Playing Since: 1965
Experience Level: Expert/Professional

Interests:
[Teaching] [Jamming] [Socializing] [Helping]

Gender: Male
Age: 73

My Instruments:
Guitars
bass
mandolin
banjo

Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Bill Monroe
The Stanley Brothers
Flatt and Scruggs
The Louvin Brothers
The Everly Brothers
Buck Owens
Ray Price
Patsy Cline
The Beatles
The Loving Spoonful
Bob Dylan
The Band
Buffalo Springfield
Bob Marley
Buddy Miller
Robbie Fulks
The Jay Hawks
Neko Case

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Created 1/13/2014
Last Visit 1/13/2015

RICHIE REINHOLDT began playing guitar in his early teens, performing with Country, Rock, and Bluegrass bands in California and Oregon. In 1976, Richie moved to Lake Tahoe where he joined the band “The Live Wire Choir,” adding guitar and banjo work to the group. Richie toured with “The Live Wire Choir” throughout the States for four years and recorded two albums, opening for such acts as: Asleep at the Wheel, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Vassar Clements, Doc Watson, Elvin Bishop and Newgrass Revival, and was well received at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in 1978 and 1979. After Live Wire Choir disbanded in 1980, Richie and "The Waybacks" alumnus Chojo Jaques formed the all-acoustic band “Dirkhandle Twist” (a “dawg” music band), opening for the David Grisman Quintet in 1980. Richie played electric guitar with a variety of Country and Rock bands throughout the eighties, notably, the regional success story "The Skanksters", touring with Bo Diddley in 1987. In the late eighties / early nineties, Richie became involved with the formation of "Pinegrass", a progressive bluegrass/newgrass band and "The Psyclones", touring central Europe in 1993-1996. Riche then spent some time playing sideman with such local favorites as “The Cory Heydon Band” and “The Tom Catmull Band”, recording albums with each. Richie currently performs with “Britchy”,“The Acousticals”, “The Country Kings”, and “The Bop-A-Dips”