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Larry Smith and Unfinished Business

Larry Smith and Unfinished Business

About Me

So who is Larry Smith you ask....He plays Guitar, bass, vocals, trumpet and is a composer/writer, programmer, live and studio engineer, actor and electronic designer.Larry started his musical career at the age of 10, playing trumpet, cornet and flugal horn, then in 1967 he heard Jimmy Hendrix on pirate radio and decided he had to learn guitar, this opened the door to the influences of The Yardbirds, John Mayall, Alexis Korner, The Rolling Stones, Cream, Love, Spirit, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Robert Johnson, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Bo Diddley and many others…..He attended The Guitar Institute (Hollywood) in 1981, but quit after one semester, as it just seemed to be turning out Eddie Van Halen clones!!!He has been a major part of the following bands:- Berlin, Darkstar, City Heat, Larry Smith and The Blues Exchange, The Heat, Nurse The Screens! And Unfinished Business.He has toured with More, MSG, Eddie and the Hotrods, Wishbone Ash, Wham, The Three Degrees, Culture Club and The Drifters USA (Bass), Chelsea (Bass) and The Stray Cats (Engineer).He has worked with members of AC/DC, Manfred Mann, Deep Purple, Dio, Rainbow, The Blues Band, Thin Lizzy, Home, Trapeze, Wings, The Stranglers, The Who, Marcus Malone, Cozy Powell, and also many sessions.He was the head engineer for The Marquee Club for 4 years and The Roadhouse (Covent Garden) for 6 years, and has also engineered various festivals......Nacido en Felixstowe, Gran BretañaLarry empezo su carrera musical a la edad de 10 años, tocando la trompeta, la corneta y el cornetin. En 1967 escuchó por primera vez a Jimmy Hendrix en una radio pirata y decidió que tenía que aprender a tocar la guitarra. Hendrix le abrió las puertas a otras influencias, como The Yardbirds, John Mayall, Alexis Corner, The Rolling Stones, Cream, Love, Spirit, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Robert Johnson, Lightnin’ Hopkins o Bo Diddley, entre muchos otros.En 1981 estudió en el Guitar Institute en Hollywood, pero lo dejó después de un semestre. ¡No quería convertirse en un clon de Eddie Van Halen!Ha sido miembro de los grupos "City Heat", "Larry Smith & The Blues Exchange", "The Heat", "Nurse The Screens!" y "Unfinished Business"Ha realizado giras con las bandas "More", "MSG", "Eddie & The Hotrods", "Wishbone Ash", "Wham", "The Three Degrees", "Culture Club" y "The Drifters" (USA, en esta ocasión como bajista), y como ingeniero de sonido de los "Stray Cats".Ha trabajado junto a miembros de "AC/CD", "Manfred Mann", "Deep Purple", "Dio", "Rainbow", "The Blues Band", "Thin Lizzy", "Home", "Trapeze", "Wings", "The Stranglers", "The Who", "Marcus Malone", "Cozy Powell" y también múltiples sesiones como músico de estudio.Durante cuatro años trabajó como técnico de sonido en el club Marquee y durante seis años más en el Roadhouse (Covent Garden). También ha sido el ingeniero de sonido de diversos festivales.Lefty Yunger performs keyboard duty and also vocals.Lefty comes from a musical family, he's a cousin of the late Mama Cass Elliot (Ellen Naomi Cohen) from the Mamas and Papas, and his father is a trumpet player. He started playing piano when he was 8 years old and started listening to the blues when he was 11. At 16 he joined Willie Edward’s group, The Albert Otis Band. With this group, on the JSP label, they toured from New Hampshire to Key West and then through the south all the way to Texas. They opened for Muddy Waters, the Stray Cats, Duke Robillard, the J. Geils Band, Jr. Walker and the All Stars and Big Jack Johnson. He played piano on some dates with Big Jack Johnson and had the occasion to “sit-in” with a lot of excellent musicians.José Antonio Tur, Bass and VocalsThe style of Jose Antonio Tur as bassist has been formed and defined for 25 years mainly in clubs, including the prestigious La Coquette in Madrid, La Cova del Drac or Bikini in Barcelona and the Nova Jazz Cava de Terrassa. He has also participated in festivals and blues/jazz competitions, like those of Cartagena, Cordoba, Barcelona and L'Hospitalet.He has been a member of prestige soul and blues bands Ferroblues, Zúmel Blues Harmonica Blues Band (or Chicago Tribute,) and other musical styles, such as Prohibition, with which he has done many recordings.From his way of playing, which connects with a more traditional view of the blues, gives solidity and forcefulness to the rhythm section that is missing from a lot of bands.El estilo de José Antonio Tur como bajista se ha ido formando y definiendo durante 25 años fundamentalmente en clubs, como los prestigiosos La Coquette o Agapo, en Madrid, La Cova del Drac o Bikini, en Barcelona, o la Nova Jazz Cava de Terrassa. Además ha participado en festivales y certámenes de blues o jazz, como los de Cartagena, Córdoba, Barcelona o L’Hospitalet.Ha sido miembro de bandas de prestigio tanto de soul y blues, como Ferroblues, Harmonica Zúmel Blues Band o Chicago Blues Tributo, como de otros estilos musicales, como Ley Seca, con las que ha realizado alguna grabación discográfica.De su forma de tocar, que conecta más con una concepción clásica del blues, se ha escrito que da solidez y contundencia a la sección rítmica

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Member Since: 9/15/2007
Band Members: Larry Smith Guitar and VocalsLefty Yunger Keyboards and VocalsXavi Tomas DrumsJosé Antonio Tur Bonet, Bass and Vocals
Influences: Jimmy Hendrix, Cream, Robert Johnson, BB King, Love, Frank Zappa, Eddie Van Halen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Lynyrd Skynyrd, George Thorogood and The Destroyers, Queen, Led Zepplin, Black Sabbath, Dio, Rainbow, Deep Purple, Robin Trower, Miles Davis, Buddy Holly, Mozart, Randy California, Steve Vai, Kenny Cox, Randy Rhodes, Ten Years After, Iron Butterfly, Dizzy Gillespie, Fleetwood Mac, Rolling Stones, Captain Beefheart, ZZtop, Yngwie Malmsteen, Thin Lizzy, Gary Moore, Glen Miller, Tommy Tedesco, Micheal Schenker, Wishbone Ash, Pink Floyd, Ultravox....
Sounds Like: You Decide!!!
Record Label: The Biz
Type of Label: Indie

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Jam Session

Its that time again!!! This Wednesday 7th May we are running the Jam Session at Sala Valhalla, c/ de Tallers 68, Barcelona....... For those of you not in Spain feel free to ignore this post!...
Posted by Larry Smith and Unfinished Business on Tue, 06 May 2008 04:20:00 PST

Jam Session

Its that time again!!! This Wednesday 12th March we are running the Jam Session at Sala Valhalla, c/ de Tallers, Barcelona....... For those of you not in Spain feel free to ignore this post!!...
Posted by Larry Smith and Unfinished Business on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:55:00 PST