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Eric Rose

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About Me

Eric Rose is a guitarist and founding member of seminal Boston groups the Sidewinders, whose eponymous RCA album was produced by Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith) and The Paley Brothers (one half of whom, Andy, went on to produce albums for acts including Brian Wilson, Jerry Lee Lewis & Jonathan Richman). Originally from the Washington, DC area, Eric is also a multiple nominee in the rock instrumentalist category at the Wammies (Washington Area Music Association Awards). Eric now resides in Baltimore, MD, still performing occasionally and restoring his two houses. Note: this is a fan/tribute page. Correspondence to Eric may be directed to his personal myspace site: www.myspace.com/antlersaltar, or simply click the 'eric' page in the upper left of the top friends list below.

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Member Since: 10/17/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/antlersaltar
Sounds Like: "It was pop heaven. I will never forget the harmonies, the songs, the sound of the group. Eric Rose was in top form. No amount of writing is going to help describe his guitar playing. You simply have to hear the spectrum of tonalities he creates with his Telecaster. Much of his playing is like Jeff Beck at the time of the Truth album. Single note slashes and tasty chording highlight his playing. His tone and his guitar voicings were the height of guitar artistry."-Review of Paley Brothers eponymous Sire Records album & live show at the Paradise club, Boston by Paul "Blowfish" Lovell."Eric Rosenfeld, as the record progresses, demonstrated why he became one of the most respected Boston-area rock guitarists of the '70s."-New England Music Scrapbook review of the Sidewinders eponymous RCA LP."Many long-time observers of the music scene consider the Sidewinders to have been the best Boston band of the early seventies (if not the decade)."-The Boston Incest Album."It's generally conceded that it's Eric, a dazzling player in the great British Flash Guitarist tradition, who provides the band with its energy and makes it go."-review of The Marshalls by Bruce Dickerson, Bomp Magazine."Eric Rose (aka Rosenfeld) remains to date the single best player i've ever seen, on stage or off, with my own eyes, bar nobody, superstar or not. He was a four finger picker with a devastating arsenal of country, rock and classical riffs he'd effortlessly throw out. Eric was N.E.'s Jeff Beck."-Joe Harvard, founder of Fort Apache recording Studio.
Type of Label: Indie