Year : 1982 (Rock Candy Remastered 2017)
Style : Hard Rock , Classic Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + scans
Size : 131 mb
Bio:
Francesco Antonio "Frank" Marino (born November 20, 1954) is an Italian Canadian guitarist, leader of Canadian hard rock band Mahogany Rush. Often compared to Jimi Hendrix, he is acknowledged as one of the best and most underrated guitarists of the 1970s.After playing drums since he was five,[4] around age 13–14 Marino started playing guitar.An often-repeated myth is he was visited by an apparition of Jimi Hendrix after a bad LSD trip, a myth Marino has always disavowed, and still does so now on his personal website.His playing, however, is inspired by Hendrix (on the Gibson website he is described as "carrying Jimi's psychedelic torch"), and Marino is notable for strong cover versions of Hendrix classics such as "Purple Haze".He has been criticized by some as a Hendrix clone.Marino himself claims that he didn't consciously set out to imitate Hendrix's style at all: "The whole style just came naturally. I didn't choose it; it chose me." Mahogany Rush was moderately popular in the 1970s. Their records charted in Billboard, and they toured extensively, playing such venues as California Jam II (1978). Toward the end of the 1970s, the band began to be billed as "Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush." Not much later, Mahogany Rush split up and in the early 1980s Marino released two solo albums on CBS. The band reformed and continued to perform throughout the 1980s and 1990s. In 1993, Marino retired from the music industry.Marino returned in 2001, "I always knew we had fans, I just didn't know I'd find half a million of them on the Web," he said in an interview with Guitar Player in 2005.He released Eye of the Storm, and went on tour again, playing more improvisational shows.Frank is still active, recording and touring under his own name. He has also been involved in blues recordings with other artists as well, playing on tribute albums to Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan.Marino is uncle to Danny Marino, lead guitarist of Canadian metal band The Agonist.
Album:
Rock Candy Records have just 'Remastered & Reloaded' four of the most celebrated FRANK MARINO And Mahogany Rush albums. The explosive "Juggernaut" is the second Frank Marino album solely under his name, and the last of the series.By the beginning of the '80s Frank Marino was perceived by the music business, and the majority of his fans, as a red-hot guitar player capable of laying down riffs and solos like they were going out of fashion.However, that overall impression belied his musical depth as a musician with a deep understanding of composition and arrangement. For Frank, despite his reputation for endless soloing, the goal was always about crafting songs that had meaning and weight.Nowhere is this better demonstrated than on the "Juggernaut" album. Recorded and released in 1982, the record showcases Frank in spectacular form, setting out a stall that solidly welds his penchant for blistering hard rock and memorable songs.The title track alone worth this disc, and it's arguably one of his greatest triumphs, fusing a rock solid riff with a synthetic dusting of melody. Indeed, it became one of Frank’s most successful tracks, nearly nudging him into the upper reaches of the American Rock charts.And that song is not alone as there are several equally impressive examples, such as ‘Midnight Highway’ and the brilliantly evocative ‘Stories Of A Hero’.Sadly for Frank, this was the point, after seven albums recording for Columbia Records, at which he and the label reached a creative impasse, resulting in him leaving the company and vowing never to record for a major label again.It was certainly a shame as, at long last, it seemed that he’d made a creative breakthrough, pointing him to a whole new level of creativity.There's some kind of maturity in "Juggernaut", balancing hot heavy riffs with radio-friendly melodies, and here Marino utilised synthesizer for the first time to create a more opulent sound according to times, the first half of the '80s.The sound obtained in this Rock Candy remaster is spectacular, the best of the 4 Fank Marino albums receiving the treatment.
Line Up:
Frank Marino guitars, vocals, synth.
Paul Harwood bass
Vince Marino guitar
Timm Bierry drums
Tracklist:
01. Strange Dreams
02. Midnight Highway
03. Stories of a Hero
04. Free
05. Maybe It's Time
06. Ditch Queen
07. For Your Love
08. Juggernaut
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