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DoDRIVER

About Me


What is it that separates a good band from a great one? Songs. You always remember great songs because they have their own individuality or traits that make the listener feel various emotions. DoDriver embodies that sensation. Their whole existence is based on making music they feel good about and, more importantly, that the listener will remember for a long time. DoDriver originates from Buffalo, New York and is comprised of members of great local bands like Jive Injection/Jive5 and Jygsaw. The band won three consecutive years at the Nightlife Music Awards for best original hard rock group and has performed over 1200 times since its inception. As well as Buffalo and its many surrounding cities, DoDriver has performed in Lansing, Michigan, Cleveland, OH, Erie, PA, Toronto and Niagara Falls, Canada, Portland, ME, New York, NY and a two-week, nine show “mini tour” of Puerto Rico that culminated at the Hard Rock Café in San Juan. With over 100 original songs the band has something for everyone. DoDriver’s music is rooted in rock with a definite riff-oriented style, mix in a few pop elements and you get great commercial appeal. With this style the band has the flexibility to perform with a great variety of other acts. They have shared the stage with I Mother Earth, The Tea Party, Moist, Teenage Head, Staind, Oleander and Econoline Crush. The song Dozer has received extremely favorable reviews on Garageband.com, it peaked at number 7 out of almost 7,000 songs in the rock category and in August of 2003 DoDriver was the site’s artist of the week. The group has released three demo CD’s, “Sinus”, “Man”, and “Neon” selling a total of 3200 copies through regional stores and at live venues. From their current self-titled CD, the songs “Circus” and “Once in a while” have received radio airplay in West Virginia through the Undiscovered radio network on 106.3 WAMX,107.5 WEGW, and 103.1 WHBR and in Arkansas on 95.3 KERX. In their own hometown through local radio shows on 103.3 WEDG and 91.3 WBNY DoDriver is confident their music will reach many listeners who need songs that have personality and style that most artists just don’t produce any more.
Contact: Jody at 716-923-3208 [email protected]/dodriver
http://www.metrowny.com/entertainment-spotlight.php?time_has h=150be3012ffe73136e083198a0428f28
Check out this review from Brian Campbell at Buffaloathome.com http://www.buffaloathome.com/dct/54/id/6523/mid/1330/DoDrive r---Self-Titled.aspx
Jody Velletta http://www.bebo.com/DoDriver

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Member Since: 10/06/2006
Band Website: http://www.dodriver.com
Band Members: Jody Velletta (Vocals)
Michael Trabucco (Guitar)
Doug Smith (Guitar)
Mark Conlon (Drums)
Joe Martucci (Bass)

Influences: Lots and lots of Bands!!!

Sounds Like: Magic covered in whiskey and chocolate...mmm!
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

New review of last show

http://www.metrowny.com/entertainment-spotlight.php?time_has h=150be3012ffe73136e083198a0428f28
Posted by on Fri, 29 May 2009 16:40:00 GMT

Full Caliber

Full Caliber will be the opening band on Saturday May 23rd at Rhino's. Check them out here on myspace www.myspace.com/fullcaliber They start at 11:00 DoDriver goes on at midnite. Cover is only $5 Loca...
Posted by on Wed, 20 May 2009 06:39:00 GMT

What's that "donate" button for?

You may have noticed the DONATE button under the twitter ad, well we are looking to our friends and families to help us raise enough money to record a new CD, get copies of that CD made and get T-shir...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:54:00 GMT

GIG at RHINO'S!!!

We will be playing at Rhino's in Orchard Park, NY on Saturday, May23rd...mark your calendar and don't miss this show!
Posted by on Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:08:00 GMT

Thank you all

We have finally broken the 10,000 play mark! Now we know that doesn't seem like such a big deal since most bands on myspace are passing that mark with ease, BUT... DoDriver hasn't played more than a h...
Posted by on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:24:00 GMT

WELL, Well, Well

Guess what band has a bass player! That's right folks, we are very proud to announce Joe Martucci as the newest addition to our family. We have big plans for the very near future. Expect the ass-kicki...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:11:00 GMT

Review of DoDriver CD

Please take a minute to read this very cool review from Brian Campbell http://buffaloathome.com/dct/54/id/6523/mid/1330/DoDriver--- Self-Titled.aspx
Posted by on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:17:00 GMT

New music

We are working on some new material, I know, can you believe it? We are doing some recording at our rehearsal space and coming up with some great sounds. If you saw us at the last couple of shows...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:50:00 GMT