Richie Kotzen

[Mr Grimsdale]

I saw Richie Kotzen and his band last week in a tiny venue near me.

I hadn't heard anything of his since Electric Joy in 1992.

Simply stunning. He played through a really simple set up, his Fender signature model Telecaster, with a hot rails pickup in the bridge and a drop d lever on the head stock plugged straight into a Cornford stack.

Amazing sound. No high gain nonsense here just a fantastic warm bluesy, rock sound which veered towards country at times.

The band played some really lovely songs and Richie sang better than any guitar hero I've ever heard sing. Pat Torpey of Mr Big fame was on drums.

How Richie isn't selling millions of records I do not know.

[bueno bob]

I don't either, Grim. I actually just ran into him in a guitar shop back around '95 or so, just noodling away...I ended up plugging in a bass and we just jammed off of each other for a while and had a great time.

The guy's fuckin' brilliant.

[Reverberator]

I have a hard on .

[bueno bob]

That's nice.

[Mr Badguy]

I heard he was a prick but I`ll take your word for it, Bob.

I saw him with Poison in 1993.

What a mismatch.

Kotzen means "to puke" in german, incidently.

[Mr Grimsdale]

i couldn't agree more about the poison gig

but he was blaaaady amazing live with his band
if he's playing anywhere near you go and see him

he even played a couple of songs WITHOUT solos, here's a guy who's a solo machine but he'd written songs that he felt didn't need solos so he didn't let his ego get in the way and left them alone

[bueno bob]

Originally posted by Mr Badguy
I heard he was a prick but I`ll take your word for it, Bob.

I saw him with Poison in 1993.

What a mismatch.

Kotzen means "to puke" in german, incidently.

Actually, he was a really nice guy. Then again, I wasn't in his band and we were just playing for the shits of it, so I probably wasn't exactly anything to get his back hair up over...lol