Just think Justin, all you're fans will have all your albums, still singing your music as they grow older and older. Yeah, an 80 year odd woman singing "Get Your Hands off my Woman" singing "Get your hands off my Woman MOTHER F**KER! YOU C**T! LOL! 😂😂🤣🤣
It is cool to see Richie Kotzen getting some mainstream recognition with the Winery Dogs. He's had a steady solo career for years but the Winery Dogs gave him a bigger platform. He is a monster player.
Poison was 20 years ago, and thank goodness he’s moved well beyond that. Couple of good songs on that record he wrote though. I hope he makes enough dough to keep it going - they have to sell out a lot of shows to pay all 3 guys, all of whom deserve it and more
@@cc_1983 Native Tongue is musically and technically, probably the the best album in Poison's entire discography. It's also the least "Poison" one. Ritchie's hallmark is all over that album. It's more like a RK solo album than a Poison one.
@@majorfeelgoodrecords2740 Ritchie has covered Audioslave’s “Cochise” with Tom Morello (live video is on RUclips). So he can’t hate the Chris Cornell comparison too much.
Richie was in Poison from 1991 to 1993, ages 21 to 23. He was fired for stealing the drummer’s fiancé. Ritchie and Billy Sheehan were in Mr. Big together. Mike Portney is also in Sons of Apollo with Sheehan and Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal. All are amazing musicians and great guys.
The Winery Dogs live in Japan is one of the best live concerts i've ever heard. 3 seriously talented guys. Kotzen is the reason I play telecasters. The guy can shred like satriani/Vai but sing like Chris Cornell at the same time (check out the cover of an Audioslave song with Tom Morello, you will go wow)
he s the reason why we all play Tellys..:D anyway..he s one of the most talented person EVER...utterly brilliant.. out of this world..and people usually don't even know he plays drums piano and bass as well..obviously better than almost anyone else out there
I've loved this band since their first record. I went and saw them live and even though I'd heard them, I'd never seen them play and when Richie played, I was like "WTF HE'S PLAYING WITH HIS FINGERS"
I just realized this dude is the lead singer of the Band, "The Darkness". I wasn't into their music initially, but I like his youtube channel. So decided to check out the band on Spotify, I dig it. So I'm a new fan. Keep on rockin!!
I produced the music video!!!!!!! Good to see you’ve covered some of my work, like with Nita Strauss! Let me know when you’re in LA so we can do a cool crazy one for THE DARKNESS!!!
You are so funny. I can't believe how much I laugh throughout your videos. Another great episode, Justin. Maybe you're Justin? Maybe you are! Thank you as always for the excellent day makers! Of all the places on the internet to be, this here internet space is my favourite.
Genuinely fun! Made my day, thanks so much - Plus I got to hear about The Winery Dogs for the first time, and they're a superband to my taste: one that's able to bring it back to basics without giving up virtuosity... Thanks again!
Richie's got his own thing regarding plectrum use. As far as I know some many years ago he forgot or dropped his pick and had to play with his right hand fingers. He's been sticking to that to the best of my knowledge. That makes for a great legato playing and fast tapping passages. A unique style in his own right. - Great comments and reaction by Justin right here. Thanks for the post.
From what I remember, he was on tour and was frustrated with his playing, as his solos started to sound samey, so he ditched the pick to shake things up and never looked back.
@@markpr73 Freudian slip perhaps, I meant sing instead of the duplicated bass! I do play bass and have been trying to join a band doing so, but seem to get relegated to guitar.
WINERY DOGS COULD OWN JUST ABOUT ANY MAINSTREAM BAND EVER. THEIR TALENT IS OTHER WORLDLY GOOD + RICHIE KOTZEN IS A MUSICAL GENIUS. Big ups to Mr. Hawkins for showin Winery Dogs love man
He's also using his signature Strat but he has a signature Tele and it's got a huge baseball bat neck - and that's what he's used most over the years, so it's cool to see the strat come out to play :)
This is pure genius now . Love it , thanks very much for lifting my spirits. Your onto a rich vane of comedy and realism and music . Keep riding sir xxx
Great video Justin. Billy Sheehan is a boss! Billy and Paul Gilbert played so synchronized in Mr Big. Just like Billy and Ritchie in this song! Actually, the start of this song reminds me of the start of - ‘Addicted to that rush’ by Mr Big, most likely because of the virtuous shredding!
Thanks for doing a video on them! Such an under the radar band still but their first two albums are really good. Saw them live a couple years back. Great show. Richie is such an underrated player and singer. He replaced CC in poison for a short time. And also replaced Paul Gilbert in Mr. Big for a short time. Lots of solo albums with good songs.
I’m totally new to Justin Hawkins. I saw him on the Taylor tribute and thought he and Luke Spiller (whom I also didn’t know of) were absolutely brilliant! There are more hours of internet content between the two than I probably have left in my life. 😂 This is unrelated to this particular post, but I was wondering if he only covers rock. I listened to rap/hip hop for the past 20 years (I know, huge 180) but there are actually brilliant people in that genre as well. I would love to know his thoughts on rap musicians, but that might be completely out of the question since it looks like he mostly focuses on rock.
In which Justin has an existential crisis. Billy Sheehan was in Mr Big, too, of course. CC Deville was indeed the original guitarist from Poison and did play on Unskinny Bop (per the riff you played). As to genre, really reminds me of Extreme in their heyday.
It never fails that whenever I am about to give up hope on good old fashioned rock and roll, a group like Winery Dogs comes along to remind folks what guitar, drums and bass are supposed to sound like! Rock on brothers!
New Rode Mic Arm!!! At last! Everytime I saw the old ones it was like, SM7B, on that!! What the heck!! But just me being geeky. I am so glad I found this channel, top stuff lad.
Having photographed Rickie Kotzen solo and with Smith/Kotzen ( his band with Adrian Smith of Iron Maiden) he doesn't wear rings when playing live. His time with Poison was limited to one album Native Tongue during a time when CC had quit the band. If you want hear him drop more f-bombs check out his solo song You Can't Save Me.
Your sneaky little Hendrix cracked me up there! Really loving your videos, it's great to see how you deconstruct and analyse music - from a Huddersfield lad 😀
Gotta love The Dogs, man! Richie Kotzen was way too much for Poison, surprised me a lot with his stint in Mr. Big and his solo career is GODLIKE. He evolves with every single release!
Hey Justin just watched this video, absolutely brill, I've watched the interview with Richie Kotzen too and that was amazing. I didnt realise who u were to start with, sorry about that, but u r so funny and right canny, I will b tuning in lots more, brill stuff xxx
You would love Richie's solo work. Songs like "Paying Dues", or anything of the Motherhead Family Reunion album. it would make your songwriting bone tingle.
the drummer in my old band put me onto Richie Kotzen a few years back mainly due to me being heavily into Chris Cornell at the time....absolute killer voice and amazing guitarist
First heard of Kotzen after he joined Mr. Big when Paul Gilbert left and did a load of his own stuff.. amazing musician. Pretty sure Nuno Bettencourt also speaks really highly of him too!
There's an awesome video of Nuno Bettencourt calling Richie "what Hendrix would have been if he'd lived" and "everything that John Mayer wished he was," topping it off with "Jeff Beck would be afraid to have this dude open up for him." ruclips.net/video/6rvo8BvE2dU/видео.html
I bought Talas's 'Sink Your Teeth Into That' in 1983 after a record store guy who knew I played bass put on Billy's bass solo for me. I was so blown away. The song 'Shy Boy' was on it as well, which was made famous by DLR band with Billy and Vai. I always wanted to hear them take on 'High Speed On Ice'
Back in late 80’s we used to go watch this band from York,Pa. At our local bar in Newcastle Delaware. The band was called Arthur’s Museum,and the guitar player was Ritchie Kotzen,He was I believe 17 years old not old enough to even be in the bar. We just knew the kid was gonna make it. He was way beyond anyone else at the time.
Hey Justin! I’d really love to hear you discuss the power of Layne Staley’s voice itself, the unmatchable combination of Layne and Jerry Cantrell, and obviously the overall musicianship of Alice In Chains! I’d love to hear your take on some of the songs other than their “hits” - there are so many to choose from!! That would be epic!!! ❤
If you like this you need to check out Big Wreck, too. Ian Thornley has similar Chris Cornell-isms in the vocals and virtuoso guitar work, much like RK.
I have the RK50 combo from Victory which is Martin Kidd's company - ex of Cornford...there's a link! It's amazing - worth checking out. Richie has a stunning voice and was one of the Shrapnel stable of shred guitarists like Paul Gilbert, Jason Becker and Greg Howe etc. But he has more of a background in soul and his solo stuff is more bluesy and soul inspired - with a lot more piano! Annoyingly talented.
Mr. Big used to be my favourite band and I'm a huge band of both Paul Gilbert and Richie Kotzen (sometimes I think I even preferred the band with Richie). RK has a good number of great solo albums that you should check out: "Return Of Mother Head's Family Reunion", "Into The Black", "Peace Sign", "24 hours" and so many more! He's very stylistically versatile in both his singing and playing of the ol' gee-tar.
Killer review of a true supergroup! Justin! You can get those "Stratty" tones on a Les Paul Deluxe or a P90 equipped LP. Starting point: Mid position. Neck volume and tone wide open. Bridge tone open, dial in volume until it gets "Strattish". Season to taste. Cheers!
I only knew "Oblivion" by them through Spotify recommending me it. Instantly loved it. I had no clue that Mike Portnoy was on drums and they had Richie from Poison playing guitar and singing. No wonder they're so good!
Ritchie was like 22yrs old and wrote Poison's best/mature album in their catalog..he did do the Tour...well until they kicked him off the bus in the middle of nowhere for banging Riki's fiancee! lol So yeah, he was in Poison but only for a short time...his catalog stretches back a long way and he was already a virtuoso player before Poison. He's an incredible talent!
When I heard this song I thought "yeah, same old stuff... but they do it so good that it 's just awesome" and turned it up and let it play. I don't own a single disc with Kotzen on it, but saw him about 15 years ago, and he pulled off the blues guitarist/songer-songwriter/rock star thing to the level you'd expect for his resume.
Richie Kotzen is an amazing musician ..and a nice person . ( He did 1 album and 1 tour and they fired him for a huge behind the scenes falling out in the mid 90s . He told me the dirt in N.Y. ) Cheers 🍻
Richie is a killer player. He was in Poison for one album called Native Tongue. He left after getting a bit too friendly with, at that time, the drummer's girlfriend. lol
He didn't just get friendly, they got married and had a daughter (who is a very talented singer as well, her name is August Eve) but divorced after a couple of years.
Great players, all of them. Billy Sheehan’s playing with David Lee Roth was the reason that I went and bought my first bass guitar. I then stayed to learn from James Jamerson, Willie Weeks, Pino Palladino, and others. But, I’d have never even picked up the bass if not for Billy Sheehan.
I`ve got all 3 albums and they have a great live album /CD DVD Live from Japan I think and I`ve seen them Live in a small club in Ft. Lauderdale ,Fla. back in 2015 after their 2nd album Hot Streak and they are UNBELEIVABLE they are top notch musicians and amazing live. Their new album III is incredible. My pick for Rock Album of 2024 really check it out you won`t be disappointed. Whoo Rock On Winery Dogs
I still have my guitar world from the early 90s with Kotzen, Nuno, and Reb BEach on the cover. All 3 monster amazing guitar players and songwriters FTW Can't believe Kotzen does NOT use a pick.
I've heard Richie play before and knew he was a great player, but I had no idea he used to be in those bands. I once stumbled into one of his solo records and it was pretty good.
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HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA! "Let's go practice our dogging at Dog Camp!"
Amen to that kotzen is so under rated and under appreciated it’s criminal
Mate, I just watched- Hi Ren By Ren, this very much deserves your attention.. 9 minutes of magic from the Brighton lad. Nice one loving your channel!
Just think Justin, all you're fans will have all your albums, still singing your music as they grow older and older. Yeah, an 80 year odd woman singing "Get Your Hands off my Woman" singing "Get your hands off my Woman MOTHER F**KER! YOU C**T! LOL! 😂😂🤣🤣
Best Trio ever imho.
It is cool to see Richie Kotzen getting some mainstream recognition with the Winery Dogs. He's had a steady solo career for years but the Winery Dogs gave him a bigger platform. He is a monster player.
He’s been in Poison and MR Big so he’s not done too bad in bands- except for getting booted out of Poison
Smith/Kotzen has some good tunes too and is an active project.
Poison was 20 years ago, and thank goodness he’s moved well beyond that. Couple of good songs on that record he wrote though. I hope he makes enough dough to keep it going - they have to sell out a lot of shows to pay all 3 guys, all of whom deserve it and more
You Can't Save Me is one of the greatest songs that nobody has ever heard of. Dude is criminally underrated.
@@cc_1983 Native Tongue is musically and technically, probably the the best album in Poison's entire discography. It's also the least "Poison" one. Ritchie's hallmark is all over that album. It's more like a RK solo album than a Poison one.
Love them! When Ritchie sings he sounds, to my ears, remarkably like Chris Cornell.
Maybe Chris sounds like Richie.
He actually hates the comparison
@@majorfeelgoodrecords2740 Ritchie has covered Audioslave’s “Cochise” with Tom Morello (live video is on RUclips). So he can’t hate the Chris Cornell comparison too much.
True dat
Best guitarist/singer going today. By far. And amazing live. One of the most versatile players asp. Check out 50 for 50
I’m glad you’re giving these guys attention. I’ve loved them for years and nobody knows about them.
Just watched Open Fire video again, many hundreds of times now, just in awe of your chameleon like abilities and general awesomeness.
The first time I heard them, I thought it was unreleased Chris Cornell or Soundgarden. that voice!!! The music is so rhythmic also./ LOVE!
Richie was in Poison from 1991 to 1993, ages 21 to 23. He was fired for stealing the drummer’s fiancé. Ritchie and Billy Sheehan were in Mr. Big together. Mike Portney is also in Sons of Apollo with Sheehan and Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal. All are amazing musicians and great guys.
They were broken up already.
The Winery Dogs live in Japan is one of the best live concerts i've ever heard. 3 seriously talented guys.
Kotzen is the reason I play telecasters. The guy can shred like satriani/Vai but sing like Chris Cornell at the same time (check out the cover of an Audioslave song with Tom Morello, you will go wow)
ruclips.net/video/IB5_TtbYpto/видео.html
@@alessandro.vignoli Just listen to that vocal part at 2:58. Always gets me.
never liked Audioslave but love everything of cornell's solo stuff, can't find a single song i didn't like which is pretty amazing.
he s the reason why we all play Tellys..:D
anyway..he s one of the most talented person EVER...utterly brilliant.. out of this world..and people usually don't even know he plays drums piano and bass as well..obviously better than almost anyone else out there
It's outrageous
Again - LOVE your channel - you bring great joy to youtube. Thank you!
Thanks!
I've loved this band since their first record. I went and saw them live and even though I'd heard them, I'd never seen them play and when Richie played, I was like "WTF HE'S PLAYING WITH HIS FINGERS"
you crack me up Justin, thank you! May you never loose ur humour.
I just realized this dude is the lead singer of the Band, "The Darkness". I wasn't into their music initially, but I like his youtube channel. So decided to check out the band on
Spotify, I dig it. So I'm a new fan. Keep on rockin!!
I produced the music video!!!!!!!
Good to see you’ve covered some of my work, like with Nita Strauss!
Let me know when you’re in LA so we can do a cool crazy one for THE DARKNESS!!!
Yasssssss. They are brilliant and it’s so good you found them!
Love this band. There is nothing that’s not great about the first two records. Can’t wait for this one to release.
Love to see folks who are great at what they do having a blast with it.
Its always a pleasure listening to you, Justin. Greetings from Spain!
I love when you do callbacks to past videos of yours!
Fantastic band.
Their first album is amazing.
Already bought tickets to Shepherds Bush Empire in June to see them.
You are so funny. I can't believe how much I laugh throughout your videos. Another great episode, Justin. Maybe you're Justin? Maybe you are! Thank you as always for the excellent day makers! Of all the places on the internet to be, this here internet space is my favourite.
Right?? I am guaranteed at least one belly laugh per video.
Daily dose of giggle medicine… so needed 😊
Funny as shit and knows his craft...respect to Justin!
Yep this was the funniest ep so far. It should be on mainstream telly to give everyone a treat.
Genuinely fun! Made my day, thanks so much - Plus I got to hear about The Winery Dogs for the first time, and they're a superband to my taste: one that's able to bring it back to basics without giving up virtuosity... Thanks again!
Richie's got his own thing regarding plectrum use. As far as I know some many years ago he forgot or dropped his pick and had to play with his right hand fingers. He's been sticking to that to the best of my knowledge. That makes for a great legato playing and fast tapping passages. A unique style in his own right. - Great comments and reaction by Justin right here. Thanks for the post.
From what I remember, he was on tour and was frustrated with his playing, as his solos started to sound samey, so he ditched the pick to shake things up and never looked back.
Maybe this is the greatest post ever? Brilliant.
Thx Justin!
Cheers.
Happy Christmas Justin!
I've seen them a couple of times. Whether you play drums, bass, guitar or bass, they are a very humbling band to behold!
I like how you went overboard on bass. Usually it’s the opposite.
@@markpr73 Freudian slip perhaps, I meant sing instead of the duplicated bass! I do play bass and have been trying to join a band doing so, but seem to get relegated to guitar.
or even bass
WINERY DOGS COULD OWN JUST ABOUT ANY MAINSTREAM BAND EVER. THEIR TALENT IS OTHER WORLDLY GOOD + RICHIE KOTZEN IS A MUSICAL GENIUS. Big ups to Mr. Hawkins for showin Winery Dogs love man
RUclips just recommended this video to me a few days ago and I was like what is going on?! Pretty amazing stuff
He's also using his signature Strat but he has a signature Tele and it's got a huge baseball bat neck - and that's what he's used most over the years, so it's cool to see the strat come out to play :)
Oh you crazy Kid Justin. It's just rock and roll with a few tweaks. Gotta love 'em. Why is this not bigger than it is?
Your comedic game is on point this week 👌
I love that queen intro you incorporate into your introduction. Justin Hawkins ridesssss again! Againnnnnn
This is pure genius now . Love it , thanks very much for lifting my spirits. Your onto a rich vane of comedy and realism and music . Keep riding sir xxx
Great video Justin.
Billy Sheehan is a boss!
Billy and Paul Gilbert played so synchronized in Mr Big. Just like Billy and Ritchie in this song!
Actually, the start of this song reminds me of the start of - ‘Addicted to that rush’ by Mr Big, most likely because of the virtuous shredding!
Thanks for doing a video on them! Such an under the radar band still but their first two albums are really good. Saw them live a couple years back. Great show. Richie is such an underrated player and singer. He replaced CC in poison for a short time. And also replaced Paul Gilbert in Mr. Big for a short time. Lots of solo albums with good songs.
Talking of Paul GIlbert (and Richie's rings)... ruclips.net/video/B6yLPoMWunc/видео.html
Great vid Justin. There were numerous expletives from me and a how? Even better they have music on Spotify. 👍
I’m so glad to see your new Rode mic stand.
Richie came to the ACM when I was studying years ago. Awesome musician !
I was waiting for you to notice, but Richie plays those crazy licks with his fingers. Amazing!
Justin! Ritchie is playing with his fingers! No plectrum! That's what always impressed me about him.
I’m totally new to Justin Hawkins. I saw him on the Taylor tribute and thought he and Luke Spiller (whom I also didn’t know of) were absolutely brilliant! There are more hours of internet content between the two than I probably have left in my life. 😂
This is unrelated to this particular post, but I was wondering if he only covers rock. I listened to rap/hip hop for the past 20 years (I know, huge 180) but there are actually brilliant people in that genre as well. I would love to know his thoughts on rap musicians, but that might be completely out of the question since it looks like he mostly focuses on rock.
I was just about to ask you to cover The Winery Dogs because they are amazing and now I find that you already have! 😃🎸⭐
In which Justin has an existential crisis.
Billy Sheehan was in Mr Big, too, of course.
CC Deville was indeed the original guitarist from Poison and did play on Unskinny Bop (per the riff you played).
As to genre, really reminds me of Extreme in their heyday.
Bloody great band - discovered them while shopping for a new guitar last year. Always playing the best music in music stores!
They always kick on magnificently. Out of the park !!
It never fails that whenever I am about to give up hope on good old fashioned rock and roll, a group like Winery Dogs comes along to remind folks what guitar, drums and bass are supposed to sound like! Rock on brothers!
yes, amen!
New Rode Mic Arm!!! At last! Everytime I saw the old ones it was like, SM7B, on that!! What the heck!! But just me being geeky. I am so glad I found this channel, top stuff lad.
Richie Kotzen is my favourite artist in the world (followed closely by The Darkness, of course).
My love for his music truly cannot be overstated.
Absolutely 💯
Not just in the video the guitarist doesn't play with a pick live either.This guys kills.
You made my day. Thanks brother.
Having photographed Rickie Kotzen solo and with Smith/Kotzen ( his band with Adrian Smith of Iron Maiden) he doesn't wear rings when playing live. His time with Poison was limited to one album Native Tongue during a time when CC had quit the band. If you want hear him drop more f-bombs check out his solo song You Can't Save Me.
Your sneaky little Hendrix cracked me up there! Really loving your videos, it's great to see how you deconstruct and analyse music - from a Huddersfield lad 😀
Gotta love The Dogs, man! Richie Kotzen was way too much for Poison, surprised me a lot with his stint in Mr. Big and his solo career is GODLIKE. He evolves with every single release!
Hey Justin just watched this video, absolutely brill, I've watched the interview with Richie Kotzen too and that was amazing. I didnt realise who u were to start with, sorry about that, but u r so funny and right canny, I will b tuning in lots more, brill stuff xxx
You would love Richie's solo work. Songs like "Paying Dues", or anything of the Motherhead Family Reunion album. it would make your songwriting bone tingle.
Wow, Favorite channel on my FAVORITE BAND!!!
the drummer in my old band put me onto Richie Kotzen a few years back mainly due to me being heavily into Chris Cornell at the time....absolute killer voice and amazing guitarist
Thank you! Richie Kotzen is the most underrated musician in the planet! I love he plays with no pick too!
First heard of Kotzen after he joined Mr. Big when Paul Gilbert left and did a load of his own stuff.. amazing musician. Pretty sure Nuno Bettencourt also speaks really highly of him too!
There's an awesome video of Nuno Bettencourt calling Richie "what Hendrix would have been if he'd lived" and "everything that John Mayer wished he was," topping it off with "Jeff Beck would be afraid to have this dude open up for him."
ruclips.net/video/6rvo8BvE2dU/видео.html
Definitely get The Essential Richie Kotzen. It’s phenomenal. 👍
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I bought Talas's 'Sink Your Teeth Into That' in 1983 after a record store guy who knew I played bass put on Billy's bass solo for me. I was so blown away. The song 'Shy Boy' was on it as well, which was made famous by DLR band with Billy and Vai. I always wanted to hear them take on 'High Speed On Ice'
Remember the flexi disc of “Birds of Prey” that was in Guitar Player? That was the first time I heard him.
@@chrislestermusic I missed that one. I would have been thrilled to find that back then.
I can't stop admiring and laughing at the cow print Mesa Boogie stack in the BG. Awesome
Love this group. So happy they are back!
Back in late 80’s we used to go watch this band from York,Pa. At our local bar in Newcastle Delaware. The band was called Arthur’s Museum,and the guitar player was Ritchie Kotzen,He was I believe 17 years old not old enough to even be in the bar. We just knew the kid was gonna make it. He was way beyond anyone else at the time.
Watch him do the same on his signature Tele, it's just awe inspiring.
Love these guys, individually and collectively!
Hillarious! really cool review.
Hey Justin! I’d really love to hear you discuss the power of Layne Staley’s voice itself, the unmatchable combination of Layne and Jerry Cantrell, and obviously the overall musicianship of Alice In Chains! I’d love to hear your take on some of the songs other than their “hits” - there are so many to choose from!! That would be epic!!! ❤
Richie is and always will be my favorite vocalist/guitarist combo
Sambora? 😁👍🏻 Just kidding, but Richie Sambora is also a genius guitar player with a killer voice.
@@shanehughes740 haha made me chuckle. Merry Xmas my friend
If you like this you need to check out Big Wreck, too. Ian Thornley has similar Chris Cornell-isms in the vocals and virtuoso guitar work, much like RK.
Check out Baroness - "Chlorine & Wine"
Richie Kotzen has to be one of the most underrated musicians ever. His solo work is amazing as well, check it out!
Justin...You're the best 💖👍😉 Happy Holidays to you
I have the RK50 combo from Victory which is Martin Kidd's company - ex of Cornford...there's a link! It's amazing - worth checking out.
Richie has a stunning voice and was one of the Shrapnel stable of shred guitarists like Paul Gilbert, Jason Becker and Greg Howe etc. But he has more of a background in soul and his solo stuff is more bluesy and soul inspired - with a lot more piano! Annoyingly talented.
Mr. Big used to be my favourite band and I'm a huge band of both Paul Gilbert and Richie Kotzen (sometimes I think I even preferred the band with Richie). RK has a good number of great solo albums that you should check out: "Return Of Mother Head's Family Reunion", "Into The Black", "Peace Sign", "24 hours" and so many more! He's very stylistically versatile in both his singing and playing of the ol' gee-tar.
Killer review of a true supergroup!
Justin! You can get those "Stratty" tones on a Les Paul Deluxe or a P90 equipped LP.
Starting point:
Mid position. Neck volume and tone wide open. Bridge tone open, dial in volume until it gets "Strattish".
Season to taste.
Cheers!
I only knew "Oblivion" by them through Spotify recommending me it. Instantly loved it. I had no clue that Mike Portnoy was on drums and they had Richie from Poison playing guitar and singing. No wonder they're so good!
Ritchie was like 22yrs old and wrote Poison's best/mature album in their catalog..he did do the Tour...well until they kicked him off the bus in the middle of nowhere for banging Riki's fiancee! lol So yeah, he was in Poison but only for a short time...his catalog stretches back a long way and he was already a virtuoso player before Poison. He's an incredible talent!
@@muriloninja Interesting. I'll look into what he made outside of The Winery Dogs and Poison
9👍thxs again for riding again
From AZ
i just checked them out recently too! refreshing to still have some high level musicianship in this modern world.
They do amazing cover of "Fooled Around and Fell In Love"
When I heard this song I thought "yeah, same old stuff... but they do it so good that it 's just awesome" and turned it up and let it play. I don't own a single disc with Kotzen on it, but saw him about 15 years ago, and he pulled off the blues guitarist/songer-songwriter/rock star thing to the level you'd expect for his resume.
Seen 'em live twice....brilliant. Fire, Elevate and Oblivion are ALL amazing songs as well.
Richie Kotzen is an amazing musician
..and a nice person . ( He did 1 album and 1 tour and they fired him for a huge behind the scenes falling out in the mid 90s . He told me the dirt in N.Y. ) Cheers 🍻
Justin is RK, is Justin? Wait what?! Lmao😅brilliant just brilliant comedy 🎭 love ya Mate!
Brilliant comments Justin 😀👍🏼
love the vocals
thanks justin
Saw them last night 3 13 23 in Grand Rapids, Michigan... Outrageous!!🎸🔥If you are able...you MUST go see them. 🤘
Great Video as usual 😎🔥 And song either 💯🤘
Come for the music , stay for the random tangents Justin always goes on .
I saw Kotzen play in London with Adrian Smith - amazing player.
Richie is a killer player. He was in Poison for one album called Native Tongue. He left after getting a bit too friendly with, at that time, the drummer's girlfriend. lol
Ex girlfriend
He didn't just get friendly, they got married and had a daughter (who is a very talented singer as well, her name is August Eve) but divorced after a couple of years.
@@LailaVieiraMartins I was being vague..I do recall that.
Great players, all of them.
Billy Sheehan’s playing with David Lee Roth was the reason that I went and bought my first bass guitar. I then stayed to learn from James Jamerson, Willie Weeks, Pino Palladino, and others. But, I’d have never even picked up the bass if not for Billy Sheehan.
I`ve got all 3 albums and they have a great live album /CD DVD Live from Japan I think and I`ve seen them Live in a small club in Ft. Lauderdale ,Fla. back in 2015 after their 2nd album Hot Streak and they are UNBELEIVABLE they are top notch musicians and amazing live. Their new album III is incredible. My pick for Rock Album of 2024 really check it out you won`t be disappointed. Whoo Rock On Winery Dogs
Smith/Kotzen is a stellar project too. Kotzen has a great voice and Adrian Smith has some singing chops too
One of the bands(Kotzen happens to be in two of them) that's keeping rock n roll alive.
And yea. I thought it before you said Chris Cornell.
Imagine if Dog Camp was held at UdderWorld?
I still have my guitar world from the early 90s with Kotzen, Nuno, and Reb BEach on the cover. All 3 monster amazing guitar players and songwriters FTW Can't believe Kotzen does NOT use a pick.
I still have that one as well...I keep a few GW & GPM from back in my high school early 20s & that is one of them.
I've heard Richie play before and knew he was a great player, but I had no idea he used to be in those bands. I once stumbled into one of his solo records and it was pretty good.