6 Steve | FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 2017 Kimock BIG ISLAND and ENTERTAINMENT SCENE |Friends WEST HAWAII TODAY Group to play 1 show in Honokaa SPECIAL TO WEST HAWAII TODAY Steve Kimock is quite simply one of the finest improvisational guitarists alive, and he’s bringing his music and a very cool band — Steve Kimock and Friends, featuring Jeff Chimenti (Dead and Company) on keys, Bobby Vega (Sly and the Family Stone and Zero) on bass and Wally Ingram (David Lindley and Sheryl Crow) on drums — to the Big Island next weekend. Steve Kimock and Friends is a special band. Kimock’s musical love affair with Chimenti, one of the finest keyboardists around, produces more smiles and great music per second than one can imagine. Vega has been Kimock’s bass partner since the early 1980s with Zero. Ingram plays with Kimock as though they’ve been on the same stage for just as long. SK & F, as they are also known, takes the stage at 7 p.m. on March 25 at Honokaa People’s Theatre on the Hamakua Coast following two Honolulu shows. Whether with all the living members of the Grateful Dead, his band Voodoo Dead, with Parliament/Funkadelic co-founder Bernie Worrell or his solo acoustic project Last Danger of Frost, Kimock has proven himself a master of improvisation for more than four decades, in the process inspiring music fans with his transcendent guitar speak, voiced through electric, acoustic, lap and pedal steel guitars. While one can say that his genre is rock, no one niche has ever confined him. Instead, through the years, he’s explored various sounds and styles based on what’s moved him at the time, whether it’s blues or jazz; funk or folk; psychedelic or boogie; gypsy or prog-rock; traditional American or world fusion. Kimock co-founded the jazz/ rock band Zero in the 1980s and Clockwise from top: Jeff Chimenti, Bobby Vega, Wally Ingram and Steve Kimock. Steve Kimock and Friends, as the group is known, performs on March 25 in Honokaa. COURTESY PHOTO/SPECIAL TO WEST HAWAII TODAY KVHW in the ‘90s; since then, he has recorded and toured in various outfits under his own name. His collaborations with assorted band mates and groups have provided an everlasting wellspring of inspiration for the guitarist, and he has shared the stage with a seemingly endless array of international musical luminaries. Over the years, he’s recorded and toured with Bruce Hornsby and worked extensively with the late Merl Saunders. Additionally, he has shared the stage with The Allman Brothers, Bonnie Raitt, Buddy Miles, Derek Trucks, Elvin Bishop, George Porter Jr., Grace Potter, Grace Slick, Joe Satriani, Jorma Kaukonen, Keller Williams, Little Feat, Nicky Hopkins, Norton Buffalo, Papa John Creach, Peter Frampton, all members of Phish, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Stephen Perkins, From left: Jeff Chimenti, Wally SEE KIMOCK PAGE 9 PHOTO/SPECIAL TO WEST HAWAII TODAY
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