Music by Mark Andes & David Holt

THE TALENT

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, who will play alongside Flinn, is an American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter who is best known for being a member of the Austin-based group, Storyville, which included guitarist David Grissom, vocalist Malford Milligan, and Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Double Trouble rhythm section, Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton. He is currently lead guitarist for Joe Ely and has in the past played lead guitar with Billy Joe Shaver, Carlene Carter, Bobby Keys, Rosie Flores, Mike Stinson, Terry Allen and many others. In 2004, Holt released his only solo effort, “Perpetual Motion,” on the Blue Corn Music label.

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