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Dave "Ese" Alaniz

Ese began his musical career at the age of 10 in Houston, TX. He participated in orchestral and marching bands. Ese attended Texas A&I. His early development was varied and diverse. He has professionally performed with several types of bands including country-bluegrass and rock & roll. Ese plays electric bass guitar, acoustic guitar and various brass and woodwind instruments. He served in the US Navy from 1972-1976 and is very proud to be a veteran. While serving his country he had the fate of meeting his long time friend and band partner, Mr. David Homel. The band Homel-Alaniz was formed in 1986 and still plays several shows per year. Ese also performs solo acoustic at several events each year.   Ese's quotes: "The AMP is so conducive to the enjoyment of the magic good music produces in the presence of nature and its setting. Combine that with the feelings of spending time enjoying the experience with good people and you have the AMP. Truly a remarkable place!" "I would like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony"

Mike Callaghan a.k.a. Callaghan

Name: Mike Callaghan Position: Arrangements, Keyboards and Vocals Birthday: 3/27/72 Sign: Aries Hometown: Chittenango NY Special Interests: Golf, Skiing, Needlepoint, and Chess. Callaghan has been playing the piano since the age of 3.  Nearly a prodigy, Callaghan is responsible for the rhythm melody and supporting vocals as well as numerous blazing accordion solos and other various parts. Mike has been a key player in the central NY music scene for many years. He has performed  with Homel-Alaniz(8 years) Zig Zag Zen, Sons of Papaya, Nebraska, The Envoy, and many many more......

Mike "The Chameleon" O'Hara

Who am I today? Jerry, Bobby, Pigpen, Neil, Trey, Page...

Shawn "SkipShawn" Philippon

I am a native of the Burlington, VT area. Hanging out there from 1986-1992 was a lot of fun, to say the least. I lived in Potsdam, NY for 6 years where I played in several bands (B.O.F.L., Wow and Flutter, Wilson Philippon, and Raw Toast to name a few). After that, I spent almost 3 years in Watertown, NY teaching mathematics at Jefferson Community College and many of the local public schools. I have been in Syracuse, NY since 1995. I teach Calculus at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. In my spare time I try to learn some of Bob Weir's guitar secrets. My electric guitars are Schecters. One is a Pete Townshend Series Schecter with Duncan Design pickups. The other is a C-1+ also with Duncan Design pickups. My acoustic is a Takimine EG530C. I use a Rocktron Chameleon rack effects processor run by an ART X15 MIDI controller with an expression pedal. My rack also includes a Toneworks/Korg DTR-2 tuner and a C.B.I. power conditioner. When playing acoustic, I run the Takimine through a tube channel pre-amp/compressor/parametric EQ. I run a Rocktron Velocity 500 power amp into a 4x12 (mini) Crate speaker cabinet.

Jeff "Animal" Roney

I'm a native of Syracuse, NY. I lived in Manhattan for 8 years while playing withvarious bands such as Big Pygmy and My Sick Friends. I have also toured with Lancaster County Prison (NYC) and have lots of recording experience. I have played at many of the major clubs in NYC like CBGB's, The Cat Club, The Continental, The Spiral, The Bitter End just to name a few. I love reggae, ska, island music, and blues music. Some of my favorites are Magic Slim and the Teardrops, The Specials, Marley, Tosh, Sly and Robbie, Little Walter, Buddy Guy, and many more. The only thing I like more than seeing live music is playing live music.

Mike "RC" Vincitore

Birthday: August 7th, 1973 Horoscope: Leo Birthplace: Syracuse,NY Main instrument: Guitar Other instruments played: Banjo, Bass Guitar Places Lived: Syracuse, NY; Allegany, NY; Silver Spring, MD Bands played with: Red Light District, Dark Hollow, Project X, Homel-Alaniz Band, and Acoustic Java. Equipment: 1995 Paul Reed Smith, 1990 Paul Reed Smith, Alvarez-Yairi WY1BK(acoustic), '59 Reissue Fender Super Amp, Fender Acousonic Pro, Vox Wah, Electro-Harmonix Q-Tron, MXR Phase 100, Digitech Echo-Plus Delay/Sampler, Ernie Ball Volume Pedal, T.C. Electronics Chorus/Flanger/Pitch Modulator, Boss Octave Pedal, Korg DT1 Pro Tuner. Favorite Foods: Pizza, Spagetti with Meat Sauce, Tacos, and Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream(Cherry Garcia)!!! Favorite Bands: Grateful Dead, Phish, Phil & Friends, String Cheese Incident, Allman Brothers, God Street Wine, Bela' Fleck, Ratdog, Beatles, etc... Favorite Guitarists/Musicians: Jerry Garcia, Trey Anastasio, Dickey Betts, Michael Kang, Bela' Fleck, Alex Lifeson, Bruce Hornsby, Mozart... Places I Would Like to Live: Colorado, Northern California, Vermont... Favorite Movies: Mallrats, Better Off Dead (this is not a Grateful Dead video), Downhill From Here (now this is a Grateful Dead video), The Blues Brothers, P.C.U.(I love this movie)!!!, Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma... Favorite Sports Teams: The New York Yankees, Detroit Red Wings, The Syracuse Orangemen, The New York Knicks, & The New York Giants. Favorite Sports to Play: Baseball, Golf, and Billiards.

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