 1970s, he was a member of Stephen Stills Stephen Arthur Stills (born January 3, 1945) is an American musician, singer and songwriter best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. As both a solo act and member of two successful bands, Stills has com ...' band Manassas and later the Souther–Hillman–Furay Band. He currently resides in Florida. References External links For a more complete discography Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American session musicians American rock keyboardists Souther–Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donny Baldwin
Donald Baldwin (born June 22, 1950/1951) is an American drummer best known as a member of Jefferson Starship (1982–1984; 2008–present) and its continuation Starship (1984–1989). Early life Baldwin was raised in Palo Alto, California. He attended Ellwood P. Cubberley High School and graduated in 1969. Career Baldwin began his career as a drummer in 1971. He began playing for Elvin Bishop in 1973, where he worked with his future Jefferson Starship bandmate Mickey Thomas on the hit single " Fooled Around and Fell in Love". When the Elvin Bishop band disbanded, Baldwin joined the Santa Cruz band Snail and gigged around the Bay Area (including a stint with Pablo Cruise) until 1982. He also played for artists such as 38 Special, Van Morrison, Eddie Money, and Paul Rodgers. After Aynsley Dunbar left Jefferson Starship in 1982, Baldwin replaced him and joined his old bandmate Thomas; he made his recorded debut with the band on the ''Nuclear Furniture'' LP in 1984. He remained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Felder
Donald William Felder (born September 21, 1947) is an American musician who was the lead guitarist of the rock band Eagles from 1974 until his termination from the band in 2001. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 with the Eagles. Felder was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2016. Early life Don Felder was born in Gainesville, Florida, on September 21, 1947. He was raised in a Southern Baptist family. Felder was first attracted to music after watching Elvis Presley live on ''The Ed Sullivan Show''. He acquired his first guitar when he was about ten years old, which he has stated he exchanged with a friend at the five-and-dime for a handful of cherry bombs. A self-taught musician, he was heavily influenced by rock and roll. At the age of 13 he started his first band, the Continentals which also included Stephen Stills and Isaac Guillory. Felder's family could not afford music lessons, but he taught himself to play guitar by ear, by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Vitale (musician)
Joseph Anthony Vitale (born April 2, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. In a career spanning more than 55 years, Vitale has played with many of the top names in music during a career dating back to the 1970s. Vitale pursued a solo career and released his debut album ''Roller Coaster Weekend'' in 1974. Since then, he has released two studio albums. His only single to chart is " Lady on the Rock". Early life Of Italian heritage, Joseph Anthony Vitale was born on April 2, 1949, in Canton, Ohio. He started playing the drums at an early age, as his father was a barber, and would trade haircuts for drum lessons. The Vitales moved to Florida for a short time, where Joe played in a youth orchestra, but they soon moved back to Ohio. In high school Vitale played for a while with a band called the Knights. He formed a polka band with his brother and father called the Tony Vitale Trio, with his father on accordion and his brother on bass, but the band was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George "Chocolate" Perry
George Wesly Perry (born 1953), known professionally as "Chocolate Perry" is an American bassist, songwriter and producer. Perry has worked with the Bee Gees, John Cougar, Jon Secada, Stephen Stills, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Al Kooper, Dion DiMucci, Joe Walsh, Joe Vitale, Ivano Fossati and many more. Early life and career Perry was born and raised in Carver Ranches, West Park, Florida. He started his career in the 1970s at the leading soul and disco independent TK Records, run by entrepreneur/ record distributor, Henry Stone in Hialeah, Florida. He played bass on many of the records issued by the company before its demise in 1980. He later went out on the road, performing with some of the biggest rock and pop artists of the time. At school, he heard Miami singer, Latimore on the radio and decided to become a musician. He started to hang out at the TK studio and label owners, Steve Alaimo and Henry Stone eventually gave him a key to the company's recording studio and his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the List of United States cities by population density, most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York (state), New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous Megacity, megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global city, global Culture of New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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