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Tones Behind The Tracks

Artist: Trevor Rabin

Album: Rio (InsideOutMusic)

Despite a career that started at the age of 17, with work as a session musician in his native South Africa and stints in SA bands such as Conglomeration and Rabbitt, Trevor Rabin is probably best known for taking over guitar duties in Yes during the mid-80s. He was also responsible for the band’s biggest hit Owner Of A Lonely Heart and much of the writing on Yes’s chart-storming 90125 album. You may even have seen his name on the soundtracks of films such as Armageddon, Bad Boys II and National Treasure.

A multi-instrumentalist by nature but perhaps a guitarist by choice, he was last seen brandishing his old faithful beaten-up Strat when Yes offshoot Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman toured the UK in 2016 and ’17. Since then there’s been more film work, but recently Rabin began work on , a new solo project that finds the

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