These fine folk have played on my album, jam with me live, OR both... Seth Hall, Eliza James, Dan Renfro, Chad Genadon, Allen Mascari, Matt Collins, Frank Wilson, Jeff Kraft, Rod Castro, Morgan "the red mantis" Delaney, Danielle Mays, Carl "Dead Skins" Fyrie, Rafael Moreira, & Chuck Colby.
Influences
My father, Tommy Amato.... check him out jammin the bass for Wayne Newton! My father played trumpet and bass for Wayne Newton and also managed him for over 20 years
Bob Marley, Sublime, Dave Mathtews Band, The Samples, Big Head Todd & The Monsters, Primus, Phish, Tool, Fishbone, Warsaw, Lavish Green, Hemlock, Keyser Soze, Verbal Kint, The Mud Sharks, The Lazy Eights, Phat Couch, Van Morrision, The Band, The Allman Brothers Band, Chad Gendason, Slightly Stoopid, SUPER J, The Grateful Dead, Miles Davis, Ben Harper, Greyhounds, Ani Difranco, WEEN, THE CURE, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blind Melon, Beck, The English Beat, The Doors, Frank Sinatra, The Freedy Jones Band, Gooding, Monkey Fist, Bargain Music, Jerel, Mishka, Ian Field, Prince, Slayer, Metalical, Social Distortion, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, The Meters, The Police, Tom Waits... just to name a few.
Vincenzo Thomas Amato grew up in the Reno & Lake Tahoe area then moved to Los Angeles, CA in 1996 and founded the band SUPER J... for whom he played in for 7 years before branching out on his own as a solo singer/songwriter.
Vincenzo has opened & performed with some of the most prominent bands in the music industry: The Samples, Norwood of FISHBONE, Billy Idol, Slightly Stoopid, Pepper, Trulio Disgracias, Peter Cornell, The Starfuckers, Hoobustank, Lavish Green, Planting Seeds, Hemlock, Bargain Music, Warsaw, Keyser Soze, Gooding, Chad Gendason, Rafael Moreira... just to name a few.
VTA - Booking info call me on my cell:) 818-207-9930
Hey I remember seing Wayne & Jerry and your dad Tommy in lake Tahoe performing,sitting with my parents and grandmother grace - & uncle Ernie.. Ask your mom about them...It was back then but I'm sure she will remember.... Keep rockin !!!!! Vince ~
6/27/2009 1:00 PM at Mills Park
1111 E. Williams st., Carson City, Nevada 89701
Cost: FREE
Punk Rock Against Meth, featuring "Del Mar", "Harmonic Prophecy", "Astronaut Love Triangle", "Dog Party", "Sex Rat" and "FiZGiG" is a Free Show at the Mills Skate Park that will also include an amateur skateboard competition, drug counseling, resources and information. Come and join us for some Skating, Rockin’ and support in a life-saving cause.
So, good times awesome jams and great people the other night! Can't wait to do it again! Got a show coming up on the 12th of this month so I will be spamming the living crap out of your page.
Thank you for your friendship! Please keep coming back and checkin out the new material... and don't forget to pick up the new album, "New Dawn" at iTunes, Amazon, and CDBaby!!!
