Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush was the first live concert I saw nearly thirty years ago in Montreal at a crappy outdoor all-cement sitting area at La Ronde, a local amusement park. It was a double bill with Eddie Money who had just scored his first hit single with "Two Tickets to Paradise."
Frank Marino was famous for the myth around him as some kind of reincarnation of Jimi Hendrix. He did some pretty nice covers of "All Along the Watchtower" and a few other classic guitar songs and had an excellent live album that was tearing up the charts on FM radio those days.
Now thirty years later, Marino's been on the road touring through Europe, US and Canada. If you remember him from the old days, be sure to check it out. Or if you want to see a classic rock guitar virtuoso up close in a club venue, now's your chance. The current tour takes Marino and his band across the US to Chicago,Vegas, Santa Ana, Phoenix, Austin, Dallas, Annapolis, Nasheville, Atlanta and beyond. In the bay area Marino will be playing at Moe's Alley in Santa Cruz on September 26, and the Galaxy Theater in Santa Ana September 29.
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