July 2006 performance at Alex Grey's gallery Cosm
Shot by Mike Toglia
Violet Samudra performing "Garden of Maya" in NYC 2/03
Playing at the Graph Tech booth at winter NAMM '07
A short version of a ballad a I wrote a few years ago "Desperate In The Wake Of Solitude"
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My influences are Steve Morse, John Mclaughlin and Stevie Ray Vaughan, but the music that I write doesn't really sound like any of them. Maybe closest to McLaughlin, but still a bit different.
I was born on September 16,1969 in Long Island, New York. I began playing guitar a month before my 16th birthday. After playing guitar for six months, my practice regimen had increased to 6-8 hours a day religiously. At this point I had decided that this is what I wanted to do with my life. After I finished high school in Long Island ,New York, I moved to Florida where I attended community college and played guitar in the school jazz band. Two years later I moved to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music. I graduated from Berklee in May 1994 with a Bachelors Degree in Music. My major while at Berklee was Professional Music with an emphasis on performance. My main musical influences are Steve Morse, Stevie Ray Vaughan and John McLaughlin.
I have been teaching guitar for 18 years and have been studying guitar for 22 years. I endorse Larrivee guitars, Ernie Ball/Music Man, Dunlop, Seymour Duncan pickups, GHS strings, Mesa/Boogie, Sans Amp, Horizon cables, Soldano, Peavey and Graph Tech and Digitech. I played bass in “Pain Museum”, the new heavy metal musical endevor featuring Metal Mike Chlasciak and Bobby Jarzombek or Rob Halford’s band. I also perform my own music with my 5 piece acoustic world music ensemble, Violet Samudra, in the New York area in addition to playing freelance country, blues and jazz gigs. I make a living as a guitar instructor and session guitarist in the New York area. I also am a teacher for the National Guitar Summer Workshop. I compose music for film and television as well.
Some of the shows and networks that my music has been featured on include:
Shows • The Oprah Winfrey Show
• The Real World
• Bands on the Run
• Mind of Mencia
• Spy in the Wild
• True Life
• The Fabulous Life
• American Soldier
• 2006 FIFA World Cup
• The Bible Series
Networks • Discovery Channel
• A&E
• Biography Channel
• MTV
• VH-1
• Comedy Central
• The Travel Channel
• HGTV
• Animal Planet
• The Learning Channel
• CMTV
One of my pieces for Cosm.Not done, and working on another one.(got someone interested already!) Got your CD! Will listen to it soon! Hope you had a great july 4rth! Love you, xo
Hi Steve, Thanks for the hello, I hope that you been well...I just realized of your mothers passing, I'm really sorry that I wasn't aware of it, I'm hoping that you have found some comfort as time passe's...because I know the feeling, and the only good thing that I can tell you is that she's in good hands and great company.
Greetings from the desert wastelands Steve....tis a pleasure to make your acquaintance. Awesome rockin' tunes you have here...diggin' em :) Thanks for the request and do stop by any ol' time and say hello....Cheers m'dears!
Got it!! Thanks so much! It feels more real when I touch it!!! lol I hope at least you know what I am talking about it. And of course thanks for everything! Love ya,xo TreZa
hey steve! what's going on dude? how's life, guitar? and well.. guitar? lemme know what's going on and when your next show is if you have any scheduled... thanks for those patterns you gave me like 3 years ago i actually started using them and it's helping me mucho to connect the fretboard!!! ttys awesome teacher!!!
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Thanks for the add! Really cool to discover your music thru myspace-you have a really great sound and technical mastery. Hope to see you live sometime. If you like the music of Tull, it would be great if you can make it to one of our upcoming shows (next one is July 18th at The Cutting Room)
Hey Steve! How's it goin? Here, really good. Interviewed Kelly Keagy from Night Ranger in person Saturday, and hung with the Pat Travers band. They're cool. They're gonna do my show, but not sure when yet. Tonight I've got Piggy D (Rob Zombie's bassist and he just did Alice Cooper's artwork for his new cd)at 8. What's goin on with you? Miss talkin to ya! xo Leopard Lady www. blogtalkradio. com/ntlrockradio
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