(Live & studio): Patrick - Lead singer, bass player, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, piano, songwriter, record producer and recording engineer. Adam - Acoustic lead guitar, lead singer, bass player, keyboards, songwriter and record producer. (NOTE: Patrick and Adam do not post anywhere on Myspace and do not have individual Myspace pages). Paul - Keyboards, lead singer, songwriter and record producer. Dean - Drums. John "Pillbox" Feinstein - Bass player, acoustic guitar & electric guitar. Don Was - Record producer.
With:
Mark "The Shredder" Mataban - Electric lead guitar. James Bryan - Electric lead guitar. John "Fudge" Rickenbacker - Drums. Tony G Jr - Drums. David McMurray - Sax. Craig Dreyer - Sax. David Was - Keyboards & flute. John Russo - Drums. (NOTE - these bass players are hired to anchor the basslines so Patrick can concentrate singing lead for the live shows): Randy "Mots" Rice - Bass player. Eric Reutlinger - Bass player. Marc Rogers - Bass player. Joe Lombino - Background singer. Devon DeVitto (for live performances) - Mix Engineer.
Influences
Pop/rock/R&B-influenced singer-songwriter. Influences include The Beatles and James Taylor to Daryl Hall & John Oates to Bonnie Raitt - our music can sometimes be described as "rock n' folk" with elements of soul, dance-pop, R&B and hip-hop. From today's music prospective, some say that we sound like a hybrid between John Mayer and Justin Timberlake (especially on the song "Drive Me Up"), but you can decide on that for yourself. ;-) This is probably the first song to be described as "funk hop".
Newer influences include Timbaland and Nelly Furtado, Philosopher Kings and many artists related and everything in-between - we like mixing elements of different styles of music to come up with something unique! Always trying something different with each song & album...
For producer Don Was:
Alia Fahlberg or Aaron Wilhelm
Nettwerk Management (Producers)
www.nettwerk.com
1-323-698-1845 (LA)
alia@nettwerk.com
Patrick Lee, the lead singer, bass guitarist, guitarist, keyboardist and producer of The Scaters (pronounced "skat"), formed the group as a collective of songwriters and musicians that banded together to share a common dream of making great music. The Pals from Poughkeepsie took on its name as a pun for "scatter" and "scat", a jazz style of singing using nonsense syllables in place of words. The word "scatter" was taken from a Hall & Oates hit song "You Make My Dreams Come True", and its spelling with a single T is a tribute to the Beatles. Lee was born in Brooklyn on May 7th, and gave his very first public live performance at the very tender age of eight at Hecksher State Park. His father was once an employee of CBS Inc. (the parent company of Columbia and Epic Records) and his mother was a singer, vocal coach and served in the Board of Directors for the Capella Festiva Choir in Poughkeepsie, NY, the chorus performing in local venues such as Vassar College and the Mid-Hudson Civic Center. While in high school he studied music performance at Vassar College and formed his first bands. He attended and graduated from John Jay High School and from Carnegie Mellon University, where he studied jazz music improvisation from Eric Kloss (of Eric Kloss and the Rhythm Section, whose members included Chick Corea, Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland and Pat Martino), and jazz piano and music performance from David Budway (now of the Jeff "Tain" Watts Band). After college, he continued his studies in music at Stony Brook University and played out in the clubs and coffeehouses in out and around the New York City, the Hudson Valley and Long Island area.
In 2004 he toured Canada and the United Kingdom including London, Brighton and Cambridge as well as performing at a lunchtime gig at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, a club made famous by the Beatles. Some of the inspiration for the writing of the "Music Junction" album was conceived over in the UK, as "Junction" is a British term for a ramp off a motorway (the American equivalent is "Exit" off an interstate highway over here). While he was there he saw an episode of the BBC's "Top of the Pops", then hosted by BBC Radio 1's Reggie Yates and Fearne Cotton, which featured the song "Single" by a then-unknown Natasha Bedingfield.
With the Scaters he is known as the lead singer and songwriter for the soon-to-be hit singles "Love Will Lead the Way", "Drive Me Up", "The Party Song (Life Is a Party)", "A Bigger Bang" and "Right On!" The single "Red Roses" is a Valentine's Day radio favorite. In 2006 he toured as a solo headliner in the US for the first time (as Patrick Lee of The Scaters), performing a series of acoustic shows featuring Scaters' and solo tunes (with some shows with a backing band) in venues where the major-label and legendary acts also play (e.g. Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett, The Chance in Poughkeepsie). The live shows have sold well enough to even outsell some of the artists that are currently on the major label system, and tickets for some of these shows were available for the first time ever through Ticketmaster and TicketWeb.com. In September 2006 he shared a local Hot AC radio station-sponsored "Listener Appreciation Party" show the same night with Smash Mouth ("AllStar") with its lead singer Steve Harwell in the audience when he performed (and Steve filming his performance with his camera phone!) After logging in and performing 100+ shows in 2006-07-08-09 (including his last double-digit 99th show at The Saint in Asbury Park, NJ) he is just like the Energizer Bunny - he and the Scaters "keep going" and are still going super strong well into 2010, with even more shows planned as well as a possible major-label signing, radio appearances and a first-ever television appearance!
He hopes these shows will help promote and boost the visibility of the single "Love Will Lead the Way". The original version debuted on Long Island radio on the top-5 Arbitron-rated station WBAB-FM's "Homegrown" show on January 3, 2008 and became the number 1 most requested song on hometown Pop CHR/Top 40 station K104's "Top 9 at 9", cementing the song as a potential mainstream top-40/hot AC/adult contemporary hit single nationwide and worldwide (their goal is to have this song top the Billboard Hot 100 this year in 2010 - if if tops the Billboard Hot 100 it would be the first-ever Hot 100 number 1 for producer Don Was - his previous best was the B-52's "Love Shack" which peaked the Billboard Hot 100 at number 3 in 1989).
Continuing to tour in the US in 2009, he played the Midwest as well as in the Northeast, ending that leg of the US Tour in Boston's Harpers Ferry on Nov 2, 2009. Lee then toured Canada again for the first time in 5 years, this time performing at the legendary Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto where many peer singers and bands (Rob Thomas & Matchbox Twenty, Barenaked Ladies, Amanda Marshall) have also launched their careers, to a very well-received and receptive Canadian audience! Despite not currently being signed to a label, live promoters still continue to book him in the same league as a major label act, radio stations still continue to play his & their records, and the future continues to and still looks bright for Patrick Lee and The Scaters. A new Scaters studio album is currently in the works.
Their goal is to "keep going" - continue to record singles, albums and tour until they finally get to headline in arenas such as Madison Square Garden and Nassau Coliseum, and maybe even play a sold-out show at the new Meadowlands Stadium (hoping The Scaters will hit it as big as The Police, who also played their very second US show at The Chance in Poughkeepsie). Lee also hosted the Long Island Music Festival in 2006. In addition to music, Lee also donates to various charitable causes he believes in and, although not widely known, is one of the first two million voices (along with Jewel, U2's Bono, Natasha Bedingfield and actor Matt Damon) for ONE.org (a global campaign to make poverty history).
He currently plays the Karera bass guitar exclusively (he once played a Fender Jazz bass guitar at one time), and as a solo acoustic performer plays and endorses the Ovation acoustic guitar with D'Addario strings. He is writer and publisher member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).
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Hey oh!! Just checking in to thank you again for the add and the listen. We really appreciate it! We'll be playing a lot these next few months and hopefully we'll have the pleasure of your support at a show! (We're in Port Jefferson this Thursday, Boston on Friday, and NYC on July 31st.) Our shows are updated on our Myspace as they are confirmed. Also, depending on what sites you use, we'd love to have your support on Twitter, Facebook, Imeem, and Last.fm! (We've linked them below!)
Please check out my Trubute To Michael Jackson,,, It would really mean a lot if you can check it out... RIP MJ King of POP Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoOy1CsepGs Thankyou =D
We posted a bunch more tracks from Dreamscape for your listening pleasure. Check them out and then fly over to itunes to pick out the ones you like. Keep it real playas.
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Weds April 8th from 8-9pm
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Straight Up Rock N' Roll - Come Dance Your Ass Off!
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Hey there... how are you? I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate you listening and adding me as a friend... very cool of you... As a small way of saying thank you, if you visit:
www.gavinmikhail.com/demandtour.htm
... you'll get a FREE SONG from my upcoming 'Real World Sessions' acoustic album!
Also on that page, you can get tickets for my upcoming tour dates - I'll be playing in your area in the next few weeks, and I'd love to see you at one of the shows...
Thanks again for listening, and I hope you're doing great...
Gavin
TOUR DATES:
Nov 19 - Atlanta, GA Nov 21 - Washington D.C. Nov 22 - Hoboken, NJ Nov 23 - Baltimore, MD Nov 24 - Philadelphia, PA Nov 25 - New York, NY Dec 4 - Chicago, IL Dec 5 - Indianapolis, IN Dec 6 - Cleveland, OH
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