News:
06-03-2008:
Guitar Player TV introduce a New Channel: Richie Kotzen
The blurb: Touted as one of the best guitar players in the world, a voice on par with some of the greatest rock/soul singers and creative songwriting, Richie Kotzen has had an incredible journey in the world of music. From his days in Poison to being the only artist to have two signature Fender guitars, Kotzen continues to fuel the fires with high octane rock.
15-01-2008:
Richie Kotzen has scheduled the following European tour dates:
March 07 - Legend 54 / Milano (Italy)
March 08 - Corallo - Scandiano/Re (Italy)
March 09 - Bluesiana - Valden (Austria)
March 11 - A38 - Budapest (Hungary)
March 13 - Uhlenspiegel - Leonberg (Germany)
March 14 - Posthof - Linz (Austria)
March 15 - Lucille - Verona (Italy)
March 19 - Moscow (Russia)
March 20 - Ufa (Russia)
March 22 - Ekaterinburgh (Russia)
The band line up:
Richie Kotzen: Vocals, Guitars, Mandolin
Arlan Schierbaum: Keyboards
Virgil McKoy: Bass Guitar
Franklin Vanderbilt: Drums and Percussion
August Kotzen (Richie's daughter): Additional Background Vocals
11-12-2007:
A batch of vocal tunes from King Richie Of Kotzen
Richie Kotzen Socialite
Richie Kotzen 'Remember'
Richie Kotzen Losin My Mind
Ritchie Kotzen Rockin'
06-12-2007:
Richie Kotzen master of sweep and looking cool returns with some happy holiday news.
Guitar Clinics This December In Italy!
Sunday December 09th, Udine
Monday December 10th, Padua
Tuesday December 11th, Verona
Wednesday December 12th, Brescia
Thursday December 13th, Pavia
Friday December 14th, Vercelli
Saturday December 15th, Florence
Sunday December 16th, Massa Carrara
Monday December 17th, Urbino
plus a new RK LIVE DVD coming in 2008!
Los Angeles show@ The Viper Room Jan 25th! 10pm
then Back to Europe March 08!... plus go faster CD available.
now for a burst of guitar wonderfulness.
"Feed my head"
"Can you feel"
10-10-2007:
Another cool jam from Richie Kotzen, this time on a Fender Strat.
New CD in Japan! Return of The Mother Head's Family Reunion
09-10-2007:
A new promo from Frontiers Records for the motherheads family reunion... strikes me Richie Kotzen can play the guitar...don't you think?
Richie Kotzen trailer
28-08-2007:
Richie Kotzen new album Audio Samples Available; European Edition To Include Bonus Track. Fontiers Records will issue Richie Kotzen's Return Of The Mother Head's Family Reunion album on October 19th in Europe. The European edition of the album (previously released in Japan on July 18th) will include an exclusive bonus track.
The Mother Head's Family Reunion is the title of the former MR. BIG guitarist’s debut solo album for Geffen Records, originally released in 1994, his first post-Poison solo album. Regarded by many fans and critics as his real masterpiece album this new album features drummer Franklin Vanderbilt, bassist and Arlan Schierbaum who has already played keyboards on Richie's previous albums.
'Go Faster', 'Fooled Again', 'Chase It', 'Do It Yourself'
22-07-2007:
Richie Kotzen has just released a new album in Japan, with a video introduction, entitled "Return of the Mother Head's Family Reunion".
The CD will be available via iTunes and at Kotzen's official web site beginning September 15. The album will be titled "Go Faster" for the North American territory. The CD also features Richie's daughter, August Kotzen on backing vocals.
"Return of the Mother Head's Family Reunion" track listing:
01. Go Faster
02. Feed My Head
03. Fooled Again
04. Can You Feel It
05. Your Crazy
06. Chase It
07. Bad Things
08. Do It To Yourself
09. Dust
10. Faith
11. You Know That
12. Satellite (Japan bonus track)
11-07-2007:
That's the way you do it!
Char and Richie Kotzen jam session
19-06-2007:
Check out Richie kotzens lick of the week on guitar World
Richie Kotzen's Lick of the Week - Week One
Richie Kotzen's Lick of the Week - Week Two
Richie Kotzen's Lick of the Week - Week Three
Richie Kotzen's Lick of the Week - Week Four
Richie Kotzen's Lick of the Week - Week Five
18-06-2007:
Woohooo...some really good samples of Richie from his pre vocal solo days! Thanks so much to hangingmonkey123
Squeeze Play
Plaid Plesiosaur AIM Clinic 1989
Plus some more recent stuff
Demonstration #1 Funk Jam
Demonstration #2 Space Jam
100% (Young Guitar) - Ex:1-8
04-06-2007:
The Rafael Nery and the team at http://www.guitar-clinic.net/ have been busy, lots of new lessons, and interviews. Also this one with Richie Kotzen from the May edition.
29-05-2007:
Richie Kotzen returns with some killer jamming.
slow jam
24-01-2007:
Apologies for RK fans for the delay in adding this titanic player to the list. So as a payback a new interview from www.hardrockhaven.net, covering the release of his latest CD, "Into the Black".
Also YouTube has a bucket load of video available...so I' post some highlights
VERTÚ - Anoche - Montreaux Festival 1999
Mr. Big, Farewell Live in Japan
Reh Video Intro
Rock Chops - Example 25-26
improv I'm loosing you
guitar lesson
poison stand
Background:
Richie Kotzen was born in Pennsylvania. He started electric guitar from the age of 7. He formed his first band at the age of 12 performing live around Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey.
Richie was picked up in Mike Varneys spotlight column abd when he was 18 he went San Francisco to record his forst album with Shrapnel Records.
He went on to record three records Shrapnel before reinvigourating multi platinum
metal poison. He recorded and toured with the band releasing one CD and hit single "Stand". He went on again as a solo arti releasing material through Shrapnel,
Geffen, and JVC.
His talent is so great that he was invited by jazz legend Stanley Clarke to form the band Vertu, recording a self-titled cd for Sony and touring Europe playing jazz festivals.
Te then went on to join Mr Big writing and recording 2 studio records and number one hit single shine. Mr Big split (hurrah) and RK went back to making solo records. If you get a change you must seee this player live!!
You can buy his material from his online store or view items on guitar9
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