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For the producer / engineer / musician associated with Beck and Ben Harper, please use Danny Kalb.
Danny Kalb, born on September 19, 1942 in Brooklyn, NYC, USA, is a guitarist and an original member of , formed in 1965. He has also worked as session musician, performing with such folk singers as , , and . Kalb and the blues ethnomusicologist formed . He joined 's in 1963. Inspired by the African-American bluesmen , and , Kalb experimented with acoustic and electronic music. In 1965 performed an eleven-minute rendition of 's "Two Trains Running" in electronic form, with Waters in the audience.
Personality clashes, drugs and the lifestyle of the 1960s took their toll on , and left to form . In 1968 Danny Kalb released "Crosscurrents" with . Kalb was fairly quiet for the next twenty years, but joined for a Blues Project reunion, recorded at in 1996. He currently performs solo acoustic gigs, plays acoustic and electric music with the Danny Kalb Trio, including on acoustic bass and on drums, and occasionally performs with and and with... Read More ... his brother .
At the age of 76, Danny Kalb is still active as guitarist on the vintage early Gibson J-200 with which he began his career in the 1960s, and besides that he also produces, mix and master music for other artists.
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