BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Description: Guitar, vocals, bass guitar,keyboards, USA
Known For: Instruments
Instruments: Vocals, Guitar
Music Styles: Rock
Location: United States of America
Date Born: 13th October 1949
Location Born: Darby, Pennsylvania, United States of America
BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Rick Vito
Richard F. “Rick” Vito (born October 13, 1949, Darby, Pennsylvania, United States) is an American guitarist and singer. He was part of Fleetwood Mac between 1987 and 1991. Vito took over as lead guitarist after Lindsey Buckingham left Fleetwood Mac. He is best known for his blues and slide guitar style, whose influences include Elmore James, Robert Nighthawk, B.B. King, Alvino Rey, Les Paul, Mohan Bhatt, George Harrison and Keith Richards.
Vito has been a featured player on Bob Seger’s albums since 1986. He played the famous slide guitar solo on the Bob Seger song and Chevy truck ad, “Like a Rock”. He was a long-standing member of Bonnie Raitt’s touring band in the 1990s. Rick also played with John Mayall, Jackson Browne, Little Richard, Roger McGuinn, Bobby Whitlock, Dobie Gray, John Fogerty, Delaney & Bonnie, Albert Collins, Dolly Parton, and Maria Muldaur, and others. Vito tours often in Europe with his own band. He produced rockabilly singer Rosie Flores’ CD, “Speed of Sound.” His CD/DVD production collaboration with Mick Fleetwood, Blue Again! was Grammy nominated in 2010. Vito is also the recipient of the W.C. Handy Blues Award.
Fleetwood Mac
In 1987, Lindsey Buckingham quit Fleetwood Mac before the band begun their Tango In The Night Tour. Fleetwood Mac Drummer Mick Fleetwood asked Billy Burnette to join the group as the lead guitarist, but Burnette declined to join unless his friend Rick Vito also joined, and Vito was named lead guitarist. Fleetwood accepted and Rick Vito and Billy Burnette joined Fleetwood Mac in September 1987. Vito quit Fleetwood Mac in November 1991 to spend more time working on his solo career. Despite his departure from the group, Vito joined his former bandmates Christine McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Billy Burnette, and John McVie to play the pre-game show of Super Bowl XXVII in January 1993. Vito would later join the Mick Fleetwood Blues Band in 2008 and record a live album “Blue Again!” which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Blues Album in 2010.
Solo albums:
1992 King Of Hearts
1998 Pink & Black
2000 Lucky Devils
2001 Crazy Cool
2003 Band Box Boogie
2005 Rattlesnake Shake
2006 Talk That Talk
2009 ” Lucky In Love; The Best of Rick Vito
Guest performances:
1972 Something/Anything? – Todd Rundgren
1972 Raw Velvet – Bobby Whitlock
1975 New Year, New Band, New Company – John Mayall
1975 Common Sense – John Prine
1975 Change – Spanky and Our Gang
1975 Notice to Appear – John Mayall
1976 Banquet in Blues – John Mayall
1976 Prime Prine – John Prine
1976 Street Talk – Bob Crewe
1977 Playing to an Audience Of One – David Soul
1977 Thunderbyrd – Roger McGuinn
1978 Kissin in the California Sun – Katy Moffatt
1978 Randy Richards – Randy Richards
1979 High and Outside – Steve Goodman
1979 No More Interviews – John Mayall
1979 Open Your Eyes – Maria Muldaur
1980 Blue Delicacies – Ronnie Barron
1982 Fast Times at Ridgemont High Soundtrack – Jackson Browne
1982 Green Light – Bonnie Raitt
1982 The Perfect Stranger – Jesse Colin Young
1982 Revenge Will Come – Greg Copeland
1982 Walk On – Karen Brooks
1983 Lawyers in Love – Jackson Browne
1983 Tell Me the Truth – Timothy B Schmit
1984 Inside the Fire – Rita Coolidge
1985 One Heart at a Time – Don Francisco
1986 Like a Rock – Bob Seger
1986 Lives in the Balance – Jackson Browne
1987 A Very Special Christmas – Bob Seger
1987 Rainbow – Dolly Parton
1989 Mystery Girl – Roy Orbison
1989 Rock Rhythm & Blues – Various
1990 Gypsy Moon – Troy Newman
1990 Brent Bourgeois – Brent Bourgeois
1991 The Fire Inside – Bob Seger
1992 Born to Rock and Roll – Roger McGuinn
1993 Great Days: John Prine Anthology – John Prine
1994 Craig Shoemaker Meets the Lovemaster – Craig Shoemaker
1994 Greatest Hits – Bob Seger
1994 Meet Me at Midnite – Maria Muldaur
1995 It’s a Mystery – Bob Seger
1995 All Day Thumbsucker Revisited – Various
1996 Not Alone – Thomas Jefferson Kaye
1997 The Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne – Jackson Browne
1998 Southland of the Heart – Maria Muldaur
1998 Thinking About You – Rita Coolidge
1999 Extremely Cool – Chuck E. Weiss
1999 Biker’s Choice – Various
1999 Lillith Fair Volume 3 – Bonnie Raitt
1999 The ABC Years – John Mayall
1999 Juke Rhythm – John “Juke” Logan
1999 Smooth Sailin’ – Marty Grebb
2001 Forgive – Rebecca Lynn Howard
2002 Nothing Personal – Delbert McClinton
2002 Almeria Club – Hank Williams Jr.
2002 Fast Girl – The Tractors
2002 The Big Night – The Tractors
2002 Speed of Sound – Rosie Flores
2003 All Night Breakfast – Jonny Neel
2004 The Very Best of Jackson Browne – Jackson Browne
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia