The Slight Return® sessions with Andy Vargas (Santana) and Dennis Chambers (Santana, P-Funk) at the famed United Sound Studios in Detroit were a success! We recorded in the same studio that Marvin Gaye, Prince, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ted Nugent, Bob Seger, Aretha Franklin, The MC5, Sly Stone, P-Funk,[…]
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Slight Return & Welcome to the D News
Great event put on last night by the Recording Academy (Grammy Awards) at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago. Jason Isbell is a fantastic writer/musician who performs with his own band and is a former member of the Drive By Truckers.
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Andy Vargas showing off his Vicious Tides CD after a recent Santana show in Las Vegas. We will be shooting some videos for the album in January.
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Slight Return- Mark Kassa endorsement demo #1 of the Vibe-Bro Univibe by Shin-ei (custom built in red) (Bridge of Sighs-Robin Trower) more information at shin-ei.com (demo is for informational/educational purposes only)
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Slight Return® is proud to be playing a private event with Andy Vargas (Santana) and legendary drummer Dennis Chambers on Jan 7th 2017 at Penna’s of Sterling (AFPD 101st Gala-poster coming soon). Dennis is one of the greatest drummers of all time! Here is a clip of Dennis with Santana[…]
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The 59th Grammy Awards Ballot has arrived!
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Slight Return will be performing wsg Dal Bouey , for a great charity, “The DMAN Foundation” Danny’s Miracle Angel Network, on Friday Oct 28th at the Lafayette Grande in Pontiac. DMAN is a great foundation of Ziad Kassab that does amazing work helping people with disabilities to record music like a rockstar! It’s music[…]
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This Friday August 19th Mark Kassa will be appearing on “The Rock and Roll Lawyer Show” with Entertainment Attorney Sheldon Kay to talk about the Jimi Hendrix.
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Vicious Tides (feat. Andy Vargas and Dennis Chambers) is now available on Itunes, Amazon, Google Music and more! Features 3 studio cuts and 6 songs from the studio jam session covering Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix, and Cream. “T Money’s Old School” is an improv jam with bass guru Edward Tony[…]
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I’m honored to officially be on the artist/endorser page for the Shin-ei Vibe-Bro Univibe (shin-ei.com) along side renowned guitarists Eric Johnson, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Doyle Bramhall II and others.
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I am proud that the Shin-ei company has chosen me for an endorsement and is building me a custom univibe with my signature. I feel honored that I will be featured on their site along side guitar greats Eric Johnson, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Doyle Bramhall Jr, Mike Landau and others![…]
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Move over Taylor Swift! Slight Return now has an official VEVO channel too! and with that… THE PREMIER OF THE SLIGHT RETURN VIDEO “SHAKE YOUR DETROIT RIGHT” featuring- George Clinton, Tony Green, Pat Lewis, Dal Bouey, Gabe Gonazales, Bill Von Linsowe and more! Shot at the historic Masonic Temple Theater[…]
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The Slight Return version of the Star Spangled Banner, performed by Mark Kassa. (Video by Bill Von Linsowe- VVP Producions, audio by Omar Binno and Jack Endino). Influenced by Jimi Hendrix…… Coming soon to an arena near you! (book a performance at your event: slightreturnusa@aol.com or use our booking form).[…]
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We’ve updated our gallery with photos from our performance at the Robin Trower show in Kalamazoo, MI. Photos by Mick McDonald, National Rock Review. Special effects by Bill Von Linsowe, VVP Visual Productions. See all the photos here.
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Slight Return will be opening for the Legendary Guitarist Robin Trower on Friday May 6th at the Kalamazoo State Theater (tickets are available) http://www.kazoostate.com/This will be Slight Return’s 7th show with Robin! #robintrower #kalamazoo #slightreturnusa
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“Slight Return’s “Funky People” Video – Featuring the legendary GEORGE CLINTON” #GrammyForTheD
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Here is Slight Return’s 2016 press kit. Featuring some great video clips and hard hitting audio. Included is a sneak peek of the yet to be released collaboration with Andy Vargas (Santana) and Dennis Chambers (Drumming legend)
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The “Experience Hendrix” tour just left Detroit. Slight Return recorded a cover of Hendrix’s “Stone Free and 3rd Stone From The Sun” with Jimi’s bassist Billy Cox- “The Last Gypsy”- on the “Welcome to The D” release. (Bill Cox on bass and vocals). Available on Itunes, Google and Amazon.
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Mark Kassa (Slight Return) is officially a voting member of the Grammy Group. He will be voting on (and attending) the Grammy Awards.
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In December 2015 Dennis Chambers came to Detroit to record 3 exclusive tracks with Slight Return and Andy Vargas (Santana front man), after the recordings a jam session broke out, here is one of the raw, unedited songs from the jam – a cover of the Jimi Hendrix classic “Hey Joe”.[…]
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