Lance Lopez
- Sound Description:
- Guitar virtuoso blues
- Recommended:
- Jimi Hendrix, Joe Satriani
Based in Dallas, TX
After a time honing his chops playing live in New Orleans, Lance Lopez moved with his father to the southwest coast of Florida, where he continued playing live with a variety of blues and cover bands. Many hours of practicing and playing live garnered Lance much deserved recognition.
After moving back to Dallas at age 17, he was hired by the late-great soul singer Johnnie Taylor and toured the famed "Chitlin Circuit" with the soul legend, where he met and backed manygreats of the genre. A year later Lance was approached by the modern blues great Lucky Peterson, who took him into his band as the rhythm guitarist. Lance toured with the Lucky Peterson Organization throughout North America and Europe for three years. During that time he developed his energetic and original stage presence and continued to strengthen his musical skills. He was ultimately given the position of band leader before later embarking on his solo career.
In 1998, after forming a short-lived trio with legendary Hendrix and Santana drummer Buddy Miles and former Steely Dan and session bassist Chuck Rainey, Lance wrote, recorded and released his debut CD 1st Things First in 1999 on his own label, LaRoux Records. The CD was co-produced by Jay Newland (who later went on to produce and engineer Norah Jones).
In August of 1999 Lance entered and won the Southeast Regional Jimi Hendrix Electric Guitar competition at Tipitina's in New Orleans. He was awarded a Fender Stratocaster from Fender and the Jimi Hendrix family foundation. In 2001 Lance won the Blues Band Of The Year award presented by DallasMusic.com. He was also awarded a citation of appreciation from Venlo, the Netherlands in 2001 during his European tour for 1st Things First.
In 2003, Lance wrote, recorded and produced Wall Of Soul along with fellow guitarist and long-time friend Eric Gales, who lent his unique guitar and vocals to several tracks along with his production skills. This was Lance's second studio release and first release for Grooveyard Records. Wall of Soul also featured Doug Pinnick of the legendary trio King's X as guest vocalist on the closing track "Time." The album was a pure exhibition of Lance's power trio skills and guitar pyrotechnics, reminiscent of Jimi Hendrix, Robin Trower and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
In early 2005, Lance reunited with Buddy Miles to form a side project unofficially dubbed Band Of Trouble, with Ex-Johnny Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Arc Angel bassist Tommy Shannon. This unit combined members of Hendrix's Band of Gypsys with Stevie Ray Vaughan's Double Trouble to equal the ultimate foundation for Lance's guitar work. They shared the stage in concert with artists such as Rick Derringer, Joe Bonamassa, Chris Duarte and Kenny Wayne Shepard.
The summer of 2005 saw Lance hammer out his next album, Simplify Your Vision, his second release on Grooveyard Records.
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Guitar virtuoso blues
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