Mark Andes & David Holt

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Andes was a founding member of the band Spirit. He played bass on their first four albums and on some subsequent reunion albums. During a bout with the flu, Mark co-wrote one of Spirit's first singles, "Mechanical World," with fellow Spirit member Jay Ferguson who was a friend from high school.[2]

Spirit was noted for its hybrid sound of rock and jazz styles.[] The group released groundbreaking works such as (1970), that critically were lauded later, but commercial success largely eluded them at the time.[3]

When the original line-up of Spirit broke up, Andes and Jay Ferguson formed the band Jo Jo Gunne.[4] He recruited his brother, Matt Andes, to play guitar. Andes only recorded one album with Jo Jo Gunne before semi-retiring from music around 1972. During his stay, the band had a Top 40 hit with the song "Run, Run, Run". When Jo Jo Gunne reformed for a new album and gigs in 2004, Andes was included in the line-up.

Andes moved to Boulder, Colorado, where he lived in the basement of local musician Jeff Reaves. In 1975, he was recruited by former Flying Burrito Brothers vocalist Rick Roberts and former Byrds and Flying Burrito Brothers drummer Michael Clarke to form the country-rock band Firefall. For six years, Mark would be in a band that had a string of hit singles, including the Top 10 hit, "You Are the Woman." During the early 1980s, Andes also collaborated briefly with future Yes guitarist Trevor Rabin and future Quiet Riot drummer Frank Banali.

David Lee Holt is a native Texas guitarist, vocalist and songwriter born in Dallas, raised in Lubbock and nurtured in Austin. He has toured and/or recorded with Carlene Carter, Storyville (Austin award-winning supergroup that included Stevie Ray Vaughan’s rhythm section), The Mavericks, and Joe Ely, who he still works with frequently — and many others.

David has toured extensively in the U.S. and throughout Europe for decades on bills with such diverse acts as the Allman Brothers, BB King, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash, to name a few. He still lives in the Austin area and can frequently be seen in local iconic venues such as The Continental Club and Antone’s.

David’s first and only solo album, Perpetual Motion, was released in 2004.

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