| Mike Slamer | |
| Background: | non_vocal_instrumentalist |
| Alias: | Chet Wynd |
| Occupation: | Musician |
| Origin: | United Kingdom |
| Instrument: | Guitar |
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| Label: | Atlantic |
| Associated Acts: | City Boy Streets Kix Warrant Seventh Key Steelhouse Lane Devil's Hand |
Michael Chetwynd Slamer (; born 8 July 1954) is a British guitarist.[2]
Slamer started his career playing in the UK prog-rock band City Boy. Since then, he has worked as a staff composer for various movies and TV series, has been a session guitarist for numerous recording artists, and played in several bands. He provided the guitar solos on Warrant's first two albums, Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich and Cherry Pie.[3] He also contributed two solos on a Kix record. The songs were “Scarlet Fever” and “Walking Away.”
He at different times cooperated with two members of the progressive rock band Kansas. With Steve Walsh he formed Streets,[4] and with Billy Greer he created the band Seventh Key. Streets released two albums on the Atlantic label, 1st (1983) and Crimes in Mind (1985). A live Streets album was released on the BMG label in 1997 and features a concert for the King Biscuit Flower Hour radio show from 1983. Slamer was also credited as a co-writer for the Kansas song "Refugee" from The Prelude Implicit (2016).
Slamer has also released two albums with the group Steelhouse Lane, plus a solo album entitled Nowhere Land, with former Strangeways member Terry Brock on vocals (2006).
Slamer released an album entitled Devil's Hand with Last in Line vocalist Andrew Freeman (December 2018).