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Vernon Alphonsus Reid (born 22 August 1958) [1] [2] is a British-born American guitarist and songwriter best known as the founder of the rock band Living Colour. Reid was named No. 66 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, [ 3 ] and in August 2023, was ranked #42 in Rolling Stone Magazine ...
Dec 21, 2021 · Vernon Reid. Once the band had a general framework for the song, Reid pulled out a notebook in which he wrote poems and lyric ideas. “I had this section: ‘Look in my eyes. What do you see? The cult of personality.’ It was musings on the amoral nature of leadership.
Greed is the second album by Ambitious Lovers, released in 1988 through Virgin Records. Naná Vasconcelos and John Zorn were among the album's many guest musicians.
Feb 26, 2021 · In 1988 I interviewed Vernon for a guitar magazine cover story shortly after Vivid dropped. In addition to dissecting his unique style, Vernon delved into rock’s racially fraught history, highlighting the work of earlier black rock guitarists who never won the mainstream attention they deserved.
Writers Arto Lindsay, Naná Vasconcelos, Paulinho da Viola & 1 more. Background Vocals Bernard Fowler & Vernon Reid. Drums Joey Baron. Guitar Bill Frisell & Steve Horton. More Ambitious Lovers...
Nov 3, 2023 · From Vivid to Time’s Up to Stain, Vernon Reid’s radical solos and effects experimentalism set Living Colour apart from every other guitar band in the grunge era
Guitarist Vernon Reid is best known as the founder of the groundbreaking African-American rock group Living Colour. But to recognize Reid solely for his Grammy Award-winning work as a rock musician would be to miss a rich and varied body of work that has extended into virtually every musical genre.
