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If you don't know the Blues, there's no point in even picking up a guitar. And guitarist Larry Smith comes with a warning: Watch out!!! He plays Blues/Rock that bites back! Raw Power Blues!! The crowd was blown away!!  – Bardies Blues Festival (Larry Smith) The Maestro of the Blues – Agusti Mas (renouned blues guitarist), Barcelona Larry's playing is like a force of nature!! Truly music that bites back. – Radio Macedonia If you miss Larry Smith, you will miss one of the great blues players. – Hi Voltage Magazine, France Half British and half American, Larry came of age in the 60's, when Rock propelled music and popular culture into a consciousness that continues to be a major influence two generations later. Chuck Berry famously said, "It used to be called Boogie-Woogie, it used to be called Blues, used to be called Rhythm and Blues…It's called Rock now." Living in London in 1967, he heard Jimmy Hendrix on pirate radio and was inspired 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. Larry is an impressive and authentic stage personality. In a career that spans both sides of the Atlantic and over 2,500 gigs, Larry has proven he understands how to make great music on stage. His shows are riveting because he knows exactly how to unharness a performance in the moment. He effortlessly blends powerful guitar playing with an expressive vocal style to shape his signature sound...a mix of Rory Gallagher, Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray with a dash of Richie Blackmore. He's firmly rooted in a classic era, but consistently brings a new edge to performances and balances his playing with a technical excellence that comes only from a lifetime devoted to music and entertainment. Larry Smith 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 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. After years on the road, Larry finally took a break from music and the music business and moved to Spain. You can take the man out of music, but you can't take music out of the man. It wasn't long before Larry started performing again in and around Barcelona and began making his mark on the local scene with his fantastic guitar playing. He is currently writing and recording new music with a newly formed classic blues/rock trio, Larry Smith and Unfinished Business, in addition to collaborating with many talented and well known local musicians. A diverse and accomplished musician who also plays bass and trumpet, Larry is also a composer/writer, programmer, live and studio engineer, actor and electronic designer. He was the head engineer for The Marquee Club in London for 4 years and The Roadhouse (Covent Garden) for 6 years, and has also engineered various music festivals. Nacido en Felixstowe, Gran Bretaña Larry 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 Vocals The 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