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Peter

PETER GRAMMATICO - DRUMMER and VOCALIST

About Me

I am currently living in Rochester, NY where I was born. I was a bit of a gypsy growing up but settled in northern NJ growing up in Bloomfield, Belleville, and Montclair, NJ. There I had my first GREAT band, BLACKJACK. We were very popular but when Nirvana came along, it killed us and we broke up after that. I moved to Pittsburgh, PA where I attended university at Slippery Rock U. as a music therapy major. I studied voice and percussion. I had great experiences performing with the SRU singing groups and jazz combos. I was a member of a great unsigned band, RUNNING ON EMPTY. Our highlight was opening up for FOREIGNER on their 2002, 25th anniversary tour. WHAT A GREAT BAND WE WERE!! I moved up to Rochester in 2003 and married Becky, whom I met in college. She is the greatest! We have the greatest, most cutest dog in the universe, named Spike. She is a Toy Poodle and the apple of our eyes. I am now an assistant kitchen manager/cook at a very popular resturant in Rochester while still working as a musician: I am performing with CHASING GIANTS, a very talented coverband. I was playing with NIK AND THE NICE GUYS, a very popular party band and used to sing with STRANGER-"An Evening of Foreigner". They were a great band that performs a whole evening of FOREIGNER and LOU GRAMM songs. I'm also trying to get up a gig as a singer for wedding ceremonies as well I just recently hooked up with this great dj company to do parties and such. (VERY BUSY!!! ;) ) I am very happy being married to a wonderful person and enjoying my career. I love being close to my family now!!Say HI if you want!! PS- 8/31/06 Becky and I got a new dog to add to our family. His name is Peppy and he is a toy poodle too. He and Spike are getting to know each other and we are so happy to have him in our family!! PSS--9/28/07--my son, Justin was brought into the world! he is so wonderful and we are blessed to have him in our lives. what a great chapter in my life this is turning out to be.
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My Interests

performing music, songwriting, scifi, football(STEELERS), baseball(YANKEES), all things STARWARS, Star Trek, spending time with my wife and dogs, friends, cooking, movies, playing boardgames

I'd like to meet:

the dali lama, president clinton, barak obama, james brown, tom hanks, kurt vonnegut, and many more notable people i can't fit here. AND just regular people who have the courage to follow their dreams and strive to accomplish them!Neil Peart CGI

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Music:

The Beatles , Led Zeppelin, Foreigner, Journey , classic rock, music that rocks, classical music, jazz, fusion, many more genres that i don't care to put down...ask me!I play DW Pacific CX drums, Zildjian cymbals, Vic Firth/Zildjian sticks exclusively.

Movies:

ALL STARWARS!!!! star trek, anything harrison ford stared in, hichcock, quentin tarintino, m. night shamalan, classic movies, Il Cid, excallabur, LOTR trilogy, anything mel brooks, so much more, ask me....

Television:

the new battlestar galactica , heroes , lost, everyone loves raymond, sienfield, Vh1(yes i'm a vh1er now...), history channel, discovery channel, scifi channel, animal planet, er, scrubs, a few other shows and channels i can't remember right now, ask me...

Books:

ALL THINGS STARWARS!! LOTR trilogy , tolkien, steven king, dean koontz, graphic novels, Al Franken, kurt vonnegut, "The Stranger" by albert camus, thomas mann, hemmingway

Heroes:

my wife, my dad, my uncles (dick and lou), my best friend- AJ, john bonham, superheros of any kind, han solo

My Blog

Cleveland Ohio!

Cleveland???  yup..i was in cleveland  this past week with my wife becky.  she had a business conference there so me and justin went along.  we stayed at 2 awesome hotels downtown ...
Posted by Peter on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:07:00 PST

CHASING GIANTS!! Were BACK!!

the gods of rock have shown their benevolence upon me and provided me with a new guitarist! sean riddell is his name and we had a very successful audition last night. we are now in rehearsals to get...
Posted by Peter on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:55:00 PST

my cousin Nics new resturant!! AWESOME!!

my cousin has opened a wonderful restaurant in downtown Rochester named Piranha. I'm a big tool and haven't gone yet but he got a great writeup in the newspaper and I'm very proud of him! here it is...
Posted by Peter on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:51:00 PST

some good news....some bad news

ok....first the good.  i'm playing 2 dates with THE DEBORAH MANGONE BAND on saturday, july 26th at THE MERCHANT ST. SMOKEHOUSE in brockport, NY and at spenders on thursday, august 7th at SPE...
Posted by Peter on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:47:00 PST

i’m in a new band!!

the currently unnamed project i'm playing drums in is a KING'S X cover band!!  KX is one of my alltime favorite bands and i'm stoked to be involved with some of rochesters best musicians.  w...
Posted by Peter on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:42:00 PST

MY DAY IS COMING SOON!!!

VERY EXCITED about my first Father's day!  i love fatherhood!  my son rocks!  yours smell like socks!! heeheehee.... bye!
Posted by Peter on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:32:00 PST

back to reality!!

hey, just came back into town from my family vacation in myrtle beach, sc.  it was great fun hanging on the beach, at poolside and just not thinking about work or the everyday stresses for a whi...
Posted by Peter on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:24:00 PST

’08 is kickin’ ass so far!!

i must say that this year is really going well....(i hope i haven't jinxed it now!!) after a frantic facelift to some of the rooms in my house, (which look sooo fantastic to us), soon work will be do...
Posted by Peter on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:47:00 PST

more than rumors??

with no official word yet on a tour in '08, robert plant announcing that he will tour with allison kraus to support their new cd, the smokescreen is in place to debunk a LZ tour.BUT...............word...
Posted by Peter on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:51:00 PST

LED ZEPPELIN!!!!!! dec 10th, LONDON

so they didn't air any footage worth watching, just soundbites for networks but it's all over youtube!! LZ KICKED ASS!!ok, so they tuned down their songs a major 3rd for the most part but it still wo...
Posted by Peter on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:57:00 PST