I just heard for the first time, Frank Marino playing Jimi Hendrix' Voodoo Chile on the local community-supported WMNF 88.5...and I was BLOWN AWAY!!! ...of course, I ordered the CD today. Come play a tour date in the Tampa area!!

:-The Best rendition of I"ll play the blues for you ever made!!!!!! perhaps the best song ever!!

Simlpy the world's best guitarist!!!

I was born in 1957 and his story is much the same as mine, with the acid and mushrooms. If I could paint pictures of the things ive seen, I probably would be a famous artist. I couldnt handle those drugs anymore but I believe it gave my mind a fine tuneing. I love franks music as well as trower,sabbath , steve vai, joe satriani, I am currently in love with a band called porcupine tree. the album IN ABSCENTIA.I could not imagine anybody not liking that band.

i saw frank in 1977 in san antiono texas the best concert i ever saw

Seen MR several times with montrose, blue oyster cult, black sabbath
AWESOME guitarist, best live performance i've been to, and I've seen alot
even better then led zep, alvin lee & eddie van halen, sure wish you'd tour
up in anchorage for I'm living in Sitka Alaska and there's NOTHING here!

Frank, I just discovered your music on the Live 8-track. This is really good stuff. Your version of Jimmy Hendrix's Purple Haze is better than the original! Peace.

Hello people.

this year had great news: frank marino would play on the arrow rock festival in holland on the 9th of june. As a long time fan i had the chance for the first time to see and hear him. It's a pity that he can't come so as the website says of the rockfestival. I know there are many fans in holland and germany. So i hope to have another chance in the near future.

Keep the site alive because it's good!! Hope also that a dvd will be coming out in the future of a mahogany rush show. I only have a poor svcd from a part of a concert in 1978, bromount , i think, but i like it very much.

Absolutly amazing man... Incredible guitar's player and musician maker and
singer... and i can't found my words...

C'est completement dingue.... longue vie à lui...

THANKS YOU FRANK !!!!!

Frank, cool site did the 78 day on the green photo, I was 16 and standing right about were the pic was taken, been a while since you've got to the Bay area. Saw you at the Cabaret in SJ in the mid 90's. Local bands had to sell tickets to play there, my band played a week after you we sold all our tickets @ your gig billing ourselves a M/rush clone, Hey what ever woks....
We are heavy My Guitar player was a Hendrix freak, our bass player was into Sabbath, and my self I'm a total Rush fan, although unlike most rush fan drummers I never , ever tried to copy Neil, I'm more of a Bonham / Leonard Haze(Y&T) heavy beats and cymbals, cymbals,cymbals and more cymbals style. I'd love to jam with you we would rock...
anyway glad to be aboard my post's on the message brd are tommyboyCA, I'll be typ"n" every chance I get,
Later,
TF CA

I have been looking online for since 1996 for this official site. Finally found it!! (That's a requiem for a searcher). Outstanding!

Well time to crack a cold one and celebrate!

--Stan--

I've been a fan ever since I first heard Juggernaut , about 22 years ago. I was a young guitarist eager to learn how to rip up the fretboard. I didn't particularly like the typical mainstream metal music of the 80's. Instead, I listened to guitar greats of the 60's and 70's. One of my personal favorites was Mahogany Rush. I love the sounds, style, the musicianship, album concepts, the whole attitude of creating music of this sort, and of course the blistering guitar leads. Frank's playing is not only incredibly powerful, but fluid and it invokes a sense of fantasy. He seems to have a gift . I always dreamed of being able to play like Frank. I very glad to see that he's still making music . His new material is just as awesome as he ever was. Thanks for the great music.
Your brother in faith.
Al Smith

Helo I'm dan from mont-rolland

just to talk thank to be here

Hey Frank & the Mahogany Rush
It's cool I finally found your Website after all of these years.Ohh they didn't have any back then.Your band was it... when I saw you at Cal Jamm 2
& people left (their loss) cause it got cold & you were on last.But Dammit When you played its a King Bee Baby & Other Jamms shit that was it.All the groups did their things & Santana kicked A too ,but I wanted to see someone who heated it up more than Trower & Filled Hendrix's Void for Now.You Guys Rocked till the Sky fell out!!!
You influenced me to play guitar,real guitar & as years passed I really realized what The "Mahogany" RUSH was all about! It's in the Wood Girls!
We're all old farts now but in my head I hear you & Alvin Lee playing together (Ten Years After).Did you guys ever?
A Huge Rock n Roll,Music.Blues, & Guitar Fan
Thanks for everything,
Michael

p.s. All your other shit kicks too!

Hi there Frank.

Finally it is gonna happen ; Frank Marino is playing on the famous Arrow Classic Rock festival in the Netherlands along with White Snake , Ted Nugent, Uriah Heep , Journey and many more.
We are all very exciting about that. Frank prepare; you are still not forgotten in Europe en you 'll will that in June. THank you for coming !

Andre from Holland

Hallo Frank, I have listen to your music since 1983. There is not so easy to fine album af you here in norway and most of these I have are special import. I will be real happy if you could send me a catalog To Alf Langrin 3674 Notodden Norway. And I want every DVD with concert as has coming out please. Have still nice with your fantastic guitar playing. Alf Langrind

I love all your albums but i acknowledge that i'm an inconditional,addicted and a junkie of Mahogany Rush live 78'! It's a sickness...lol Your solo at the end of Back Door Man, according to me, is the greatest blues solo of ALL TIMES!!! I'm not able to listen that solo just once when it's playing in my home, i scan back all the time to re-listened 2, 3 or 4 times that devastating solo! Your picking is unique, we recognize immediately that awesome picking. Sincerely, i think that you did get a gift directly from God about your talents!!!! You're privileged, Frank....You're one of the greatest guitarist that the world have known, you're an iDOL for me in music!
And i'm very proud to be un Québecois like you when we are talking about Monsieur Frank Marino!

I just heard "Poppy" on XM Deep Tracks.....WOW! As a product of the late sixties, this was one of the best instrumentals I have ever heard. Bought the Real Live CD and am totally blown away. Thank yoy Frank Marino!
You have a new fan.

I like frank´s guitar style. His speed and wild playing is glorius for me. I really be a fan. Congratulations!

Frank, I dunno if Texas has treated you respectfully, (I recall a Sunken Gardens show where we did not) but there are a few of us down here that really dig what you're about. In the 70's and 80's we had a DJ by the name of Joe Anthony who turned us on to the latest and greatest bands from Canada: Rush, Killer Dwarves, Budgie, Moxy, Triumph, April Wine, etc etc. at 99.5 KISS radio, in San Antonio, Tx.

I was only a freshman in high school, but I remember vividly how many of the upperclassmen would drive up screeching into the student parking lot each morning with your live tape BLASTING through Jensen Triaxial speakers (placed in bookcase enclosures and sitting on the rear decks) and JetSound amplifiers with the green or amber L.E.D. multi-segment indicators completely lit.

A couple of years later, I heard "Hang On" rip through my car stereo a few times. Holy Crap! Your voice! That blue note! You were just nailing it! Funny thing, I never obtained a copy of that song. So now, 20 years later, not remembering the title or the album or really anything about how it went, I just began to sift through some of the tunes from your earlier albums.

And then it just hits you. All those memories come flooding back as soon as you hear those notes played that certain way and in that certain order. The planets re-align. The brain begins to manufacture it's own natural dopamine/seratonin etc etc and the spirit rises.

That's rock and roll. It never leaves you; it helps you get through.

Thanks, Frank.

-Mike Labay, hangin' on.