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PREMESSA: LA SUPERIORITA’ DELLA MUSICA SU VINILE E’ ANCOR OGGI SANCITA, NOTORIA ED EVIDENTE. NON TANTO DA UN PUNTO DI VISTA DI RESA, QUALITA’ E PULIZIA DEL SUONO, TANTOMENO DA QUELLO DEL RIMPIANTO RETROSPETTIVO E NOSTALGICO , MA SOPRATTUTTO DA QUELLO PIU’ PALPABILE ED INOPPUGNABILE DELL’ ESSENZA, DELL’ ANIMA E DELLA SUBLIMAZIONE CREATIVA. IL DISCO IN VINILE HA PULSAZIONE ARTISTICA, PASSIONE ARMONICA E SPLENDORE GRAFICO , E’ PIACEVOLE DA OSSERVARE E DA TENERE IN MANO, RISPLENDE, PROFUMA E VIBRA DI VITA, DI EMOZIONE E  DI SENSIBILITA’. E’ TUTTO QUELLO CHE NON E’ E NON POTRA’ MAI ESSERE IL CD, CHE AL CONTRARIO E’ SOLO UN OGGETTO MERAMENTE COMMERCIALE, POVERO, ARIDO, CINICO, STERILE ED ORWELLIANO,  UNA DEGENERAZIONE INDUSTRIALE SCHIZOFRENICA E NECROFILA, LA DESOLANTE SOLUZIONE FINALE DELL’ AVIDITA’ DEL MERCATO E DELL’ ARROGANZA DEI DISCOGRAFICI .

FRANK MARINO &
MAHOGANY RUSH
child of the novelty

Disco LP 33 giri , 1974, 20th Century records / Nine records , T – 451 , Usa

Frank Marino (Francesco Antonio Marino), born November 20, 1954, in Montreal, is the guitarist and leader of Canadian hard rock band Mahogany Rush. Often compared to Jimi Hendrix, he is acknowledged as one of the best and most underrated guitarists of the 1970s.

Mahogany Rush is a Canadian rock band led by guitarist Frank Marino. The band had its peak of popularity in the 1970s, playing such venues as California Jam II together with bands such as Aerosmith, Ted Nugent and Heart.

Members have included bassist Paul Harwood, drummer Jimmy Ayoub, and guitarist Vince Marino
(Frank’s brother); the band has continued with other members, always
under Frank Marino’s leadership. After 1980, the group toured as Frank
Marino’s Mahogany Rush, and after Jim Ayoub left the group, it simply
became Frank Marino. After a long absence, the band toured the United States in October 2006.

Child of the Novelty is the second studio album by Canadian rock
band Mahogany Rush, led by Frank
Marino. It was released in 1974.

• Interprete: Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush
• Etichetta: 20th Century / Nine
• Catalogo: T-451
• Data di pubblicazione: 1974
• Matrici: K OT  3302 A  /  K OT  3302  B

• Supporto:vinile 33 giri
• Tipo audio: stereo
• Dimensioni: 30 cm.
• Facciate: 2
• Gatefold / copertina apribile ,  white paper inner sleeve

Musicians

• Frank Marino: Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals
• Paul Harwood: Acoustic & Electric Bass
• Jimmy Ayoub: Drums, Percussion

This Hendrix-influenced power trio from Montreal comprised guitarist
Frank Marino, bassist Paul Harwood and drummer Jim Ayoub. The band
released albums throughout the ’70s, including Maxoom (1972), Child of
the Novelty (1974), Strange Universe (1975), Mahogany Rush IV (1976),
World Anthem (1977), Live (1978) and Tales of the Unexpected (1979). The
band became known as Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush after 1980’s What’s
Next, then simply Frank Marino after Jim Ayoub left.
                                                                                

After playing drums since he was five, around age 13-14 Marino started playing guitar. An often-repeated myth, propagated by Marino himself, is he was visited by an apparition of Jimi Hendrix after a bad LSD trip, a myth Marino now disavows on his personal website. His playing, however, is explicitly inspired by Hendrix (on the Gibson he is described as “carrying Jimi’s psychedelic torch), and Marino is notable for strong cover versions of Hendrix classics such as “Purple Haze“. He has been criticized by some as a Hendrix clone.
Marino himself claims that he didn’t consciously set out to imitate
Hendrix’s style at all: “The whole style just came naturally. I didn’t
choose it; it chose me.”

Mahogany Rush was moderately popular in the 1970s. Their records charted in Billboard, and they toured extensively, playing such venues as California Jam II (1978). Toward the end of the 1970s, the band began to be billed as “Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush.” Not much later, Mahogany Rush split up and in the early 1980s Marino released two solo albums on CBS. The band reformed and continued to perform throughout the 1980s and 1990s. In 1993, Marino retired from the music industry.

Marino returned in 2001, inspired in part by a fansite, www.mahoganyrush.com: “I always knew we had fans, I just didn’t know I’d find half a million of them on the Web,” he said in an interview with Guitar Player in 2005. He released Eye of the Storm, and went on tour again, playing more improvisational shows.
is still active, recording and touring under his own name. He has also
been involved in blues recordings with other artists as well, playing
on tribute albums to Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Technique and equipment

Besides Jimi Hendrix, Marino acknowledged the influence of for instance Duane Allman, Johnny Winter, and Carlos Santana.
He plays blues, heavy metal, and improvisational styles; one of his
notable tricks is playing (live) a lick as if it were played backwards,
with the help of only a volume pedal and a delay. His style has influenced many guitar players, including Zakk Wylde and Eric Gales. His tone is recognized by for instance Guitar Player, which called him a “full-spectrum guitar god,” alongside Jeff Beck, Eddie Van Halen, and The Edge.

He is noted for complicated set-ups; according to Guitar Player, he has “an entire pedalboard … assigned to hold the expression pedals that control the parameters of the effects on another pedalboard.” In the past, he has built his own amplifiers to achieve the right sound; he also uses Fender Twins. Marino is a devoted Gibson SG player and regularly uses four of them, two with the original PAF pickups and two with DiMarzio humbuckers.

Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush (Mahogany Rush 1970-6).
Hard-rock/heavy-metal band formed in 1970 in Montreal by the guitarist
and singer Frank Marino with the drummer Jimmy Ayoub and the bass
guitarist Paul Harwood. The group initially patterned itself after
contemporary British blues-rock bands, and Marino adopted the
exhibitionist style of the US guitarist Jimi Hendrix. After making its
first three LPs 1972-4 in Canada for Kot’ai (Maxoom, KOT-3001; Child of the Novelty, KOT-3302; Strange Universe, KOT-3308) the trio moved to the USA. Six LPs followed 1976-81 for Columbia: Mahogany Rush IV (KC-34190), World Anthem (PC-34677), Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush Live (PC-35257), Tales of the Unexpected (JC-35753), What’s Next (JC-36204), and Power of Rock ‘n’ Roll
(FC-37009). The third of these was recorded in various cities during
one of the band’s several extensive US tours. Marino’s performance with
Mahogany Rush at the California Jam II rock festival also was issued in
part on record (2-Col PC2-35389).

The band made its British debut in 1977, toured Japan late in 1978, and
returned to Canada for occasional appearances. Marino (b Montreal 20
Nov 1954), was described in this period as ‘a rip-roaring,
crowd-pleasing rocker whose playing runs from excessive repetition for
its own sake to fine solo work that reveals several influences… of
the many aspects of Hendrix’s style, the one most successfully
interpreted in concert is the rampaging firebreather – stoked with
wah-wah, distortion, feedback and bizarre harmonics’ (Tom Wheeler, Guitar Player,
Jun 1978). During the 1980s Marino worked with other musicians,
including his brother Vince, also a guitarist, and dropped the Mahogany
Rush name for the LPs Juggernaut (Col F-38023, issued in 1982, with the popular ‘Strange Dreams’) and Full Circle (Maze ML-8011, released in 1986). However, his 12th album, Double Live
(Maze MMAL-6004), issued in 1988, found the Mahogany Rush name
restored. Marino remained a nightclub attraction in the early 1990s.

Frank
Marino
Born : November
20th
1954,
Montreal,
Canada.

To
say that Frank Marino excels in a live environment is a total
understatement!
The power of Frank “live” is the stuff of legend as everyone who has
seen him will agree and he certainly lives up to his reputation on his
latest
album. Quote: “When I was a kid and I first heard Frank Marino, I

was stunned. His technique and tone was smooth yet aggressive. He is a
very powerful
performer and was an inspiration to me at a critical time in my musical
evolution.”~
Steve Vai


~
The
Hendrix Experience ~

As
Frank
Marino And Mahogany Rush grew in popularity, the press naturally caught
up with
him. Amazed by his superb guitaring, having a strong Hendrix influence
and finding
out Franks earlier drug days which landed him in hospital; they came out
with
some incredible stories ..”Frank Marino overdosed and awoke from a coma
in
the hospital and somehow became the spirit of Hendrix…”, and “Frank
Marino met Hendrix’ spirit which entered him, endowing him with this
amazing ability
to play a guitar and magically now knows everything about guitars…”.
Later
on the story changed into a version that said he was in a car accident,
died and
came back with Jimi Hendrix in his body. These press articles followed
and dogged
him throughout the 70s & 80’s. The press didn’t want to listen to
the truth.

~ The
Truth ~

As
a very
young teenager Frank did experiment with weed & acid, heavily ~ too
heavily
with LSD. His young brain could not handle it and he had such a
terrifying trip,
he ended up hospitalized. However this all happened in 1967, Frank was
13, Hendrix
was very much alive. At the time Frank was quite a decent drummer and
had never
thought about the guitar. While in hospital he had a great fear of
letting his
mind wander back into the terrifying trip so needed to occupy his mind
and the
only thing in the relaxation room was a guitar, so he started to teach
himself
to play. He played it incessantly, and afterwards every single moment
that he
was awake he played it and played it. . He found the guitar a very
soothing help
and began to play Hendrix music because it matched perfectly to what he
was going
through at the time. Frank Marino has never taken drugs from that day
on. “This
experience became the basis of everything that I was to do in music,
including
the name Mahogany Rush, which was a description I would use to describe a
certain
sensation that I was having on the trip.” Out of this bad experience the

Set
Up
~ Equipment
“I
build my own amps, based on Fender amplifiers and I use any strong power
amp available.
For effects, I use mainly a Rev-7 for reverb, an SPX-90 for delay and
flange,
and assorted pedals like wah-wahs, fuzz-tone, and stuff like that. I’m
not into
high-tech guitar gear. I save that for the studio. In the studio I use
Marshall
as well. Live, I almost never use the Marshalls. I did get a few
modified Marshalls
from a guy in Sweden named Tommy Folkesson, and he does the best mods
I’ve ever
heard, if you want the Marshall sound. I will only use his Marshalls,
but I also
have an original slightly modded one from the 70’s that I will also use
from time
to time. My guitars are primarily Gibson SG Les Paul’s, 1961-1/2. I’ve
got a few
other models of SG, but they’re all modded to play like the 61’s. I use
the occasional
Strat and Telecaster, but I prefer the feel of the Gibson.
It’s
funny, but so many people hear my sound and think I’m playing on a Strat
through
a Marshall, but most of the time I’m not. As a matter of fact, most of
the time
I don’t even use tubes… I use transistor-based power amps, like Crown.
Even
in the 70’s, they thought I was using Marshalls for my live album when I
was using
Acoustic 270’s, head and bottom. But now my modded pre-amp (which I do
myself)
is tube-based, and my power amp is still transistor. My pedals are less
in number
than they were in the old days… I used to have 22 of them on my board,
and everybody
used to give me grief over playing with pedals… now everyone plays
with pedals
and I hardly ever turn them on. But I mod each one of them myself…
they just
sound like crap out of the box, no matter which one you buy, it seems.”

Asked his
impression
of some of the guitars that have come out in the last few years, like
the Paul
Reed Smith, Parker Fly, etc … he replies

” I’m not
impressed
by them. It seems that they’re all too heavy, too much lacquer, a lot of
eye-candy
and fancy electronics. If these guitars were really as good as some
people would
have us believe, there would be no market for the old ones. The fact
that the
old ones still command such prices today is a testament to the fact that
they
provide something unique and untouchable…a kind of intangible feel.
Those instruments
were built by people who simply wanted to build a better instrument, it
seems.
But today, builders are trying to build a more popular one, and
somewhere along
the line they either go too far on the features and not far enough on
the simple
feel. I’ve used some guitars from smaller companies with no name that
virtually
smoke the competition, but they don’t get the ink. . . .”

SHORT
BIOGRAPHY
Frank
was born Francesco Antonio Marino on November 20th, 1954 in Montreal,
Canada.
His father is Italian and his Mother Arabic. He stayed in school to 7th
grade
and did a short stint in military school. He was involved with the
school band
as a drummer, but the heady hippie days got the better of him, as we
have read,
he was hospitalized at the age of 13. Luckily for him and us while in
hospital
the true love of the music totally took over from the drugs. At 14 he
had his
band.. Mahogany Rush, playing covers. Franks influences were Hendrix,
The Beatles,
The Doors, Quicksilver, Santana, Johnny Winter, The Grateful Dead,
Jefferson Airplane
and most of the late sixties artists that had a psychedelic flair. Also
Pink Floyd
and older Bob Dylan, among others. They brought their first album out
‘Maxoon’
when Frank was only 16. The Band went from strength to strength through
the 70’s,80’s
till ’93, They were one of the first bands to achieve International
stardom, playing
to huge crowds in Japan, Germany, England, Sweden and across the globe.
In 1993
Frank walked away from it all. He got fed up with the money making
hypocrisy within
the music business. He went home from his never ending touring to start a
family.
He has 3 young daughters. After a 5 years break he returned to the music
scene.
It is a more relaxed Frank who we can now see, who has no need to chase
the business
this time round and can pick and choose when he plays.

He
was born Francesco Antonio Marino on November 20, 1954 in
Montreal,
Canada. Half Italian and half Arabic, Frank is one of five
children
and only has a 7th grade education that even included a
short stint
in military school. “Those years were the late sixties and
everyone
was into the hippie peace movement and we were so busy
getting
stoned that we certainly didn’t want to attend school. All
we did
besides getting stoned was listen to Hendrix, The Doors,
The Beatles
and a few others as well as getting involved in movements
such
as peace, love, anti-war etc. Those were definitely the
days, not
like now where many young people seem to be into
negativism and
hate”.

It
was during those days that his experimentation with LSD
would lead
him to what was later to become the definition of his
life. As
a young person doing far too much acid, he couldn’t really
understand
when it finally caught up with him and gave him such an
incredibly
vivid experience that was so overwhelming, that it landed
him in
the hospital. “This experience became the basis of
everything that
I was to do in music, including the name Mahogany Rush,
which was
a description I would use to describe a certain sensation
that
I was having on the trip. The artwork on the albums, Child
of the
Novelty and Strange Universe are an artist’s rendition of
my trip
as told by me to the artist, Ivan Schwartz, who has since
passed
away”.

Since
this early drug experience later became known to the press
that
covered his career, and since he played much in the style
of Jimi
Hendrix who had recently died, these sensationalists
created stories
that to this very day Frank has tried immensely and
unsuccessfully
to dismiss. “The most often heard story is that I took an
overdose
and woke up from a coma in the hospital and somehow became
the
spirit of Hendrix, or that I met this spirit and it
entered me,
endowing me with this amazing ability to play a guitar and
magically
know everything about it. Later on the story changed into a
version
that said I was in a car accident, died and came back as
Jimi Hendrix
in my body. They never ask me the truth and when I told
them, they
wouldn’t listen. The short truth about it is that I
learned how
to play guitar while recuperating from my trip. The guitar
became
a soothing help for me because of my great fear of letting
my mind
wander back into the trip if I wasn’t occupied and besides
it was
the only thing in the hospital relaxation room. I never
even thought
about the guitar before since I played the drums quite
well anyway.
I had this trip while Hendrix was still alive and began to
play
his music because it matched perfectly to what I was going
through
at the time”.

It
was only a few short years later after many different band
members,
that Frank Marino recorded his first album. “In the early
years
I played in a church and even on a float in a parade. I
did mostly
cover songs by The Doors, Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Cream,
Johnny Winter,
The Beatles and even The Grateful Dead as well as a few
originals
that I had written”.

Frank
Marino’s music never reached the mainstream of popularity,
but
has had a devoted fan base that has grown over the years.
Being sober
now for over 35 years, he still plays with the enthusiasm
that
he’s always had. Frank is into his music and doesn’t
really care
for the business side of it and has always produced his
own albums
as well as writing and arranging all of the music. If you
ever
get a chance to see him play live, don’t pass it up. I
have been
a devoted fan for 30 years and welcome any newcomers with
open
arms.

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