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Earl Slick
Earl Slick’s bio includes guitarist for David Bowie, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Ian Hunter & Phantom Rocker & Slick. Earl has played with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Ringo Starr. He released 5 solo albums including 2003’s Zig Zag featuring collaborations with Cure’s Robert Smith, Def Leopard’s Joe Elliot & the thin white duke himself, David Bowie. |
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T.M. Stevens
TM Steven's skill and proficiency globally as a bassist and vocalist is legendary. A luminous figure amongst today's bassists, he has unbelievable energy, stunning stage presence and knows how to win a crowd over within minutes. His ferocious, yet melodic, style of bass is as unique as his larger than life persona. Never losing sight of his own special blend of signature roots music Heavy Metal Funk with his band Shocka Zooloo, TM's versatility and heavyweight skills as producer, songwriter, singer and instrumentalist are obvious on his now six solo albums with a seventh due in summer of 2006. (See Discography, Concert, Video and TV-Show list.) |
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Dennis Dunaway
Dennis Dunaway was born on December 9th, 1946, in Cottage Grove, Oregon. In 1950, his family relocated to Phoenix, Arizona, where he attended High School and started a band with his friends, Vincent Furnier and Glen Buxton. In 1967, the band moved to Hollywood, California, and changed their name to Alice Cooper, and the following year they recorded Pretties For You with Frank Zappa producing. They recorded another album, Easy Action, before moving to Detroit, Michigan, where they gained a reputation for outrageous theatrical shows, which included an Electric Chair and blowing feathers into the crowd with a fire extinguisher. In February 1971, they recorded Love It To Death with Jack Richardson and Bob Ezrin producing, which included the hit single, “Eighteen,” co-written by Dennis. In November of 1971, the group released Killer, which produced a single, “Under My Wheels” written by Dennis. The band incorporated a snake and Hanging Gallows into the show. In June of 1972, the Alice Cooper group performed their new single, “Schools Out,” at the Hollywood Bowl, where they hired helicopter pilots to drop paper panties on the audience. “School’s Out,” co-written by Dennis, became the largest selling single in the history of Warner Bros. Records. The band’s success hit another peak in April 1973, when their album, Billion Dollar Babies, simultaneously hit the top slot on the U.S. and British record charts. Muscle of Love was released in November 1973, followed by Alice Cooper’s Greatest Hits in August of 1974. The group’s final concerts in Brazil earned a listing in the Guinness Book Of World Records for the largest indoor audience. |
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Mark Hudson
Mark is still doing what he loved to do since he was ten, when he first stepped in front of a mirror and held a broom up, imitating Elvis. As he says, "Now every day I get to go to my little place, plug in a guitar and ... I'm Elvis." |
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| In the 1980s, Mark and his brothers moved into film. In 1981 they made Hysterical. It has gone on to become a cult-classic in colleges. They then went on to make six film shorts for Showtime in the style of the Marx Brothers and the Three Stooges. But all good things come to an end and The Hudson Brothers broke up. After the break-up, legendary producer, Phil Ramone, took Mark under his wing and began schooling him in Production and successful song writing. Mark assisted Phil on Flash Dance and began to get cuts on albums by artists including Cher, Michael Sembello, and Bobby Caldwell. |
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Sterling Campbell
Sterling began his career on the local New York Rock scene, playing drums in famed early 80's rock clubs such as CBGB's, The Ritz, and The Peppermint Lounge. He played in singer-songwriter bands, ska bands, fusion groups, and punk acts. In 1986, Sterling toured with Cyndi Lauper on her True Colors World Tour. |
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Kasim Sulton
A highly coveted sideman, singer/songwriter Kasim Sulton is recognized and respected the world over for his work with other artists, including Todd Rundgren and Utopia, Meat Loaf, Joan Jett, Hall and Oates, Patti Smith, Patty Smyth, Mick Jagger, and Celine Dion to name just a few. His level of involvement has ranged from playing bass, keyboards, and/or guitar, to adding vocal harmonies, singing lead, and contributing as a songwriter, to producing entire albums, as he did with the Meat Loaf VH-1 Storytellers CD, released in 1999. There isn’t much he hasn’t done in his 25 years in the music industry. |
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Steve Conte
Steve Conte is the lead guitarist/songwriter/backing vocalist with the legendary New York Dolls. He has recorded and/or toured with artists like Willy DeVille, Billy Squier, Peter Wolf, Chuck Berry, David Johansen & The Harry Smiths, John Waite, Eric Burdon & The Animals, Maceo Parker, Paul Simon, Willie Nile and Japanese composer Yoko Kanno on the animated TV series’ Cowboy Bebop, Ghost In The Shell, Wolf’s Rain, and Sony Pictures release, Cowboy Bebop: The Movie. A NYC based producer/musician and singer/songwriter, Steve has led his own bands; Mercury recording artists Company Of Wolves, Crown Jewels, The Contes and currently Steve Conte & The Crazy Truth. Conte has also worked with the Paul Green School Of Rock Music coaching young bands and teaching songwriting. Steve’s music has been featured on the soundtracks of the television programs, Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, Smallville, Undressed, Maybe It’s Me, Providence, Angel, Jag, Ed, The Guardian, Glory Days, That’s Life and in the films The Perfect Age Of Rock & Roll (Spike Lee), Ringers: Lord Of The Fans, American Reunion, Spring Break Lawyer, Two Ninas, Wirey Spindell, The Stand In, and Face The Music. Influenced by The Beatles & Stones, Bob Dylan, Rhythm & Blues, Philly Soul and Bubble Gum Pop, Steve wrote and recorded his first "album" in the family living room at age 10 with his bass playing brother John. By the time he was in his early teens, he was backing his jazz vocalist mom, Rosemary Conte at local venues in the tri-state area. When he finished school Conte moved into Manhattan where he quickly got signed to his first major label deal with Mercury records - and it’s been a wild rollercoaster ride ever since! |
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Gail Ann Dorsey
is an independent singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who divides her career between writing, recording, and performing her own unique spin of classic pop, and touring as a bass player and vocalist for many popular and legendary artists. Gail has appeared on recordings and shared stages around the world, displaying her musical diversity and expertise with an array of artists like folk heavyweights Dar Williams, Catie Curtis, Ani DiFranco, Toshi Reagon, Canada’s Issa (formerly Jane Siberry), Sophie B. Hawkins, Joan Osborne, Jeffrey Gaines, The B-52’s, Concrete Blonde, The Indigo Girls, and Seal. She was bassist and featured vocalist for No Doubt front woman Gwen Stefani on both her 2005 Harajuku Lovers and 2007 Sweet Escape sell-out solo tours. Having spent a large portion of her professional life in London, England, Gail has also lent her infectious grace and groove to an impressive line up of British and international artists including Tears For Fears, The The, solo efforts from INXS lead vocalist Michael Hutchence and ex-Skunk Anansie front woman Skin, Bryan Ferry, Boy George, Julia Fordham, and The Gang Of Four. She toured Europe in 1999 with Italian blues man Zucherro, and rose to the demanding bass task of driving the French-meets-Raï music live concert extravaganza 1, 2, 3 Soleil, featuring Khaled, Faudel, and Rachid Taha, with musical director/producer, and alternative guitar guru, Steve Hillage. Most recently, Dorsey has contributed her smooth bass and vocals to Je Sais Le Terre Est Plate, the 2008 release of France’s Raphaël Haroche, Everything You Want, the million-selling 2008 album from Dutch super-group Kane, and in March of 2009 was a special guest in a star-studded 38-piece line up (including Deadato and Carmine Appice) for three sold out concerts at L’Olympia in Paris with the eccentric French music icon Christophe, celebrating his new release, Aimer Ce Que Nous Sommes... Aside from that already staggering resume, the position Gail Ann Dorsey is probably best known for is her high profile spot side-by-side with “The Thin White Duke” himself, the enigmatic David Bowie. Gail spent nearly a decade touring and recording with Bowie beginning with the Nine Inch Nails/Bowie double headline Outside Tour in 1995 through to David’s last trip around the world, A Reality Tour in 2004. The highlight of many Bowie tours during GAD’s reign over the bass throne would undoubtedly be her breath-taking rendition of “Under Pressure”, the Bowie/Queen collaboration, in which Gail not only proves her skills as a singing bassist, but the passion, power and range of her vocal performance would have undoubtedly received Mr. Mercury’s personal stamp of approval! |
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