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IN THE STUDIO WITH JERRY MILLER AND TIRAN PORTER |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Jerry Miller (1943) is an internationally acclaimed guitar legend living in the city where he was born, Tacoma, Washington. A veteran blues man, Jerry has been thrilling audiences for over 40 years. He began in the late 50's playing and recording with popular Northwest dance-rock bands including the Elegants. But it was amid the music explosion of the 1960s that his career took off. He contributed steller guitar work to the hit record I Fought the Law and the Law Won and toured the South with the Bobby Fuller Four. After Fuller's untimely death, Jerry returned to the West. In the epicenter of the cultural revolution, San Francisco, Moby Grape was formed. Jerry provided the fire behind the three-guitar powerhouse band. Fame came fast and hard. The Grape signed with Columbia, recorded a half dozen albums, toured the U.S. and Europe, then slowly fell apart. |
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| Tiran Porter is a US bass and guitar player, vocalist and composer. Born in 1948, he rose to fame as a member of the Doobie Brothers, replacing original bassist Dave Shogren on their second album Toulouse Street in 1972. His vocal talents were mostly restricted to the background in the studio, although he contributed "For Someone Special"(an affectionate tribute to ill bandleader Tom Johnston) to Takin' It To The Streets (1976) and the creatively syncopated "Need A Lady" to Livin' On The Fault Line (1977). In concert, Porter usually performed lead vocal on one or two songs. During the 1989 tour, for example, he sang "Road Angel" while original vocalist Johnston rested his pipes.Indisputably, Tiran Porter's most notable contributions to the Doobie Brothers' sound were his busy and punchy bass lines; his distinctive tone permeates all of the band's classic compositions and hits. |











