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Buy Kracker's NEW CD! Dropping 9-15-09 With a Tino/Kracker track, "Corner Bar" New HOWLING DIABLOS CD NOW ON ITunes! You need this... ..


.. Musician/Producer...Tino Gross is the mastermind behind Funky D Studios in Detroit. as a Performer with Detroit legends the Howling Diablos he started his love affair with music at the age of 7 when he received his first axe, a used burgandy sparkle Gretsch snare drum with a calfskin head on it purchased from George Hamilton's Drum Shop on Broadway in downtown Detroit. Tino quickly started emulating his drum hero, Gene Krupa, and adapted the greaser-style funk of the Ventures, Chuck Berry, and Bo Diddley/Rolling Stones/Jimi Hendrix........................ .. Tino has performed with HOWLING DIABLOS/George Clinton/KID ROCK/Uncle Kracker/DETROIT COBRAS/Hank Williams JR./ BOB DYLAN/John Lee Hooker/HUSH/Charles Caldwell/Paradime/Earl King/Eddie Bo/Scott Morgan/Dennis Tek/Grant Green/Eddie Taylor/Jimmie Rodgers/Romantics/KING GORDY/Dee Dee RAMONE....and many, many more................... Tino has produced the last 2 albums,"Darker Blues" and "A Bothered Mind" for RL Burnside on Fat Possum Records, and "Car Wash" by the Howling Diablos on Alive! Records..................................................... Tino can be heard on "Early Mornin' Stone Pimp" rappin and singing with Kid Rock. EMSP was also featured in the MTV movie "Road Trip"... He has also co-written "Aces and Eights" and "Memphis Soul Song" with Uncle Kracker...........He has played drums on Nathaniel Mayer, Little Freddie King (2 Tino re-mixes), and Charles Caldwell's recent CDs for Fat Possum as well as 2 albums by Big Walter Horton, Detroit's Butler Twins, and Kenny Parker on JSP Records........................ COOL UPCOMING STUFF!!!!COOL UPCOMING STUFF!!!!COOL UPCOMING STUFF!!!! watch for rapper Boondox' new joint "Out Here" co-written by Tino and Mike E. Clark on Psychpathic Records...hit this link to listen to a preview: http://boondox.psychopathicrecords.com/nc/audio/harvest_sampler.mp3 watch for "Pull Together" by Jody Raffoul, also produced by Tino for Takes The Bisquit Records... LOOKOUT FOR THIS HOT UPCOMING DOPE-ASS SHIT.... Insane Clown Posse's new WRAITH Re-MIX Album featuring 2 Ultra Funky ICE Cold Re-Mixes by Tino...dropping NOV. 14th!!! Tino can be seen performing with the Howling Diablos in the PBS American Masters special, "Good Rockin' Tonight" produced by Ahmet Ertegen. Watch for a new Diablos joint in early 2007............... Also...stay tuned for 'Pat N Tha Hat's' latest release, recorded and mixed at Funky D Studios and Fun House 2 More tracks for BOONDOX by Tino and Mike E. Clark for upcoming release on Psychopathic Records...stay tuned! Watch for the 'soon-to-drop' full legnth CD by Mississippi blues genius Kenny Brown, known to the world as RL Burnside's right hand man and adopted son...co produced by Tino in 2008... also 3 brand new funky D re-mixes on the spankin brand new CD by Little Freddie King out of New Orleans... watch for a brand new Howling Diablos CD comin soon Just finished layin down drums for the new John Sinclair CD! Amazing cast of stellar blues and jazz geniuses on this record...Lyman Woodard, Johnnie Bassett, Thornetta Davis, Phil Hale, and many others...stay tuned Pat N The Hat's new full length CD, "Brother" produced at Funky D Studios is finally dropping, watch for a Detroit CD Release bash at Lager House in Detroit on June 5th as well as a party in Austin, TX May 2008-Just completed 2 new tracks on the new Boondox CD, "Krimson Kreek" (Psychopathic Records) co-produced with my home skillet, Mike E. Clark. The tracks are "Country Life" and "Trailer Park Creepin". The full length album hit No. 1 on Billboard's Heatseekers Chart!!! Go buy it... The cut "Get You A Job" featuring Kenny Brown and Little Freddie King will be the featured cut on "Holy Blues" the new compilation from Big City Blues Magazine due this Summer. Tino will be playing drums with Kenny Brown and a big contingent from Mississippi in Sweden in July '08 Just finished co-producing "Urban Decay" by Detroit's RUMPSHAKERS!!! Dig this badass blues/rock/psycho circus on FUNKY D RECORDS...released May 1st 2009 The Howling Diablos have dropped their masterpiece album, "Divine Trash Highway" on Funky D Records. Hailed as a return to their original-style of Funk/Blues? Rock/Soul...pick it up and be down! Just finished a KILLER track with the always soulfull homie, Uncle Kracker....this one is the BOMB!!! 2009 is jumpin off big...stay tuned... For more information on Tino and Funky D Studios please e-mail us here at MySpace.