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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Slight Return & Welcome to the D News
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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Slight Return’s rock anthem released today in the UK! Download or stream it! #anthemfunk https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/welcome-to-the-d-single/id1260077236
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Happy 4th of July from Slight Return! #markkassa #starspangledbanner #nationalanthem #jimihendrix
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Slight Return is proud to announce that Mark Kassa is officially an executive board member of an amazing organization- The DMAN Foundation! “The D-MAN Foundation strives to ensure that people with quadriplegia and other severe disabilities have the opportunities to achieve the highest quality of life possible.” Making lives better[…]
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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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®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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We are excited to announce that ®WELCOME TO THE D TV is coming back for season 3! Mark Kassa and Bill Von Linsowe have teamed up with Calvin D Kassab of Conversion Cinema to bring you all new episodes! We will still be broadcast worldwide on MEA TV as well[…]
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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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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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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’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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