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| The Daddys was a 6 piece funk/fusion group started by a bunch of Boston grad students (and me) from Berklee and New England Conservatory in 1992. During its 4 year tenure, the band grew to 10 members. Founding members included Gary Wicks who has gone on to do some great things including playing bass for Monica Mancini, Dan Berkson on keyboards who's kicking butt in the electronic music genre and is a DJ in the UK and the US, Randy Wooten on drums, who I've just located (I think), Joel Bowers tenor sax (it's easier to list who he HASN'T played with!); Greg Sinibaldi, tenor sax Tedd Baker tenor sax, (yes we had THREE tenors) who to my knowledge was last playing with the Air Force Orchestra, Matt Jenkins on trumpet who at last word was playing with a group called the Jazz Renovators out west; John Trama on guitar who is fronting The Trama Unit, and Brendan Tommaney on percussion. The band shared stages with groups like Percy Hill, Entrain, Groovasaurus, Flunky (who evolved into Superhoney), Rippopotamus, the Heavy Metal Horns and many others. The only marketed CD that features the group is a compilation CD put together by our then sponsor, Daddy's Junky Music. I also have a bootleg from our live shows at the Middle East in Cambridge, MA and a radio show at Emerson College in Boston, MA. Let me know if you'd like either of these! |
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| THE ANASTASIA REN� QUARTET Nick Russo, Guitar; Ian Petillo, Drums, Todd Grunder, Bass We completed a two week tour in Russia in March of 2005 with Jerry McDonald on Bass, most of which was in Siberia (thank GOD for Eddie Bauer's full length down coat!) and performed in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in December 2005 with guest trumpeter, Jacob Varmus. We're all insanely busy with myriad individual projects, but we do come together a few times a year. |
| Vince Welnick The Tubes/Greatful Dead |
| SCARECROW This was a 9 piece John Mellencamp tribute band back from my days in Boston. One of the most fun projects I've ever worked with because the people in the band were just so great . We never played outside of the Massachusetts area, but it didn't matter, we always had a great time. I left the band to move back to New York and a few years after I left I received a phone call from the drummer, Rick Farina, about the guitar player, Frank Aylward. He had passed away due to complications from Melanoma...skin cancer...at the age of 32. We reunited that year and the following year for 2 benefit concerts for the center where Frank was treated. I had to make mention of Frank here because there is just no mention of him anywhere on the web that I could find and it should be known what a phenomenal player he was and a great person as well. Oddly enough, about a year later, I wound up, quite by accident in another Mellencamp tribute band in New York, Human Wheels, that lasted one gig and disbanded. John, if you're out there and need a back-up singer...I already know most of your material! Get in touch! SMILE |
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