Dragonfly: The Best of Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush

Dragonfly: The Best of Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush Artist: Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush
Label: Razor & Tie
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 793018210522
EAN: 0793018210522
ASIN: B000002ZAA


Release Date: 1996-04-23

Dragonfly: The Best of Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush


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Tracks:

  1. Jive Baby
  2. Dragonfly
  3. Hey, Little Lover
  4. Requiem For A Sinner
  5. Johnny B. Goode (Live)
  6. Talkin' 'Bout A Feelin' (Live)
  7. I'm A King Bee (Live)
  8. Sister Change
  9. All Along The Watchtower
  10. Woman (Live)
  11. Rock 'N' Roll Hall Of Fame
  12. Mona
  13. Roadhouse Blues
  14. Juggernaut

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  1. Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush Live
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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars The Montreal Days.......2006-10-24

I remember being a Montreal High sophomore back in 1970 and everyone was talking about this band playing the high school dance circuit called Mahogany Rush. The rumor was was that the guitarist had been "tripping" and had somehow been rescued from his bad trip by the spirit of Jimi Hendrix, miraculously learning guitar overnight when he came back. The big single at the time was a 45 called "Buddy" which recounts this story in part. The band made a surprise appearance at our school's morning assembly to advertise for the weekend dance. I was blown away. Even at 16, Frank Marino could play well enough to legitimize the legend. Although none of the songs off his first album appear on this compilation I still recommend it...just thought I'd add this historical footnote.

4 out of 5 stars Good Anthology Of Hendrix Styled Canadian Guitarist.......2002-03-09

Frank Marino was a Canadian guitarist who adeptly played in a Hendrix hippy/psychedelic guitar style with his band Mahogany Rush during the seventies. "Dragonfly: The Best Of Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush" only features his tenure at CBS. His work before and after this period is not included here. Marino's style especially later in his CBS tenure tended to be more overblown and bombastic than the work of another Hendrix aficionado Robin Trower. His playing was also not as bluesy and more metallic than Hendrix fan Stevie Ray Vaughan. That being said he still produced some interesting material and his albums always featured some great playing. Reportedly he used to participate in guitar "cutting" contests with Ted Nugent and Mark Pinera (Iron Butterfly). For most of his tenure at CBS his band Mahogany Rush was a power trio with Paul Harwood on bass and Jim Ayoub on skins. Most of his best tunes are included here such as originals like "Jive Baby", "Dragonfly", "Sister Change" and "Woman". Covers like "Johnny B. Goode", "All Along The Watchtower", and "Roadhouse Blues" prove he could also interpret the material of others. He was perhaps at his best in a live context and there are a number of cuts from his "Live" lp and a live version of "I'm A King Bee" from the rare "California Jam" lp.

I was disappointed that a few cuts like his covers of "Purple Haze" (often his concert encore) and "Rock Me Baby" were not included. I also miss "The Answer" and "Broken Heart Blues" and somewhat oddly one of his last singles for CBS "Strange Dreams" was omitted. This set provides a good sample Marino's playing and style. Rumor has it according to his web site that CBS is planning a multi-disk box set later in the year. Hopefully my favorites which were omitted from this compilation will be added to that set if it is released along with some unissued live and studio tracks. If like what you hear on this set your next step should be the purchase of the "Live" lp.

4 out of 5 stars Ignore BluesDuke`s scathing review !.......2002-03-07

This guy BluesDuke speaks well but I`m not convinced he has the qualifications to be overly critical of Frank Marino or any other artist.Frank is much more talented than BluesDuke gives him credit for.So again I say disregard BluesDukes review completely! Let BluesDuke strum his 3 chords on an old silvertone with his big beer belly hangin out,we will listen to Frank Marino!

2 out of 5 stars It's The One To Have If You Absolutely Must Have Him.......2000-11-30

Like Robin Trower, Frank Marino was one of a few thousand guitarists who fell to Jimi Hendrix's feet and couldn't stand up on their own again if you replaced their legs with robotic limbs. Unlike Trower, though, Frank Marino was so much flash that what little substance he bore came through when he played the blues. And even there it doesn't exactly make him much more than a hit-and-run bystander. In other words, in terms of real quality or depth Marino doesn't even come close to "For Earth Below," never mind the Electric Ladykiller Himself...

But if you really have to have something of him in the hard rock library, stay strictly with this one. It's useful as a kind of one-stop guitar lesson for those players who absolutely insist that shredding the daylights out of the fretboard is the only way to play the instrument - Marino was nothing if not a technically overendowed player. And, to whomever's credit, the selection is done quite prudently. By the time Marino and company (Mahogany Rush didn't always have Marino's name top billed, and they were just a workaday power trio who probably got in over their heads when they got the recording contract their presumed bar audiences were naive enough to believe they deserved) are finished here, it's over before you begin contemplating putting them under arrest for shameless, self-congratulatory derivation.

And at least you don't have to put up with an entire album's worth of philosophical pretentiousness (think "World Anthem"), either. Best leave that to Canada's other Rushing power trio - the one without the Mahogany in the name, that is - and let this one remain the pleasant memory of misspent youth they were really destined to become in the first place. For a Hendrix sycophant with some substance and a damn sight better feeling for the blues, the word is Stevie Ray Vaughan.

5 out of 5 stars

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