The 2018 Slight Return Press Kit- w/George Clinton, Jack Endino, Billy Cox, Andy Vargas, Dennis Coffey, Davey Pattison, Tony Lindsay, Dennis Chambers, Pat Lewis, Jim Diamond. Slight Return is: Mark Kassa (guitar/vocals), Eddie Apple (bass), Ronnie Karmo (drums), Tony Mitchell (percussion/vocals)
Tomorrow on the The D Cap talk show, Tom McDonough and I will be interviewing iconic multi-platinum producer Jim Gaines. Jim has over a dozen Grammy Awards and Platinum Albums he has recorded and produced including – Stevie Ray Vaughan- In Step, Santana- multiple albums including Supernatural, Steve Miller- Fly[…]
Enjoyed another great Santana show thanks to our friends Sean Guthrie and Andy Vargas- two of the best! Don’t forget to check out the great singing Andy did on the Slight Return Vicious Tides album! #souleros #vicioustides #beyondthebarricade
http://rlrecordings.com/Thank you Tom McDonough for adding Mark Kassa to the RL Recordings Record Label staff (a subsidiary of Universal Records) as a producer/songwriter. I’ll be joining a great team of other producers/musicians/A&R from around the country. Looking forward to working with some great musicians and releasing Slight Return music on[…]
Thank you Ian Harvey from Glasgow, Scotland for putting three Slight Return albums on your afternoon playlist! We appreciate it brother! #slightreturnuk
Jim Prince from Prince Pipeline Integrity showing off his Slight Return shirt in Key West Florida at the Southernmost Point of the Continental USA!! Thanks for your support brother! #princepipelineintegrity #rockon #slightreturnusa #slightreturn #welcometothed #keywest #florida
We would like to welcome Eddie Apple to the Slight Return family! Eddie has studied bass under world class musicians with backgrounds from the Juilliard and Berklee schools of music,received a scholarship for classical guitar studies and was a guest columnist for “Guitar Licks” in Ground Zero Magazine. He is[…]
Slight Return will be performing at the brand new Sweetwater Entertainment Complex in Waterford, MI on Saturday March 3rd. Congratulations to Bill Nannoshi and Kevin Kassa on their new venue and the great job they did with the renovations! (thanks to Bill Von Linsowe for this cool poster) #nicepeople #greatvenue[…]
Congratulations to our friend-producer Jack Endino-The Godfather of Grunge- from Seattle, WA for winning a Grammy Award!! Long overdue! One of the best producers and best people you will ever work meet! We were lucky enough to have Jack mix our last two albums “Vicious Tides” and “Welcome To[…]
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.
TBT- The Detroit Visitors Bureau on TV using my registered trademark “Welcome To The D at the 20 second mark- the screen goes fully to “Welcome To The D”- In my opinion, this implies that they own this slogan . This is after my media company- Denha Media sent Renee[…]
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[…]
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
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[…]
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[…]
Rapper Trick Trick visited the DMAN Studios! The DMAN All Stars performed and everyone had a great time as Trick Trick delivered a positive motivational message! Proud to be a board member of this great organization that brings such positive energy and enhances so many lives! MYDMAN.ORG[…]