Duane Hitchings

Location:
US
Type:
Artist / Band / Musician
Genre:
Country / Rock / Electronica
Site(s):
Label:
Where Ever My Song/Playing Lands Record Company !!
Grammy Award winning songwriter and concert/studio keyboard player. Classically trained on piano since 5. Brought up on a farm outside Syracuse , New York. Played in country and rock bands since 1957. Played on hit record "Heart And Soul" 1959 at age 16. Toured with Dick Clark tours (Del Shannon, Bobby Vinton etc.). San Francisco and Philadelphia Conservatories of Music and Syracuse University majoring in piano, composition and electronic music . Studied with Oscar Peterson, the great jazz pianist. Recorded/played in 60s and early 70's - Original member of Buddy Miles Express (Electric Flag) - ( introduced to Buddy Miles by the great white blues guitar player, Michael Bloomfield. Played/recorded with Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jeff Beck, Etta James, Miles Davis etc. Member of rock group- Cactus with Carmine Appice and Tim Bogart - 70's then Cactus II and Thee Image with Mike Pinera. Duane also went on to play with and wrote for Alice Cooper. -------------------------- Grammy for the ballade , "I'll Be Here Were The Heart" with Kim Carnes ( also singing , of course) and Craig Krampf for movie Flashdance. ------ He co-wrote and played on "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy with Rod Stewart" ( though he did not get listed credit for a long time-clerical error – finally listed now as a co-writer ) , "Young Turks", "Infatuation" and "Crazy Bout Her". Rod and Jeff Beck, Duane recorded for the hit track/video of "People Get Ready". He also had hits with Heart, Pat Benetar, Kim Carnes, Michael Bolton , Eddie Money, Eric Carmen, etc. Duane co-wrote "Don't Look Any Further" with Frannie Golde and Dennis Lambert. Had over 150 covers , his bass line/chords that has ended up on a lot of rap/hip-hop hits - TLC, Tupac, Notorious Big, Prince, Snoop Dog etc. Written with Pam Tillis in the past and wrote a song with Kostas which was the title track for David Frizzell's latest album. Also in the past. played keys on the last Runaway's album, the first all girl rock band from the 70s. Discovered a band called City Kidd-became the huge group, Tesla. ---------------- He is currently writing for Wynonna Judd's new album. Wynonna already has a solid hold on one of his songs for January 2012. He still loves to gig now and then with his one man band plus a singer called "Digital Hitch". Duo can be heard on his video section of Reverbnation with Valerie Borman. Also Duane has returned to and been composing Electronic Music since his Conservatory days (late 60's) and is currently working on his first Trance/House/Electro Dance/Dubstep etc. collection of music like "a driven man" as he states - "for it is the future". He meant Bob Moog in 1967 at the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music ( first BIG Moog sold to a music school.) It was so new , Bob Moog could not afford a service man yet ! He has pieces of his work on the music player but states they are a bit dated but will have some of it's originality in his new stuff. Duane lives on his combination boat/home/recording studio in the Nashville area. -------------------------------------------------------------
EXTRA STUFF : Duane has visited England, China and Russia as Ambassador of the Arts in three separate trips representing the United States. He has been a fireman-engineer/ medical 1st responder and was engine captain of the Number One Volunteer Fire and Rescue Fire Department of Sumner County, TN , also was Flotilla Commander of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, founding member of Homeland Security and is now an active member of the Tennessee State Guard ( the Army Auxiliary of the Tennessee National Guard - HQ Co, Nashville, TN. All retired military from Sgts to Generals - from all the branches of the US military. --------------- Duane has been studying the Bible in Greek and Hebrew , a passion of his - looking for the real Truth. He is sponsored by Yamaha ( Yamaha TYROS ) and has a custom digital recording studio on board his boat. MacBook Pro - Logic 9 , FULL of plugins (of course) /Ableton Live ( with a Akai APC40) and on the "other side" Dell Computer – Nuendo/Acid Pro.
Email – Captainhit@Comcast.net
Website: Reverbnation ~ Duane Hitchings
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