Will Rees

Vocals

Birthday: November 29
Sign: Sagittarius
Hobbies: Music, audiobooks, VR gaming, robotics
Favorite color: Purple 
Favorite food: Iberico pork, medium rare
Favorite drink: Whiskey - one rock, please!
Favorite restaurants: Gyu-Kaku, Copita, Roy's, Quince
Weird possessions: Original Atari 2600
Passions: Vocal training, nutrition, product/experience design 
Favorite motto: “I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.” – Jimi Hendrix
Musical experience: Ten years old, watching rapt as my cousin plucks through Iron Man ... "Can I try?" "Sure" ... I strap it on and try to mimic what I saw his fingers doing ... that first touch ... nothing has ever felt so instantly and completely right to me than that moment. Since then I have explored every possible way to express my passion to anyone who would listen, and even so many years later, I still shine with excitement like a ten year old every chance I get to share that passion with you.

Phil Benjamin

Lead Guitar

Birthday:  February 8
Sign: Aquarius
Hobbies: Guitar and golf. Trying to figure out how to play golf with a guitar!
Favorite color: Blue/green
Favorite food: Anything grilled
Favorite drink: Tito's, shaken with 2 olives
Favorite restaurants: Terry Black's BBQ, Austin
Favorite motto: "If you ain't first, you're last"
Weird Possessions: Some people think my obsession with guitar pedals is kinda weird
Musical experience: Started playing guitar at 15. Put my first band together at 17. Been playing ever since. Recorded several albums and singles and even did some mini tours back in the 80s. Have had the privilege of opening for a few national touring acts such as Chris Isaac, the Smithereens, and Wiretrain. These days, my passion is being onstage with great friends and musicians along with writing and recording new music.

Dave Makower

Keys, Vocals, Harmonica

Birthday: February 26
Sign: Pisces
Hobbies: Playing, writing, and recording music; science fiction; pumpkin carving
Favorite color: Blue
Favorite food: Seafood, esp. New England clam chowder
Favorite drink: Coffee; Theakston’s Old Peculiar
Favorite restaurant: No Name Restaurant in Boston (now defunct)
Weird possessions: Original Yamaha DX7, more harmonicas than I deserve
Passions: Music technology, mentoring young people
Favorite motto: “You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.” - Steve Jobs
Musical experience: I grew up in a house with an old player piano and a couple hundred piano rolls. When I was 6 years old, my mom saw me watching the notes play and picking out the notes to play the melodies. She got me piano lessons, and I’ve been playing ever since. Some of my earliest memories are listening to The Beatles’ “Abbey Road”, Disney’s “Jungle Book” soundtrack, featuring Louis Prima, and those old piano rolls. Later, I played in rock bands in high school, attended New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, and made my living playing and recording music in New York.

Chris Savino

Bass Guitar

Birthday: June 2

Sign: Gemini

Hobbies: Playing bass and jazz piano, traveling, anything Sci-Fi, history buff.

Fav color: Teal

Fav food: Anything a pizza place in Brooklyn would serve. Yes, I’m from New York. 

Fav Restaurant: See “Fav food”

Weird possessions: A huge Lego collection. 

Passions: Playing music (of course), cooking, learning about quantum mechanics and astrophysics. 

Fav motto: “Everyone you meet is going through something you know nothing about. Be kind, always, to everyone”. Robin Williams. 

Music experience: Starting gigging with a touring new wave band at 17. Played on dozens of records in New York City by age 25 and even more gigs. 

Michael Pacheco

Drums

Birthday: December 17
Sign: Sagittarius
Hobbies: Music, cycling, watching football
Favorite food: Sushi
Favorite drink: whiskey of course - Old Fashioned
Passions: Family, fitness, music and DIY projects
Favorite motto:  “Teamwork makes the Dream Work!"
Weird Possessions: Osbourne Computer
Musical experience: Took drum lessons in elementary school but lost interest because I wasn’t allowed to play a drum set. When I stumbled across a vintage Ludwig kit in my early teens my musical journey began. I played in rock and punk rock cover bands through high school while living in Southern California and in my early 20’s when I returned to the Bay Area I joined an original rock power trio “US Steele” that played the Bay Area club circuit for a few years before winning the KSJO battle of the bands landing us as the opening act for Zakk Wylde, Y&T, and the Soft White Underbelly (A.K.A Blue Soft Oyster Cult).