"Drummer Brian MacLeod is one of these guys who plays really soulful but rock-hard. He's an incredibly versatile guitar player." We got together on the version of 'Fortunate Son' that's in season one. He's somebody I'd always wanted to play with, and never did until the Forest Rangers came up. And he was a forest ranger - real forest ranger! I found that out after the fact. I was producing an album for Curtis Stigers at Columbia in 1998, and Greg was in the band. "I've known guitarist Greg Leisz for a long time. We were in the Royal Macadamians together. Phil Shenale and I have worked together for over 20 years. We landed on a session together - it was Lou Reed and Sam Moore doing 'Soul Man.' Davey was playing bass and I was playing all of Steve Cropper's stuff on guitar. "I go back with Davey Faragher to when I first moved out to L.A. "We all played with each other in the studio - on various records, demos, whatever," Thiele explains. Most of the "members" of the Forest Rangers - who to date have never played a live show, but wouldn't mind if you asked - have long associations with Thiele and with each other. And they had a song called 'Forest Ranger.' Dave and I both liked the band and loved the song, and said, 'How about that for a name?'" He adds, "If we hadn't come up with a good name, we probably never would have had a band! There was a band back in the '90s called Plexi that used to play on the Sunset Strip, they were a pretty good band. This is an entity that has a defined sound. "By the time of the sixth or seventh episode of the first season," Thiele says, "I began to see that this could be a continuing thing. music scene, and son of the legendary producer, songwriter, and label executive Bob Thiele - and guitarist Dave Kushner of Velvet Revolver co-wrote the theme for "Sons of Anarchy." Thiele was also drafted to compose original music for the show and direct recording for the series. The Rangers had their genesis when Thiele - a longtime fixture of the L.A. And Thiele - who composes the show's music and acts as leader of the Forest Rangers - could be considered the group's equivalent of SAMCRO leader Clay Morrow himself. The Rangers - heard almost every week on the popular FX drama "Sons of Anarchy," and prominently featured on Columbia Records' soundtrack album for the show - wouldn't be out of place hanging at the Teller-Morrow clubhouse in Charming, CA. "If there was a house band playing at the Sons of Anarchy's clubhouse every Friday night, the Forest Rangers would be the band," says Bob Thiele. Their website has this to say about the band: ![]() I was surprised to learn that Davey Faragher is now a member of "The Forest Rangers".
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