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30 Rock Legend Mike Pinera 30 Rock Legend Mike Pinera THE CAPTAIN RIDES be carried live via satellite as a test run for CRN. Album: Hot & Nasty: Best Of THE CAPTAIN RIDES AGAIN The show helped earn over $500,000 in one day Contribution: Producer AGAIN for the charity. Currently Pinera and The Classic Rock All-Stars are on ta world tour. See Artist: Blues Image www.classroc.com for more info. Album: Blues Image (Continued from Page 29) (Continued from Page 29) All the while, he has been pondering a Contribution: Guitar, Vocals way to exploit his backstage film of rock greats. Many he shot himself on a Super 8 camera and Artist: Blues Image later on a professional model simply because he Album: Open wanted to capture the magic they were all Contribution: Guitar, Vocals living. He later acquired the rest. At first, Pinera thought about making an Artist: Alice Cooper infomercial to sell videotapes. But then the idea Album: Special Forces of creating a full blown music television with Contribution: Guitar, Vocals his library came to him. He wanted a forum to convey his anti-drug message for youngsters by Artist: Alice Cooper using public service spots and interviews with Album: Zipper Catches Skin stars who beat the habit. He wanted to create a Contribution: Guitar, Vocals network that might offer a more music- intensive, more family-oriented alternative to Artist: Alice Cooper MTV, where baby boomers and their children Album: Alice in Paris DVD can share their love of the music together. Contribution: Guitar, Vocals In 1996, Pinera began working on a business plan, for his parent company, Artist: Mike Pinera OmniCom, and planning a launch date for the Album: Isla Real Rock TV Network. He says he has beta Contribution: Guitar, Vocals, Producer It's true, being in the program is now a tested the network successfully on satellite and very fun and cool thing to do. Lots of people cable using some of his 10,000 hour library of Artist: Mike Pinera from all walks of life are getting well and self-owned content. The Internet launch comes Album: Forever making new friends. Friends who can love you in mid June, and is scheduled to be followed by Contribution: Guitar, Vocals, Producer until you learn to love yourself. It works if you a concerted push for 24 by 7 media time from work it. One alcoholic helping another. One day local broadcasters tied together nation-wide and Artist: Judy Mayhan at a time. By going to A.A. and by the grace of via a national cable provider. "We have offers; Album: Moments God, I finally had the tools to learn how to stay it's going to happen," he says. He wants to add Contribution: Guitar clean." a Classic Soul Network featuring Classic R & While in rehab at Studio 12 in Los B, Blues and Gospel if all goes well, too. Artist: New Cactus Band Angeles, named for the12 Steps of Recovery, Life is good for Pinera: He's remarried Album: Son of Cactus Pinera began praying for sobriety and some to his ex-wife Valerie, business is blossoming Contribution: Guitar, Vocals work to come after he was released. As the two and the bold teen who talked his way into house weeks came to a close he still had no money to gigs nearly 40 years ago in Tampa is riding Artist: Ramatam live on. But soon after, in the middle of a group again. Album: Ramatam recovery session he received a call from a "I may have bent a lot of rules along the Contribution: Guitar, Vocals booking agent. When the agent asked where he way," he says, "but I've always tried to be good was he said "I'm at Studio Twelve in the middle to people, and I've always kept my dreams Artist: Thee Image of a session, I'll have to call you back." He is alive." [] Album: Thee Image convinced that the agent thought Studio 12 was Contribution: Guitar, Vocals, Backing Vocals, a music recording studio, not a rehab center, or DISCOGRAPHY Producer he never would have offered a very lucrative DISCOGRAPHY spot as front man for a classic rock tour lasting Artist: Thee Image all summer beginning almost to the day Mike Artist: Iron Butterfly Album: Inside The Triangle was to be released. "God works fast if we just Album: Metamorphisis Contribution: Guitar, Vocals, Backing Vocals, do our best and give Him the rest and then move Contibution: Guitar,Vocals Producer out of His way." Pinera jumped at the chance for steady Artist: Iron Butterfly Visit Mike Pinera’s Website at work, and that led three years later to him Album: Light And Heavy www.realrock.com forming the Classic Rock All-Stars - consisting Contribution: Guitar, Vocals of original stars Jerry Corbetta (Sugarloaf), Watch For Mike Pinera’s Peter Rivera (Rare Earth), Dennis Noda Artist: Iron Butterfly LIVE and Recorded Pay Per View wbecasts (Cannibal and the Headhunters) and Pinera. The Album: Evolution exclusively on group has been together for over 12 years now. Contribution: Guitar, Vocals REL-MAR / CONSOLIDATED Taking a page from his teen dance days, Pinera STREAMING BROADCAST NETWORK. and the All-Stars tour alone and also act as the Artist: Iron Butterfly official "house band" at self-produced shows, Album: In A Gadda Da Vida - DVD For the dates and times of backing up top stars, former members and Contribution: Guitar, Vocals, Producer Live & Recorded Pay Par View Events, singers he hand-picks from such seasoned acts visit as Steppenwolf, Aerosmith, Grand Funk Artist: Black Oak Arkansas www.savetheamazonforest.com. Railroad, Styx and many others. Album: Black Oak Arkansas The events have proved a popular Contribution: Guitar, Vocals, Producer SAVE THE AMAZON FOREST festival draw. In December, Pinera's group - Radio-Tele-Webathon playing with alumni of Three Dog Night, Artist: Black Oak Arkansas April 23 - April 27 Bachman Turner Overdrive, Kansas and the Album: Best Of 10 pm - 2 am Eastern Allman Brothers - performed before 70,000 in Contribution: Producer 7 pm - 11 pm Pacific Miami, in a benefit for the Joe DiMaggio For Details and How You Can Participate Children's Hospital, a show Pinera arranged to Artist: Black Oak Arkansas www.savetheamazonforest.com