| 词条 | Mike McKenna (musician) |
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| name = Mike McKenna | image = Mike-mckenna-wp.jpg | alt = Mike McKenna | caption = Mike McKenna performs at The Boathouse in Kitchener, Ontario on April 29th, 2018 | image_size = | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | birth_name = | alias = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|04|15}} | birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | origin = | death_date = | death_place = | genre = rock / blues | occupation = | instrument = slide guitar | years_active = 1960's – present | label = | associated_acts = Luke & The Apostles McKenna Mendelson Mainline Slidewinder Downchild Blues Band DiamondBack McKenna-Gibson band | website = }} Mike McKenna (born April 15, 1946) is a professional Canadian rock / blues guitarist[1] noted for his electric slide playing. HistoryBorn in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, McKenna began playing professionally in the early 1960s in Yorkville where he formed the group Luke & The Apostles. McKenna was one of the first Toronto rock guitar players to play a hollow body (i.e..Gibson Les Pauls) while most rock musicians were still playing solid bodies (for example Stratocasters and Telecasters). McKenna got a particularly rich sound by playing through 200 watt Marshall Plexi stacks and using banjo strings on the high end to make note bending easier (a trick he supposedly learned from Robbie Robertson - then playing with The Hawks and backing Ronnie Hawkins). Luke and the Apostles were asked to open for Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead by Bill Graham (of Fillmore East / Filmore West fame) for a week-long stint at Toronto's O'Keefe Centre in 1967. Jerry Garcia apparently liked the sound of McKenna's Les Paul so much he bought it (reportedly it's the black Les Paul Garcia once posed with when he was being photographed for Rolling Stone magazine). An invitation to visit New York to open with the Dead followed and the Apostles recorded a single for Elektra Records (produced by The Doors' Paul Rothchild). Unfortunately inconclusive contract negotiations and conflicting priorities saw the band returning to Canada and eventually disbanding. Back in Canada and a couple of years later, a newspaper ad put Mike in touch with Joe Mendelson, leading to the formation of the McKenna Mendelson Mainline (later known simply as Mainline), recording the album McKenna Mendelson Blues - a demo recorded in Canada but unreleased until after the band had gone to England (at John Lee Hooker's suggestion) and had great success with the landmark (and seminal McKenna mendelson Mainline) album Stink (recorded in 1969 in the UK). "Stink" garnered considerable success in England and throughout Europe and the band returned to Canada to critical and popular acclaim. However, personality clashes and musical differences led to MMM disbanding in the early 1970s . There were a couple of posthumous reunions as "Mainline", including two very successful tours of Australia, and the notorious "Bump and Grind Review" which yielded a live album "The Mainline Bump and Grind Review Live at the Victory" (recorded at Toronto's famous Victory Burlesque Theatre) in 1972. A final album with Joe Mendelson entitled "No Substitutes" was released in 1975 to a poor reception, after which McKenna and Mendelson never played together again. McKenna has been with a number of notable groups throughout the years since Mainline called it quits, including tenure with Downchild Blues Band, Diamondback, and The Guess Who - in name only - (replacing Domenic Troiano on guitar). After a hiatus of some years, he formed Slidewinder with saxophonist Ronnie Jacobs (a Mainline alumnus and a founding member of the Downchild Blues Band) in the early - mid 1990s and released a self-titled CD "Mike McKenna and Slidewinder" in 1997, with Denny Gerrard on bass, Rob McPhearson on keyboards, and Bruce Brooker on drums. When Toronto's internationally known El Mocambo Tavern closed down in November 2001, the alumni Mainline members (but without Joe Mendelson) were invited to perform and McKenna along with Tony Nolasco (drums, vocals), Ted Purdy (acoustic guitar, vocals), Mike Harrison (bass), and Bob Adams (harp) entered Toronto's rock history as the last band to grace the El Mo's famous upstairs stage. Ironically, neither McKenna Mendelson Mainline nor Mainline ever performed at the El Mo while they were together. In later years, McKenna reformed with Luke Gibson (of Luke and the Apostles) as lead guitarist for The Luke Gibson Band - the house band for the ill-fated Blues on Belair Club in Toronto in the late 1990s. He also played briefly with the original Mainline members (sans Mendelson) at the same venue. McKenna was rehearsing and recording with the original members of Diamondback in late 2007/early 2008. There were plans to re-release the Diamondback album originally recorded in 1974 (but never released) as a re-recorded and re-mastered CD in the fall of 2008. The project fell through reportedly due to money issues, internal dispute and personality clashes. On April 25, 2009 McKenna celebrated both his birthday and his 45 years on the Toronto music scene by hosting an all day event at the Black Swan Tavern in Toronto. The event featured a who's-who of Toronto's rock and roll / blues / Yorkville Sound scene including the original members of Mainlne - Tony Nolasco, Mike Harrison, Ted Purdy (who replaced Mendelson) and Bob Adams (sitting in on harmonica); Luke Gibson (of Luke and the Apostles); Dave Bingham (of the Ugly Ducklings); Kensington Market; various members of DiamondBack; and Scott "Professor Piano" Cushnie, among others. In the fall of 2009, McKenna began rehearsing once again with Luke Gibson (of Luke & the Apostles). David Martin / drums, percussion; William (Bill) Miller / bass; and Michael Keys / keyboards, McKenna (on lead guitar, slide guitar, vocals) and Gibson (doing the honours on lead vocals and guitar) showcased the now defunct McKenna Gibson Band at the Black Swan Tavern in Toronto on December 12, 2009. As of 2014, McKenna is still playing and performing occasionally with Gibson (as Luke and the Apostles) but with a different lineup that sometimes includes original member Peter Jermyn on keyboards and playing predominantly old late 1960s/early 1970s Mainline and Apostles' material to predominantly a "nostalgia" crowd.. DiscographySingleswith LUKE & THE APOSTLES
as MCKENNA MENDELSON MAINLINE
as MAINLINE
Albumsas MCKENNA MENDELSON MAINLINE
as MAINLINE
as MIKE McKENNA with /DIAMONDBACK Original cd (recorded 1974) for upcoming release (Pacemaker Records) with DOWNCHILD BLUES BAND
with VARIOUS ARTISTS (COMPILATIONS)
References1. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/Mike+McKenna |title=Mike McKenna Biography |author=Discogs |date= |work= |publisher=|accessdate=21 January 2011}} [1][2]2. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/ourl/res.php?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_tim=2011-01-22T01%3A03%3A58Z&url_ctx_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=17045141&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fcollectionscanada.gc.ca%3Aamicus |title=AMICUS No. 17045141 |author=Library and Archives Canada |date= |work= |publisher= |accessdate=21 January 2011}} | colwidth =30em }}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:McKenna, Mike}} 10 : Canadian rock guitarists|Canadian blues guitarists|Canadian male guitarists|Musicians from Toronto|Living people|1946 births|20th-century Canadian guitarists|21st-century Canadian guitarists|20th-century male musicians|21st-century male musicians |
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