Mike Slamer
Mike Slamer | |
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Origin | United Kingdom |
Genres | Rock, glam metal |
Occupation(s) | Musician |
Instruments | Guitar |
Labels | Atlantic |
Associated acts |
City Boy Streets Kix Warrant Seventh Key Steelhouse Lane |
Michael Chetwynd "Mike" Slamer is a British guitarist.
Biography
Slamer started his career playing in the UK prog-rock band City Boy. Since then, he has worked as a staff composer for various movies and TV series, has been a session guitarist for numerous recording artists, and played in several bands. He provided the guitar solos on Warrant's first two albums, Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich and Cherry Pie.[1] He also contributed a solo on a Kix record.
He at different times cooperated with two members of the progressive rock band Kansas. With Steve Walsh he formed Streets,[2] and with Billy Greer he created the band Seventh Key. Streets released two albums on the Atlantic label, 1st (1983) and Crimes in Mind (1985). A live Streets album was released on the BMG label in 1997 and features a concert for the King Biscuit Flower Hour radio show from 1983.
Slamer has also released two albums with the group Steelhouse Lane, plus a solo album entitled Nowhere Land, with former Strangeways member Terry Brock on vocals (2006).
Discography
with City Boy
- 1976: City Boy
- 1977: Dinner at the Ritz
- 1977: Young Men Gone West
- 1978: Book Early
- 1979: The Day the Earth Caught Fire
- 1980: Heads Are Rolling
- 1981: It's Personal
- 2001: Anthology (compilation)
with Streets
- 1983: 1st
- 1985: Crimes in Mind
- 1997: King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents Streets or Live-Shakedown
with Steelhouse Lane
- 1998: Metallic Blue (Avex Trax) (guitar)
- 1999: Slaves of the New World (Escape Music Ltd.) (producer, guitar)
Chris Thompson and Mike Slamer
- 2001: Won't Lie Down (CD) (guitar)
with Seventh Key
- 2001: Seventh Key (with Billy Greer) (CD) (producer, guitar)
- 2004: The Raging Fire (with Billy Greer) (CD)
- 2005: Seventh Key Live in Atlanta (with Billy Greer) (CD and DVD)
- 2013: I Will Survive (with Billy Greer) (CD)
Album credits
- Angry Anderson
- 1990: Blood from Stone (CD) (guitar)
- Steve Walsh
- 2000: Glossolalia (CD) (guitar)
- Terry Brock
- 2010: Diamond Blue (CD) (producer, guitar)
As solo artist (Slamer)
- 2006: Nowhere Land (Frontiers Records)
References
- ↑ https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/interviews/beau_hill_your_only_constraint_is_your_own_imagination.html
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Joel Whitburn Presents Rock Tracks 1981-2008. Record Research. pp. 247–. ISBN 9780898201741. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
External links
- Official website
- Myspace profile for Mike Slamer
- Radio interview with Mike Slamer about his time with City Boy (August 2006)
- "Nowhere Land – Slamer"