Steve Janowsky: The ReviewFix Rocktologist: Carlos Alomar Interview

Carlos Alomar has worked with Beatle legends John Lennon (“Fame”) and Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Iggy Pop and is widely recognized as having played on more David Bowie albums than anyone. His most recent guitar work can be heard on Alicia Key’s “The Element of Freedom.”  This native of Ponce, Puerto Rico made New York his home and is a chameleon whose playing can be adapted to any band he plays with or any recording session he is involved in. ReviewFix.com spoke to this master musician at the National Rock Convention and he touched on the recording of Bowie’s “Station to Station,” John Lennon, his “axes” and amplifiers, guitar influences, Nina Simone, Earl Slick and his staying power as a session guitarist and touring musician.

You can listen to the interview by clicking the link below:

Carlos Alomar Interview

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Steve Janowsky is a former co-host of the Rocktologists theme based classic rock show radio show on WKRB 90.3 fm, which was voted the best classic rock podcast in the country by Dave White of About.com. Some of the interview guests on the show were Simon Kirke ( Free and Bad Company), Carl Palmer (ELP), Vince Martell (Vanilla Fudge), Randy Jackson (Zebra) and Frank Marino of Mahogany Rush. Janowsky is also an English and Journalism instructor at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, NY and is an avid guitar player and songwriter.

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