Gary Smith was born in Phoenix Arizona in 1950. He was a founding member of "Survivor" but left the band before it made it's breakthrough album "Survivor" with "Eye of the Tiger".

But, He played and/or recorded with Chase, B.B. King, Joe Williams, Vic Damone, Patrick Leonard, Leslie West (Mountain), Steve Forman, Will Lee, Elliott Randall, Bobby Kimball, Tommy Shaw (Styx), Darryl Jones, Jim Peterik, John Gary, Bruce Gaitsch, Eric Miyashiro, Clark Terry, Chuck Jincley, Larry Carlton, Jaco Pastorius, Essence, and many others.

This is Gary playing "Swanee River" from Chase's first album "Ennea".