DEKOTO

LISTEN TO GERRY DEKOTO HERE:

"Been There Too"

ABOUT GERRY DEKOTO

My influences are pretty scattered, but grounded in the Beatles, Stones, Floyd, Grand Funk, Zeppelin, Aerosmith, ZZ-Top, Deep Purple, Zappa, Paul Simon, B.B. King, Chuck Berry, The Eagles, Queen, Guns N' Roses, Metallica, System of a Down, Christina Aguilera, Green Day, Prince, etc. just to name a few. I'm sure I've left out dozens. In reality, I guess I've been easily swayed by anyone who has ever picked up a guitar and sang about a broken heart. It's all about the blues.

The first gig I ever did was a fund raiser for St. Peter's, a local orphanage where we had talked the nuns into letting us rehearse in their basement. I was a novice guitar player in those early days and, even less, a vocalist. I eventually became a bass player, but more on that later.

As a band, we were so unprepared. But almost naturally, the "show must go on" mentality took over and we muddled through the ten songs we had been rehearsing for months. An indication of things to come, the show went great and turned out to be a career aphrodisiac. I was lethally hooked. Read more of Gerry's story here...

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To hear more of Gerry's songs -- with downloads & lyrics available -- and learn more about him, see his website:

www.dekoto.net