Supertramp In 1985, Verheyen was hired as a session guitarist on a recording project at Wildcat Studios in Los Angeles. He exchanged phone numbers with the recording engineer who passed along his contact information to
Supertramp's management after learning that the band was currently auditioning guitarists. Verheyen auditioned for the band the next day and was hired as a sideman and toured with the band on their 1985–1986 world tour,
Brother Where You Bound. In 1996,
Rick Davies re-formed Supertramp adding Verheyen as a formal band member along with three other new members bringing the band up to an eight-man line-up. The result of this reunion was
Some Things Never Change, a new studio album released in March 1997 that echoed the earlier Supertramp sound and reached number 74 in the UK In the summer of 1997, Supertramp returned to the road, resulting in the live
It Was the Best of Times (1999). After a three-year hiatus, Verheyen performed on the band's 2002 new studio album entitled
Slow Motion, as well as performing on the 2002 world tour entitled,
One More for the Road Tour. He performed in 35 concerts with the band in late 2010 and 2011 in Europe. The tour was titled
70–10 (1970 to 2010) to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the group's first release.
The Carl Verheyen Band In 1987 the Carl Verheyen Band was founded although the first release titled
No Border was released under the name Carl Verheyen Group on CMG Records.
1990s The follow-up album, 1994's
Garage Sale, was initially released on Legato Records along with an expanded version of
No Borders called
No Borders Plus. By 1996 the CVB had moved to CMG Mighty Tiger Records and released
Slang Justice featuring bassist Dave Marotta and keyboardist Jim Cox. The record was simultaneously released in Europe on the Provogue label and the CVB began touring in Europe extensively and continues to do so to the present day. The fourth album entitled
Slingshot was written on the road with Supertramp on the 1997
Some Things Never Change Tour. Released in 1999 it featured drummers
Steve DiStanislao, John Ferraro and
Gregg Bissonette. Fellow Supertramp members
Mark Hart sang background vocals and
Cliff Hugo played bass.
2000s Verheyen released the trio recording
Atlas Overload in 2000 with bassist
Cliff Hugo and drummer
Steve DiStanislao. In 2001 a solo album titled
Solo Guitar Improvisations was released featuring the acoustic side of Verheyen's guitar playing. And later that year a jazz fusion project called
Real to Reel was released featuring
Karl Ratzer on guitar.
SIX recorded with Hugo and DiStanislao along with Jim Cox on
Hammond B-3 and
Wurlitzer piano was released in 2004.
Bernie Dresel replaced DeStanislao on drums for the 2005 release
Rumor Mill. The live record was recorded by AIX Records in LA's Zipper Hall and featured a 5.1 surround mix and a DVD of the concert. It won the award for
Best Additional Features at the Surround Sound Awards that year. The European version on Mascot/Provogue is called
Live in LA and was released separately as a CD and a DVD." In 2007 the CVB released "Take One Step".
Chad Wackerman and
Bernie Dresel share the drum duties with Jim Cox on keyboards and
Cliff Hugo on bass. AIX released the CD along with a making-of DVD showing the band in the studio and on tour. In 2009,
Walfredo Reyes Jr. joined the CVB along with Dave Marotta on bass and Jim Cox on keyboards they released
Trading 8s featuring six of Verheyen's guitar playing friends:
Robben Ford,
Albert Lee,
Joe Bonamassa,
Steve Morse,
Rick Vito and
Scott Henderson. The subsequent tour produced the double live album and DVD called
The Road Divides released in 2011.
2010s In 2013, Verheyen released
Mustang Run, a mostly instrumental record with one vocal track, Supertramp's classic
Bloody Well Right. Musicians included
Simon Phillips,
Greg Bissonette,
Chad Wackerman and
Walfredo Reyes Jr. on drums with Supertramp's
John Helliwell and solo artist
Bill Evans on sax.
Jerry Goodman plays violin and Jimmy Johnson, Dave Marotta and
Stuart Hamm share the bass duties. Keyboard players include Jim Cox and
Mitchel Forman. A movie called
Turn It Up - A Celebration of the Electric Guitar featuring Verheyen extensively, was released in 2014. Then in 2015 Verheyen released another solo acoustic recording called
Alone: Solo Guitar Improvisations, Volume 2. In 2016, the CVB added drummer
John Mader and recorded
The Grand Design at
Sweetwater Studios in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Stuart Hamm joins Dave Marotta on bass and
Chester Thompson adds drums on one track. A documentary movie was made of the creative and recording process called
Grand Designs: The Music of Carl Verheyen. It won the
Special Jury Remi Award at the 2017 Worldfest Film Festival. Verheyen returned to Sweetwater Studios to record
Essential Blues in 2018 with drummer
Nick D'Virgilio and bassist Dave Martin. The live studio record also featured Jim Cox and was completed in two days. It was the first recording also released on vinyl since 1987's
No Borders. In 2021, he released a new studio album called
Sundial. It features Dave Marotta, John Mader and Jim Cox, as well as contributions by Nick D'Virgilio and Chad Wackerman.
Classic Rock Magazine in the UK called Verheyen "One of the Top 100 Guitarists of all time" and Guitar Magazine in the US called him one of the top 10 guitarists in the World. ==Discography==