Thunder and Lightning is the twelfth and final studio album by Irish hard rock band Thin Lizzy, released in 1983. Guitarist John Sykes was hired to replace Snowy White after 1981's Renegade, and Sykes helped to provide a heavier sound and guitar tone than Thin Lizzy had used on previous albums. However, the bulk of the songwriting (except for "Cold Sweat") was completed before he joined the band.
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. Equipment and technique. Career After Quicksilver Messenger Service.
Rolling Thunder is the first solo album by Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart. Although Hart had temporarily left the Grateful Dead at the time he made Rolling Thunder, members of the Dead play on the album, along with a number of other well-known musicians from the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. Also featured are classical tabla players Zakir Hussain and his father Alla Rakha.
01) Quicksilver Messenger Service - Camaro commercial 02) John Cipollina, Melton, Hart - Teacher 03) Novato Frank Band - Marijuana 04) Novato Frank Band - Grow Your Own 05) Novato Frank Band - It Really Blew My Mind 06) Dinosaurs - Good Ol' Rock & Roll 07) Thunder & Lightning - Small Walk In A Box 08) Thunder & Lightning - Four Floors At Forty 09) Fish 'N Chips - Stagger Lee 10) Zero - Train. John Cipollina Memorial - 1989-06-26 - San Francisco, CA (SBD/FLAC). John Cipollina - Ultra Rare Tracks, Home Recordings and Demos - Volume 2 (STU/FLAC). Lossless Audio Bootlegs.
Cipollina's spires of tremolo, enriched with the erotica of flamenco, in "The Fool," from the band's 1968 debut, and his ravishing improvisations in Bo Diddley's "Mona" and "Who Do You Love" on '69's Happy Trails, are supreme psychedelia, authentic evidence of what it was like to be at the Fillmore in the Summer of Love. The classic quartet lineup of 1967-69 made only two albums, though Quicksilver re-formed with various players over the years. His classy twang first popped up on their 1967 album Younger Than Yesterday, came through loud and clear on 1968's Sweetheart of the Rodeo and only grew more important as the band delved further into country rock. White's fame among players was sealed with his co-invention of the Parsons/ White StringBender, which enables a regular guitar to simulate a pedal steel.
Since 1959, John Cipollina played with various bands in the Bay Area around San Francisco. In 1965 he was a founding member of the band Quicksilver Messenger Service. They performed, among others, at the Fillmore West and the Monterey Pop Festival. 1967 she released her first album titled Quicksilver Messenger Service. After dissolution of the group in 1973 until his death in 1989, Cipollina played in numerous bands, including Terry & the Pirates, The Dinosaurs, Raven, Zero, One, and Thunder And Lightning, as well as with Nick Gravenites. Cipollina, who suffered from chronic, severe asthma since his childhood, nevertheless became a chain smoker. On 29 May 1989 he was admitted because of an asthma attack in the Marin General Hospital, where he died during the night of emphysema. Live, he was seen for the last time on 13 May 1989.
Thunder & Lightning (aka Band. John, Mario Cipollina, J. Fay, Zack. Black Dragon Rehearsal. John, G. Douglass, J. Washington, M. Cipollina, A. Kirby, G. Anton, J. Washington, Allan Sloan (fiddle), Andy West (bass). John, Steve Love, Buddy Cage, Dave Torbert, Bones Jones.
