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His guitar riffs are recognizable on "Summer Breeze", "That Lady", "Voyage To Atlantis" and "Choosey Lover". In 1984, Ernie, Marvin and Chris formed the group Isley-Jasper-Isley, releasing three albums. In 1990, Ernie released his first solo album, High Wire.
The inclusion of younger brothers Ernie Isley (lead guitar, drums) and Marvin Isley (bass guitar), and Rudolph's brother-in-law Chris Jasper (keyboards, synthesizers), in 1973 turned the original vocal trio into a complete band and led to the group's reaching the height of their success.
Guitarist Jimi Hendrix had supported the Isley Brothers on tour in the mid-1960s, and Ernie Isley had been strongly influenced by Hendrix's playing methods. At the Los Angeles Record Plant in 1973 recording the new version of "That Lady", Ernie laid down a searing guitar line with heavy Hendrix-style sustain carrying a soft fuzz distortion . [ 4 ]
Isley Brothers discovered Jimi Hendrix. By then, teenage brother Ernie Isley was playing guitar for them. He had learned at the foot of another guitarist the brothers had hired in the early 1960s ...
Silken vocalist Ron Isley and thunderous guitarist Ernie Isley, the two remaining musical brothers, are betting that you don’t know them as well as you should. “We have been doing this longer ...
Chris Jasper, a keyboardist and singer-songwriter who helped craft some of The Isley Brothers' biggest hits in the '70s and '80s, has died. He was 73. ... Ernie Isley, on lead guitar and drums, ...
Isley-Jasper-Isley was a splinter group of the Isley Brothers formed in 1984 by brother-in-law Chris Jasper (keyboards), Ernie Isley (lead guitar), and Marvin Isley (bass), due to creative differences that arose among the group.
The song was sparked in a 1975 recording session in which guitarist Ernie Isley, inspired by the news, wrote two songs: "Fight the Power" and an anti-poverty ballad titled "Harvest for the World". The group ended up recording both songs on the same day and eventually picked "Fight the Power" as the song to release first.