J Edgar Groover

Joel Lederer was born and rasied in the blue-collar delta of the Monongehalia, Allegheny and Ohio rivers. He stumbled through youth, doing poorly in Hebrew school, listening to his mom's old candy pop 45s and his dad's old Beatles and Beach Boys records.
As a kid he took piano lessons but was way too ADD to sit still to practice the Suzuki Method. After storming out of piano lessons, he was rewarded for his display of ill temperament with a set of drums at age nine. By 13 he was playing new wave and punk. At 16 he did his first gig, as a drummer, at a Battle of the Bands at Sacred Heart School for Girls' auditorium. It was a nice hall.
After getting to college without his drums, Lederer, determined to re-invent himself, picked up the guitar. It was then that he really fell in love with making music. Two years later he picked up the bass.
For the next ten years or so, Lederer would focus on guitar, moving to Seattle and fronting a band there. In 2001 he moved to New York City and switched to bass as his primary instrument. He began to study, moving to upright and focusing on bebop.
In 2008 Lederer returned his focus to electric bass guitar and re-discovered his love for punk and pop. Emerging a stronger player, Lederer brings with him a sense of melody, simplicity, energy and passion that is tempered with a love of a good groove.
Lederer currently resides in Queens where he teaches High School English to inner city youth and acts as his school's Webmaster and Assistant IT Coordinator. He studies cartooning at the School of Visual Arts. He studies bass with Patrick Pfeiffer, author ofBass for Dummies, Pfeiffer's Daily Grooves, and other titles.
He plays as much music as possible, and in groups ranging in style from punk to jazz standards.
His gear list includes:

Ibanez SR3000E 4-string bass guitar Fender Jazz fretless 4-string bass guitar Danelectro DC30 4-string bass guitar Danelectro B Baritone 6-string guitar Fender Precision 4-string bass guitar Breedlove Atlas 4-string acoustic bass guitar Azola Floating Top Bug Bass electric upright bass Vintage carved Tyrollean 3/4 upright bass with Fishman Full Circle piezo pickup SWR Redface Head Bag End 1x15 cab Fender Tele Thinline 6-string electric guitar Guild 6-string acoustic plug-in guitar Polytone MiniBrute 1x12 combo amp