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Pat Travers was born in Toronto, Canada on April 12, 1954. Soon after picking up the guitar at age 12 Pat saw the legend Jimi Hendrix perform in Ottawa. This obvious inspirational concert must have sparked the young Pat to go after the dream of becoming a star like so many of his early influences. Inspired by such guitarists as Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page, Pat began playing in bands early in his teens. His first bands were "Red Hot" and "Merge" who played in Quebec area clubs. While the early years were hard, they would eventually pay off in the form of improved musicianship, style, and exposure.
While performing with Merge, he was noticed by the 50's rock artist Ronnie Hawkins who soon had Pat off on the road performing with him. While Hawkins music was mostly old rock and roll, country and rockabilly, Pat used this experience to hone his skills and voice as Hawkins lead guitarist. After a year on the road with Hawkins, Pat traded in the tuxedoes and ties to go after his true dream, to have his own band and become a star....
pat travers,pt,ptrocks,pat travers band,pat thrall,tommy alderidge,mars cowling,sean shannon,dave la rue,kevin rian,eric frates,rick navarro,ed tierney,edtheedge, albums:
Makes No Difference,
Pat Travers
,Makin' Magic
,Putting It Straight
,Heat In The Street
,The Pat Travers
,You Missed
,Go For
What You
Know,
,Live! Boom Boom
(Out Go The Lights)
,Crash And Burn
,Is This Love
(Japanese Single)
,Is This Love
Snortin' Whiskey
(US Single)
,Snortin' Whiskey
Stateboro Blues
(Single)
,Evie
(Single)
,Black Pearl
,Valley Girl
,Hot Shot
,Best Of Pat Travers
Boom Boom
,School Of Hard Knocks
,Anthology
Vol 1
,Anthology
Vol 2
,Best Of Pat Travers
,Boom Boom
,BBC Radio 1
Live Concert
,Blues Tracks
,Just A Touch
,Hats Off To
Stevie Ray Vaughn
,Fit For A King
,Songs From The Better Blues Bureau
,Masters Of Metal
,Blues Magnet
,Cream Of The Crop
,Animal Magnetism
,Halfway To Somewhere
,Lookin' Up
,King Biscuit
,Summerdaze
,Whiskey Blues
,Best Of Blues + Live!
,King Biscuit
,Blues Tracks 2
,Don't Feed The Alligators
,Boom Boom
,BBC Radio 1
Live!
,Voices Of Classic Rock
Voices For America
,Etched In Stone
Live - Tempe, AZ
NYE 2002
,Putting It Striaight
Heat In The Street
Double CD
,Power Trio
,20th Century Masters
Best Of Pat Travers
While performing with Merge, he was noticed by the 50's rock artist Ronnie Hawkins who soon had Pat off on the road performing with him. While Hawkins music was mostly old rock and roll, country and rockabilly, Pat used this experience to hone his skills and voice as Hawkins lead guitarist. After a year on the road with Hawkins, Pat traded in the tuxedoes and ties to go after his true dream, to have his own band and become a star....
pat travers,pt,ptrocks,pat travers band,pat thrall,tommy alderidge,mars cowling,sean shannon,dave la rue,kevin rian,eric frates,rick navarro,ed tierney,edtheedge, albums:
Makes No Difference,
Pat Travers
,Makin' Magic
,Putting It Straight
,Heat In The Street
,The Pat Travers
,You Missed
,Go For
What You
Know,
,Live! Boom Boom
(Out Go The Lights)
,Crash And Burn
,Is This Love
(Japanese Single)
,Is This Love
Snortin' Whiskey
(US Single)
,Snortin' Whiskey
Stateboro Blues
(Single)
,Evie
(Single)
,Black Pearl
,Valley Girl
,Hot Shot
,Best Of Pat Travers
Boom Boom
,School Of Hard Knocks
,Anthology
Vol 1
,Anthology
Vol 2
,Best Of Pat Travers
,Boom Boom
,BBC Radio 1
Live Concert
,Blues Tracks
,Just A Touch
,Hats Off To
Stevie Ray Vaughn
,Fit For A King
,Songs From The Better Blues Bureau
,Masters Of Metal
,Blues Magnet
,Cream Of The Crop
,Animal Magnetism
,Halfway To Somewhere
,Lookin' Up
,King Biscuit
,Summerdaze
,Whiskey Blues
,Best Of Blues + Live!
,King Biscuit
,Blues Tracks 2
,Don't Feed The Alligators
,Boom Boom
,BBC Radio 1
Live!
,Voices Of Classic Rock
Voices For America
,Etched In Stone
Live - Tempe, AZ
NYE 2002
,Putting It Striaight
Heat In The Street
Double CD
,Power Trio
,20th Century Masters
Best Of Pat Travers
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At ten, Joe was performing locally, and at twelve, he was asked to open for B.B. King. After the performance, King would say, “This kid’s potential is so great that he hasn’t begun to scratch the surface. He’s one of a kind….a legend before his time.” The Father of the Blues’ high regard for Joe would be echoed by the guitar greats who would later perform with Bonamassa, including Buddy Guy, Danny Gatton, Robert Cray and Stephen Stills.
In the following two years, Joe established such a name for himself that Fender Guitars invited him to California to participate in a tribute to the company's founding father, Leo Fender, in a line-up that included Robben Ford, whom Joe cites as a major inspiration and "one of my favorite guitar players of all time."
While on the West Coast, Joe also met the musician who became the nucleus of the band that would start him on the road to international recognition. "While I was out there, I met Berry Oakley, Jr. [son of legendary Allman Brothers bassist]. It turned out that the sons of famous musicians knew other sons of famous musicians, so he was lifelong friends with Waylon Krieger, who is Robby Krieger's [Doors guitarist] son, and Waylon Krieger knew Erin Davis, who is Miles Davis' son, who is a drummer," says Joe ...
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Keith Richards:
He's acknowledged as perhaps the greatest rhythm guitarist in rock & roll, but Keith Richards is even more legendary for his near-miraculous ability to survive the most
debauched excesses of the rock & roll lifestyle. His prodigious consumption of drugs and alcohol has been well documented, and would likely have destroyed anyone with a less amazing endurance level. On-stage with the Rolling Stones, he epitomized guitar-hero cool as the quiet, stoic alter ego to Mick Jagger's extroverted frontman, a widely imitated image made all the more fascinating by his tightrope-walking hedonism. Yet that part of Richards' mystique often overshadows his considerable musical legacy. Arguably the finest blues-based rhythm guitarist to hit rock & roll since his idol Chuck Berry, Richards knocked out some of the most indelible guitar riffs in rock history, and he did it so often and with such apparent effortlessness that it was easy to take his songwriting skills for granted ... (bio source: Steve Huey, All Music Guide, www.vh1.com)
The Rolling Stones.
He's acknowledged as perhaps the greatest rhythm guitarist in rock & roll, but Keith Richards is even more legendary for his near-miraculous ability to survive the most
debauched excesses of the rock & roll lifestyle. His prodigious consumption of drugs and alcohol has been well documented, and would likely have destroyed anyone with a less amazing endurance level. On-stage with the Rolling Stones, he epitomized guitar-hero cool as the quiet, stoic alter ego to Mick Jagger's extroverted frontman, a widely imitated image made all the more fascinating by his tightrope-walking hedonism. Yet that part of Richards' mystique often overshadows his considerable musical legacy. Arguably the finest blues-based rhythm guitarist to hit rock & roll since his idol Chuck Berry, Richards knocked out some of the most indelible guitar riffs in rock history, and he did it so often and with such apparent effortlessness that it was easy to take his songwriting skills for granted ... (bio source: Steve Huey, All Music Guide, www.vh1.com)
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they share the same care and attention to tone, stunning quality and playability.
Every Kwasnycia Guitar has a limited lifetime warranty to the original owner.
Different models, optons, types of wood and shell inlay are offered.
Traditionally built and crafted from the finest hand picked tonewoods, all tops backs and sides of the Kwasnycia Guitars are book-marked for beauty and durability, as well as incredible sound.
Tuned for tone, the bracing is carefully scalloped to deliver clarity, projection, natural warmth and color. There is no detail too minor to merit attention. Whether you buy an elaborate or not so elaborate guitar,
they share the same care and attention to tone, stunning quality and playability.
Every Kwasnycia Guitar has a limited lifetime warranty to the original owner.
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Ry Cooder:
Arguably the finest blues guitarist of his generation, Ry Cooder attracts a following that cuts across most known boundaries. Earning his early blues dues with Taj Mahal and his rock credentials with Captain Beefheart's Magic Band, Cooder has, over the past couple of decades, made superlative rock, jazz and movie soundtrack albums, and crossed effortlessly into world music fusions with artists as diverse as Malian bluesman Ali Farka Toure, Okinawan group Nenes, and the Indian guitarist V. M. Bhatt. Indeed, it's in these ethnic fusions - and the soundtrack instrumentals - that Cooder seems most at ease, as a guitarist essentially. The songs and the vocals often seem a secondary concern.
Largely self-taught, Ryland Peter Cooder began playing guitar at the age of 3. Influenced by recordings of blues legend Josh White, he spent his teens at the centre of the Los Angeles blues scene, the Ash Grove, where he regularly took the stage from the age of 16. Encounters at the Grove led to musical experimentation. Conversations with the likes of Gary Davies and Jackie DeShannon made him take up both the banjo and the mandolin, and within a year he was playing both proficiently. Ittook him even less time to master the bottleneck blues guitar, the style which would later become his trademark.
In 1964 TAJMAHAL came to the Grove in search of new ideas and rehearsed extensively with Cooder, before the pair formed The Rising Sons, and began recording an album. With the record only half-finished, Taj Mahal disappeared, but short-lived though their professional relationship was, Mahal's influence upon Cooder is still apparent in his playing.
After years of live performances, Cooder finally entered the recording studio in 1968 to work on CAPTAIN BEEFHEART's debut album. He was hired as a session musician, but his contribution to the project extended to his arranging a couple of tracks. On Beefheart's recommendation, Cooder went on to record successfully with Paul Revere And The Raiders, before travelling to England in 1969 for his first real brush with fame.
Once in England, Cooder set about writing the soundtrack for an upcoming motion picture, Candy. While working on this project, he was approached with an eye to recording with THE ROLLING STONES. By all accounts, Cooder thoroughly enjoyed the time he spent working on Let It Bleed, but his experiences recording the Candy soundtrack were to have the more profound effect on his career. Meantime, such was his reputation as a session player that he sealed a deal with Warner/Reprise, and released Ry Cooder (1970), a blues- and folk-inflected rock album, covering songs by the likes of Woody Guthrie.
Cooder's second album, Into The Purple Valley (1972), with the slide to the fore, was a big enough commercial success to allow him the luxury of experimentation. Later albums would see Ry try his hand at classical guitar on Boomer's Story (1973), gospel music on Paradise And Lunch (1974), and dixieland jazz on Jazz (1978), while a profound interest in Hawaiian guitar manifested itself on his fifth Warner release, ChickenSkin Music (1975).
These records just about covered their costs backin America but Cooder enjoyed more substantial success in Europe. A big hit in Germany and Holland, Ry also found an audience in Britain, where his 1979 album, Bop Till You Drop,made the Top 40 ...
Arguably the finest blues guitarist of his generation, Ry Cooder attracts a following that cuts across most known boundaries. Earning his early blues dues with Taj Mahal and his rock credentials with Captain Beefheart's Magic Band, Cooder has, over the past couple of decades, made superlative rock, jazz and movie soundtrack albums, and crossed effortlessly into world music fusions with artists as diverse as Malian bluesman Ali Farka Toure, Okinawan group Nenes, and the Indian guitarist V. M. Bhatt. Indeed, it's in these ethnic fusions - and the soundtrack instrumentals - that Cooder seems most at ease, as a guitarist essentially. The songs and the vocals often seem a secondary concern.
Largely self-taught, Ryland Peter Cooder began playing guitar at the age of 3. Influenced by recordings of blues legend Josh White, he spent his teens at the centre of the Los Angeles blues scene, the Ash Grove, where he regularly took the stage from the age of 16. Encounters at the Grove led to musical experimentation. Conversations with the likes of Gary Davies and Jackie DeShannon made him take up both the banjo and the mandolin, and within a year he was playing both proficiently. Ittook him even less time to master the bottleneck blues guitar, the style which would later become his trademark.
In 1964 TAJMAHAL came to the Grove in search of new ideas and rehearsed extensively with Cooder, before the pair formed The Rising Sons, and began recording an album. With the record only half-finished, Taj Mahal disappeared, but short-lived though their professional relationship was, Mahal's influence upon Cooder is still apparent in his playing.
After years of live performances, Cooder finally entered the recording studio in 1968 to work on CAPTAIN BEEFHEART's debut album. He was hired as a session musician, but his contribution to the project extended to his arranging a couple of tracks. On Beefheart's recommendation, Cooder went on to record successfully with Paul Revere And The Raiders, before travelling to England in 1969 for his first real brush with fame.
Once in England, Cooder set about writing the soundtrack for an upcoming motion picture, Candy. While working on this project, he was approached with an eye to recording with THE ROLLING STONES. By all accounts, Cooder thoroughly enjoyed the time he spent working on Let It Bleed, but his experiences recording the Candy soundtrack were to have the more profound effect on his career. Meantime, such was his reputation as a session player that he sealed a deal with Warner/Reprise, and released Ry Cooder (1970), a blues- and folk-inflected rock album, covering songs by the likes of Woody Guthrie.
Cooder's second album, Into The Purple Valley (1972), with the slide to the fore, was a big enough commercial success to allow him the luxury of experimentation. Later albums would see Ry try his hand at classical guitar on Boomer's Story (1973), gospel music on Paradise And Lunch (1974), and dixieland jazz on Jazz (1978), while a profound interest in Hawaiian guitar manifested itself on his fifth Warner release, ChickenSkin Music (1975).
These records just about covered their costs backin America but Cooder enjoyed more substantial success in Europe. A big hit in Germany and Holland, Ry also found an audience in Britain, where his 1979 album, Bop Till You Drop,made the Top 40 ...
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A native of Brazil, Aliéksey Vianna is one of the few guitarists equally at ease in the worlds of jazz and classical music alike. While still an undergraduate, Vianna distinguished himself by winning first place honors in the Portland Festival Solo Guitar Competition (1998), second place in the prestigious Stotsenberg International Guitar Competition (1997), first place in the Schaeffer Guitar Competition (1995), first place in the Sholin Memorial Guitar Competition (1997) and first place in the Ralph Stevens Guitar Competition (1997). He also received the Tucson Jazz Society award (1995) and the Herb Ellis Award as best jazz guitarist at the 1997 Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival.
An international concert artist, Vianna has given solo and ensemble recitals in the United States, Brazil, Mexico and France, and performed in master classes of Abel Carlevaro, Oscar Gighlia, David Leisner, Sharon Isbin, Ivan Rijos, Scott Tennant, Gordon O'Brien, Paul O'Dette, Nigel North and Ralph Towner. At one of Vianna's recent solo concerts, the music reviewer Ken Keuffel, Jr. from the Arizona Daily Star praised his performance, writing: "Vianna brings loads of personality to his playing . . . making every lick come alive with polish and fire" ...
An international concert artist, Vianna has given solo and ensemble recitals in the United States, Brazil, Mexico and France, and performed in master classes of Abel Carlevaro, Oscar Gighlia, David Leisner, Sharon Isbin, Ivan Rijos, Scott Tennant, Gordon O'Brien, Paul O'Dette, Nigel North and Ralph Towner. At one of Vianna's recent solo concerts, the music reviewer Ken Keuffel, Jr. from the Arizona Daily Star praised his performance, writing: "Vianna brings loads of personality to his playing . . . making every lick come alive with polish and fire" ...
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