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Vernon Reid
Blues / Funk / Psychedelic

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Staten Island, New York
United States

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Member Since2/27/2007
Band Websitewww.vernon-reid.com
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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

InfluencesWhen 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.

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Record LabelFavored Nations
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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Aug 14 2009 8:00P
Patronaat w/ Living Colour Haarlem
Aug 15 2009 12:00P
Pinkpop Classic w/ Living Colour Landgraaf
Sep 1 2009 8:00P
Birchmere w/ Living Colour Alexandria, Virginia
Sep 3 2009 7:30P
World Cafe Live w/ Living Colour Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sep 6 2009 8:00P
Infinity Hall w/ Living Colour Norfolk, Connecticut
Sep 8 2009 8:00P
Tupelo Music Hall w/ Living Colour Londonderry, New Hampshire
Sep 12 2009 8:00P
Rams Head Tavern w/ Living Colour Annapolis, Maryland
Oct 2 2009 8:00P
The Magic Bag w/ Living Colour Ferndale, Michigan

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For Serious US and Asia booking inquiries, please contact :

Maurice Montoya - email : maurice@mmmusicagency.com
MM Music Agency
1133 Broadway, Suite 1605
New York, New York 10010

Tel: 212 229-9160
Fax: 212 229-9168

For serious European booking inquires, please contact:

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Website - www.directbookingberlin.de


Vernon's myspace was deleted in the spring of 2007. All mail was lost, friends, comments, blog comments etc... We've resurrected most of the blogs though! Thanks for the love, support and patience and be prepared for some interesting tunes in the music player.



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Vernon Reid and Masque "Other True Self" has been selected as one of “Soul-Patrol.com’s Best of 2006
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"Masque is about identity: Who am I? Really, that question has informed everything I've done, from the beginning of my solo career."

Webster's Dictionary defines an artist as "one who professes and practices an imaginative art; a person skilled in one of the fine arts; a skilled performer." By any of these definitions, guitarist and composer Vernon Reid is a true artist, one whose art is a work forever in progress, from his formative years on the downtown New York jazz/funk/punk scene with Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society, to his leadership of the pioneering multi-platinum rock band Living Colour, to his collaborations with creative spirits ranging from guitarist Carlos Santana and African singer Salif Keita to choreographers Bill T. Jones and Donald Byrd.

Vernon Reid is probably best known for leading Living Colour. Vernon founded Living Colour in New York City circa 1985 and piloted the band through a remarkable career. Among the highlights: a double platinum-selling debut album Vivid, released in 1988; its gold-certified successor, Time's Up, released 1990; two consecutive Grammy Awards in the category of Best Hard Rock Performance; opening for the Rolling Stones' 1989 "Steel Wheels" tour; and appearing on the first Lollapalooza tour in the summer of 1991. Vernon is thrilled to be working with Living Colour again and is extremely proud of their new album Collidescope, which was released in October of 2003 on Sanctuary Records.

In addition to Living Colour, Vernon has been engaged his usual panoply of activities. He released "Mistaken Identity", his first solo album in 1996 and has collaborated with the choreographers Bill T. Jones on "Still/Here" and Donald Byrd on "Jazztrain". He performed "Party 'Til The End of Time" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) with The Roots, an end of the millennium tribute featuring the music of Prince's album "1999". He also composed and performed "Bring Your Beats" a children's program for BAM. Vernon has also produced records by Resort (a Mexican hard rock group) and two Grammy nominated albums: "Papa" by the great African singer Salif Keita and "Memphis Blood: The Sun Studio Sessions" by James "Blood" Ulmer. Blood's most recent album, released in September of 2003, "No Escape From the Blues", was also produced by Vernon Reid. He also appears on "Guitar Oblique" (Knitting Factory Records) with guitarists David Torn and Elliot Sharp. Vernon was also featured in the program presented by BAM and the Experience Music Project in Seattle entitled "Magic Science", which includes Medesky, Martin & Wood and the Gil Evans Orchestra performing Gil Evans' arrangements of songs by Jimi Hendrix.

Vernon composed the score for the film "Paid In Full", directed by Charles Stone III (well known for creating the "Wasssup!" series of commercials for Budweiser as well as directing three videos for Living Colour) and released by Miramax in the fall of 2002. Vernon also composed the score for the celebrated documentary "Ghosts of Attica" which aired on Court TV in the fall of 2001 and has been featured at several film festivals.

Vernon along with DJ Logic, calling themselves "The Yohimbe Brothers", released an album in September, 2002, "Front End Lifter", The Yohimbe Bros. been touring on and off since the release of the album. Vernon is also the music supervisor for the film "Mr. 3000" starring Bernie Mac and directed by Charles Stone III; "Mr. 3000" is scheduled for release in the fall of 2004. Vernon's album with Masque (Leon Gruenbaum - keyboards, Hank Schroy - bass and Marlon Browden - drums), an instrumental album entitled "Known Unknown", was released in April 2004 on Favored Nations records.

The Grammy Award winning guitarist and his band Masque present a collection of 13 new songs. "Other True Self" is a sonic kaleidoscope, a tumble of colors and a whirl of astonishing visions that expose a vivid personal landscape and illuminates one or another side of Vernon Reid, was released on April 18, 2006.



*please note that this site is maintained by Vernon Reid and Tim E. Please be extremely patient w/ email responses as Vernon IS constantly on the go w/ music, art, and family life


As stated by Vernon on June 23, 2006 - "....Also I was thinking of letting folks know that I'm cool with taping Masque shows strictly by live taping guidelines (non-commercial trading is okay, no selling, etc.)"

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Jul 4 2009 3:31 PM

What's up?
Calvin Prior





Jul 4 2009 1:30 PM

New album coming soon with Calvin on lead and vocals STAND BY!!!
BTW Vernon yer cool man
Sir DNA





Jul 3 2009 11:09 PM

If music be the food of love, play on. (William Shakespeare)

I‘d like to invite you to have a listen to our music.

Listeners have said:

*Your music is quite fantastic! It has heart/soul/atmosphere - and I really dig it!

*Your music . is . exquisitely . beautiful

I saw you on Eric Clapton's page. That's too cool. You are very talented and I can see why he put you there.

*Quitting your day job did wonders for the music world. Thanks man - great work!

I hope you enjoy it as much as they did...

Andris



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Jul 3 2009 10:25 PM

Hi V, I've loaded new up another live pic of you shot by me at Collideoscope tour'03, into 1st slideshow and into my pics album. The one of you before is to find in the friends slide show over my top-friends. 9/15 ;-) Please come with LC to ludwigshafen or mannheim, germany.
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Jul 2 2009 6:38 AM

Stay Thrashing!!!!
/Neil T
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Jul 1 2009 4:49 PM

Hi Vernon! Sending you tons of beautiful wishes!!!
Luis David Arreola





Jun 30 2009 4:05 AM

Thanks for the music
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Jun 29 2009 10:00 PM

Check out my profile And Let me know Do you like me YES or NO http://www.doulike.us/photos/3122810.html?b=4&w=46
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Jun 29 2009 6:10 PM

GREETINGS FROM NEUQUEN PATAGONIA ARGENTINA.
Fran Mann





Jun 27 2009 3:24 PM

Sending all great thoughts
TY 4 being a friend
Peace, love, light & truth
Fran Mann

TOHO (tomek hoszowski)





Jun 27 2009 2:35 PM

Thanx 4 add!...& inspirations :-) Amazing guitar! Peace! Greetings from Krakow (Poland) toho
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Jun 26 2009 3:25 PM

!!!(°°)!!!
M.IORIO





Jun 25 2009 5:30 PM

Keep up the good work and have a great week
Tenacious E!





Jun 24 2009 4:12 AM

Burnin' Vernon! Thanks for the add! Rock on!
The Electric Son





Jun 24 2009 3:57 AM

Thanks for the ad man. Glad to have been able to catch you and Doug Wimbish in LA Knitting Factory a few years ago and chat after the gig.
Luis David Arreola





Jun 23 2009 4:53 PM

You're my inspiration
Jeff





Jun 22 2009 1:41 PM

All the best...Makin' music...BigBends

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Jun 22 2009 8:17 AM

It's time to come over to Holland so we can see you play live! If you like Tool stuff, try our song Toxic!
christopherwhite1336





Jun 21 2009 12:09 PM

Thank You & Thank You & Thank You & Thank You & All Of YOU!
Cifren





Jun 19 2009 2:28 PM

Thanks for friendship:)
Cifren
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Jun 19 2009 7:36 AM

THX 4 BEING CONNECTED!
Luis David Arreola





Jun 19 2009 5:57 AM

Amazing Guitar
maresi





Jun 18 2009 8:46 AM

thank you vernon.
light&love
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Katsunori





Jun 17 2009 3:06 PM

Thanks for the add.
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Jun 16 2009 9:18 PM

Thanks for your attention to my music and for your inspiration!!!
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