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Martin Fierro (saxophonist)
Martin Fierro (January 18, 1942 – March 13, 2008) was a saxophonist who played with the Sir Douglas Quintet, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jerry Garcia, and Zero. He is the father of actor David Fierro. Music career Fierro was born in Mexico in 1942 and grew up in El Paso, Texas. He pronounced his name Mar-TEEN. He taught himself how to play saxophone and as a teenager participated in rock bands. He concentrated on jazz in his early 20s. He toured Mexico with a band, then moved to San Francisco and joined Mother Earth, a blues rock group led by Tracy Nelson. He became a member of the rock band the Sir Douglas Quintet in 1968. He also played with Quicksilver Messenger Service and James Cotton. In 1971, Fierro played saxophone and flute on ''Hooteroll?'', an instrumental, free-form album by guitarist Jerry Garcia and keyboard player Howard Wales. Three years later he joined another project by Garcia known as Legion of Mary. Like Garcia's Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Gans (musician)
David Gans (born October 29, 1953) is an American musician, songwriter, and music journalist. He is a guitarist, and is known for incisive, literate songwriting. He is also noted for his music loop work, often creating spontaneous compositions in performance. He is the co-author of the book ''Playing in the Band: An Oral and Visual Portrait of the Grateful Dead'', and the host of the weekly syndicated radio show ''The Grateful Dead Hour''. He currently co-hosts a radio show with Gary Lambert on Sirius XM's The Grateful Dead Channel called ''Tales from the Golden Road'', a call-in show about the Grateful Dead. Biography Journalism Born in Los Angeles, California, Gans started out as a musician in 1970, playing guitar and writing songs and performing both as a soloist and as a member of various bands around the San Francisco Bay Area. Then, in an unusual career change, he became a music journalist. Gans' journalism career was quite successful, writing for '' BAM'', a free San F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blues Rock
Blues rock is a fusion music genre that combines elements of blues and rock music. It is mostly an electric ensemble-style music with instrumentation similar to electric blues and rock (electric guitar, electric bass guitar, and drums, sometimes with keyboards and harmonica). From its beginnings in the early to mid-1960s, blues rock has gone through several stylistic shifts and along the way it inspired and influenced hard rock, Southern rock, and early heavy metal music, heavy metal. Blues rock started with rock musicians in the United Kingdom and the United States performing American blues songs. They typically recreated electric Chicago blues songs, such as those by Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, and Jimmy Reed, at faster tempos and with a more aggressive sound common to rock. In the UK, the style was popularized by groups such as the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and the Animals, who put several blues songs into the pop charts. In the US, Lonnie Mack, the Paul Butterfield Blues B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What About Me (Quicksilver Messenger Service Album)
''What About Me'' is the fifth album by American psychedelic rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service. Released in December 1970 and recorded partly at the same sessions that produced '' Just for Love'', the album is the last to feature pianist Nicky Hopkins and the last pre-reunion effort to feature founding members David Freiberg and John Cipollina. Reception Writing for Allmusic, music critic Lindsay Planer wrote of the album "Musically, there is little to delineate the fifth long-player from Quicksilver Messenger Service, What About Me, from their previous effort, Just for Love. Not surprisingly, material for both was initiated during a prolific two-month retreat..." Track listing Side one #"What About Me" ( Jesse Oris Farrow) – 6:43 #"Local Color" (John Cipollina) – 3:00 #"Baby Baby" (Farrow) – 4:44 #"Won't Kill Me" (David Freiberg) – 2:32 #"Long Haired Lady" (Farrow) – 5:55 Side two #"Subway" (Gary Duncan, Farrow)Per BMI Records (seBMI Work # 1423776. The origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mendocino (album)
''Mendocino'' is the second album by country rock group The Sir Douglas Quintet, released in April 1969 on Smash Records. The release of the album was expedited as the result of the success of the title song, which peaked at No. 27 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart during a fifteen-week stay in early 1969. The album peaked at No. 81 on the ''Billboard'' 200 charts. Neon Records re-released the album in 2001 and 2008. Track listing Personnel ;The Sir Douglas Quintet * Doug Sahm – vocals, guitar, pedal steel guitar, fiddle * Frank Morin – vocals, horns * Harvey Kagan – bass guitar * Augie Meyers – organ, piano, keyboards Keyboard may refer to: Text input * Keyboard, part of a typewriter * Computer keyboard ** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping ** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware Music * Musi ... * John Perez – drums References External links * Allmusic – The Sir Douglas Quintet (bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Star Orchestra
Dark Star Orchestra is a Grateful Dead cover band formed in Chicago, Illinois. They serve as a tribute band to the rock group the Grateful Dead. Since 1997, the band has been "celebrating the Grateful Dead concert experience." Overview Dark Star Orchestra performs shows from among the nearly 2,500 performances of the Grateful Dead during their 30-year tenure performing improvisational rock. On most, though not all of their performances, Dark Star Orchestra presents the complete original set list, song by song, and in order, while adapting their phrasing, voice arrangements and specific musical equipment for the various eras of the Grateful Dead shows in which they perform. Members of the Grateful Dead themselves, including rhythm guitarist/singer Bob Weir, bassist Phil Lesh, drummer Bill Kreutzmann, vocalist Donna Jean Godchaux, and keyboardists Vince Welnick and Tom Constanten, have all appeared on stage and performed with Dark Star Orchestra. In November 2011, the group pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The String Cheese Incident
The String Cheese Incident (SCI) is an American jam band from Crested Butte and Telluride, Colorado, formed in 1993. The band is composed of Michael Kang (acoustic/electric mandolin, electric guitar, and violin), Michael Travis (drums and percussion), Bill Nershi ( acoustic guitar, lap steel guitar, and electric slide guitar), Kyle Hollingsworth (piano, organ, Rhodes, and accordion), and Keith Moseley (bass guitar), and, since 2004, Jason Hann (auxiliary percussion). Their music has elements of bluegrass sounds, as well as rock, electronica, calypso, country, funk, jazz, Latin, progressive rock, reggae, and psychedelia. All members write original compositions and sing. History 1996–2001 After a few years of playing local ski resorts and private functions, the band formed the independent record label SCI Fidelity, on which they released their first album, '' Born on the Wrong Planet'', an album split between originals and covers. The album featured melody-driven music wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Anton
Greg Anton is a drummer, composer and co-founding member, with guitarist Steve Kimock, of the band Zero. Greg is also a writer and practicing attorney. Biography Greg was born in Hartford, Connecticut (August 8, 1949). His mother Shirley was a sculptor/painter, his father Paul, a college professor. Greg has five children and lives with his wife Holly Anton in Sonoma County, California. Education Greg received a BA with honors in philosophy from Ohio University in 1971. His undergraduate thesis: "A Phenomenological Analysis of Music", was published by Ohio University Press. He continued studying philosophy in a Masters program at San Francisco State University, then went on to receive his Juris Doctor degree at the Seattle University School of Law (formerly the University of Puget Sound Law School). Literary career Greg's first novel, "Face the Music", was published on December 1, 2014 by Plus One Press. The novel "Face the Music" is a fictional story about a love song calle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cipollina
John Cipollina (August 24, 1943 – May 29, 1989) was a guitarist best known for his role as a founder and the lead guitarist of the prominent San Francisco rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service. After leaving Quicksilver he formed the band Copperhead, was a member of the San Francisco All Stars and later played with numerous other bands. Early years John and his twin sister Manuela were born in Berkeley, California, on August 24, 1943. Cipollina attended Tamalpais High School, in Mill Valley, California, as did his brother, Mario (born 1954), and sister, Antonia (born 1952). Their father, Gino, was of Italian ancestry (Genovese and Piemontese origins). He was a realtor, and their mother, Evelyn, and godfather, José Iturbi, were concert pianists. John showed great promise as a classical pianist in his youth, but his father gave him a guitar when he was 12 and this quickly became his primary instrument. Equipment and technique Cipollina had a unique guitar sound, mixing s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Vega
Bobby or Bobbie may refer to: People * Bobby (given name), a list of names * Bobby (actress), from Bangladesh * Bobby (rapper) (born 1995), from South Korea * Bobby (screenwriter) (born 1983), Indian screenwriter * Bobby, old slang for a constable in British law enforcement * Bobby, disused British railway term for a signalman Events * Kidnapping of Bobby Greenlease, a 1953 crime in Kansas City, Missouri * Murder of Bobby Äikiä, Swedish boy who was tortured and killed by his mother and stepfather in 2006 Dogs * Greyfriars Bobby (1855–1???), legendary 19th century Scottish dog * Bobbie (dog), a British regimental dog who survived the Battle of Maiwand * Bobbie the Wonder Dog, an American dog that walked 2,551 miles to find its owners Films * ''Bobby'' (1973 film), an Indian Bollywood film * ''Bobby'' (2002 film), an Indian Telugu film * ''Bobby'' (2006 film), a film about the day Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated Music * BOBBY (band), an American indie-folk-psychede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Kimock
Steve Kimock (born October 5, 1955) is an American rock guitarist. He was a member of San Francisco Bay Area bands Zero and KVHW. His tone and some of his playing approach has been compared to Jerry Garcia, who was a friend of his, and he has been affiliated with musicians connected to Grateful Dead, including the bands the Other Ones, RatDog, and Phil Lesh and Friends. Garcia cited Kimock, along with Frank Gambale and Michael Hedges, as his favorite guitar players during the later part of his life. Early life and education Kimock was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania on October 5, 1955. In the mid-1970s, he moved to San Francisco to play guitar with the folk-rock group the Goodman Brothers. Career In 1979, after working with Martin Fierro in the salsa band the Underdogs, he joined the Heart of Gold Band with Keith Godchaux, Donna Jean Godchaux, and drummer Greg Anton. Other groups that Kimock has played with include KVHW, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Wales
Howard Wales (February 8, 1943 – December 7, 2020) was an American keyboardist who worked in a wide variety of styles. He was a collaborator with Jerry Garcia in the early 1970s. Wales was a session player for many musical acts, including Ronnie Hawkins, Freddie King, James Brown, and the Four Tops. Though he was adept at accompanying rock and R&B artists, he also played free-form jazz. Later in his career he released several solo albums in this style. For several months in 1970, Wales led Monday night jazz-rock jam sessions at the Matrix, a club in San Francisco. Jerry Garcia usually played guitar at these free-form performances. The two were often joined by John Kahn on bass and Bill Vitt on drums. A studio album called ''Hooteroll?'', with these musicians and others, and featuring music composed mostly by Wales, was released in 1971. A live album recorded at the Matrix jam sessions, ''Side Trips, Volume One'', was released in 1998. Wales contributed to the 1970 Gratef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
