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He then decided to relocate to Los Angeles where he became a sideman for such artists as Percy Mayfield and Deacon Jones.He also worked in the bands of John Lee Hooker and Joe Tex.In 1981 be became the guitarist for blues rock band Canned Heat.This led to an invitation to play in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers where he shared the stage with guitarist Coco Montoya.He left the Bluesbreakers in 1989 and formed the Walter Trout Band which developed a successful following in Europe.In 1994 the official Walter Trout Fan Club for the Netherlands and Belgium saw the light of day, followed in 1996 by the official international Fan Club who has members in 13 countries in Europe, America and Australia.In 2006 the official international Fan club celebrated its tenth anniversary by giving Fan Club members an exclusive live CD recorded in Las Vegas which was the last performance of the late bass player, Jimmy Trapp who died in 2005.CD and renamed his band Walter Trout and the Free Radicals (later renamed Walter Trout and the Radicals).Discography
Walter Trout Band
1990 Life In The Jungle (rereleased in 2002)
1990 Prisoner of a Dream
1992 Transition
1992 No More Fish Jokes (live)
1994 Tellin' Stories
1995 Breaking The Rules
1997 Positively Beale St.Walter Trout and the Free Radicals
1998 Walter Trout (same tracks as Positively Beale St.This page was last modified on 5 March 2008, at 16:30.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.He has played with great bands and singers such as Canned Heat, John Lee Hooker, Big Mama Thornton, and was a member of the legendary John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, before starting
his own band in 1989.His music is a mix between blues and rock.HAVE TO check out his work.He is quite an amazing talent.The recording starts with great version of Robert Johnson's "Dust My Broom" and was recorded at the Skanderborg Festival in Denmark."Tellin' Stories" is a move more into the harder rockin' direction, but it also includes some slower songs like "I Need To Belong".It features the beautiful instrumental "Marie's Mood", dedicated to Walter's wife Marie.Another great song is the rocker "Don't Worry
About It" along with "Temptation", which is one of his best songs.It is one of the most beautiful songs he has ever written.Next came "Livin' Every Day", which saw the band change its name from the Walter Trout Band to Walter Trout and the Free Radicals and move to the RUF label.Edgar Hoover is a great kick
against hypocrisy).Trout's discography is the 4 track single "Breaking The Rules".Along with the title track from the full blown CD, there are 3 unreleased acoustic tracks "Death Letter Blues", "Life In The Jungle", and "Lady
Luck".Lister on a cover of Gary Moore's "Since I Met You Baby".The Walter Trout Band has also released a concert video titled "Live and Kickin'", available on DVD only.These are each world class recordings and showcase Trout and band in their greatest environment: in front of a live audience.Recently, he has released his latest studio recording "Go The Distance", which includes some of his best studio work to date.Sammy Avila has joined the band as their new keyboard player and Kenny Soule has taken over the drums.Joey Pafumi joined the band as the new drummer in April 2002.Follow the link below to read our review and visit the bands official website for more information.To read our review of "Go The Distance", click here!To read our review of "Relentless", click here!That was a pretty infamous group.What was some of your favorite memories from back then?Besides Canned Heat I've played with John Lee Hooker, Big Momma Thorton, Joe Tex, Percy Mayfield, Pee Wee Craton and a lot of other people, but I didn't quit drinking until 12 years ago when I was with John Mayall, and before that it's all pretty much a blur.When I joined that band it was right after Bob Hight had died, and the band was going to break up and stop.They knew me from playing with Hooker and they called up and said, "Look, we have a tour of Australia and Henry Vestien is drinking so much right now that he can't do the tour.WT) Well, drinking and drugs.WT) Totally Clean for twelve years.And he came and said, "You have this gift to play the guitar.God gave you a gift and you can play the guitar and you're in this world famous blues band playing with John Mayall, and there's 100,000 guitar players on this planet who would love to be in your shoes, and you're so drunk when you go on stage that you're playing really sloppy and you're basically giving the finger to God who gave you this gift.And that was when I stopped.So I just celebrated 12 years.DM) What did you do to celebrate?WT) I went out and got drunk.God for giving me a second chance.DM) Do you still have the book that Santana gave you?WT) Yep, it was called, "Discover your possibilities" and it was by Rev.Santana said to me, "There's religion and there's psychology, and there's a lot of stuff you can get out of this.If you don't want to read the religion, you don't have to but you need to read this book."And basically what it was about was realizing your own potential that you had in you, and doing everything you could do, and focusing your life on achieving your greatest potential and being the best that you could be with what you choose to do.He was the catalyst of change in my life.Have you tried stopping somebody else from doing the same?Europe I'm sort of an icon.Elton John and Jimmy Page and people like that.One in English and one in Dutch, and I get a lot of young guitar players to my shows, and I'm very willing to sit down and tell them the pitfalls of this business and maybe they can learn from my mistakes.Take my word for it all that stuff is going to do is slow you down in your quest for recognition as a musician and also slow you down in your growth as a musician.And if you think of music as a language and you think of guitar playing as a language, well what happens to a drunk when he tries to talk.So yeah, I'm very willing to sit down with any young person and tell him my experience and hopefully stop them from making the same mistakes I've made.DM) Did you notice an immediate difference in playing when you stopped?WT) It was immediate man.The first night I went on stage with Mayall and I was sober and I had not been sober on stage in over 20 years.The drugs and the booze had dulled my emotions.And also in what I call the edge in your playing.Suddenly it was all there.DM) You were talking about getting pretty heavy into the drugs at one point.DM) Literally on the street?He played on the first four Taj Mahal albums.Through going up to him, meeting him at a party and saying, "I know you have your own band and you need a rhythm guitar player and I play guitar and I want to sit in."And he said, "Leave me alone" and I said, "Tell you what, if you let me sit in I'll bring big drugs.And he said, "OK, you're going to sit in.""Hey, not only does this guy have some drugs but he can actually play the guitar" and I was in the band.So it was one hell of a band, but unfortunately Jesse was very involved with heroin and through looking up to him as one of my idols and getting in a band with him was how I got into heroin.And I stayed with that for three year and I stopped doing that in 1977."Well I'm not doing heroin.DM) In your eyes back then, you thought cocaine was better then heroin?WT) Well I thought it wasn't addictive, because when I would run out of heroin I would get physically sick.DM) When you were down and out on the street, didn't you have any friends or family who wanted to help you and take you in?WT) I had friends who wanted to help me and I wouldn't take their help.DM) This was while you were on heroin?WT) No, this was before.If you were in prison and were busted for drugs, you could go into this clinic and if you did good for one year, you were free.You had to have clean urine tests and you had to go through certain steps in this program.Now if you didn't do good, you had to go back to prison.They just hired me because I went there and did interviews with them, and they thought I'd be a good student.And it was at Jefferson University in Philadelphia.If you don't do good you're going back to prison."After my second warning I had to send them back to prison.So, I was 20 years old and in essence I was sending people to prison.We didn't know at the time.Now he had to have money to support the little girl he had impregnated so since we didn't allow him to work, the only thing he could do to make money was sell drugs.DM) It sounds like the type of thing that can haunt you for the rest of your life.And it took me until 1987 to get out of it.The idea alone about finding out about the guy killing himself.WT) Yeah, I don't know what happened to the little girl with the baby either.DM) That must have taken you awhile to get over that.Even to this day I still l think about it.Transitions and I just told people it was about change and there's a song on there called transitions, but it was really inspired by the clinic, that was the name of the clinic.But I've never really told that story to many people I just told you.DM) Well, I appreciate you telling me that story then.And I had this hypocritical side to me because when I would go off on the weekends and play with my band I would smoke pot and take acid.And then I would think, "Here I am smoking pot and taking acid.This friend of mine had gone there and they hadn't hired him.And I went over there and did the interview.They called me back and I did another interview, and they called me back and the next thing I know is I'm sitting there by the president of Jefferson University getting interviewed by him, and they hired me.But in the back of my mind I was always going to be a musician, but I wasn't making it as a musician, and I needed some way to pay my bills.And I thought, "I'll just do this as a job because they're going to pay me a lot of money."And I didn't realize what kind of commitment this job was going to take.Do you know what I mean?You didn't even want to mention to people you wrote the song about it...There's one on this album, this brand new album called, "Junkyards in your eyes" which is about drug addiction.WT) I think if people read the lyrics they just can't help it.If people listen to them and open their hearts and ears, maybe they can get something out of it.Talk to other readers about this story.Our content may not be reproduced in any manner, without written permission from TheCelebrityCafe.You did not enter a search term.Write a ReviewYour TakeTell the world what you think about Walter Trout Band!Visit other CNET Networks sites: Select SiteBNETCHOWCNET.The array contains the element ids of the arrows.Walter Trout is one of the worlds best blues guitarists and made a great great gig in Aarhus, Denmark September 28, 2002."It's been years since we have been in the studio together and once again it was nothing but inspiring!"Working with Walter was such a pleasure not only is he one of the finest guitarist I have ever heard he is also a world class human being.BB , Buddy, Albert and Eric Clapton."Walter plays a mean guitar, and he's paid his dues.Walter Trout during his 35+ year career.His first instrument was trumpet, playing in the school band.The seed was planted about a career playing music.In those vinyl grooves, Walter heard the guitar speaking to his soul, expressing what words could not.His technique accelerated rapidly as he played with Finis Tasby, Pee Wee Crayton, Lowell Fulsom, and Percy Mayfield, among others.The extremely meager pay was compensated by the satisfaction musical expression brought the young musician.Unfortunatley he was also developing the detrimental habits of drug and alcohol abuse shared by many fellow artists.Walter often teamed with Hammond B3 wizard Deacon Jones and the apprenticeship continued in the bands of John Lee Hooker, Big Mama Thorton and Joe Tex.Canned Heat, where he remained through 1984.In Canned Heat he quickly learned the ways of a touring musician, traveling the US and abroad, further refining his already stunning abilities playing night after night, and confirming his reputation as a top flight lead guitarist.Walter felt that playing with Mayall was as close to his childhood dream as he could get.An epiphany came when the band was in East Berlin, doing shows along side of Carlos Santana.In fairly short order Walter Trout quit drugs and alcohol.He gathered musicians he knew from Los Angeles and called it The Walter Trout Band.Walter Trout had developed an incredible following in Europe, but came home to little fanfare.Since then Ruf Records has released half a dozen CDs in the US and Walter effectively continued his frequent touring, splitting time more evenly between continents.With the release of Full Circle, Walter Trout demonstrates his passion for music is just as great today as it was when he started his career as a teenager more than 35 years ago.WHAT you call music is not important.Ultimately what the music makes one feel is the only thing that matters to Walter Trout.To learn more about Walter Trout visit his website:
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