Mahogany Rush
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Mahogany Rush is a Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 band led by guitarist Frank Marino
Frank Marino
Frank Marino , born November 20, 1954, in Montreal, is the guitarist and leader of Canadian hard rock band Mahogany Rush. Often compared to Jimi Hendrix, he is acknowledged as one of the best and most underrated guitarists of the 1970s.-Biography and career:After playing drums since he was five,...

. The band had its peak of popularity in the 1970s, playing such venues as California Jam II
California Jam II
California Jam II, also known as Cal Jam II, was a music festival held in Ontario, California, at the Ontario Motor Speedway on March 18, 1978 and produced by Leonard Stogel, Sandy Feldman, and Don E. Branker. More than 300,000 people attended...

 together with bands such as Aerosmith
Aerosmith
Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to also incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired many...

, Ted Nugent
Ted Nugent
Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent is an American guitarist, musician, singer, author, reserve police officer, and activist. From Detroit, Michigan, he originally gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes, before embarking on a lengthy solo career...

 and Heart
Heart (band)
Heart is an American rock band who first found success in Canada. Throughout several lineup changes, the only two members remaining constant are sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson. The group rose to fame in the 1970s with their music being influenced by hard rock as well as folk music...

.

The band is perhaps best known for Marino's soaring lead guitar
Lead guitar
Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...

 which bears a strong resemblance to the playing of Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...

. Members have included bassist Paul Harwood, drummer Jimmy Ayoub, and guitarist Vince Marino (Frank's brother); the band has continued with other members, always under Frank Marino's leadership. After 1980, the group toured as Frank Marino's Mahogany Rush, and after Jim Ayoub left the group, it simply became Frank Marino. After a long absence, the band toured the United States in October 2006.

Discography of Mahogany Rush and Frank Marino

  • 1972 Maxoom
    Maxoom
    Maxoom is the 1972 debut studio album by the Canadian rock band Mahogany Rush. It was also the debut of Frank Marino as the band's producer.-Track listing:All songs written by Frank Marino.#"Maxoom" - 2:52#"Buddy" - 3:39#"Magic Man" - 2:29...

    U.S. #159
  • 1974 Child of the Novelty
    Child of the Novelty
    Child of the Novelty is the second studio album by Canadian rock band Mahogany Rush, led by Frank Marino. It was released in 1974.- Track listing :All songs by Frank Marino.# "Look Outside" - 3:33# "Thru the Milky Way" - 3:53...

    U.S. #74
  • 1975 Strange Universe
    Strange Universe (album)
    Strange Universe is the third studio album by Canadian rock band Mahogany Rush, led by Frank Marino. It was released in 1975.-Track listing:All songs by Frank Marino.# "Tales of the Spanish Warrior" - 4:57# "The King Who Stole " - 3:57...

    U.S. #84
  • 1976 Mahogany Rush IV
    Mahogany Rush IV
    Mahogany Rush IV is the fourth studio album by Canadian Rock music band Mahogany Rush, led by Frank Marino. It was released in 1976 on Columbia Records.- Track listing :All songs by Frank Marino.# "I'm Going Away" - 4:06# "Man at the Back Door" - 3:42...

    U.S. #175
  • 1977 World Anthem U.S. #184
  • 1978 Live U.S. #129
  • 1979 Tales of the Unexpected U.S. #129
  • 1980 What's Next
    What's Next (album)
    What's Next is an album by Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush, released in 1980, under Columbia Records. The bonus live tracks of the CD edition were recorded in Salinas, California, during the Juggernaut tour of 1983.-Track listing:...

    U.S. #88
  • 1981 The Power of Rock and Roll U.S. #202
  • 1982 Juggernaut
    Juggernaut (Frank Marino album)
    Juggernaut is the second solo studio album by Canadian rock guitarist Frank Marino, released in 1982. The original Mahogany Rush drummer Jimmy Ayoub was replaced by Timm Biery for this album.- Track listing :All songs by Frank Marino....

    U.S. #185
  • 1987 Full Circle
  • 1988 Double Live
  • 1990 From the Hip
  • 1997 Dragonfly - The best of Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush
  • 2000 Eye of the Storm
    Eye of the Storm (Mahogany Rush album)
    Eye of the Storm is a studio album by Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush. It was released on August 01, 2000, under Griffin Records.-Track listing:All songs by Frank Marino.#"Storm Warning..." - 2:51#"Eye of the Storm" - 9:54#"He's Calling" - 10:21...

  • 2004 Real Live!
    Real Live!
    Real Live! is a double live album by Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush. It was released on November 9, 2004, under Just A Minute Records.- Disc 1 :#"Voodoo Chile" - 10:02#"Something's Coming Our Way " - 2:38#"He's Calling" - 14:39...

    (double live album)
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