Maestro Alex Gregory - Production, Guitars, Celloblaster, Electric Mandolin
Steve Weingart - Keyboards
Dave LaRue - Bass Guitar
Virgil Donati - Drums
Albert Lee - Country Guitar
Albert Wing - Sax, Flute, Clarinet
Additional contributions by: Matt Bissonette - Bass Guitar on track 13; Mischa Kopitman – Keyboards on tracks 13 and
15; Jon Lowry – Engineering; Eddy Shrayer – Mastering; Franco Columbu – Mr. Universe Physique
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), composer, keyboard and violin virtuoso, inventor and designer of musical instruments, was
already a legend in his own lifetime. He was hailed as the supreme genius of polyphony and Baroque Music. No other musician
has ever been so inspirational and influential on endless generations of peers.
Bach’s timeless music has triumphed over centuries of stylistic changes to be embraced by all genres. In the early
‘70s Walter Carlos went multi-platinum with “SWITCHED ON BACH”, which featured the first all keyboard synthesizer
recording of 10 popular J.S. Bach pieces. Sky, featuring John Williams, followed in the early ‘80s and went platinum
in 3 weeks thanks to the single “Toccata and Fugue in Dm”. In the ‘90s it was Vanessa Mae who topped the
charts with Bach pieces, while Jacques Lucien had been selling millions of records since the ‘60s by fusing Bach with
Jazz improvisations. And, the list goes on…
In 2009! “BACH ON STEROIDS!” re-writes all the books: POP, CLASSICAL, JAZZ and ROCK with accurate and yet mind-blowingly
fresh renditions of the most popular J.S. Bach pieces performed by a stellar line-up with the far superior sonic and musical
quality of the new PENTASYSTEMŽ.
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