Slight Return’s “Vicious Tides” moves back up to #24 on the Global Rock Charts! #RLrecordings #Mi5 #UniversalMusicGroup #TomMcdonough #TedMason #MarkKassa #WilliamPope #RonnieKarmo #TonyMitchell #slightreturnusa #slightreturnuk #BruceJackson #BlastFM #teamjohnhill #hendrix #santana #slyandthefamilystone #welcometothed #thed #musiciansinstitute #MI #GIT #alumni #grammys #recordingacademy #chicagochapter #culture #Dearborn #Detroit #DMAN #RLradio #thedcap
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Great times playing at the Henry Ford Museum performing at the Star Trek Happy Hour- celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Woodstock and the episode of Star Trek when they meet hippies in space. #RLrecordings #Mi5 #UniversalMusicGroup #TomMcdonough #TedMason #MarkKassa #WilliamPope #RonnieKarmo #TonyMitchell #slightreturnusa #slightreturnuk #BruceJackson #BlastFM #teamjohnhill #woodstock #hendrix #santana[…]
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Check out our music label “RL Recordings” at https://rlrecordings.com/ Great stuff happening here! Record label, “Welcome to the D®” TV Show, “The D® Cap” Talk Show, “RL Radio” Station, “Music Player” Magazine, a staff of musicians, producers, and writers that have had radio hits, Grammy Awards and more! #RLrecordings #Mi5[…]
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Slight Return Press Kit Video #RLrecordings #Mi5 #UniversalMusicGroup #SlightReturnUSA #TomMcDonough #TedMason #brucejackson #blastfm #DMAN #teamjohnhill #markkassa #slightreturnUK #musicplayermagazine #thedcap #welcometothed #georgeclinton #parliament #funkadelic #dennischambers #andyvargas #souleros #vicioustides #DRT #charts #billycox #hendrix #daveypattison #petethompson #glennletsch #victorghannam #tonygreen #denniscoffey #motown #funkbrothers #jimdiamond #jackendino #chrishanzsek #grunge #nirvana #santana #robintrower #welcometothed #robertplant #whitestripes #williampope[…]
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Have a great 4th of July! (Mark Kassa at Jimmy John’s Stadium performing the Star Spangled Banner)
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Very grateful to be on the Shin-ei endorsement page alongside guitar greats Eric Johnson, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Doyle Bramhall Jr, Oz Noy and others. Check out some of their great new products at shin-ei.com Demo videos are on the site, including one from myself. Great products hand built by Dustin[…]
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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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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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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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Had a great time talking to Chris Layton (former drummer for Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble) backstage at the Experience Hendrix Tour at the Fox Theater in Detroit, MI. Chris told some good Stevie Ray Vaughan stories, especially the one about the show I attended in 1986 when[…]
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Promo clip demo by Mark Kassa for the Vibe-Bro Univibe by Shin-ei. “Machine Gun”- by Jimi Hendrix. Thanks to Bob Feldman at Shin-ei for the endorsement and the custom made unit in red. Video by Bill Von Linsowe -VVP Video.
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Welcome to The D!® Mark Kassa met one of his favorite guitarists, Henry Garza of Los Lonely Boys. Mark proposed a collaboration on a track with Slight Return.
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®Welcome To The D! Mark Kassa of Slight Return meets the Mayor of Detroit, Mike Duggan, at his office in downtown Detroit.
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A shot of Wilson Sarkis filming the Vicious Tides video at the Jack White Theater in Detroit, MI. Photo by Matt Sikorski
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A great photo by Kathy Hyde Ruzan of Dennis Chambers on the Slight Return® drum kit (from our recent gig) #dennischambers #slightreturnusa
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Slight Return just completed video shoots with Wilson Sarkis at the Jack White Theater (inside the Masonic Temple) in Detroit, MI. for the Vicious Tides album (feat. Andy Vargas and Dennis Chambers). Stay tuned for five videos. Photo by Kathy Hyde Ruzan
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Photographer Matt Sikorski recorded an impromptu video of Mark Kassa playing Jimi Hendrix’s “Little Wing” in the Zamboni area before he hit the ice to play the National Anthem at the Huntington Center in Toledo, OH.
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Mark Kassa of Slight Return performed the Star Spangled Banner at the Huntington Center- Toledo Walleye Hockey Arena in Toledo, Ohio on Dec 27th. 8,000 fans at the game. Here’s the video (captured by Matt Sikorski).
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