Mike Wilhelm is a guitarist, singer and songwriter from California, United States of America. He was born in Los Angeles in 1942 and first learned to play blues guitar in his teens, from legendary Tennessee bluesman Walter "Brownie" McGhee. He served for a short time in the U. S. Navy before starting his professional music career as a backup guitarist for The Chambers Brothers.
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- Mike Wilhelm is a guitarist, singer and songwriter from California, United States of America. He was born in Los Angeles in 1942 and first learned to play blues guitar in his teens, from legendary Tennessee bluesman Walter "Brownie" McGhee. He served for a short time in the U. S. Navy before starting his professional music career as a backup guitarist for The Chambers Brothers. He was a founding member of the influential bay area band The Charlatans, who were the first psychedelic rock band in San Francisco. During the 1960s, when the photographer Herb Green asked Jerry Garcia who his favorite guitarist was, Garcia responded "Mike Wilhelm" without hesitation. Although they were hugely influential on the San Francisco counter-culture scene during the late 1960s, The Charlatans never managed to break into the national charts and only released one self-titled album before breaking up at the end of 1969. A version of Buffy St. Marie's "Codine", recorded by The Charlatans in 1966, was used in the movie, Boys Don't Cry during Hilary Swank's sex change scene. Mike Wilhelm's guitar solo, one of his favorites, was deleted on the movie soundtrack and the Charlatans had to sue the director of the film in order to receive royalties. After The Charlatans disbanded, Wilhelm formed a trio called Loose Gravel in the early 70s and famously gave Bill Graham "the finger" in the movie The Last Days of The Fillmore, when Graham refused to let Loose Gravel play in the film. Graham liked the scene where Mike gave him the finger so much that he left it in the movie. After Loose Gravel broke up, Wilhelm spent six years as lead guitarist with the The Flamin' Groovies and toured Europe and elsewhere with the band. He played on two of the Flamin' Groovies studio albums, Flamin' Groovies Now! (1978) and Jumpin' in the Night (1979). Both albums were reissued as part of the Groovies' three-CD set, The Sire Years. Wilhelm has released several solo albums including: Wilhelm, Mean Ol' Frisco and Live In Tokyo: At Grateful Dead Land (Japanese issue). In addition, he also participated in the recording of the as yet unreleased Austin Sessions with Steady Freddie Krc. In the mid-1990s, Wilhelm was involved in the remixing of unreleased demos and recording sessions by his old band, The Charlatans, for Big Beat Records' The Amazing Charlatans CD. This remixing work for the album was largely done during his spare time, when he wasn't roofing his house. In 2005, Wilhelm was involved in a reunion of The Charlatans for a performance at a memorial concert for Family Dog founder Chet Helms in Golden Gate Park. The band reformed again, two years later, for a free concert commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Summer of Love in San Francisco. Mike Wilhelm currently performs with the Lake County Blues Band in Lake County, California where he also resides with his wife, Ana Maria and their cat, Felix.
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- Mike Wilhelm is a guitarist, singer and songwriter from California, United States of America. He was born in Los Angeles in 1942 and first learned to play blues guitar in his teens, from legendary Tennessee bluesman Walter "Brownie" McGhee. He served for a short time in the U. S. Navy before starting his professional music career as a backup guitarist for The Chambers Brothers.
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