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Early Life & Career
Crespo was born and raised by Puerto Rican-American parents in Brooklyn, New York. Puerto Rico (ˌpwertoˈriko officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ("Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico" {{lang-en|"Associated Free State of Puerto Rico"}} The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Raised within a musical family, Crespo first took up the guitar at the age of 14, forming his first band, The Knoms (pronounced with a silent 'k'), shortly afterwards. During his teenage years Crespo became an accomplished guitarist, drawing on the stylings of such artists as The Yardbirds, Cream, The Beatles, and Jimi Hendrix. The Yardbirds are an English rock band noted for starting the careers of three of rock's most famous Guitarists Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck Cream were a 1960s British rock band The Beatles were a pop and rock band from Liverpool, England formed in 1960 James Marshall Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix) (November 27 1942 – September 18 1970 was an American Guitarist, Singer and Songwriter Forming the New York club band Anaconda, Crespo was to draw attention on the local scene from industry figures, leading to session work with a number of high profile artists such as Meat Loaf and Stevie Nicks before he was recruited as lead guitarist for the RCA-signed band, Flame. Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday; September 27 1947 better known by his stage name Meat Loaf, is an American rock Musician Stephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks (born on May 26 1948 in Phoenix Arizona) is an American Singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood RCA Records (originally The Victor Talking Machine Company, then RCA Victor is one of the flagship labels of Sony Music Entertainment.
Flame was to release two albums, both their eponymous debut in 1976 and 1977's Queen of the Neighbourhood.
Aerosmith Years
Returning to session work following the breakup of Flame, Crespo attracted the attention of Aerosmith's management following the departure of Joe Perry from the band in 1979. Anthony Joseph "Joe" Perry (Born September 10, 1950 in Lawrence Massachusetts) is the lead Guitarist, backing and occasional Invited to audition for the vacant lead guitarist position, Crespo was asked to join Aerosmith in October 1979. Contributing a guitar solo to the song "3 Mile Smile" for the already recorded Night in the Ruts album, Crespo commenced touring with the band soon after joining. Night in the Ruts is the sixth studio Album by American Hard rock band Aerosmith. Despite Crespo's proficiency and many lauded performances, the tour was hampered by the increasingly erratic state of the band's singer, Steven Tyler, at this stage heavily beset by drug addiction and suffering several on-stage collapses. Stephen Victor Tallarico (born March 26 1948 in Yonkers New York) better known as Steven Tyler (and often nicknamed The Demon of
Despite the singer's troubles, including an incapacitating motorbike accident in January 1981, Crespo and Tyler forged a credible songwriting and touring partnership before the departure of Brad Whitford struck the band in 1981. Brad Whitford (born Bradley Ernest Whitford 23 February 1952, in Winchester Massachusetts, is the rhythm and lead Guitarist for Crespo was to co-write the majority of songs on Aerosmith's 1982 album Rock in a Hard Place, performing almost all the guitar duties on the album. Rock in a Hard Place is the seventh studio Album by American Hard rock band Aerosmith and was released in 1982 Crespo served as the stolid musical capstan of the band during this period. The level of his work remained high even as the work ethic of his bandmates continued to deteriorate.
Charting as high as number 37 on the US Billboard chart, Rock in a Hard Place reputedly cost over $1 million in production costs, featuring a plethora of production and engineering staff amongst its credits. One of Aerosmith's hardest sounding albums (Xavier Russell said of it in Sounds: "As soon as the needle hit the wax it melted and the speaker covers blew across the living room floor - Five Stars"), and popular amongst die-hards, the album suffered both from the rejection of those loyal to former guitarist Perry, and from the lack of penetration into the newly emerging MTV video-clip market. The songs themselves were of a surprisingly strong character, many fans (as well as members of the band) to this day regarding them amongst Aerosmith's best.
Subsequent tours from 1982 through to early 1984 saw Crespo team up with Rick Dufay filling in for the absent Brad Whitford. Rick Dufay (born Richard Marc Dufay, February 19, 1952 in Paris France played guitar in Aerosmith between the departure of Brad Whitford Commercial difficulties during pre-production of the band's next album coupled with singer Tyler's desire to reconvene with guitarist Perry saw Crespo exit the band mid 1984.
Crespo can be heard on Aerosmith's 1986 live album Classics Live! as well as the hits albums Gems and Greatest Hits 1973-1988 and the box set Pandora's Box. Classics Live and Classics Live II are a set of albums by the Boston -based rock band Aerosmith, released in 1986 and 1987 Gems is a Compilation album released by Aerosmith in 1988 (see 1988 in music) under the label Columbia. Pandora's Box is a compilation Box set album released in 1991 by Aerosmith.
Post Aerosmith
Immediately following his tenure in Aerosmith, Crespo played on releases by Stress and Adam Bomb, the guitarist spending several years with the latter-named Geffen Records signed band. There is also a Brazilian heavy metal band called. Stress was a melodic rock band formed in San Diego in 1983 Geffen Records is an American Record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operated as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label Crespo contributed guitar to the Adam Bomb album "Fatal Attraction" (Geffen 1985) before settling in LA with new wife Cynthia to raise two children. His work with Stress is documented in the bonus tracks added to the CD reissue of Killing Me Night & Day on Deep Shag Records. There is also a Brazilian heavy metal band called. Stress was a melodic rock band formed in San Diego in 1983 Debut album from San Diego melodic rock band Stress. It was originally released on LP in 1984 by Bernett Records and reissued on CD in 2001 by Deep Shag Records. Deep Shag Records is an Atlanta, Georgia Reissue Record label started in 1999.
He joined bassist Danny Sheridan and Bonnie Bramlett in their new band Bandaloo Doctors from 1987 to 1992 and returned to session work as well as touring and recording with Billy Squier for several years. Danny Sheridan is a Musician, Songwriter, producer actor and an entertainment manager Bandaloo Doctors was a Los Angeles “super group” playing their own "revolutionary hard-rockin' blues" - From 1988 until 1996 they became darlings of the media and a number William Haislip "Billy" Squier (born on May 12, 1950 in Wellesley Massachusetts) is a rock Musician.
From 1994-1996 Crespo was part of Rod Stewart's live band as lead guitarist. Roderick "Rod" David Stewart, CBE (born 10 January 1945 is a Singer and Songwriter born and raised in London England and currently
Continuing to play as a highly respected and successful studio musician, in more recent times Crespo has graced the stages of some of Las Vegas' biggest Casinos, whilst also engineering a rock amplifier simulator ("Rock Amp Legends by Jimmy Crespo") for Nomad Factory. Las Vegas ( Spanish: "The Meadows" is the most populous City in the state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, and an internationally Today Jimmy plays with the band Phoenix on the Las Vegas entertainment circuit.
Discography
with Aerosmith
- Night in the Ruts (1979)
- Rock in a Hard Place (1982)
- Classics Live I (1986)
- Gems (1988)
- Pandora's Box (1991)
- Greatest Hits 1973-1988 (1997)
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