Michael Landau 迈克尔·兰道

Michael Landau(born June 1, 1958) is an American musician, engineer, and record producer. He is a prolificsession musicianand guitarist who has played on a large number of albums since the early 1980s with artists as varied asBoz Scaggs,Minoru Niihara,Joni Mitchell,Seal,Michael Jackson,James Taylor,Helen Watson,Richard Marx,Steve Perry,Pink Floyd,Roger Daltrey,Glenn Frey, andMiles Davis. Landau, along with fellow session guitaristsDean Parks,Steve Lukather,Michael ThompsonandDann Huff, played on many of the major label releases recorded inLos Angelesfrom the 1980s–1990s. He has released music with several record labels including Ulftone Music andTone Center Records, a member of theCalifornia-basedShrapnel Label Group.

In addition to his session work, Landau has also fronted several bands including Raging Honkies and Burning Water. In the early 1980s, he was also in the band Maxus that featured future Los Angeles session musicians Robbie Buchanan, Jay Gruska, and Doane Perry.

At age 19, he joined Boz Scaggs for a world tour and by the age of 20, he started to do session work on the recommendation of long time friend, Steve Lukather.

Landau cites influences including The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Cream, The Band, Weather Report, Pat Martino, and Jaco Pastorius.

Landau has a signature Single coil guitar pickup with Suhr Guitars called the 'ML.' In 2013, Fender announced that they would be collaborating with Landau on a signature stratocaster. In 2015, Fender released the 'Michael Landau Signature' amplifier, a modified version of Hot Rod DeVille III

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Landau used a rack switching system made by Bob Bradshaw of Custom Audio Electronics. Other notable users of such systems were Steve Lukather and Eddie Van Halen among others.

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