Doug Rodrigues

Doug Rodrigues, also credited as Douglas Rodrigues, is an American guitarist and songwriter who also raced motocross. He grew up in Little Neck, New York, attended Great Neck South High School and was mentored by the keyboardist Moogy Klingman, which led to session and touring work through the late 1960s and 1970s with Mitch Ryder, Buzzy Linhart, The Voices of East Harlem, Santana, Betty Davis, Lenny White and Terry Reid. In 1974 he joined the band Mandrill as lead guitarist. His place in sport rests on a smaller part of his life: he raced motocross and finished tenth, riding a CZ, at the Trans-AMA motocross series round held at Delta, Ohio, on October 25, 1970. The atlas records him as a motocross rider, with his music career as context.