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MIKE WILHELM-PRESIDiO YACHT CLUB-SHAKE SOME ACTION-2-2-2012 TheMonkeybeat 125 views Believe it or not this is the first time the lead guitarist ever heard this song. This was shot by Diamond Ed Chatman, used by permission, thank you very much. Ed's chann...
In Without Knocking TheMonkeybeat 40 views Mike tells the story of this song and then sings it.
Hound Dog - Mike Wilhelm and his Bottle Rock Blues & Rhythm Band featuring Neon TheMonkeybeat 67 views Mike Wilhelm, founder of the Charlatans and Official American Heritage holder, world-renown blues artist, and his Bottle Rock band let it roll at the Blue Wing Saloon in Up...
Rocks And Gravel - Mike Wilhelm TheMonkeybeat 329 views Blues in E.
Betty And Dupree - Mike Wilhelm TheMonkeybeat 61 views A traditional blues, adapted and arranged by Mike Wilhelm. Copyright 2008 Mike Wilhelm.
Instructional Demo - Blues in E TheMonkeybeat 116 views Mike Wilhelm plays blues in E, See See Rider originally recorded by Ma Rainey in 1925.
Instructional Demo - Blues In A TheMonkeybeat 272 views Mike Wilhelm plays blues in A, When You've Got A Good Friend, song by Robert Johnson, 1936.
I'm Not Satisfied, Loose Gravel live, 1976. TheMonkeybeat 64 views Mike Wilhelm's Loose Gravel live at the Coffee Gallery, San Francisco, 1976.
Mahogany Hall Stomp - Lonnie Johnson w Louis Armstrong TheMonkeybeat 435 views Lonnie solos on 12-string guitar. What is especially amazing is the duet with Satchmo's trumpet which follows. This is generally regarded as the earliest recorded guitar so...
Woke Up With The Blues In My Fingers - Lonnie Johnson TheMonkeybeat 356 views A 12-string guitar solo by the master of blues & jazz.

About Michael Ray Wilhelm - Blusician, guitar & vocal

Mike Wilhelm, fingerpickering ace and Knight of the Slide, plays with Hired Guns and solo.

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Feb 28, 2012

Date Joined

May 8, 2009

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Asked by famed rock photographer Herb Greene to name his favorite guitarist, Jerry Garcia replied, "Mike Wilhelm." Charles Perry said it all in a Rolling Stone Magazine review of Mike's first solo album when he wrote, "Wilhelm's voice is so tough and effective that it's scarcely credible that he's doing all that slick finger-picking at the same time, but the song was done in one take."

Being a founding member of San Francisco's first psychedelic rock band, the amazing Charlatans, Mike Wilhelm staked his claim in Rock and Roll history early on. The musical earthquake that happened in and around San Francisco in the mid '60s, which would go around the globe in waves, was generated by five sharp-dressed, curious and visionary musicians about to touch new land; the dawn of psychedelic rock and the fashion, image and culture that would follow was loudly trumpeted by the appearance of the amazing Charlatans. The dancehall and festival culture as well as the Vietnam protest movement were direct results of a youth that wanted to open their minds while embracing the world.

While still a teenager, he ran into Walter "Brownie" McGhee, the legendary bluesman and partner of Sonny Terry. McGhee, described by Mike as "a most generous teacher", taught Wilhelm his fingerpicking licks. Highly talented Mike impressed McGhee so much that he taught him at no charge and obviously very, very well. His fingerpicking creates the illusion that you hear at least one more guitar. His slide work has an elegant silverish tone and accuracy, both the softness and bite of a panther. He is a cultural bridge between Robert Johnson, Jimi Hendrix and Johnny Cash.

His career led him around the world, playing LA's famed Whisky a Go-Go and Berlin's historic Sportpalast as well as the legendary Avalon, Fillmore and Winterland, touring Japan and Europe, working with Janis Joplin's Big Brother and the Holding Company, Chicago blues great Nick "the Greek" Gravenites, playing and recording with Quicksilver Messenger Service's John Cipollina, influencing West Coast Sound and establishing trends as art forms with his bands the Charlatans, Loose Gravel and Flamin' Groovies. Mike tells the story of this land and its people when doing songs such as Pizen Switch and Betty And Dupree on six or twelve strings.

Writer H. C. Anderson is a music critic from Berlin, Germany who currently resides in San Francisco.

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Hollywood, CA

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United States

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Guitar player

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Guitars, Blues, Rock 'n' Roll, Motorcycles

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