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Mike Germano - Bass, Vocals |
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Holding down the bottom of the band playing electric upright bass and various fretted and fretless electric basses to fit the right sound to the style of music being played. Besides playing bass, Mike is also an accomplished singer-songwriter and guitarist who plays local coffee houses, cafes, and other venues and has a self produced CD. Born in Poughkeepsie, Mike had been living and playing music in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area of North Carolina for many years and moved back upstate to Troy in June of 2004. |
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Dennis Montano - Guitar, Vocals |
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Dennis is self taught on guitar and been playing for over thirty years, on and off. Taking time off to raise a family, but always somehow finding himself back in the music scene. He does not have one style of playing, but rather enjoys playing a variety of different genres. This made it easy for him to gravitate to the SM’s, with their eclectic set list, and the band's laid back demeanor. |
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Paul Moore - Drums, Percussion |
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Band Alumni |
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Dan Walczyk - Drums, Percussion, Vocals |
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Dan has been playing drum set and percussion since 1973. He has been drumming semi-professionally in a variety of different bands in the Syracuse, NY (QuarterTones, Bergvagabunden, SU Jazz Ensemble, TLC Band); Albany, NY (Nitefire, Uncle John); Boston, MA (MIT Ensemble Jazz Band, Sporkie); and Mayagüez, PR (UPRM Band) areas since the early 1980’s. His musical stylings include rock, pop, jazz, big band, folk, country, and polka (yes, polka!). Dan’s day job is being a professor at RPI. |
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Arlen Johnson - Keyboards, Vocals |
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Arlen's keyboard stylings jump between percussive latin jazz, straight ahead swing, fusion, bebop, rock, ska, country, and blues. Despite his resistance to becoming a professional musician, he's wound up with an MFA and a background in music theory and composition. (He really wanted to be a lumberjack). Arlen has played in a variety of venues from the Continental Club in Austin, TX, to the bars of northern Maine and Canada. After a several years off from the music scene to start a family and explore the world of a day job, his muse has pushed him back out the door. | |
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Matt Ellithorpe - Guitar, Vocals Jam Band Junkie - Guitar Extraordinaire |
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Matt played with studmonkey for about a year. He didn't give us any bio info, but we do know he comes from Indian Lake and went to Union College and currently works at G.E. The rest is all still a mystery. We could make up a bunch of stuff, but we'll let you use your imagination. | |
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Casey Schwartz - Guitar, Violin, Mandolin, Vocals Casey recently moved to Rhode Island, but is always welcome back to play whenever he's in the area |
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A Troy area native, Casey has been involved in music since the age of 4, where he first took up the violin and a year later started on the piano. After studying the violin and piano for 12 years, he started playing electric violin/piano in a Dave Matthews cover band called Al Gore and the Uptown Four. Since then, he has picked up the guitar which has been the main instrument for the past 4 years, and has dabbled in the mandolin. | |
