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HANSEN concert tour Germany

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About Me

OFFICIAL RANDY HANSEN BAND
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www.randyhansen.com
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www.AC-ICE.com (website under construction)


PUBLIC RELATIONS
~AC ICE
E-Mail: [email protected]
BOOKING
USA, Fillo K Productions
E-Mail: [email protected]
BOOKING
EUROPE, JazzHaus Booking
Reinhard Buchman
E-Mail: [email protected]
PHOTOGRAPHER
USA,The Wright Image
www.w-image.net
EUROPE, Gernot W. Freudenberger Photography
www.buehnenbilder.com
Randy Hansen and Steve Miller
2007 The Wright Image
Colossaal, Aschaffenburg, Germany.
2006 Gernot W. Freudenberger Photography.
"SECRET TO SUCCESS,
SAVE THE BEST FOR LAST"
~Randy Hansen
“Save The Best For Last,” ~Randy Hansen. He is executing the save and you can hear it and see it in the flesh with “Texas Twister” his dedication to the late great, Stevie Ray Vaughan, one of the world’s most influential electric blues guitarists. “Tower of love” a special little love ballad he wrote for the love of his life. He is busy at work re-mixing and creating a few songs soon to be posted.
Randy Hansen is a consummate performer with incredible depth who has always captured the imagination of his audience, drawing the masses into his experience, sending-off fans spell bound by his explosive showmanship and mastery of the electric guitar. Years of hard work and relentless perfection of his craft, he has earned the distinction of being a world-class guitar hero.
He has followed a “lets just do it” attitude all his life performing for millions through out his career. Born in Seattle, Washington on December 8, 1954, he began playing guitar when he was ten and later introduced to the work of the other Seattle guitarist, Jimi Hendrix, when he was thirteen years old. By sixteen he had his first band, Popsicle and by the age of eighteen he was a professional musician. He joined Kid Chrysler and The Cruisers in 1974 and spent four years with the group. It was with the Cruisers that he began developing what would become his world-renowned tribute to Jimi Hendrix.
By 1978 Hansen had named his act Machine Gun and went on the road, amazing audiences and other musicians with his prowess and panache. Hansen was hired by acclaimed film director Francis Ford Coppola to contribute to the sound track of the 1980 Academy Award Winner for Best Sound, “Apocalypse Now”. Hansen’s guitar pyrotechnics replaced parts originally performed by an eighty-piece orchestra and eighty-voice choir with his own orchestration on guitar and bass. The film led to a recording contract with Capitol Records and ever since has released numerous CD’s in Europe.
Today Hansen’s’ audience is worldwide, through persistent demand by the fans in America and Europe, whether with The Randy Hansen Band or working with other entertainer’s. Steve Miller, Paul Rodgers (Free, Bad Company, The Firm, Queen), Buddy Miles, Don Wilson (The Ventures), Alan White (YES, John Lennon), Sammy Hagar, Herbie Hancock, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Robert Cray, Roger Fisher (Heart), Bob Segar and Hendrix alumni Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell, are just a few of the many musicians he’s performed with.
RANDY HANSEN TOUR SCHEDULE
APRIL 2008
18~Lorsh, Germany www.musiktheater-rex.de
19~Bad Salzungen, Germany www.pressenwerk.com
22~Halle, Germany www.objekt5.de
23~Wetzlar, Germany @ Franzis
24~Aschaffenburg, Germany www.colos-saal.de
25~Melle, Germany www.alte-stadthalle.de
26~Siegen, Germany www.vortex-club.com
30~Bruchsal, Germany www.fabrick-net.de
MAY 2008
02~Dortmund, Germany www.fhh.de
05~Dusseldorf, Germany @ Engel
09~Seattle, WA www.ticketmaster.com
ROCK LEGENDS concert “FOR ROCK’S SAKE”
benefiting MusicCares
24~Tacoma, WA www.jazzbones.com
31~Tacoma, WA www.emeraldqueen.com
w/Spike and The Impalers
JUNE 2008
05~San Francisco, CA www.reddevillounge.com
07~ Milton, WA www.cedarwooddome.com
With Special Guest Straight On www.straighton.com
21~Seattle, WA www.studioseven.us
With Special Guest Straight On www.straighton.com
26~Suquamish, WA www.clearwatercasino.com
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My Interests


RANDY HANSEN BAND
RANDY HANSEN
Guitar/Vocals

KEVIN JOHN ADAMS
Bass
RICK SPANO
Drums
DESMOND HANSEN
Drums/Turntables
EUROPE
UFO WALTER
Bass
MANNI VON BOHR
Drums
"EyEs oF RoCk"
Bass Drum Heads
Custom Art work
by Randy Hansen

I'd like to meet:



DESMOND HANSEN - Drums/Turntables.
Desmond Hansen, (born April 8, 1982 in San Francisco, California) is a lyricist, producer, drummer/turntables, vocalist and son of Randy Hansen. Influenced heavily by his Father, Desmond received his first drum set at the age of five. Inspired by Hip Hop, instrumentalists, classic rock, drum breaks and jazz, at age fifteen he began gravitating toward producing. A lifetime of music, today he is a accomplished performer, producer and graphic artist. Please see friends below click on GRAVES.

"Oh Yea.. light my guitar!"
KZOK Rock Festival, Darrington, WA.
2006 Wright Photography.

1992 Peter Horn Photography.
Musikmesse, Frankfurt, Germany.
1998 A.C. ICE Photography.

Music:

DISCOGRAPHY.
MONSTER
Herbie Hancock
1980 Columbia
RANDY HANSEN
1980 Capitol Records
ASTRAL PROJECTION LIVE
Randy Hansen
1983 Shrapnel Records
CLASSICS LIVE
1991 Ananaz Records
HENDRIX BY HANSEN
1993 Green Tree Records
OLD DOG NEW TRICKS
1996 Green Tree Records
MORE TWISTED CHRISTMAS
1997 Atlantic
FROM THE VAULTS,
Prism
1997 Renaissance Records
EGG LAKE SHAKE
Live U.S. Bootleg
1996 Offengeil Music
WAR & PEACE
Flesh & Blood Sessions
1999 Radio Mafia Records
THINKING OF YOU
1999 Rudolf Music
TOWER OF LOVE
1999 Live on Tour
GOOD INTENTIONS
2003
ALTER EGO
2004 Randy Hansen
Produced, recorded and mixed by Randy Hansen.

Movies:

FILM SOUNDTRACKS.

Randy Hansen - Composer,
guitar and bass tracks.
Apocalypse Now - 1979 Francis Ford Coppola
Coppola’s magnificent and plain thrilling hit movie, "Apocalypse Now", starring Martin Sheen and Robert Duvall, ranked on the "Top 100 Movie Lists". Hansen is absolutely brilliant in his 16-minute pyrotechnics guitar and bass tracks creating awesome sounds depicting machines of war guns and bombs.

Sonny – 2002
Nicolas Cage

LA Run – 2005
Josh Cameron

Randy Hansen – Composer, music score.
The Apprentice -
Josh Cameron

Television:

REVIEWS.
"Randy Hansen, the Northwest singer-guitarist whose incendiary Jimi Hendrix tribute included amazing versions of “Fire,” “All Along the Watchtower” and “Voodoo Child (Slight Return).” Hansen has had years to perfect his Hendrix-inspired show; he even played with his teeth. Miller later invited Hansen to join him on stage for “Red House,” “Just a Little Bit,” “All Your Lovin’” and guitar crazed version of Robert Johnson’s “Crossroads Blues.”
- Gene Stout,
PI Pop Music Critic.
Steve Miller.
Randy Hansen.
Puyallup Fair 2007.
"Guitarist Randy Hansen returned with his uncanny channeling of Jimi Hendrix! Spike and the Impalers kicked it up a notch with Spike climbing the light rigging, Kaci running into the crowd and Randy Hansen (with his guitar) nailing a forward roll!Drummer Jeff Kathan's solo stunned everyone and who knew bassist Lynn Sorensen would team up with Randy Hansen for an impromptu Hendrix-meets-Zeppelin rendition of "Whole Lotta Love?"
-KZOK 102.5FM
Seattle's ONLY classic
Rock Station!
The Bob Rivers Show
Spike and The Impalers.
Little Creek Casino 2008.
“Randy’s a great player… He’s a fireball on stage. And it gives the material a nice edge.”
- Paul Rodgers
KZOK Interview 1998.
"Perhaps the best-known rock tribute guitarist in the world today. Randy Hansen has built a successful career through his remarkable impersonation of Jimi Hendrix. Although he is best known for his tribute act, Hansen's phenomenal ability as a guitarist keeps him working all the time, recording, giving lessons and touring as a hired guitar slinger. He's currently on the road with legendary singer Paul Rodgers (Free, Bad Company) through the summer."
- Gig Magazine 1998.
"Randy Hansen is a name that many locals have heard. But the name won't mean a thing until you actually experience his live show complete with energetic, and often daredevil stage antics. Best known for the incredible tribute to Jimi Hendrix he developed in the early '70s, Randy's show is a drop-dead duplication of Jimi's playing and songs, as well as the artist's look, spirit and energy that was larger than life in the decade of discovery-the '60's. The tribute is his focus but Randy includes some of his own music to mix it up."
- Viva Tacoma Events.
Tacoma Reporter 1999.
“Jimi was playing in the rain and I stood right at the front of the stage and water dripped right off the tips of his boots onto my head. And I just stood there and just watched him blow lead.”
– Randy Hansen.
Guitarist Magazine 1993.
“Rumor has it the Golden Bear in Algona is installing seat belts and decompression chamber to keep patrons from being blasted into the stratosphere when Randy Hansen dives into his awesome guitar licks.”
– Alex Clayton.
Tacoma City Paper 1999.
“I never approach it from the standpoint of, Oh I’m going to be Jimi Hendrix out there, that would be like a trained monkey. I’ve approached it from. God I love this music.”
– Randy Hansen.
Seattle P.I. 1999.
“We went out on tour with Mitch for four or five months. It really was great. He said he really dug doing it. It was really haunting to play those songs with him." The band’s material was about 40 percent original and 60 percent Hendrix songs and Hansen said it included some that Mitchell never had performed live before, such as “1983” from the “Electric Lady Land” album.”
- Justin Mitchell.
Rocky Mountain News 1985.
“Sixties aura pervades concert in Golden Gate Park, The Polo Field rocks again, Randy Hansen kicked off the Spirit of America show by reprising his idol’s version of “The Star Spangled Banner.”
– Mark Abel.
Peninsula News 1985.
"Randy Hansen (who appeared in the video for Devo's 1984 cover of "Are You Experienced?") became the best known of a bunch of full-time Hendrix impersonators, even re-forming the Band of Gypsys with bassist Tony Saunders and Buddy Miles--who briefly in the late eighties, was replaced by Mitch Mtichell."
- Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of
ROCK & ROLL 1995.
(Jimi Hendrix)

Books:

FRANK MARINO'S
(Mahogany Rush)
REFLECTION ON
RANDY HANSEN
"I've seen Randy a couple of times, the last time being when we played at the same festival overseas. He had Noel Redding playing with him there and I got to know him a bit as well, and he too was a real good guy. Randy is one of the nicest and finest persons I have ever met. He is a very un-pretentious chap and he's the kind of guy that seems like he'd be a real good friend to people. As for what he does professionally, I admire the idea that someone takes the time to pay such tribute to Hendrix, especially since it tends to make people tend to forget that he is also a great player in his own right. I remember when I first saw Randy playing in a Seattle club while I was in town doing a show. Up until that day I had been hounded by much of the press for being a "Hendrix clone", and it seemed to get worse all of the time. But that day I remember thinking "Well Randy, welcome to the world of hard knocks...I truly hope you know what you're getting yourself into..." and although I was happy that finally more people were beginning to follow up on Jimi's music, I couldn't help feeling a bit sorry for him because I knew what he would have to go through to prove his belief in what he had chosen to do. A very long time before that day, I remember telling a journalist who accused me of ripping off Hendrix, that one day most if not all guitarists would come to be judged by the standard of Jimi Hendrix, because he started a STYLE of guitar music, and it would only be a matter of time before everyone figured that out, instead of holding him so separate as to be untouchable or sacred. Well, since that day, we have seen Randy, Robin, Stevie Ray and literally countless others who have embraced that style, some more adept than others. But being that I was the first one, as well as the only one for quite a while, (not to mention the fact that I was only 15 years old when it began), I had to endure the skepticism and hard criticism a bit more than the other guys did. It also didn't help with the press that I explicitly admitted my roots and my love for Hendrix' music while most of the others (not Randy) kind of played down their connection to Hendrix' music, and so they came up with all kinds of sensational stories about me and my past, and never really bothered to print my own rebuttals which I gave hundreds of times. If I were to come out today for the first time with all the albums that I've done exactly as they sound, I'll bet that most people would say that my music isn't nearly as much like Hendrix as the press contended. Randy found out what I knew he would, which is that there are always going to be some people who, whether out of ignorance or just plain envy, will deride and ridicule others who dare to step up and do what they themselves cannot."
- Frank Marino 1997.

Heroes:

MUSICIANS.
Toured and performed with 100’s of the most talented musicians in the industry.
Carmen Appice
Ritchie Blackmore
John Bonjovi
Beach Boys
Randy Castillo
Tony Coleman
Blue Oyster Cult
Mike Derosier
Rick Derringer
Roger Fisher
Steve Fossen
Gregg Fox
Billy Gibbons
Guns and Roses
Sammy Hagar
Eddie Van Halen
Herbie Hancock
Heart
Leon Hendrix
Dusty Hill
Jeff Kathen
Sam Kinison
KZOK Spike O'Neil
KZOK Bob Rivers
Julian Lennon
Julie Mains
John Melencamp
Mitch Mitchell
Buddy Miles
Steve Miller
Eddie Money
Montrose
Aury Moore
Jeff Pilson
Noel Redding
Paul Rodgers
Uli Jon Roth
Bob Segar
Evan Sheeley
Joe Shikany
Lynn Sorensen
Pat Travers
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Joe Walsh
Alan White
Don Wilson
+ many more...
My Beloved Friend
Buddy Miles.
It is with heartfelt sadness that I learned of Buddy’s passing today 2/27/08. We spent many pleasant hours together on and off the gig. He filled my soul with great music and I will miss him so very much.
You are in my heart
and soul eternally.
May you and Jimi play
together forever in heaven.
Peace and Love,
Randy Hansen

My Blog

Experience Hendrixs influence at EMP + Hansen, Lead Vocals, Purple Haze, Interactive On Stage

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Rock n Roll ledgends jam at Canlis by Gene Stout Seattle PI Pop Music Critic

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Posted by HANSEN concert tour Germany on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:38:00 PST

PERFORMANCE HISTORY

PERFORMANCE HISTORY HIGHLIGHTS During the mid 70’s, Randy played professionally in the Las Vegas style show band called "Kid Chrysler and the Cruisers". Within the floorshow, individual band mem...
Posted by HANSEN concert tour Germany on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:30:00 PST

A Little Piece of Rock-N-Roll Heaven ~By AC ICE

"A Piece of Rock-N-Roll Heaven" ~By AC ICE + They break it down track-by-track the classic rock-n-roll generation is here to stay forever. KZOK 102.5 Seattle's Only Classic Rock Station! Spike and Th...
Posted by HANSEN concert tour Germany on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:34:00 PST