On a positive note, Steve Conway used to play “Welcome to the D” for Pistons games at the Palace when Bill Davidson owned the team. Good people. They’d call me with Pistons tickets in exchange. I’d say it was win-win.
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Trademarks/Intellectual Properties- are they useless? What would you think if you owned multiple trademarks on the slogan “Welcome To The D” and then saw them on thousands of banners on a major city’s streets/posters/tv campaign/press release during the World Series, USA Volleyball tournament, Quick Lane Bowl, TV news appearance, Have[…]
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The Fox Sports broadcast of Mark Kassa playing the Star Spangled Banner for the Toledo Walleye Hockey Game at The Huntington Arena in Toledo, OH
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Mark has had people ask how to get a Hendrix sound without dropping a lot of money so he put together this short tutorial called “Hendrix on a budget”- a cost effective way of getting some Hendrix tones. We hope you like it
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Mark and Marilyn Kassa at the Grammy Awards 2018 Chicago Chapter Gala at the Atelier Manarchy. Good luck to all the nominees!
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Thanks to Phil Varone for featuring Slight Return on Las Vegas based Unphiltered Radio. Phil is also a SiriusXM radio personality and former drummer for Skid Row and Saigon Kick. Phil put us in the regular rotation. Here are the two Slight Return songs he played on the show (he[…]
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TBT- Mark Kassa playing The Star Spangled Banner at Jimmy John’s Stadium on the 4th of July (thanks to Matt Sikorski for shooting this video). It was a great honor for Mark as they had 50 people holding a giant American flag in the outfield, two people parachute onto the[…]
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Take your event to the next level by booking Slight Return wsg artists Andy Vargas (lead vocalist for Santana), legendary drummer Dennis Chambers (Santana, Parliament/Funkadelic, Steely Dan, Jackson 5) and Grammy Award winning vocalist Tony Lindsay (Santana). You will get the music of Slight Return along with a tribute to[…]
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the DMAN All Stars and the DMAN Foundation team! #bethemiracle Mark Kassa is proud to be an executive board member of this fantastic organization that enriches so many lives through the power of music! learn more at mydman.org
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It was an honor to have the legendary bassist Tony “T Money” Green step onstage with Slight Return at the Royal Oak Music Theater in MI. Tony played bass on the Slight Return song “Shake Your Detroit Right” from the “Welcome To The D” album which also features Rock &[…]
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Thanks to Seannerie Guthrie-“Beyond the Barricade”- bodyguard to the stars- for letting us meet guitar legend Carlos Santana at The Collosseum Concert Venue insides Caesar’s Casino in Windsor, Canada. Carlos was a great guy! so nice to meet one of the guitar legends you grew up admiring and seen live[…]
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Slight Return opened for Queensryche at the Emerald Theater in Mt Clemens, MI. A great crowd and show!
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Let the voting begin! Opening round of voting for the 2018 Grammy Awards has begun! Looking forward to listening to all the great music on the ballot. This year the Grammy’s will be held at Madison Square Garden in New York.
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We had a great time opening for Bumblefoot (Ron Thal) at the Token. Cool guy and he jams!! Special thanks to Blameshift from New York and The Nearly Deads from Nashville who kicked off the night! Special thanks to David Dillingham who made us these great laminates!
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Mark Kassa would like to thank DIME Music School for having him as the Master Class special guest. Slight Return performed 4 songs and Mark jammed with the students on a couple of Hendrix tunes!
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Mark Kassa will be the guest master class instructor at DIME Music School in Detroit, MI on Friday Oct 13th 2017. The class will be at the DIME Underground Music Venue from 1-3PM. The event will feature a live performance by Slight Return®
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Mark Kassa of Slight Return will be doing a two hour Music Master Class at a great school- DIME (Detroit Institute of Music Education) on Oct 13th. The Slight Return band will join him to perform live! (Thank you Paul Schauert at DIME for the opportunity) #WelcomeToTheD #TheD
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A great time jamming at the WCSX Winners party! Thanks to Doug Podell (and Kathy Ruzan for the picture)! Slight Return will be opening for Queensryche on Nov 11th 2017 at the beautiful Emerald Theater in Mt Clemens #wcsx #radio #dougpodell #queensryche
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Great to see Santana at the House of Blues in Las Vegas. The guitar legend still sounds amazing! #santana #lasvegas
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Magpie Salute (Rich Robinson- formerly of the Black Crows) put on a great show at the Brooklyn Bowl in Las Vegas #richrobinson #magpiesalute #brooklynbowl #markkassa #lasvegas
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