Check out: www.myspace.com/phatcatswinger to see my full band.
What you hear on this page are songs that I wrote or had part in writing, except Juicy Fruit -Originally by Rudy Green - performed by The Barrel House Boys - April 2009.
"A day in the life of..." was written one late night and it was all improvised. Track by track... I didn't feel like going back to fix my lyrics, lol... I wanted to capture the story as it came to me. That's why you'll hear some lyrics stuttered, once the Phat Cat album comes out, it'll all be fixed ;) p.s. all instruments minus the Bari Sax were played & recorded by myself
Never Feel The Same, performed by Choad Effect w/guests: Phat Cat Swinger Horn Section.
Midnight Tango: Performed by Phat Cat Swinger and vocals by yours truly!
Jumpin' From LB2DC: Performed by Phat Cat Swinger
Crimson: Performed by Phat Cat Swinger
I'm working on more tunes at the moment.
If you want to see me LIVE and in action, you can see me performing with:
* Phat Cat Swinger
* Devil Doll
* The Barrel House Boys
* Vicky Tafoya & The Big Beat
Once in a while, I get to jump up on stage with or have had the opportunity of playing at least once with:
* Big Sandy & his Fly-Rite Boys
* The Jive Aces
* The Kid & Nic Show (and Karl Hunter on my Bday once)
* Swing Syndicate
* Pachuco Jose y Los Diamantes
* The Hollywood Combo
* Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums
* Ingrid Lucia of the Flying Neutrinos and the boys of RCR
* The Coasters! Got to play Yakety Yak w/them
* Eddie "Gip" Noble - co-wrote hits w/ Teddy Pendergrass
* 20 Flight Rock
* Lee Press On and the Nails!
* Rob Rio
* John Nemeth
* Red Young
* and more that I'll add as I think of them ;)
Influences
The music, showmanship & playing of Sam Butera, Louis Jordan, Jimmy Dorsey, The Bird, Cannonball, Coltrane, Rollins, Bobby Darin, Louis Prima, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Lionel Hampton and many more...
Sounds Like
Come to a show and tell me what you think ;) Do know this... There is a different feel and sound for every band I play in... You may notice a few things all in common, but each feel will be different. It's like a different Marco on Sax every night!
Instruments I use:
Alto: Selmer Reference 54 (Hummingbird) gift from mom, thanks!
Tenor Sax: Yamaha-52 : gift from dad ;)
Becker Violin - gift to myself
Old school Yamaha PSR-32 keyboard
Old guitar donated by Glenn & Beverly Lane. Thanks!!!
Bass Guitar given to me by my pops. Thanks Dad.
I record on protools.
All in all, I thank God for blessing me with my talent
I would like to thank my mom for listening to Benny Goodman & Glen Miller... and my pops listening to everything from the Beatles to Juan Gabriel and so much more, there was a wide variety of music that I was exposed to as a young kid. It wasnt until I was four that I began to explore with many different instruments. Though they were plastic & not real, I still had a fascination with these toys. My parents eventually invested in the instrument that would change my life forever.
A two year old Yamaha Student Alto Saxophone was the first real instrument I ever owned. Practicing night & day I worked hard to catch up with the rest of the kids in school. Eventually all the hard work payed off. However, I knew I still needed more instruction to be where I wanted to be. It wasnt until the year 2002 that I met an amazing sax player that I looked up to named Karl Hunter. Karl took me in & began to show me things on the sax I didn't know I was capable of. It really opened up a new world for me. That same year, I got together with musicians Matthew Burdick on Drums & Will Pattinson on Bari Sax to put together something with an pleasantly old classic sound. Matthew being influenced by Gene Krupa, Will by Gerry Mulligan & Me... well, I guess you can say I have the energy of Sam Butera, Louis Prima & Determination of Bobby Darin all together. When we put it all together, we created Phat Cat Swinger.
This year marks the 6th year since the bands creation. 9 Members make up the phat sound of the band, recently weve been blessed and fortunate enough to share the stage at the House of Blues with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, and the Blue Cafe with Royal Crown Revue. We've played with Poncho Sanchez as well as The Coasters. We even got called as the backing band for Christina Aguileras "Candyman" music video. That was fun!
The energy felt on stage has brought many to say that they thought Gene Krupa, Sam Butera & Louis Prima were all up on stage performing in spirit. Its no lie, Phat Cat Swinger puts on a show with so much energy, you may actually leave very tired at the end of a show. I know I do sometimes, lol...
Phat Cat Swinger is a journey for me. Though Im happy with the success weve been blessed with... Im still spreading my wings and just starting to reach out into other avenues to see where the road will take me. I thank God for every opportunity he has given me and I look forward to everything he has in store for me.
Take care all!
Write me a message sometime.
~Marco Palos
My brother Justin Padilla plays sax. He has a gig coming up in Chicago in a couple weeks, but he now lives in Long Beach. He played drums in our band "LB" back in High School.
doesnt look like ill make it tomorrow - no one wants to take me :( my swing dancing circle is very limited but hope the show goes well :) have fun!!!! PEACE & LOVE
Hi How are you going? Thank you for being my new friend. and i do hope that you had a Happy Late 4th of July lol. I know i did. It sucks that i didnt get to see alot of fireworks get shot at in the sky at night like last year. Well I hope we can keep in contact and somehow take back our Government from these corrupted officials.hit me up any time.
Hey Marco, Thanks for the invite, but I have school that night so I won't be able to make it =/ I'm sorry. I hope to catch ya around soon though!! -Cherryanna
You know it, I kick mayor butt!!! Im quite the rockstar now in days, Im kinda a "BIG" deal. SO Ive heard that before of Marisa and I, maybe cause I was wearing her clothes HAHA!! Thats how I roll, you know last minute, you just gotta do what you gotta do. Anyways, did you see TRANSFORMERS, Im so jealous, but Im suppose to go tonight! I cant wait,Im SUPER psyched! YAY!!!! So you need to go to my facebook and take my challenge, cause I've been kicked off your list, and I wanna see if you can stay in mine.... Hmmmm!!!!?????!?!?!?
She cracked her breast bone and is all bruised up but shes doing good, were both glad shes alive. I will be at all of your local shows that are not weddings and maybe even the one in chino hills, i have some friends down that way.
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HEY U HW R THGS UR WAY HOPE GD WOHO ITS MY FRI NIICE HUH:) well marco hope ur doing well i soo nd to c ya guys perform bn too lng u tkr care nw huh love alwys:)
say hermano, i gotta catch one of your full shows to be able to appreciate more. we always think of you n have much respect for your musicianship,i have no doubt we ll play again, thanks for your humbleness.
Hello you How's your week treating you so far? I forgot to ask when you told me about Europe - which band did you mean if not PCS? Whoever, however, wherever count me in!! We really must have a proper catch-up sometime too, I'm not online as much these days but we'll manage it somehow. Just stay well and healthy and take great care of yaself!! :) xx
