Member Since: 2/27/2007
Band Website: vernonreid.com
Band Members: This IS the official Vernon Reid myspace page.
BAND MYSPACE PAGES
Living Colour :
Will Calhoun - Drums, percussion, vocals
Corey Glover - lead vocals
Doug Wimbish - bass/ambience
Masque:
Leon Gruenbaum - keyboards, Samchillian Tip Tip Tip CheeeePee
Steve Jenkins - bass
Don McKenzie - drums
Hank Schroy - bass
Yohimbe Brothers
Yohimbe Brothers :
DJ Logic - turntables & samples
Leon Gruenbaum - keyboards/Samchillian tiptiptip cheeepeee, laptop
Maya Azucena - vocals
Taylor McFerrin - MC & beat box
Deantoni Parks - drums
Jared Nickerson - bass
Latasha Nevada Diggs - vocals
Free Form Funky Freqs :
Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Bass
Calvin Weston - Drums
Influences: When I started playing guitar Carlos Santana was like ... goodbye! Santana, Hendrix, and just really odd players. I loved Jan Ackerman from Focus. T-Bone Walker was someone I loved, B. B. King, Albert King, Freddie King, and then Bill Conners, who was the first guitarist from Return To Forever. And John McLaughlin.
I have to mention Freddie Stone from Sly and the Family Stone, Jimmy Nolan who played with James Brown, and Eddie Hazel who played with Funkadelic. Let’s see, Ernie Isley who played with the Isley Brothers. Robert Fripp is definitely another one who I would consider an influence.
And then there are many people that just came on down through the years, like Allan Holdsworth. Then there’s a kind of a funny bouncing back and forth between, from the blues people and the rock people and the various incarnations in between, various mixings and matchings. I think one of the great losses was Tommy Bolin, who was a wonderful guitarist, played with James Gang, he played with Deep Purple for a short time and actually played on one of the greatest jazz/rock records, Billy Cobham’s Spectrum.
I could go on and on and on and on with different people (who were influential to me) like from Sonny Sharrock and James Blood Ulmer. I am not a person who had turned around and stopped liking funk. Some people outgrow it—they go "Oh yeah, you know, yeah, I used to be into that." Well, I still like what I like. The only thing is I found other things and heard other things and that just added to it. It’s funny because the things that I like go from very, very conventional pop type of things to the most extremely avant-garde, like Derek Bailey and Hans Reichel. We just lost Derek Bailey recently. Hans Reichel. He’s a German guitarist who played a guitar with like this weird movable bridge ... very, very out there, very good. Great, great player. And then, people like Egberto Gismonti, a great Brazilian guitarist/pianist. Hound Dog Taylor is one of my favorites. He used this raw dog blues, you know. And Lightning Hopkins. So, it goes, it runs a pretty far gamut. To me, there’s something that runs through these different styles.
Artificial Afrika
Record Label: Favored Nations
Type of Label: Major