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VoxxRocks is music and more as lived experience — songs, stories, and time, mapped in sound and video.
If you heard me out there and now find yourself here, I’d like to think it’s because something you heard resonated with you, piquing your curiosity, leading to this trip down the rabbit hole.
Fantastic, that’s exactly what I’ve been up to for years!
If you’ve ever felt music was more than entertainment, believe songs can carry messages and convey memories and information, if you’ve lived long enough to notice patterns and want to shout what you’ve learned so others can benefit too, read on Kindred Spirit…
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I learned young singing could garner attention.
My family still reminds me how cute I was while singing “Everything Is Beautiful”, using my thumb as a microphone.
A few years later, I’d find myself playing air guitar, pretending and playing make believe.
Turns out, if you do that long enough, you grow believing you can make, so I did.
Unlike many who pick up a guitar for the first time, my goal was not to play music already written. My intention was to write my own music.
The guitar and my voice would become my pen and paper.
Ransom – Almost Angels
One Christmas Eve, a young boy named Gary saw me flipping through a book I had just received as a gift.
It was the Encyclopedia of Music. A guide to the history of music, instruments of the orchestra and the most influential classical composers.
He sat next to me and asked, “So, are you a musician?”
Turned out he was a drummer from Deer Park and he invited me to jam in his garage.
With me not knowing how to play any cover songs and Gary never having heard m material, it was awkward. So he hatched a plan.
He asked if I knew the words to a couple of songs he could play.
I said sure.
He said he knew a guitar player who could sit in and we could play.
What happened after that sparked a 30 plus year adventure, one Gary and I are still on to this day!
A playlist of our early works can be found here:
E.K.G. – Electric Killer Grasshoppers
As the line up changed, so to did the name.
We became EKG, Electric Killer Grasshoppers.
Damon and Rob wrote the music, I wrote the lyrics and sang as usual.
For a simple group of 20 somethings from Deer Park Long Island, we managed to do some pretty cool things.
We secured opening slots for major label acts, were honored by ASCAP at The New Music Seminar for having brought the the Best New Song of The Year!
I even got to play a show for Amnesty International at The Greenville Municipal Stadium in South Carolina.
We stayed at a motel called The Cricket Inn and in our fanzine said EKG at The Cricket Inn is like saying we’re staying with family!
A playlist of our early works can be found here:
Laguna Ruin
EKG broke up and I devoted myself to selling cars.
The guys wouldn’t have it.
Joe, Barry and Trixx had plans and those plans included me!
Easily the heaviest band material I’ve been a part of.
Though these are quite different than the previous bands songs, the one constant, my voice, my lyrics, my stories continues to grow, adapt and evolve.
Our long time Producer Steve created Photon Records, signed us and together we upped our game again!
A playlist of our early works can be found here:
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Again the line up changed, again the name had to as well.
We chose the name of the road that we all had shared history upon.
It served us well and Long Island enthusiastically embraced us.
We played all of the biggest shows, at all of the biggest venues, with all of the biggest names.
We enjoyed radio and television station interviews, acoustic and electric performances and of course playing their parties!
We signed another record deal under this banner.
Barry, affectionately known to us as “The Son of Sam” loved our album LOVELAUGHSHARD and together with industry heavyweights Bob and Perry, managed our affairs.
A playlist of LOVELAUGHSHARD material can be found here:
RTL – Red Tail Leader
Back to the beginning. This lineup included Gary on Guitar and Vocals and Pauly on drums. I sang lead on some songs but it was their band, their material.
I was happy to be included. We played carnivals, backyard parties, regular bar gigs. If was a fun time and a nice way to round out my days in bands.
