Biographie
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Années d'activité
1979 – aujourd'hui (45 ans)
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Fondé en
Riverside, Riverside County, California, États-Unis
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Membres
- Henry Carvajal
- Honey Piazza
- Junior Watson
- Rod Piazza
Rod Piazza (born December 18, 1947 in Riverside, California) is an American blues harmonica player and singer. He's been playing with his band The Mighty Flyers since 1980 which he formed with his pianist wife Honey Piazza. Their boogie sound combines the styles of jump blues, West Coast blues and Chicago blues.
Biography
Rod Piazza was born on December 18, 1947. Piazza grew up in southern California and studied blues records and perfected his harmonica work.
In the mid 1960s, Piazza formed his first band The House of DBS, which later changed its name to the Dirty Blues Band. The band signed with ABC-Bluesway Records and released two albums in 1967 and 1968 respectively. The band broke up in 1968, and Piazza formed Bacon Fat that year. Piazza's idol and mentor, George "Harmonica" Smith joined the band and they had a "dual harp" sound. Bacon Fat released two albums the following two years. Piazza left and worked in other bands before going solo in 1974.
He formed the Chicago Flying Saucer Band the following year and this evolved into the Mighty Flyers. The band recorded their first album in 1980. From that time on up through the present, Rod and his bandmates have released nearly a dozen albums and tour blues clubs, venues and festivals in the US, Canada, England, Germany and Japan. He and his wife live in Riverside while not touring.
He also played harmonica on the 2006 Soul of a Man album by Eric Burdon.
Discography
Pre-Mighty Flyers Era
* 1967 Dirty Blues Band / Dirty Blues Band (ABC-Bluesway)
* 1969 Dirty Blues Band / Stone Dirt (ABC-Bluesway)
* 1970 Bacon Fat / Grease One for Me (Blue Horizon)
* 1971 Bacon Fat / Tough Dude (Blue Horizon)
* 1973 Rod Piazza / Blues Man (LMI)
* 1979 Chicago Flying Saucer Band / Flying Saucer Band (Gangster)
The Mighty Flyers
* 1980 Radioactive Material (Right Hemisphere)
* 1981 The Mighty Flyers (Right Hemisphere)
* 1982 Robot Woman II (Shanghai)
* 1984 From the Start to the Finnish (Right Hemisphere)
* 1985 File Under Rock (Takoma)
* 1985 Harp Burn (Murray Brothers; Rod Piazza solo)
* 1988 So Glad to Have the Blues (Murray Brothers; Rod Piazza solo)
* 1991 Blues in the Dark (Black Top)
* 1992 Alphabet Blues (Black Top)
* 1994 Live at B.B. King's Club (Big Mo)
* 1997 Tough and Tender (Tone-Cool)
* 1999 Here and Now (Tone-Cool)
* 2001 Beyond The Source (Tone-Cool)
* 2004 Keepin' It Real (Blind Pig)
* 2005 For The Chosen Who (Delta Groove)
* 2007 Thrillville (Delta Groo
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