Guillermo has been performing throughout
California
with a variety of groups and playing all styles of music since 1996. His
experience includes performances at local and high profile clubs, television
production numbers, full showcase productions, pop and jazz concerts, and studio
recordings for numerous artists.
A Mexican-American native to
California,
Guillermo comes from a very musical family. He is one of four brothers who are
in the music business.
Guillermo has many credits to his name. In just a short seven years his passion
for life and music has been demonstrated through countless performances
including: The Warner Brothers
International Producers Gala (performed with Gregg De Castro, Westwind
Productions, and opened for Chaka Khan),
House of Blues, Los Angeles (performed with
Chuck Rio & theChamps and
opened for Tito Puente), Azusa Jazz
Festival (performed with The Lou Cabot Band and opened for
Poncho Sanchez),Los Angeles
Latin Festival and Santa Barbara Latin
Festival (performed with Latin American Recording Artist
Alvaro Torres), Huntington Beach Summer
Jazz Festival (performed with Jazz Recording Artist
Mike Gealer), Los Angeles Lakers
2003 Playoff Series (Game Four) Half-Time Show (on behalf of Westwind
Productions), ABC Sports Lakers Pre-Game
Show(Game Four), (on behalf of
Westwind Productions), KTLA Channel Five
Morning Show Annual Catalina Island Luau Promotion (on behalf of Westwind
Productions), The Call to Arts Festival,
Northridge, CA (performed with Gregg De Castro), The Key Club, Hollywood Ca.
(opened for C & K, performed with
The Gregg De Castro Band.) The
Baked Potato, Pasadena, CA CD Release Party (performed with
ENSCENAS on its debut CD, “With
Hands With Soul,”MCA Records, DMX Music.
Guillermo is currently in the studio with renowned recording artist, songwriter,
musical director and arranger, Gregg De
Castro. You can also hear him perform pop, R&B, Motown, and disco in
various
Los Angeles
and
Orange
County
dance clubs with the popular dance band Crash Dance. If jazz is what
you’re looking for, then you can catch him performing with sax player
Bob Grieves and Nightbreeze in
local jazz clubs.
Guillermo’s perspective of percussion in mainstream music reveals its necessity.
“Percussion
adds the spice and kick to music that all people crave.”
Joe Iaquinto: Bass, Guitar, Vocals
JOE
IAQUINTO WAS BORN IN
BROOKLYN
,
NEW YORK
AND STARTED PLAYING BASS AT THE AGE OF TWELVE. HE QUICKLY BECAME VERY PASSIONATE
ABOUT THE INSTRUMENT AND BY THE AGE OF SIXTEEN, HE WAS ALREADY AN ESTABLISHED
WORKING MUSICIAN, PLAYING MANY OF THE TOP CLUBS, DISCOS AND HOTELS IN THE STATE.
AT SEVENTEEN, HE HAD ALREADY PERFORMED WITH ROCK LEGENDS CHUCK BERRY AND
LITTLE ANTHONY AND THE IMPERIALS. AFTER HIGH SCHOOL, JOE MOVED TO LOS
ANGELES AND HAS BECOME A RESPECTED VETERAN OF THE CITY’S FORMIDABLE MUSIC SCENE.
HE HAS TRAVELED AROUND THE WORLD AND HAS WORKED WITH GRAMMY AWARD WINNERS
STEPHEN BISHOP AND RITA COOLIDGE, THE HIGHLY ACCLAIMED AMERICAN INDIAN GROUP
WALELA, INTERNATIONAL TV/FILM STAR AND RECORDING ARTIST BRANSCOMBE
RICHMOND,
AND HAS LOGGED PERFORMANCES WITH BILLY
PRESTON,
WAYNE NEWTON, DOUG KERSHAW,
MEMBERS OF THE DOOBIE BROS.,
CHICAGO,
AND MANY OTHERS. JOE IS ALSO A BUSY SESSION MUSICIAN WHO’S WORK CAN BE HEARD ON
ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT, E! TRUE HOLLYWOOD STORY, ESPN, AND NATIONAL AD
CAMPAIGNS FOR DODGE STRATUS. AS A FREELANCE WRITER, HIS WORK HAS BEEN
PUBLISHED BY QUARRY PRESS AND BASS PLAYER MAGAZINE
Tracy Dragoo: Bass
Tracy Dragoo (3 Saints and a sinner) is a native Southern Californian born and raised in the
Los Angeles area. His music extends back to the fourth grade where he signed up
to play violin and was told that there were no more violins to give out, so his
music teacher asked if he would like to play Bass instead. The rest is history.
He has played in Top Forty Bands for about 28 years. Other bands along the way
have been a few original bands and a Polynesian Revue. Here is a list of bands
that he has played with and also a list of recordings for various artists. Top
Forty Bands include, 210 West, Feather River, Los Bad Dudes and The Gonzales
Brothers. Some original projects are, Raja Zahr, De Castro & Bannister, Lou
Cabot, Gregg de Castro & The Many Nations Band, Harold Paine and Thad Bouchelle.
He has been with Westwind Productions a full Polynesian Revue with 46 dancers
for about 27 years. Other people he has recorded with are, Carlos Vega (James
Taylor), The Water Sisters.
Erich Schneider: Vocals, Guitar
Erich has toured with Crash Dance throughout Germany, Italy, Austria,
England, Russia, Balkans, Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Armenia, Kyrgystan.
Erich Performs jazz with his father John and is involved with many other
projects including, The Radio Allstars.
Patrick "Badge" Langford: Sax, Bass
A commanding officer in Iraq, misunderstood the name Patrick and
thought he heard "Badger" thus the nickname "Badge". Badge is the Bassist & sax
player for Crash Dance both touring Europe, Eastern Europe, middle East as well
as performing locally. Recently spotlighted and interviewed on 94.7 the
wave with his group Elements, see
www.elementslive.com
Tommy "Curse" Jamie: Bass, latin Sabbath arragements.
Brought in as a sub for Merlyn Kelly and became a steady bassist for a few
years. Now residing in Japan and working as a English teacher. Tommy
is known for his extravagant APU recitals.
Daniel "DA" Ledesma: Bass, vocals, keys, hippness (Alaska
tours) Original bassist for Crash from 1998 and currently still plays with
the band when available.
Amanda Johnson: bass, guitar, all string instruments, vocals
Sean Hall: Guitar/ Vocals, Bandstand antics, (European tours) Kuwait,
Iraq, Germany, Balkans, Dubai,
Melbourne. Probably the most loved by our troops musician of Crash Dance.
Sean is a guitar teacher at M. I. Music, and has a great original band The
Toast, see, www.thetoastband.comhttp://www.myspace.com/thetoastla.
Tenia Tahauri: Vocals, keys, Fire Knife Dance (European tours)
Becky's brother toured with Crash in the summer 2008 where we performed and
visited Frankfurt, Hohenfels, Vilsek /Grafenwoehr,
Landstuhl,Manheim, Baumholder, Schwinefurt, Bamburg, Germany,
Vicenza Italy, Innsbrook, Vienna, Austria, Kuwait City,
Victory, Kuwait, Ali Al Salem,
Tallil, Bucca, Adder,Iraq.
Alex Pauley:
Bass / Vocals / Shy antics (Alaska tours)
Melissa Campos: Vocals
Will Vargas: Sax
Uncle Frank: Percussion
Norman Jackson: Keyboards
John Burrola: Sax
Ernie Salas: Sax
Nate Ketner: Tenor, Alto Sax (4-10)
Jack Muskgrove: Trumpet
Leonard Luna: Trombone
George Luna: Drums
Jason Basoco: Drums
Larry Paschall: Drums, kazoo, vocals (Alaska tours)
Jess Renard Luke: soprano sax, percussion, time, brilliance
Michael Bachich: keyboards, vocals
Tom Lespron: guitar. Original guitarist for Crash back in 98.
Tommy was essential in building the band and it's play list from the start.
Tom is and always was into writing and performing original music, which he
continues to today. Tom is brother of Mickey Lespron of El Chicano. see
Technical support:
Bob Duran: Audio treatments, stage manager, backline tech,
preproduction, deprep.
"Fab" Eric Rodig: Tour manager, sound engineer, bass, steel drums, vocals.
Tour manager for 2004, 2005, England, Yerevan, Bishkek, Kyrgystan, Qandahaar,
Shinqi, Lashkar-gah, Kulat, Qatar, Afghanistan. Fab has a few of his own
musical projects. One, Tinidadio is a wonderful, tropical, steel drum group
and has drummer Chris Ross a childhood friend and 1st drum teacher of Tim
from Lake Tahoe. Please visit
fab@trinidadio.com
Ben Adamson: Tour manager 2003 - 2010, Balkans. sound engineer, trumpet
Frank Urtado: Tour manager, sound engineer, guitar, vocals.Frank
has taken Crash Dance to Frankfurt, Vienna, Prestina, Monenegro, Landstuhll,
Manheim, Ramstein, Sarajevo, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Munich, Kuwait, Iraq,
Baghdad,
"Rug" Jeffrey Western: tour manager, audio engineer.
Cleveland. We met Rug in Afghanistan 2004. He was the tour manager for
Michael Chain www.michaelchain.com.
We played back to back shows with Michael Chains band and Tim and their
drummer shared drums for a few weeks. We would commonly stay in the same
hotels, bases, and see each other at the airports. In May 2007 we met
again at the airport in Vienna Austria, where Rug was hired on as Crash
Dance tour manager/ soundman for the 07 Balkans tour. Michael Chain Band is:
Mark Gordon Creamer gtr
markgc@pacbell.net