    I started playing guitar in 1976 at the age of 13. I remember doing my first hall party in 1978 at Elmers Steak Pit hall. I got trashed on Gin and lemonade. Well any way, I was hooked,on playin live that is. I've played in cover band ever since.  Some of the biggest shows I did was the Riverbend festival in Tennessee and the Detroit Hoedowns, both country gigs. 
    Throught the 90s i was playing steady gigs throught the week,for a living. I experienced a lot playing the clubs in the metro detroit area. It was alot of ,SEX, BOOZE AND ROCK N ROLL. 
    In 1997  I landed a weekend house gig at a bar in Flat Rock Michigan call ed Southern Nights. We played anything from Willie Nelson to Metallica,Garth Brooks the Van Halen, GodSmack, RedHotChilliPeppers. We were ther for 5 years every Saturday and Sunday. We called the band The Unwanted. It was me , Becham Combs on keys and vox, Danny Ball on Drums(and other stuff I wont mention) and Ricky Jones on bass and vox. I thing we had about 5 other bass players and 3 other drummer during that run. Lotsa fun there.
   Since the I played with Velvet Voodoo, Mob Opera and 2 Fingerpocket. But back in around December 2011 a friend of mine who writes and records gave me a recording program called Cubase. After a few months of painstaking learning that program, I'm recording. An these songs are the start of my new music venture. They're kinda raw and simple but they're mine...and my girlfriend, Tammy. She helps with the lyrics.
   Right now  I am not with a cover band only because everyone wants to play EVERY WEEKEND. I think 2 is enough anyomre.
   I play a Peavey Wolfgang guitar, my favorite. I also play a Schector XXX with customer Seymore Duncans. I run those thru my pedal board which has a Dunlop Cry Baby ,Boss tuner, MXR Phase 90, Boss Delay, Digitech Delay for a fast slap, Boss Super Chorus and a Boss EQ just for a slight mid boost for some leads. All that plugged into a 5150 Combo and the shit just rock. I have an Oscar Schmit campfire acoustic and a Washburn electric acoustic. No more of that 10-12 guitar shit. That just confuses the shit outta me.

https://olivercortes.bandcamp.com/

I make music that sounds like it belongs in video games. Happy listening!

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The amazing yet true history of The Beach Boys is well chronicled, and by any standard it’s one of the greatest and most musical stories ever told. From humble roots in southern California, The Beach Boys have become an enduring international sensation. Their famous harmonies and classic songs continue to travel the world bringing “Good Vibrations” everywhere.  

For more than five decades, The Beach Boys -- America’s first pop band to reach the 50-year milestone -- has recorded and performed the music that has become the world’s favorite soundtrack to summer. Founded in Hawthorne, California in 1961, The Beach Boys were originally comprised of the three teenaged Wilson brothers: Brian, Carl and Dennis, their cousin Mike Love, and school friend Al Jardine. In 1962, neighbor David Marks joined the group for their first wave of hits with Capitol Records, leaving in late 1963, and in 1965, Bruce Johnston joined the band when Brian Wilson retired from touring to focus on writing and producing for the group.  

The Beach Boys signed with Capitol Records in July 1962 and released their first album, Surfin’ Safari, that same year. The album spent 37 weeks on the Billboard chart, launching the young group known for its shimmering vocal harmonies and relaxed California style into international stardom. The Wilson/Love collaboration resulted in many huge international chart hits, and the band’s initial surf-rock focus was soon broadened to include many other themes, helping to make The Beach Boys America’s preeminent band of the 1960s. 

1966’s Pet Sounds, celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2016, is universally hailed as one of popular music’s most important recordings of all time. More than 100 domestic and international publications and journalists have lauded Pet Sounds as one of the greatest albums ever recorded, and it entered the GRAMMY® Hall of Fame in 1998. Pet Sounds tops MOJO magazine’s “Greatest Albums of All Time” at No. 1, while Rolling Stone ranked Pet Sounds at No. 2 in the magazine’s list of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time.”

Impressively, The Beach Boys continue to hold Billboard / Nielsen SoundScan’s record as the top-selling American band for albums and singles, and they are also the American group with the most Billboard Top 40 chart hits (36). ‘Sounds Of Summer: The Very Best Of The Beach Boys’ has achieved triple-Platinum sales status and ‘The SMiLE Sessions,’ released to worldwide critical acclaim in 2011, won the year’s GRAMMY® Award for Best Historical Album and was heralded as the No. 1 Reissue of the Year by Rolling Stone.

In 2012, The Beach Boys celebrated their 50th Anniversary.  Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, and David Marks reunited for The Beach Boys’ 29th studio album, That’s Why God Made The Radio, and an international 50th Anniversary Tour, continuing one of music’s greatest stories.

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and recipients of The Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award, The Beach Boys are a beloved American institution that remains iconic around the world.


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