"And our ears would confirm that - yes, indeed - it was the same great Phil Manzanera standing before us at the intimate Great American Music Hall in San Francisco on Thursday night (Feb. 19). The English art-rock icon came to town as part of a short "words and music" tour, which supports several different projects from this ever-active 75-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer (who was rightfully enshrined as a member of Roxy Music in 2019)."
"He'd do so in words during an onstage conversation with journalist Anil Prasad, who traveled alongside Manzanera as he took his ancestral origin story way back to 1492 and quickly moved forward to his days growing up in Cuba - where his mom taught him Spanish guitar and he'd begin playing Cuban folk songs. Manzanera continued to move around quite a bit during those early years with his family - Venezuela, Hawaii and, finally, London."
Phil Manzanera appeared onstage in a snazzy blue suit and then played his guitar through what he called the "smallest amp known to man" with "the biggest sound", delivering his signature mix of prog, pop, rock, Latin and experimental sounds. The Great American Music Hall audience heard the same distinctive guitarist who rose to fame with Roxy Music. The performance supported his new 11-disc retrospective "50 Years of Music" and his 2024 memoir "Revolución to Roxy." Manzanera recounted his ancestral origin story back to 1492 and his childhood in Cuba, where his mother taught him Spanish guitar, followed by moves to Venezuela, Hawaii and London.
Read at The Mercury News
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