PaulCutrona

Description:

Screen Name:

PaulCutrona

Sex:

M

Age:

44

Studio Musician:

Yes

Level Of Commitment:

Committed

Years Playing Music:

25

Gigs Played:

Over 100

Tend to Practice:

1 time per week

Available to Gig:

1 time(s) per week

Most available:

Nights

The Ego Section! :)

let me first explain, I am MAINLY a guitarist. Just because I do play other instruments, doesn't mean I will, unless it's to cover your sick bassist or drummer for a gig.

I grew up in NY. Well. "Grew up" is purely subjective though - at 44 I can still beat you at any nintendo game.

Taking some piano lessons at an early age, I decided to rebel and took up drums at age 9 (and for the next several years, was infatuated with Neil Peart, Keith Moon, Ian Paice and Carl Palmer). That lasted until about age 16, when I realized guitars were more portable (if you didnt have a car, carrying a drumkit to practice was undoable unless you had many friends.. and even then, you had to talk them into it (or share your smoke with them)). Guitar stayed with me for the next 25 years. Although I still tinker on the drums, and can actually still hold my own. Ritchie Blackmore was my first official influence on guitar. Anything from DP to Rainbow. Fast forward (because, I know you don't really care.. but again, this is all about me)... major influences are Benatar (Geraldo), Page, Blackmore, Heart (Leese), Lifeson, Campbell, Rhoads, Halen, Vaughn, Deville, Ralphs, and many others I have stolen technique or form from. How the hell can you list everyone that have ever listened to and said "Oh, I need to learn that particular modal shift..." blah blah blah....

Late 80s, I secured a position at KORG (Korg Keys, Marshall Amps, Westbury guitars, etc) which exposed me to not only great technologies on the cutting edge, but also many of the endorsee/artists, such as Winwood, Emerson, Kaye, Leavell, Nichols, to name a few. Then heading up departments at Sam Ash in NY, and Rhythm City in Atlanta, brought even more exposure, and made many contacts and friends. A side effect of all that was also my entry into the recording world. I also landed a position with a local Metal hair band called Jesta - playing some of the larger local venues on Long Island, to include stage antics using wireless guitars (a novelty at the time), smoke machines and crazy 80s spandex type clothes. Then later in Atlanta, a band called Billy The Fish, with Rob Kemp (Vapors), Ron Redifer (known to jam frquently with members of the satellites, vapors and black crowes) and a few others. Fast forward again (because, I just feel like it)...

Currently I am gigging in a Manassas-based band called Stone Candy. Some of the recent bands have also included Bad Monkey (former Molly Hatchet personnel formed group), Rampage (Joe Sanchez from 105.5 Classic Rock on drums) and WTF (with Sara Coleman on Vocals, Arch Alcantara (Leanne) on guitar).

I live to play - I'll jam with anyone. Blues, Rock, Country, Metal. I don't care. Get a grind going -- feel it gel, there's nothing better. Even better than sex (sometimes) but never better than a fast pint of guinness. Yeah, I said that out loud.

Oh yeah, and I hate long walks on the beach, candlelit dinners, cozying up on the couch with a movie, and I am an aquarius, born in the year of the dragon, which means if you get onstage with me, and arent there for the pure enjoyment of making music because it's fun, I'll run you over with my 800 pound motorcycle just after I shove my ibanez up your arse. You arent going to be a rock star (SURPRISE!), and no, shoving a sock down the front of your pants is not a chick-magnet. Just play the freakin music and let the teeny-boppers get the groove on. It's what we are there for.

First - I will say this straight out: I am NOT into jam bands. Nor am I into extended soloing - egotistical-noodling. I like to learn the songs as they were recorded, with maybe some deviation for spice. The crowd gets bored when you go off on jam-tangents, unless of course they have just taken a few ounces of mushrooms. I am not into that crowd anyway - widespread panic and phish can cover that arena. Not than I cant hold my own anytime someone says "take this next solo..." etc., just dont like drawn out crap for ego sake.

I will take:

Pathetic mid-life crisis well-adjusted already-have-a-career and family types who like to play for fun and a few extra bucks on a weekend - NOT looking to enter a recording contract (again) only to realize you might, just might, NOT be one of the one-in-ten-million that actually get a chance to tour and go broke and bankrupt after prematurely spending their advance and overdose on their self-pity and blame the system for taking away their creative juices.. blah blah blah. Just play the freakin music already and stop whining or I will* bitch-slap you. I am 44 and need no games.

Influences:

As much as anyone else.

But here is a list of songs, through the decades, that I have played in assorted bands (I am sure I have missed some - there are cobwebs here):

2112
Ain't Talking About Love
All Day And All Of The Night
All Right Now
American Band
Another Brick
Another Thing Comin
Anyway You Want It
Are You Going My Way
Arms Wide Open
Back In Black
Badge
Barracuda
Bastille Day
Beer For Our Horses
Best Friends Girl
Bitch (Brooks)
Black Magic Woman
Black Velvet
Blue Sky
Born To Be Wild
Break Up Song
Breaking The Law
Brown Eyed Girl
Brown Sugar
Call Me The Breeze
Cant Explain
Cant Get Enough
Cant Stand Losing You
Can't You See
Carry On Wayward Son
Cat Scratch Fever
China Grove
Cinnamon Girl
Cocaine
Comfortably Numb
Communication Breakdown
Cowboy Song
Cradle Will Rock
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Crazy Train
Crossroads
Dazed And Confused
Destroyer
Detroit Rock City
Dirty White Boy
Dont Stop Believing
Double Vision
Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Evil Ways
Far Behind
Fast As You
Feel Like Makin Love
Fields Of Grace
Fire Down Below
Flavor Or The Week
Flirtin With Disaster
Fly By Night
Fool For The City
Freebird
Gimme Three Steps
Good Lov'n
Good Times Bad Times
Green Grass And High Tides
Hard To Handle
Hard Working Man
Hear
Heartbreaker
Heaven And Hell
Here And Now
Hey Jealousy
Highway Star
Highway To Hell
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Hold On Loosely
Honky Tonk Women `
Hot Blooded
Hurts So Good
I Can See For Miles
I Know A Little
I Love Rock N' Roll
I Want You To Want Me
If You Kiss Me Like This
I'm The Only One
Im Your Captain
Immigrant Song
In The Name Of Love
Iron Man
Jamies Crying
Jane
Jenny 867-5309
Jessica
Joyful Noise
Just What I Needed
Keep Your Hands To Yourself
Kryptonite
La Grange
Lavilla Strangiatto
Lay Down Sally
Lazy
Learn To Fly
Lick It Up
Lights
Limelight
Listen To The Music
Little Sister
Livin After Midnight
Lonely Is The Night
Lonely Ole Night
Long Train Runnin
Love Hurts
Lovin Touchin Squeezin
Magic Power
Man In The Box
Man On The Silver Mountain
Margaritaville
Meet Me With Your Black Drawers
Mental Health
Moby Dick/Good Times Bad Times
Move It On Over
Movin On
My Generation
My Sacrifice
My Sharona
Nobody's Fault
One Way Out
Oyo Como Va
Paranoid
Perfect
Pretty Woman
Pride And Joy
Promises In The Dark
Red Barchetta
Roadhouse Blues
Rock N Roll
Rock N Roll All Night
Rock N Roll Band
Rock N Roll Fantasy
Rock N Roll Hootchie Coo
Rock You Like A Hurricane
Run To The Hills
Running With The Devil
Saw Her Standing There
Sharp Dressed Man
Shoulda Been A Cowboy
Show Me The Way
Simple Man
Since Youve Been Gone
Slow And Easy
Slow Ride
Smoke On The Water
Smokin
Souths Gonna Do It Again
Space Truckin
Stacy's Mom
Stairway To Heaven
Statesboro Blues
Still Of The Night
Stormtroopin
Stray Cat Strut
Sultans Of Swing
Summer Of 69
Sunshine Of Your Love
Surrender
Surrender
Sweet Child-O-Mine
Sweet Emotion
Sweet Home Alabama
Sweet Home Chicago
Takin Care Of Business
The Breeze
The Kids Are Alright
The Number Of The Beast
The One I Love
The Rover
The Spirit Of Radio
Tired Of Waiting
Trading My Sorrows
Train Kept A Rollin
Turn The Page
Tush
Two Tickets To Paradise
Unchain My Heart
Walkin On A Thin Line
War Pigs
Were Not Gonna Take It/See Me Feel Me/Listening To You
What I Like About You
What's Your Name
Wheels In The Sky
Whiskey Rock-A-Roller
White Wedding
Wonderful Tonight
Working Man Blues
Xanadu
You Got Another Thing Comin
You May Be Right
You Oughta Know
You Really Got Me
You Shook Me All Night Long

Equipment List:

Good enough to gig professionally with, that's all you need to know. My stuff has NEVER let me down in reliability or sound.

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