DeSTEFANO MUSIC PRODUCTIONS + Musician in Hackettstown, NJ

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Live acts: Solo singer /songwriter / covers; duo with Danielle lead female singer; The Phoenix Project- 9-10 piece Horn Band / a unique Tribute to a genre and an era!

Screen name:

DeSTEFANO MUSIC PRODUCTIONS

Member since:

Jun 28 2017

Active within 24 hours

Level of commitment:

Touring

Years playing music:

55

Gigs played:

Over 100

Tend to practice:

1 time per week

Available to gig:

4-5 nights a week

Most available:

Nights

Influences

THe Beatles - first and foremost as well as the rest of the British Invasion...then Motown, Stax, etc. . 60's / 70'spop from the Beach Boys thru the Four Seasons,Turtles, Grass Roots, Paul Revere, Spoonful, Tommy James. so many hard to list, Buckinhams, Outsiders, ande on and on,then the epiphany: i was playing a blues gig and I heard this climbing organ and then a deep bass riff followed by fuzz guitar doing the identical riff - In A Gadda Da Vida! Iron Butterfly it flipped a switch...Cream followed Deep Purple, but the Group which combined my love of soul with my newlove of hard rock was the American Band - Grand Funk Railroad! ...now if you only know GFR from American Band onwards with the Locomotion, Some Kind of Wonderful and Bad Time or Sally as your sole rferences - You do NOT know GFR. Listen to Grand Funk Live 1970 Please do yourself a favor it is the finest raw reperesentation of a no BS full of sweat and high energy har rock concert I ever heard no effects, no lasers, no lights no pryrotechnics - NO BULLSHIT! Later I found horn bands and fell in love from early CTA/Chicago, BS&T, Cold Blood with Lidia Pense, Tower of POWER! Ides of March some of the EWF tunes...THat is wher4 I am today... Songs from the mid 60's thru mid 80's featuring Horns...

Instrument experience:

Lead Guitar:

Expert

Background Singer:

Expert

Rhythm Guitar:

Expert

Vocalist - Alto:

Advanced

Vocalist:

Advanced

Vocalist - Tenor:

Advanced

Acoustic Guitar:

Intermediate

Bass Guitar:

Beginner

EQUIPMENT

Professional personal gear: 1978 Gibson L6-S ( three octaves and 6 position Varitone;
Epiphone Gold Top Les Paul; Gretsch Jet w/ Biigsby Tailpiece - nice Jangly tones for the 60's stuff - Supro 25 Watt tube amp, Headrush Core programmable digital multi- pedals processor; Austrian Audio vocal mic; SM-58 backup mic; Sm-57 guitar microphone
Vox AC 10 amp
The Amp Chair amplifier stand
Austrian Audio (From the engineers leaving AKG) Suspended capsule vocal mic (48v Phantom Required)
Shure SM58 vocal mic if no phantom power available
Shure SM57 guitar amp mic
BumbleBee two tier Pedal Board
Ibanez Tube Screamer; Custom One Off UK designed Brown Sound distortion for the second level; Eventide ModFactor: Chorus/Rotary Leslie/ Phaser/Flanger Auto Wah, Modulation,VibratoRing Modulator.; ElectroHarmonics Tuning Fork Harmonizer/ 12 String emulator; Vox Wah; Dan Electro Tremolo; ISP Deci-Mate Noise gate/threshold.

JHS delay;r; ; Vox Wah; Earnie Ball Volume pedal/tuner

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