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Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Friends Set TO Play Benefit Concert By Newsferatu, Writer Sunday, September 17, 2006 @ 9:28 AM
Legendary guitarists Steve Vai and Joe Satriani are gearing up to play their special benefit concert for music industry veteran and friend, Cliff Cultreri. “The Cliff Show” is set to take place on Saturday, September 30th at the House of Blues, Hollywood, and will feature performances by both Satriani and Vai, as well as just announced special guests – Steve Lukather, Dweezil Zappa, Paul Gilbert, Billy Sheehan, Scott Henderson and Johnny Hiland.
Cliff Cultreri is the A&R executive who ‘discovered’ both Satriani and Vai as well as many other popular recording artists, while working at Relativity Records. Cultreri is suffering from a host of Auto-Immune and Connective-Tissue disorders that are attacking his immune system, a one in 100 million occurrence that causes severe pain and physical problems. Satriani and Vai hope to raise funds to help Cultreri and his family with their financial needs.
“Cliff is a dear friend who has been a musical force and guiding light in both my career and my life for 2 decades, “ said Satriani. “Steve and I wanted to help Cliff and the idea of a show in LA with other members of the guitar community seemed to be the obvious way to celebrate and help him.”
Cultreri is currently VP of A&R at Koch Entertainment. During his many years in the music industry, Cultreri has served as A&R for a number of top names, in addition to receiving 18 Grammy nominations, 13 Gold and 14 Platinum, and Multi-Platinum awards for albums on which he was the executive producer, co-producer or A&R. He also has won Grammy’s for “Song of the Year” and “Album of the Year” with Bone Thugs 'N Harmony, for which he served as A&R.
In addition to the amazing performances and group jams that are sure to take place, there will also be two autographed Ibanez (JS and JEM) signature guitars and other memorabilia auctioned off during the course of the evening. All proceeds will go to the Cliff Cultreri fund.
KNAC.COM's Junkman will be on hand to help with the emcee duties.
Tickets prices are set $100 and are currently available for sale through ticketmaster.com or at the House of Blues box office. For more information on the show or artists set to perform, visit www.satriani.com and www.vai.com.
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