News - 13/03/2017

Joey Alves, Y&T Guitarist, dead at 63

Joey Alves, Y&T Guitarist, dead at 63

Joey Alves, founding rhythm guitarist with veteran hard-rock group Y&T, died on March 12 after a struggle with ulcerative colitis and other complications. He was 63.

Y&T frontman Dave Meniketti, who founded the band in the early '70s with Alves, bassist Phil Kennemore, and drummer Leonard Haze, remembered his bandmate as “a rhythm guitar monster and fun guy” and:

one of the finest rock rhythm guitarists, and I’ll always remember playing next to him chunking out those monster chords with his classic red double cutaway ‘59 Les Paul Jr. As Ronnie Montrose once said about Joey, 'There are rhythm players, then there's Joey. A class of his own…

Meniketti also posted a clip from the forthcoming documentary "On With the Show", in which Alves speaks of the kinsmanship of being in a rock band.

Y&T, formerly known as Yesterday and Today, formed in Oakland in 1972 and released their self-titled debut album in 1976.

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