"Heaven has landed." Les Fradkin returns with a 10 song Rock Guitar Instrumental collection of astounding Fender Stratocaster guitar virtuosity. Featuring guest Nokie Edwards of The Ventures. High energy. 8 top 10 hit covers.

10 MP3 Songs in this album (38:24) !
Related styles: ROCK: Instrumental Rock, ROCK: Surf Rock

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Les Fradkin returns with "Strat Heaven"- a high energy program of rock guitar instrumentals. Many of these titles are being heard as guitar instrumentals for the first time!

Featuring covers by such notables as The All American Rejects, Fall Out Boy, Gnarls Barkley, Bon Jovi, Led Zeppelin and The Beatles, the pace never lets up.

Les' cover of The Beatles tune "Good Night" features The Vienna Symphony and showcases Les' considerable guitar prowess in an area previously stalked by Jeff Beck on "Where Were You" on the "Guitar Shop" album. Harmonics, whammy bar pyrotechnics and an all new special tuning offer something new for both Beatles fans and guitar fans alike.

Meanwhile, on Les' cover of the Gary Glitter smash "Rock & Roll, Part 2", Nokie Edwards of The Ventures makes, another guest appearance on a Les Fradkin CD with some lively duet guitar playing.

Les' new composition "Strat Heaven" continues to showcase the distinctive "surf rock" sound heard on previous releases from him such as "A Day At The Beach."

As an added bonus, Les has been known for duplicating classic rock songs of the past as he did with the "Golden Slumbers" Abbey Road Medley on "While My Guitar Only Plays". Here, he tackles the iconic Led Zeppelin smash "Stairway To Heaven" and recreates every nuance of Jimmy Page's original wall of guitars.

"Strat Heaven"- A must for all classic rock fans and all guitar instrumental fans.

Les Fradkin Bio:

Les Fradkin is one of the guitar legends of the 1970's. As well as being a veteran member of The Original Cast of Beatlemania, he has found success as a recording artist, composer and producer with MGM Sunflower, ESP-Disk', Bell, Arista, RCA, and Laurie Records. Les has written the well known French hit "La Chansons Des Souvenirs" ("Song Of A Thousand Voices") for the famous Mireille Mathieu. He has played 12 and 6-string Guitar, Bass, Mellotron, and Piano on dozens of Top 40 hit records throughout the early 1970's , scoring many US and UK chart placings throughout his career.

His 12-string guitar, vocals and production with legendary underground psychedelic folk- rock group,The Godz, resulted in several albums for ESP Disk among which "Pass On This Side" (featuring Les' song "God Bless California"), continues to influence and mentor generations of new musicians to this day.

In 1976, Les was selected over thousands of other auditioning guitarists to appear in the original cast of the smash hit Broadway musical "Beatlemania" playing lead guitar and the part of "George Harrison" in New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago. Running for two and a half years from May 1977 thru October 1979, every show (including over 1200 in New York alone) was sold out and the musicians quickly became celebrities with magazine cover stories ("Newsweek","Time", "People", "Rolling Stone") and many major television show appearances. With his guitar-playing in the international spotlight from the show, Fradkin developed a cult following that has avidly followed his career and made him a celebrity among guitar fans.

He has enjoyed chart success on the net as well with his songs reaching mp3.com's 1 position 16 times! New Gandy Dancer Rock Magazine named Les' CD "A Day At The Beach" it's 2004 Album Of The Year. In addition, Les has performed with The Ventures as 2nd Lead Guitarist. Nokie Edwards of The Ventures has performed with Les on several occasions and is a featured guest on his "While My Guitar Only Plays" CD. In fact, Les has been acknowledged as a guitar virtuoso for over 30 years and he has been featured in issues of 20th Century Guitar Magazine, Pipeline and New Gandy Dancer Magazines.

Today, Les has released 17 solo CD's on his RRO Entertainment Indie label and has had over 320,000 downloads bringing him several substantial hits on Apple iTunes and other download sites across the Internet.