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Vito's site with a video clip.
I remember reading or hearing Vinnie talk about this guy...IN FACT, as I am watching this video clip, there is a VERY familiar person playing the kit at the end!!!
I wish I could post the whole disc, it's pretty killin' stuff, IMO.
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That's interesting, it says Vinnie will be on his upcoming album..
Vito's a killer player. I picked up the 5 after 4 stuff some years ago on the recommendation of the Audiophile guys. Good stuff.
Ive met and talked with Vito numerous times He is from Woodbridge ontario suburb of Toronto i have a video clinic of him too!!! He is the coolest guy and he is way too funny!!! We email each other regularly did u know he is also an actor??? He is in Bonnano a Godfathers story,,, Switching Goals with the olsen twins and a lot of commercials and things here in Canada... One time i was at an italian feast here in southern ontario and i hear this drummer playing a clave with his left foot on the hihat and im like.... What the fuck??? no one can do that around here so i go closer and it was veets!!! HAA i bouhgt him a beer and we hung out ive also seen him at jam nights etc... He is very funny is also Rocco SpaccaMurro (Funny italian skit that can be found on the net)!!!! This guys does it all man!!
Been waiting for that 5 After 4 CD to come out for a while now...
If you dig further into Almarecords you'll see The Dexters. That band plays every week in a bar called the Orbit Room, nice place. It's owned by Alex Lifeson of Rush, and here's a Funny Clip of Alex.
Also... The site also promotes the band The Boomers, featuring Rick Gratton on drums.
Rick is a MONSTER drummer...underrated, like DiCenso & Rickman...& maybe even a little SCARIER than, dare i say it, DiCenso...or at the least, he's is in his league, 4 shore...4get Neil; when it comes to Canada giving us a hellacious drummer, RG is da [#1] MAN [Randy Cooke is somewhere in there too] [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img] [img]eek.gif[/img]
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 12, 2004 04:48 PM: Message edited by: FuseU1 ]</font>
I have Rick's Licks...fun book.
His book is great...but if u can find the vid "Paul DeLong & Rick Gratton Live at PIT" [1-18-91]... c. '94, DeLong & DeShort Of It/with Power Rock Drum Systems Enterprises [Carmine Appice's]... u will be amazed [don't let the words "power rock" or "Carmine Appice" fool you...it is a frightening representation of his drumming prowess]...
...also, check his Rick Licks vid...but 4 unabashed bash-your-brains-in playing, check the 1st vid mentioned...this guy can do Vinnie sh** - in his own way...
PS - Rezza is very good, thx 4 the links & the turn on [img]wink.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 12, 2004 05:21 PM: Message edited by: FuseU1 ]</font>
I've got that vid. It rocks pretty hard. I have to rip an mp3 of a Montreal Drum fest cd I have with a cool solo by Gratton. he thinks of things no one else would have. There's a little trick he puts in Rick's Lick's that just two 16th's from the HH to the SD that the way he places it is just something I had never heard before. It was really cool and sounds great.
I wonder if he just sits around all day thinking that stuff up.