Rick Vito (born October 13, 1949,
DarbyDarby is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States, along Darby Creek 5 miles southwest of downtown Philadelphia. It has a public library erected in 1743 and a cemetery more than 300 years old. The Quakers lived there early in the colonial era. Darby was settled about 1660 and was...
,
PennsylvaniaThe Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , often colloquially referred to as PA by natives and Northeasterners, is a state located in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States...
) is a
guitaristA guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as acoustic guitars, electric guitars, classical guitars and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :...
and singer. He was part of the
bandIn music, a musical ensemble or band is a group of musicians that works together to perform songs. The following articles concern types of musical bands:* Big band* Boy band* Christian band* Church band* Concert band* Cover band* Dansband* Fife and drum...
Fleetwood MacFleetwood Mac are a British/American rock band formed in 1967 in London, England.The only member present in the band from the very beginning is its namesake drummer Mick Fleetwood...
between 1987 and 1991.
Rick Vito (born October 13, 1949,
DarbyDarby is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States, along Darby Creek 5 miles southwest of downtown Philadelphia. It has a public library erected in 1743 and a cemetery more than 300 years old. The Quakers lived there early in the colonial era. Darby was settled about 1660 and was...
,
PennsylvaniaThe Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , often colloquially referred to as PA by natives and Northeasterners, is a state located in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States...
) is a
guitaristA guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as acoustic guitars, electric guitars, classical guitars and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :...
and singer. He was part of the
bandIn music, a musical ensemble or band is a group of musicians that works together to perform songs. The following articles concern types of musical bands:* Big band* Boy band* Christian band* Church band* Concert band* Cover band* Dansband* Fife and drum...
Fleetwood MacFleetwood Mac are a British/American rock band formed in 1967 in London, England.The only member present in the band from the very beginning is its namesake drummer Mick Fleetwood...
between 1987 and 1991.
Vito and
Billy BurnetteWilliam Beau "Billy" Burnette III is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter who was part of the band Fleetwood Mac from 1987 to 1995. Burnette also had a brief career in acting.-Family background:...
took over as guitarists after
Lindsey BuckinghamLindsey Adams Buckingham is an American guitarist, singer, composer and producer, most notable for being a member of the musical group Fleetwood Mac. Aside from his tenure with Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham has also released five solo albums and a live album. He is married to photographer Kristen...
left Fleetwood Mac.
In addition, Vito has been a featured player on
Bob SegerRobert Clark "Bob" Seger is an American rock musician and singer-songwriter.As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as The Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the "System" from his recordings, and continued to strive for...
's
albumAn album or record album is a collection of related audio or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites.-...
s since 1986. He played the
slide guitarSlide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. The term slide is in reference to the sliding motion of the slide against the strings, while bottleneck refers to the original material of choice for such slides, which were the necks of glass bottles...
soloIn music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer...
on the
songA song is a metrical composition intended or adapted for singing, especially one in rhymed stanzas; a lyric; a ballad....
, "
Like a Rock"Like a Rock" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Bob Seger. It is included on his 1986 Like a Rock album.It charted at #1 on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks, #12 on the US Billboard Hot 100, #21 in Adult Contemporary and #33 in the Canadian charts.The guitar track was...
". He was a long-standing member of
Bonnie RaittBonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter, born in Burbank, California. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially accessible...
's touring band in the 1990s.
Filmography
Jealousy (1984) (TV) Singer
The Last CastleThe Last Castle is a 2001 drama film directed by Rod Lurie, starring Robert Redford and James Gandolfini.The film portrays a struggle between inmates and the warden of a military prison. Eugene Irwin, a highly decorated U.S. Army General sentenced for insubordination, challenges the warden, Colonel...
(2001) Red Team leader
FirewallFirewall is a 2006 action/thriller film directed by Richard Loncraine and written by Joe Forte. Harrison Ford stars as Jack Stanfield, a security expert at a bank faced with a corporate merger and the offer of a new job.-Plot:...
(2006) (
songwriterA songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics, as well as the musical composition or melody to songs. One who writes only lyrics is a lyricist, while one who writes only music is a composer.-History and background of songwriters:...
and performer: "She's So Crazy")
With Fleetwood Mac
- 1988 Greatest Hits
Greatest Hits is a 1988 compilation album by British-American band Fleetwood Mac. It covers the period of the band's greatest commercial success, from the mid 1970s to the late 1980s....
- 1990 Behind the Mask
Behind the Mask is an album by British/American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1990. It was the first album released by the band after the departure of guitarist Lindsey Buckingham. He was replaced by Billy Burnette and Rick Vito, both guitar players, singers and songwriters. Fleetwood Mac...
- 1992 25 Years - The Chain
25 Years – The Chain is a compilation album by British-American band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1992. It consists of four CDs, covering the entire history of the band from its formation in 1967, up to 1992...
Solo albums
- 1992 King Of Hearts
King of Hearts may refer to:*King , the playing card also known as the Suicide King*Kh , no information at this momentIn film:*King of Hearts , a silent film directed by Joseph Levigard...
- 1998 Pink & Black
- 2000 Lucky Devils
- 2001 Crazy Cool
- 2003 Band Box Boogie
- 2005 Rattlesnake Shake
- 2006 Talk That Talk
Guest performances
- 1972 Something/Anything?
Something/Anything?, released in 1972, is Todd Rundgren's third solo album. It peaked at #29 on the Billboard 200 and was certified gold three years after its release, and remains the singer-songwriter's best-selling album. In 2003, the album was ranked number 173 on Rolling Stone magazine's list...
- Todd RundgrenTodd Harry Rundgren is an American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer.-Early career:Rundgren was born in Upper Darby, PA. He began his career in Woody's Truck Stop, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based group based on the model of Paul Butterfield Blues Band. However, he left the band to...
- 1972 Raw Velvet
Raw Velvet is the second solo album by American songwriter and musician Bobby Whitlock, released in 1972.-Side one:#"Tell the Truth"#"Bustin' My Ass"#"Write You a Letter"#"Ease Your Pain"#"If You Ever"#"Hello L.A., Bye Bye Birmingham"-Side two:...
- Bobby WhitlockBobby Whitlock is a songwriter and musician, best known for being a member of Derek and the Dominos.- Biography :...
- 1975 New Year, New Band, New Company - John Mayall
John Mayall, OBE is a pioneering English blues singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. His musical career spans over fifty years but the most notable episode in it occurred during the late '60s...
- 1975 Common Sense
Common Sense is an album by American folk singer and songwriter John Prine, released in 1975.-Track listing:#"Middleman" – 2:29#"Common Sense" – 3:07#"Come Back to Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard" – 3:17#"Wedding Day in Funeralville" – 2:25...
- John PrineJohn Prine is an American country/folk singer-songwriter. He has been active as a recording artist and live performer since the early 1970s.-Biography:...
- 1975 Change - Spanky and Our Gang
Spanky and Our Gang was an American 1960s folk-rock band led by Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane. The band derives its name from Hal Roach's popular Our Gang comedies of the 1930s...
- 1975 Notice to Appear - John Mayall
- 1976 Banquet in Blues - John Mayall
- 1976 Prime Prine - John Prine
- 1976 Street Talk - Bob Crewe
Bob Crewe is an American songwriter, singer, manager, record producer and fine artist. His career ranks among the most varied, successful, and innovative in pop music history...
- 1977 Playing to an Audience Of One - David Soul
David Soul is an American actor and singer, best known for his role as the California police Det. Kenneth "Hutch" Hutchinson in the television program Starsky and Hutch . He became a British citizen in 2004....
- 1977 Thunderbyrd
Thunderbyrd is American singer-songwriter and guitarist Roger McGuinn's 5th solo studio album, released in 1977 on the Columbia Records label. Following the success of his 1976 album Cardiff Rose, McGuinn intended to make another album in collaboration with its producer Mick Ronson. This project...
- Roger McGuinnJames Roger McGuinn is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for being the lead singer and lead guitarist on many of The Byrds' records...
- 1978 Kissin in the California Sun - Katy Moffatt
Katherine Louella "Katy" Moffatt is an eclectic American musician, lyricist, composer, vocalist. She is the sister of country singer-songwriter Hugh Moffatt.-Midnight Radio:...
- 1978 Randy Richards - Randy Richards
- 1979 High and Outside - Steve Goodman
Steve Goodman was an American folk music singer-songwriter from Chicago, Illinois. The writer of "City of New Orleans", made popular by Arlo Guthrie, Goodman won two Grammy Awards.-Personal life:...
- 1979 No More Interviews - John Mayall
- 1979 Open Your Eyes - Maria Muldaur
Maria Muldaur is a folk-blues singer who was part of the folk music revival of the early 1960s...
- 1980 Blue Delicacies - Ronnie Barron
Ronnie Barron was a United States actor, keyboardist, organist, and white soul singer during the 1970s. He was known for his work as session musician for several artists, as well as his collaborations with Dr...
- 1982 Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a 1982 American coming-of-age teen comedy film and is the brain-child of Cameron Crowe. It was adapted from Crowe's 1981 book where, as a free-lancer for Rolling Stone magazine, he went undercover at a California high school and wrote about his experiences...
SoundtrackA soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized...
- Jackson BrowneClyde Jackson Browne is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician. His political interest and personal angst have been central to his career, resulting in popular songs such as "Somebody's Baby", "These Days", "The Pretender" and "Running On Empty"...
- 1982 Green Light
Green Light is the eighth album by Bonnie Raitt, released in 1982 ."What I wanted this time out was a combination of the music I've been listening to recently," Raitt said in 1982, "Billy Burnette, the Blasters, Rockpile, and the rock-a-billy New Wave scene...
- Bonnie RaittBonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter, born in Burbank, California. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially accessible...
- 1982 The Perfect Stranger - Jesse Colin Young
Jesse Colin Young is an American singer / songwriter / folksinger. His career began in 1960s Greenwich Village and he released two solo albums before forming The Youngbloods. The group signed with RCA and released "Grizzly Bear" , followed by their debut, Youngbloods, in 1967...
- 1982 Revenge Will Come - Greg Copeland
- 1982 Walk On - Karen Brooks
Karen Brooks is an American country music singer who is best-known for a series of Top 40 hits on the Billboard Country Chart in the early 1980s, including "Faking Love," a duet with T.G. Sheppard....
- 1983 Lawyers in Love
Lawyers in Love is the seventh album by American singer/songwriter Jackson Browne, released in 1983 .The title song was a top-twenty pop hit for Browne, and was accompanied by one of his music videos....
- Jackson Browne
- 1983 Tell Me the Truth - Timothy B Schmit
- 1984 Inside the Fire - Rita Coolidge
Rita Coolidge is a mulitiple Grammy Award winning American vocalist. During the '70s and '80s, she charted hits on Billboard's Pop, Country, Adult Contemporary and Jazz charts. She is of Scottish and Cherokee Native American ancestry.-Personal life:She graduated from Andrew Jackson Senior High in...
- 1985 One Heart at a Time - Don Francisco
Don Francisco may refer to:*Don Francisco *Don Francisco *Don Francisco de Paula Marin, Hawaiian...
- 1986 Like a Rock
Like a Rock is the thirteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Seger, released in 1986 . The title track is best known for being featured on Chevrolet truck commercials. "Fortunate Son" is a live track from 1983, which was added as a bonus to the CD release of the album...
- Bob Seger
- 1986 Lives in the Balance
Lives in the Balance is the eighth album by American singer/songwriter Jackson Browne, released in 1986 . It was the first album by Browne where overtly political and socially critical songs dominated, although it also included one of his best remembered songs about relationships, the tragic "In...
- Jackson Browne
- 1987 A Very Special Christmas
A Very Special Christmas is the first in a series of Christmas music-themed compilation albums produced to benefit the Special Olympics. The album was released in 1987 and production was overseen by Jimmy Iovine for A&M Records...
- Bob Seger
- 1987 Rainbow
Rainbow was a Dolly Parton album from 1987, her first after switching labels to CBS Records, after nearly two decades with RCA. It was her 29th studio album...
- Dolly PartonDolly Rebecca Parton is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best-known for her work in country music....
- 1989 Mystery Girl
Mystery Girl is the last record album made by Roy Orbison, posthumously released on the Virgin label in 1989. The album reached #5 on the Billboard 200.- History :...
- Roy OrbisonRoy Kelton Orbison was an American singer-songwriter and musician, well known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly / country & western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records...
- 1989 Rock Rhythm & Blues - Various
- 1990 Gypsy Moon - Troy Newman
Troy Newman is an American pro-life activist. Born in Anchorage, Alaska, Newman was adopted as an infant and raised in the Southern California area...
- 1990 Brent Bourgeois - Brent Bourgeois
Brent Thomas Bourgeois is an American rock musician, songwriter, and producer. He was co-leader of the band Bourgeois Tagg with Larry Tagg, and has released several solo albums...
- 1991 The Fire Inside
The Fire Inside is the fourteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Seger, released in 1991 .-Track listing:All songs written by Bob Seger, except where noted#"Take a Chance"#"The Real Love"#"Sightseeing"...
- Bob Seger
- 1992 Born to Rock & Roll - Roger McGuinn
James Roger McGuinn is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for being the lead singer and lead guitarist on many of The Byrds' records...
- 1993 Great Days: John Prine Anthology - John Prine
- 1994 Craig Shoemaker Meets the Lovemaster - Craig Shoemaker
Craig Shoemaker is an American comedian. He hails from Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania and attended Springfield Township High School. He has performed on many different stand-up comedy programs including Comic Relief and Comedy Central Presents. Shoemaker has also guest-starred on many sitcoms and...
- 1994 Greatest Hits
Greatest Hits is a compilation album by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band. Through late 2006, it is Seger's best-selling album in the U.S., certified 8-times platinum.-Track listing:All tracks written by Bob Seger except where noted....
- Bob Seger
- 1994 Meet Me at Midnite - Maria Muldaur
- 1995 It's a Mystery
It's a Mystery is the fifteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Seger, released in 1995 .Despite hit singles and fan favorites such as "Lock and Load," "Manhattan," and "Hands in the Air," the album was considered a commercial failure charting at #27 on The Billboard charts...
- Bob Seger
- 1995 All Day Thumbsucker Revisited - Various
- 1996 Not Alone - Thomas Jefferson Kaye
- 1997 The Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne
The Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne is a greatest hits album by the singer-songwriter Jackson Browne released in 1997. It Includes songs from his early years as well as later songs...
- Jackson Browne
- 1998 Southland of the Heart - Maria Muldaur
- 1998 Thinking About You - Rita Coolidge
- 1999 Extremely Cool - Chuck E. Weiss
Chuck E. Weiss is an American songwriter and vocalist.He grew up in Denver, Colorado, where his parents owned a record store . Through his parents, and by spending time at the local blues bar Ebbett's Field, he met Lightnin' Hopkins...
- 1999 Biker's Choice - Various
- 1999 Lillith Fair Volume 3 - Bonnie Raitt
- 1999 The ABC Years - John Mayall
- 1999 Juke Rhythm - John Juke Logan
- 1999 Smooth Sailin' - Marty Grebb
- 2001 Forgive
Forgive is the second studio album by American country music artist Rebecca Lynn Howard. The album was released in September 2002 by MCA Nashville...
- Rebecca Lynn HowardRebecca Lynn Howard is an American country music artist. She has charted seven singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, and has released three studio albums. Her highest-charting single, "Forgive", peaked at #12 on the country music charts in 2002...
- 2002 Nothing Personal
Nothing Personal is the third full-length studio album by American pop punk band All Time Low, released through Hopeless Records on 7 July 2009. The album was recorded with producers Matt Squire, Butch Walker, David Bendeth and the team of S*A*M & Sluggo...
– Delbert McClintonDelbert McClinton is a Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and musician. Active as a side-man since at least 1962 and as a band leader since 1972, he has recorded several major-label albums, and has charted singles on the Billboard Hot 100, Mainstream Rock Tracks, and Hot Country Songs charts...
- 2002 Almeria Club – Hank Williams Jr.
- 2002 Fast Girl – The Tractors
The Tractors is an American country rock band composed of a loosely associated group of musicians, headed by guitarist Steve Ripley. Under the band's original lineup, The Tractors was signed to Arista Records in 1994, releasing their self-titled debut album that year; the album went on to become...
- 2002 The Big Night – The Tractors
- 2002 Speed of Sound – Rosie Flores
Rosie Flores is a rockabilly and country music artist of Mexican American heritage. Her music blends rockabilly, honky tonk, jazz, and Western swing along with traditional influences from her Tex-Mex heritage. She currently resides in Austin, Texas, where August 31 was declared Rosie Flores Day by...
- 2003 All Night Breakfast – Jonny Neel
- 2004 The Very Best of Jackson Browne
The Very Best of Jackson Browne is a double-disc compilation album by Jackson Browne, released on March 16, 2004 by Rhino Entertainment and Elektra Records in celebration of Browne's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame a day earlier....
- Jackson Browne
DVDs
- 1988 Tango In The Night Live DVD
DVD, also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc,is an optical disc storage media format, and was founded in 1995. Its main uses are video and data storage...
- 2003 Rick Vito In Concert DVD
- 2003 Guitar Heroes In Concert DVD
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