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Doug Rodrigues

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Doug Rodrigues
Born
Douglas Rodrigues
Occupations
  • Musician
  • songwriter
  • motocross racer
Years active1960s–present
Musical career
Genres
InstrumentGuitar
Formerly of

Doug Rodrigues[a] (also credited as Douglas Rodrigues) is an American guitarist and songwriter, who also raced motocross. He finished tenth in the 1970 Trans-AMA event at Delta, Ohio.[2]

In the 1960s, Rodrigues played with Mitch Ryder and Buzzy Linhart and recorded on Music from Free Creek with Moogy Klingman, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Keith Emerson, Todd Rundgren and Linda Ronstadt. He was a member of Music with Linhart, Doug Rauch and John Siomos, recording the group's self-titled album, Music. Rodrigues and Rauch played together with The Voices of East Harlem and recorded with Lenny White, Santana and Betty Davis. He joined Mandrill as lead guitarist in 1974, and then relocated to Southern California to play and record with Terry Reid.

Early life and education

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Doug Rodrigues is from Little Neck, New York, where he grew up with his older brother, Don, and younger brother, Randy. He attended Great Neck South High School.[2] Moogy Klingman, from nearby Great Neck, became a mentor to Rodrigues.[3][4]

Music career

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Mitch Ryder

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After separating from the Detroit Wheels in late 1966, Ryder formed a 10-piece backing band with a horn section.[1] Klingman introduced Rodrigues to Mitch Ryder.[4] In 1967, Rodrigues joined Ryder's post-Detroit Wheels touring group, the Mitch Ryder Show, playing guitar in the "Sock It to Me Baby" band alongside Howie Bloom on bass, John Siomos on drums, Frank Invernizzi on keyboards, J. D. Crane on trombone, Bob Shipley and Jim Loomis on tenor saxophones, and Andy Dio on trumpet.[1] By 1969, Rodrigues and John Siomos were playing with Mitch Ryder and the Spirit Feel.[5]

Music from Free Creek

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Rodrigues recorded on Music from Free Creek with Moogy Klingman, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Keith Emerson, Todd Rundgren and Linda Ronstadt, playing guitar on "Lay Lady Lay". The sessions were recorded at the Record Plant in New York in 1969 and released on the double album Music from Free Creek in 1973.[6]

Buzzy Linhart and Music

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Rodrigues played with Buzzy Linhart in the Seventh Sons as a teenager.[7] By 1969, Linhart, Rodrigues, Doug Rauch and John Siomos were performing as the Buzzy Linhart Quartet.[8] The group then named their band Music and recorded the self-titled album Music at Electric Lady Studios in 1970. The album, produced by Music and Eddie Kramer, was released by Eleuthera Records in 1971.[7] Rodrigues and Linhart's playing on Tim Hardin's "You Got a Reputation" was described as "weirdly irresistible pop territory".[7]

The Voices of East Harlem and Soul to Soul

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Rodrigues played guitar with The Voices of East Harlem, with Doug Rauch on bass and Jimmy Smith on keyboards.[9][10][4] In All Roads Lead to Great Neck, Josh Alan Friedman described Rodrigues's rhythmic solos with the Voices as "sublime".[11]

Rodrigues went to Accra, Ghana, with the Voices of East Harlem for the Soul to Soul concert on March 6, 1971. In his interview with Jake Feinberg, Rodrigues recalled that the flight started in California, where Santana boarded, and stopped in New York, where the Voices of East Harlem joined the flight to Ghana.[4] The concert, held at Black Star Square, was filmed for the documentary Soul to Soul.[12] Rauch is seen on bass with the Voices at 28:28 in the film; Rodrigues and Jimmy Smith are seen at 29:14.[12] The Voices' performance of "Run, Shaker Life" appears in the film.[13] The film was restored with support from the Grammy Foundation and released on DVD in 2004. For a new restoration, the original film elements were transferred in 2K and the original edit reconstructed from the new transfers. The film was released on Blu-ray for the first time in 2026.[13] The 2026 expanded soundtrack, Soul to Soul: Music from the Original Soundtrack, includes the Voices of East Harlem's performances of "Run, Shaker Life" and "Choose Your Seat and Sit Down/Walk All Over God's Heaven", recorded live in Ghana on March 6, 1971.[13]

Santana and Betty Davis

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Doug Rauch brought Rodrigues from New York to San Francisco to play on Santana's Caravanserai (1972).[4] Rodrigues played guitar on "Waves Within", with Carlos Santana on lead guitar and Rauch on bass and guitar.[14]

Rodrigues and Rauch recorded on Betty Davis's self-titled debut album, Betty Davis, released by Just Sunshine Records in 1973. Produced by Greg Errico, the album also featured Larry Graham on bass, Neal Schon on guitar, Hershall Kennedy on organ, Merl Saunders on keyboards, and the Pointer Sisters on backing vocals.[15][16]

Mandrill

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Rodrigues joined Mandrill in 1974, replacing Omar Mesa as lead guitarist.[17] He and drummer Neftali Santiago were Mandrill's two new members on the group's double album Mandrilland.[18] Rodrigues wrote "After The Race", which appeared on this album.[19][20] In Best Music Writing 2008, edited by Nelson George and Daphne Carr, Matt Rogers described Rodrigues as "Betty Davis/Santana/Voices of East Harlem vet" who "took his chair" for Mandrilland.[21]

Lenny White

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Rodrigues played rhythm and lead guitar on Lenny White's 1975 album Venusian Summer.[22] Rodrigues and Doug Rauch wrote "Chicken-Fried Steak".[23] Rodrigues played rhythm and lead guitar on the track. Rodrigues, Rauch and White wrote and arranged "Away Go Troubles (Down the Drain)", with Rodrigues playing rhythm and lead guitar and contributing vocals.[24] Rodrigues also played guitar on "Mating Drive".[24]

Bill Quateman

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Rodrigues joined Bill Quateman's band in the mid-1970s. He came in on guitar following the departure of Caleb Quaye and Elliott Randall. The band, which included Andy Potter, Ira G. Kart and Rollow Radford, recorded "Don't You Wonder" and "Night After Night" at Paragon Studio in Chicago.[25]

Terry Reid

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Rodrigues moved to Southern California to play and record with Terry Reid, who was living in Oxnard. After Seed of Memory, Reid toured with Rodrigues on guitar and Lee Miles on bass.[26]

In 1978, Reid went into Brother's Studios in Santa Monica, California, with Rodrigues on lead guitar, Miles on bass and John Siomos on drums to record Rogue Waves with producer Chris Kimsey.[27][28] Deléglise described Reid, Rodrigues, Miles and Siomos as the core of the recording, with a sound that returned to the power of Reid's early records.[27] The quieter passages on the album feature some of Reid and Rodrigues's best guitar playing.[28] Rodrigues appears in the trailer for Superlungs: A Terry Reid Documentary, immediately after Robert Plant.[29]

Motocross

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Rodrigues raced motocross. In the 1970 Trans-AMA motocross series, he finished tenth at the Delta, Ohio event on October 25, riding a ČZ.[2]

Rodrigues bought a van and dirt bikes from the father of drummer Rick Marotta, who owned an automobile dealership.[4] Marotta was among the New York session musicians associated with the Manhattan Dirt Riders, a motorcycle group whose name was used on James Taylor's 1974 summer tour.[30]

Discography

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Selected albums

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Notes

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  1. ↑ Rodrigues' surname has sometimes been misspelled as "Rodriguez".[1]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 "Mitch Ryder Show "Baltimore Band"". BaltimoreJam. Retrieved August 20, 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 "Trans-AMA". American Motorcyclist. Vol. 25, no. 3. American Motorcyclist Association. March 1971. p. 48. Retrieved August 20, 2026.
  3. ↑ "John Siomos Obituary". Chicago Tribune. January 22, 2004. Retrieved August 20, 2026.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Feinberg, Jake (December 31, 2022). "The Doug Rodrigues Interview". The Jake Feinberg Show (Podcast). Retrieved August 20, 2026.
  5. ↑ McNamara, Paul (April 13, 1969). "Mitch Ryder and the Spirit Feel, 700 Fret, Then Dig Ryder's New Look". The Saginaw News. p. 32. Retrieved August 20, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. 1 2 "Music from Free Creek". AllMusic. Retrieved August 20, 2026.
  7. 1 2 3 Tortelli, Joseph (September 24, 2012). "Music Review: Buzzy Linhart – Electric Lady Dream: The Eddie Kramer Sessions". TMRZoo. Retrieved August 20, 2026.
  8. ↑ "New Acts: Buzzy Linhart Quartet". Variety. Vol. 256, no. 5. September 17, 1969. p. 54. Retrieved August 20, 2026 – via ProQuest.
  9. ↑ "Betty Davis, The Name Is Already Familiar". Michigan Chronicle. May 26, 1973. p. A9 – via ProQuest.
  10. ↑ Bare, Rupert (February 27, 1977). "Lenny White: 'something different': TRAX". South China Morning Post. p. 24 – via ProQuest.
  11. ↑ Friedman, Josh Alan (2026). All Roads Lead to Great Neck. New Texture.
  12. 1 2 "Soul to Soul". Tubi. Retrieved August 20, 2026.
  13. 1 2 3 "Legendary 1971 Concert/Documentary Film to Be Re-Released by Reelin' in the Years Productions & Liberation Hall". Reelin' in the Years Productions. December 5, 2025. Retrieved August 20, 2026.
  14. 1 2 "Caravanserai – Santana". AllMusic. Retrieved August 20, 2026.
  15. 1 2 Keyes, Cheryl L. (2013). ""She Was Too Black for Rock and Too Hard for Soul": (Re)discovering the Musical Career of Betty Mabry Davis". American Studies. 52 (4): 35–55. JSTOR 24589268.
  16. ↑ Sullivan, John Jeremiah (Fall 2007). "Betty Davis". Oxford American. No. 58. Retrieved August 20, 2026.
  17. ↑ Kellman, Andy. "Mandrill Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved August 20, 2026.
  18. ↑ Francis, William V. (October 13, 1974). "First-Class Black Rock Could Deserve X Rating". The Kansas City Star. Retrieved August 20, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ↑ "Mandrilland – Mandrill". AllMusic. Retrieved August 20, 2026.
  20. ↑ "ACE Repertory". www.ascap.com. Retrieved 2026-08-21.
  21. ↑ Rogers, Matt (2008). "Disco's Taming of the Beast". In George, Nelson; Carr, Daphne (eds.). Best Music Writing 2008. Da Capo Press. p. 229. ISBN 9780306816215. Retrieved August 20, 2026.
  22. 1 2 "Venusian Summer – Lenny White". AllMusic. Retrieved August 20, 2026.
  23. 1 2 "Nemporer Line – Various Artists". AllMusic. Retrieved August 20, 2026.
  24. 1 2 "Lenny White – Venusian Summer". Funky Duck Vinyl. Retrieved August 20, 2026.
  25. ↑ Hafferkamp, Jack. "Quateman survives trial by fire". Corpus Christi Caller-Times. Retrieved August 20, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  26. ↑ "Interviews". Terry Reid. Retrieved August 20, 2026.
  27. 1 2 Deléglise, Julien (2017). Odyssées éléctro-acoustiques et mythes stéréophoniques: Les saveurs merveilleuses du Rock (in French). Camion Blanc. ISBN 978-2-35779-940-0.
  28. 1 2 3 Eder, Bruce. "Rogue Waves – Terry Reid". AllMusic. Retrieved August 20, 2026.
  29. ↑ Superlungs: A Terry Reid Documentary. October 12, 2015. Event occurs at 0:18. Retrieved August 20, 2026 – via YouTube.
  30. ↑ "The James Taylor Encyclopedia" (PDF). James Taylor. Retrieved August 20, 2026.
  31. ↑ "Buzzy Linhart / The Time To Live Is Now". Disk Market. Retrieved August 30, 2026.
  32. ↑ "Studio". Buzzart. Retrieved August 30, 2026.
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