Frank Marino-The Power Of Rock and Roll (1981)-Juggernaut (1982)

In 1981, Canadian guitarist Frank Marino parted ways with Mahogany Rush to begin releasing his subsequent albums under his own name. His first solo album was "The Power of Rock and Roll", released on Columbia Records. However, his backing musicians on this album remained the same as in his band, starting with his brother Vince Marino on guitar, bassist Paul Harwood, and drummer Jim Ayoub. What didn't change was his characteristic incendiary style, as demonstrated in the tracks "The Power of Rock and Roll", "Play My Music", "Stay With Me", and "Young Man", while the exhilarating hard rock emerges in the fantastic guitar tour de force "Runnin' Wild" and the dizzying "Go Strange". A year later, Frank Marino paid homage to AOR sounds with the release of "Juggernaut", in which the man considered the Canadian Hendrix showed himself to be quite comfortable setting aside his guitar hero to focus on the songs. An album featuring tracks such as "For Your Love", "Stories Of a Hero" or "Strange Dreams".

Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush-What´s Next (1980)

At the start of the 1980s, Canadian guitarist Frank Marino released his seventh album with his inseparable band Mahogany Rush, this time with the addition of Vince Marino (Frank's brother) on second guitar. The rest of the lineup remained the same: bassist Paul Harwood and drummer Jimmy Ayoub. Despite the growing emphasis on melody and the ubiquitous keyboards that were beginning to take hold in rock music during those years, Frank Marino was still determined to expand his powerful 1970s hard rock sound, as evidenced by "What's Next", with a repertoire packed with tremendous songs like "Loved By You", "Finish Line", "Something's Comin' Our Way", and powerful covers such as the traditional blues "Rock Me Baby", Bob Diddley's exhilarating "Mona", and The Doors' frenetic "Roadhouse Blues".

Frank Marino And Mahogany Rush-Live (1978)

Frank Marino is one of the best guitarists and at the same time most underrated in rock, at an early age he would take his first steps in music playing the drums, which he would exchange for the guitar as a teenager.
His influence of Jimi Hendrix's style has always haunted him, even the tabloid press came to publish that at 17 he was induced by the spirit of Hendrix himself after a trip with LDS and was the one who taught him the technical knowledge of the guitar ( this absurd theory has always been a bad joke to Frank Marino himself)
However, it is true that his very personal style is loaded with large doses of psychedelic adrenaline and a lot of blues, something that was characteristic of Jimi Hendrix.
In 1970, he founded his band Mahogany Rush with which he would publish a dozen albums, all of them intense works where his fast and fluid pentatonic touch and a great number of large-scale pyrotechnic effects were the characteristic of his unmistakable style.
In 1978 he published this "Live", recorded during his world tour of the previous year presenting the album "World Anthem", and where he made an excellent review of the most select of his career with the Mahogany Rush.
In this live show, Frank Marino is shown as a prominent guitarist, showing an excessively instrumental fluidity and to some extent aggressive, as well as a devastating rhythmic section supported by drummer Jimmy Ayoub and bassist Paul Harwood, who make this recording stunning and a of the best live recordings of the 70s.