Tag Archives: Nick Gravenites

Like any decade, there have been incredible music highs and lows through the ’90s — undoubtedly the lowlights being the senseless deaths of such promising artists as Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain, Blind Melon’s Shannon Hoon, and Sublime’s Brad Nowell before every could fully develop their talents. Nowell was created on Feb …

Within a genre of music where survival from the fittest isn’t just a cliché but a means of life, Jani Lane embodied the heart of ten years of excess, hedonism, and rock and roll & move. As the business lead vocalist of Warrant, he helped to propel the music group …

The name Nick Gravenites is most likely familiar mainly to aficionados of ’60s Chicago blues and SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA blues-rock and psychedelia of the same era, however, not to some wider audience, because although Gravenites was a significant contributor towards the music during its heyday, he has unfortunately been …

Blues musician, composer, and manufacturer Tag Naftalin played keyboards with the initial Paul Butterfield Blues Music group from 1965 to 1968. Since that time he has documented with best blues players like John Lee Hooker, Otis Hurry, Percy Mayfield, Wayne Natural cotton, Michael Bloomfield, Lowell Fulson, Big Joe Turner, and …

Being a founding member and business lead guitarist for Quicksilver Messenger Program, John Cipollina helped form the psychedelic audio of SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA in the 1960s. Many musicians in the picture had been folkies who ultimately turned acid rock and roll, but Cipollina and fellow guitarist Gary Duncan had …

When guitarist Mike Bloomfield remaining the Paul Butterfield Blues Music group in 1967, he wished to form a music group that combined blues, rock and roll, spirit, psychedelia, and jazz into something fresh. The ambitious concept didn’t arrive off, despite some interesting occasions; maybe it had been too ambitious to …