Joe Gande

Bio:

Thank you for visiting my Myspace website!
Please have a listen to a few songs and leave a comment...
I try my best to respond personally to all...as soon as I can....It's not easy sometimes:)lol
I am truly blown away, so grateful and humbled by all of your comments, messages and emails....
Thank you to all of you who have come on board and joined my network of family, fans and friends throughout the world....
I appreciate it very much...and it is the reason that I do what I do...
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The music you are hearing was written, arranged and produced by Joe Gande and mastered by the legendary Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound, NYC.
Joe is currently seeking distribution and licensing opportunities...



With soulful, heartfelt vocals, walls of guitars, funky grooves, horns and beautiful string melodies, the music of singer/songwriter/guitarist Joe Gande crosses all barriers.
"Music is supposed to make you feel..."
Joe's music provides listeners with dynamics, heartfelt emotions and raw intensity. His songs are filled with soaring melodies, catchy hooks, addictive, sing along choruses, introspective, self-searching moments and pure driving rock & roll.
"An Emotional Journey..."
Emotions will undoubtedly arise upon listening to the music of Joe Gande. Joe draws on a variety of personal life experiences, painting a thought-provoking, abstract landscape that all can undeniably relate to. Songs about life, loss, ups, downs, love lost and found and the human condition. Songs about learning, searching, questioning, understanding, healing, finding...
Stop, Look, and Listen.
Joe has the uncanny ability to reach people and make them feel - a voice charisma and presence that immediately draw in a crowd and makes any Joe Gande and The Godsend Sessions live performance an exciting, memorable no holds-barred site to see-passion and pure guts!
"A Natural"
Singing, writing, arranging, producing-all without ever taking a formal musical lesson in his life. A prolific songwriter and self-taught guitarist with an ear for melody since a young age, the music just comes into his head. From arranging horn charts, drum fills and grooves, scoring beautiful lush string sections and vocal harmonies, to bangin'out some funky piano...

Member Since:

October 20, 2004

Members:

Joe Gande: Singer/songwriter/guitarist/piano/keys/producer/arranger
All lead vocals, vocal harmonies, backup vocals, guitars, piano, keys, conga -on all studio tracks
The Godsend Sessions:
Craig Shrawder: Keys - Live & Studio tracks
Kevin Bregande: Drums- Live and all studio tracks
(Visit Kevin on Myspace)
Andrew Frawley: Drums - Live
(Visit Andrew Frawley's Website)
Neal Zum: Bass - Live and all studio tracks
(Visit Neal on Myspace)
John Miles: Bass - Live
The Mountain Stab Horns:
Dig Horns? Joe has had the privilege and honor of performing with some of the finest, most talented horn players in NYC and the world... Some of the best have joined Joe live on stage!
Tim Ouimette: Trumpet (The Four Tops, The Temptations, Ray Charles, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Keith Richards, Cab Calloway, Ben E. King, Dizzy Gillespie...)
(Visit Tim Ouimette's Website)
Nate Mayland: Trombone (The Four Tops,Temptations, Southside Johnny, Frankie Valli, The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, The Gene Krupa Orchestra...)
(Visit Nate on Myspace)
Maximilian Schweiger: Saxophone (Ray Barretto, Israel Cachao, Mario Bauza, Wynton Marsalis, Arturo O'Farrill, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Frankie Vallie and the Four Seasons, The Funkbrothers, Paquito DRivera, the Duke Ellington Orchestra...)
Visit Max on Myspace
Danny Wilensky: Saxophone (Santana, Lauren Hill, Steve Winwood, David Bowie...)
John Allred: Trombone (The Four Tops, The Temptations, WoodyHerman, Toshiko Akiyoshi...)
Jim O'Conner: Trumpet (The Four Tops, They Might Be Giants...)
Rick Kriska: Bari Sax (The Four Tops, The Temptations, Cab Calloway, Ben E. King, Artie Shaw...)
Kiku Collins: Trumpet-Live/studio track-"Lost her Head"
(Psych The Clown, NYC Blues Devils, Beyonce, Michael Bolton...
Visit Kiku on Myspace Kikucollins.com
Ben Griffin: Trombone
Rich Nichols: Trumpet
Shlomi Cohen: Saxophone
Visit Shlomicohen.com

Influences:

Aerosmith!!,Steve Tyler and Joe Perry, Cheap Trick!!, The Beatles, Hendrix, Bad Company(Paul Rodgers),Led Zeppelin( Robert Plant), ELO, Queen, Cream, The Who, Deep Purple, Leslie West-Mountain, Robin Trower, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ronnie Van Zant(southern rock),The '70s, Hard Rock , Metal, Glam, '60's and '70's Soul, R&B, Motown, AM Radio, Sly Stone, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Earth,Wind and Fire!, Tower of Power, War, Early Chicago, Toto, Prince... My Father...Life!
I also dig Jeff Buckley, The Black Crowes, Foo Fighters, Chris Cornell, Audioslave, Soundgarden, The Cult, Lenny Kravitz, STP, Flamenco guitar, Classical-Love strings..., Antonio Carlos Jobim, Andres Segovia, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin...all kindsa shit... If I get a chill and my hairs stand up I'll probably dig it... Grew up listening to real Jazz/bebop & big band(not that smooth sounding fusion musac crap...)
My father Joe Gande-1929-1998-jazz musician-tenor saxophone- U.S. Army 31st Dixie Division, Played w/ and oldtime friends w/ Charlie Barnett, Horace Silver, Art Mooney, Addison farmer, Jo Jones, Joe Porcaro, Emil Richards....just to name a few that I can remember right now...
We miss you terribly Dad...
Sometimes I might even put in a little Pavarotti or Bocelli while makin' macaroni on sunday!:)

Sounds Like:

Joe Gande :)

Record Label:

Now seeking label, distribution, management...