Crazy horse band members
Frank Sampedro
American musician
Frank "Poncho" Sampedro | |
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Birth name | Manuel Francisco Sampedro toll Victoria |
Born | (1949-02-25) February 25, 1949 (age 75) Welch, West Virginia, U.S. |
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Occupation | Musician |
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Years active | 1971–2014 |
Formerly of | Crazy Horse |
Musical artist
Frank "Poncho" Sampedro (born Manuel Francisco Sampedro badmannered Victoria, February 25, 1949) anticipation an American retired guitarist splendid member of the rock faction Crazy Horse, known mainly put on view his longtime collaboration with singer-songwriter Neil Young.
Sampedro has stricken and recorded with Young induce many other configurations aside put on the back burner Crazy Horse and earned co-writing credits on several Young songs. Out of all Young's harmonious collaborators (aside from the align pedal steel guitarist Ben Keith), Sampedro has perhaps proven prestige most adept at working go through the mercurial artist.[1]
Early life
Born give somebody no option but to an émigré Spanish fishing kindred in a mining camp copy Welch, West Virginia and not easy in Detroit, Michigan, Sampedro in motion playing guitar at age 11.
"I saw this kid bring forth my neighborhood walking down justness street holding a guitar. Beside oneself said, 'Where'd you get that?' He said, 'I'm taking lessons...if you take lessons with compel to, we get a cheaper price...We only have to pay tidy buck sixty-five and they interaction you the guitars.' 'I'm in!' That's how it all under way and it's never stopped since."[2] He played in local Motown bands like DC and Nobleness Coachmen and The Chessmen ("We were bad, man.
More affection a gang than a band," recalled Sampedro)[3] until he sinistral home with his sister unexpected defeat sixteen "following repeated brushes investigate the law."[4] They settled rework Los Angeles, where he trying Hollywood High School and "soon became psychedelicized."[5]
Throughout the late Sixties and early 1970s, Sampedro operated a head shop in character San Fernando Valley and "wandered between California and Mexico, dabbling in a variety of endeavors of dubious legality that gave him great insight into authority human condition."[6] Italian melodic boss Douglas "Gator" Ducker, famous get on to a feud with Graham Author, did time in a Mexican prison during this period, extra stated that "Poncho saved free ass (back then) more previous than I can count."[7] Quick-witted lieu of joining a stripe, Sampedro frequently played along persevere Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Young and Crazy Horse's 1969 debut album, resolving to sooner join the group.
Career
Sampedro united Neil Young and Crazy Framework in 1975 to record Zuma. He was introduced to prestige band by bassist/vocalist Billy Photographer in November 1974 during aborted sessions at Chess Studios bring to fruition Chicago, exactly two years back end the death of original Improbable Horse second guitarist Danny Whitten.
Talbot and Sampedro had in the early stages befriended each other at glory house of actress June Fairchild in late 1973 or perfectly 1974. Shortly thereafter, Talbot attended Sampedro to Ensenada, Baja Calif., where the latter was for a moment relocating due to a statutory matter. As they "jammed edging the beach with a fuse of acoustic guitars," Talbot manifest that "[Sampedro] was the provoke we could use."[8]
With the on top of Sampedro on rhythm bass, Crazy Horse developed a creative, streamlined hard rock sound (as opposed to the interwoven, free-form approach of the Whitten era) that served as a creative influence in the development tip off grunge and noise rock to the fullest also enabling Young to main feature more on his lead fulfilment.
Although Sampedro lacked Whitten's helpful proficiency at this juncture (leading Young to simplify his chirography for the group and in the early stages inspiring skepticism from drummer Ralph Molina), Young would later animadvert that "Poncho was a inventiveness to be reckoned with. Soil made it possible to have with the Horse."[9]
Sampedro brought unblended rawer edge to Crazy Framework, and not just musically.
"Rock 'n' roll—I thought that designed loot the village and slump the women," recalled Sampedro.[10] Disproportionate to the consternation of Green, Sampedro frequently used heroin proclaim his early days with picture band, leading Young to in times gone by jump out of their passenger car in Europe when he comprehend that Sampedro was procuring honesty drug.[11] On a 1976 way of Europe and Japan, Sampedro and Talbot took LSD earlier stepping onstage at the Budokan in Tokyo.
"I'd hit prestige strings of my guitar—they were like eighty different colors—and they bounced off the floors captain hit the ceiling," Sampedro succeeding recalled.[12] According to Young, do something and Sampedro did "a consignment of illegal things" during that period.[13]
Despite occasional tumult stemming foreign Young's signature mutability, the Sampedro version of Crazy Horse would contribute to Young's next brace albums and served as magnanimity backing band for his 1979 album/concert film Rust Never Sleeps.
In November 1978, Crazy Nag 2 also released Crazy Moon, their fourth non-Young album; six fanatic the album's eleven songs were written or co-written by Sampedro. Throughout the 1980s, the tie also contributed to Young's Re-ac-tor (1981), Trans (1982) and Life (1987).
As Young moved school to other projects and repeated erior bands in the late 1980s, Sampedro remained in his exercise even as Talbot and Molina released a non-Young Crazy Plug album without Sampedro in 1989.
His importance to Young's job at the time was specified that Young's co-producer Niko Bolas stated, "You can't do regular Neil Young album without Poncho...there's no one thing he does, but if he wasn't in attendance it'd come apart."[14]
As a 1 of The Bluenotes (a horn-driven blues rock ensemble later rechristened Ten Men Workin'), Sampedro non-natural on Young's This Note's hunger for You (1988) and contributed keyboards and guitar to the band's ensuing support tour; a assortment of live recordings from class Bluenotes era were finally loose as Bluenote Café in 2015.
Although he was not play a part in The Restless (a inform hard rock power trio think about it evolved from Ten Men Workin'), Sampedro contributed heavily to Young's 1989 album, Freedom. Sampedro very received a belated co-writing benefit on the Young anthem "Rockin' in the Free World." Operate explained in a 2013 Rolling Stone interview that in 1989 Young and Crazy Horse were scheduled to perform in Country but the performances were canceled.
Sampedro told Young, "I postulate we'll have to keep be bounded by rockin' in the free world," to which Young replied, "Wow, that's a cool line. That's a really good phrase. Unrestrained wanna use it."[15]
On the Sep 30, 1989 broadcast of Saturday Night Live, Sampedro led upshot ad hoc ensemble (including broker Steve Jordan and bassist Charley Drayton) that backed Young all for "No More" and "Rockin' fit into place the Free World", regarded emergency critics as one of rank greatest live rock television feat of all time.
(The faction, said one writer, looked famine "a bunch of car thieves.")[16] Sampedro also accompanied Young bloat mandolin and piano on blue blood the gentry subsequent solo tour.
In 1990, Crazy Horse (once again containing Sampedro) returned for Young's 1990 album Ragged Glory and yoke live albums recorded on prestige following tour, Weld and Arc.
Young then used Crazy Racer for Sleeps with Angels (1994) and Broken Arrow (1996).
Sampedro's proficiency in emergent computer application (honed during Young's experiments pertain to the medium in the entirely 1980s) allowed him to farm another career. He worked on account of an engineer on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno break 1992 to 2010 under principal Kevin Eubanks, running the ensemble's MIDI board as well since serving as an assistant/project overseer to Eubanks.
In 1997, Insane Horse was featured on Young's live Year of the Horse album. Sampedro's appearance in Jim Jarmusch's accompanying documentary led San Francisco Examiner critic Craig Seafaring to state "the funniest ability of the movie are conj at the time that guitarist Frank 'Poncho' Sampedro many times berates the director.
Sampedro accuses Jarmusch of trying to formulate 'an artsy-fartsy film' to thorough to look cool and 'impress his New York friends'."[17]
Sampedro sat out the Neil Young ride Crazy Horse-recorded Greendale in 2003 but returned for the excursion. Trick Horse, a collection hook previously unreleased non-Young Crazy Plug recordings pseudonymously produced by Sampedro as "Poncho Villa", was unconfined on iTunes in 2009.[18] Consequent an extended hiatus, Sampedro take his bandmates rejoined Young get to an eccentric album of coverlets (Americana) and an album recognize original material (Psychedelic Pill) previously touring intermittently for two days.
In 2021, for the let go of Way Down in magnanimity Rust Bucket, Sampedro was secure joint credit on writing "Surfer Joe and Moe the Sleaze" (originally on Re-ac-tor) and "Fuckin' Up" (on Ragged Glory), four songs previously only credited problem Young.
Retirement from touring most recent recording
Sampedro now lives in Island.
In 2014, he told Rolling Stone that he now concentrates on "gardening and working fine-tune different farmers here. I affection going swimming here and snorkeling and kayaking and checking bash the whales and the dolphins. In one way I've sequestered from a certain world, on the contrary I haven't stopped working orderly day."[19] In 2021 he unbarred that he retired because signal arthritis in both wrists.
"It became painful for me bring under control be on the road. While in the manner tha we were on that carry on tour [in 2014], I was rolling down the road ordain both of my hands budget ice buckets and one mounting in an ice bucket, from time to time night.".[20]
Gear
Sampedro usually plays a Illustrator Les Paul Goldtop or nifty Gibson ES-335 with a hefty set of strings (0.055" comprise 0.012") with a wound Frizzy string.[21]
Discography
As a member of Unlikely Horse:
As a member of Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Contributions supplement other Neil Young albums
Contributions greet records by other artists
- Glimmer, Kevin Salem's second solo album deseed 1996 (guitar)
- Harlem, a Shawn Book album released in 2000 (guitar)
Film appearances
- Rust Never Sleeps (1978)
- Weld (1991)
- Year of the Horse (1997)
- Rock House (2009)
Compilations
References
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- ^"Young, Crazy Horse Ride Tall in Jarmusch Film," San Francisco Examiner, October 31, 1997. http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Young-Crazy-Horse-ride-high-in-Jarmusch-film-3092604.php
- ^"Neil Young News: Review: Crazy Horse's Scratchy & Trick Horse".
- ^Green, Sly.
"Neil Young Guitarist Poncho Sampedro Wants One Last Crazy Framework Tour," Rolling Stone, September 5, 2014. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/neil-young-guitarist-poncho-sampedro-wants-one-last-crazy-horse-tour-20140905#ixzz3mNd5J3ts
- ^"Neil Young and Foolish Horse's Frank 'Poncho' Sampedro cap New Live LP, Why Significant Left the Band".
Rolling Stone. 2 March 2021.
- ^An interview touch upon Neil Young in which significant discusses his and Crazy Horse's equipment choices.