Anthony Gallo
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 photo for Welcome to Venice 1984 |
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| Background information | |
| Born | April 10, 1965 Studio City, California, United States |
| Genres | Hardcore punk, heavy metal, punk rock |
| Occupations | Musician |
| Instruments | Guitar |
| Years active | 1980–present |
| Associated acts | New Regime, Suicidal Tendencies, Los Cycos, Cold Shot, Chodle's Trunk, Nick Menza |
| Notable instruments | |
| Fender Stratocaster | |
Anthony "Bob" Gallo is an American lead and rhythm guitarist. He started out at age 16 in the early eighties punk scene and progressed into heavy metal and rock. His career has spanned over 30 years, playing and recording with Megadeth drummer Nick Menza, L.A. punk band New Regime, Venice Skate Punk locals Suicidal Tendencies/Los Cycos, Dead Kennedys drummer DH Peligro and heavy alternative band Chodle's Trunk. He has collaborated with many artists including Quiet Riot guitarist Carlos Cavazo, Hurricane bassist brother Tony Cavazo, singer songwriter Scott Weiland (STP/ Velvet Revolver) and Bullet Boys frontman and ex-Ratt lead guitarist Marq Torien.
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[edit] Early life
Born Robert Anthony Gallo April 10, 1965 in Los Angeles, California.[1] His father was Emil Frank Gallo, an east coast financier, and his mother is actress Gigi Perreau.[2] Gallo grew up in the Hollywood Hills and at age four moved north to Studio City in the San Fernando Valley. There he met local neighborhood guitarist Steve Goertzen, who inspired him to learn the instrument turning him onto such artists as Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page and Johnny Winter. In 1978 at age 13, Gallo took guitar lessons at Valley Arts Guitar for the sole purpose to learn how to read music. He attended Walter Reed Jr. High, where he met future New Regime band mates, Todd Payden, Marc Woodson and Michael Brevetz.
[edit] Career
Gallo joined his first group L.A. band, New Regime in 1981. The line up consisted of Todd Payden (vocals), Marc Woodson (drums) and Michael Brevetz (bass). In 1983 New Regime recorded two tracks for Mystic Records, "Be a Man Go to War" on (Party Animal 2) and "Night Stix" on the (Copulation Compilation), both were produced by label owner Doug Moody.[3] After those recordings, they were offered the opening act slot for Suicidal Tendencies in Sacramento after suggestion from Black Flag bassist Chuck Dukowski who caught one of their shows and thought they sounded a lot like them. Gallo and Mike Muir became fast friends and when Jon Nelson left the band, Muir asked Gallo to help out with guitar duties. "We just sat around Mikes house and jammed and wrote songs...one day I got a call from Mike and he asked if I wanted to play guitar in Los Cycos, a side project he was just starting."[4][5]
Los Cycos was originally Mike Muir, Anthony Gallo, Bob Heathcote and Amery Smith but after only a few rehearsals the line up had changed to include Grant Estes on Leads and Louiche Mayorga to replace Heathcote and Sal Troy to replace Smith. "We rehearsed in Santa Monica in the basement of Louiche Mayorga's moms house."[4] With the final line up established and two songs "It's Not Easy" and "A Little Each Day" completed, Los Cycos were now ready for their debut recording on Suicidal Records.[6] The Skate Punk compilation "Welcome to Venice"[7] which features local Venice bands Suicidal Tendencies, Beowülf, Los Cycos, No Mercy and Excel, was the first record released on the new label but because of band politics and Muir's responsibilities with Suicidal Tendencies, Gallo left the band before the release of "Welcome to Venice" and appears on the record's cover. Los Cycos disbanded that same year and in 1989 Suicidal Tendencies re-recorded "It's Not Easy" for their 1989 release Controlled By Hatred/Feel Like Shit... DejaVu album.[8]
Frustrated, Gallo decided to form a heavy metal band and recruited singer songwriter Adam Murray, bassist Erin Bartley, and drummer Rikki Baggett calling the band "Cold Shot" (named after the song title by Stevie Ray Vaughn). They played alongside such bands as the Bullet Boys, Bang Tango, Guns and Roses and Motörhead. Cold Shot disbanded in 1994.
Gallo co-founded a band with Megadeth drummer Nick Menza, named "Chodle's Trunk".[9][10][11] "All we got offered was a Japanese deal for like 10 grand and we thought WOW we spent more on recording it!" The recordings were shelved and in 1998 when Nick left Megadeth,[12] they decided to record together.[13][14][15] Recording for Menzas Life After Deth was done over a two year period and was written and performed entirely by Menza. Guest guitarist Christian Nesmith did some leads and Menza hired producer Max Norman to come in and produce it. "It was a lot of fun to record and I was looking forward to the live shows" only Gallo and Menzas excitement was short lived. Ty Longley a guitarist whom they hired for the live shows, had left rehearsals for a few months to go on the road with the re-forming Great White. Longley perished in the Station nightclub fire in Rhode Island. A year later bass player Jason Levin suddenly died of a heart failure and plans for the 2003 Tour were suspended indefinitely. Gallo and Menza are still writing and recording material together.[4]
[edit] Work in film
In 1991 Gallo landed a two song recording contract for an American independent film entitled Across the Tracks.[16][17] Collaborating with Singer songwriter Adam Murray, heavy metal guitarist Carlos Cavazo of (Quiet Riot) and brother (Bassist) Tony Cavazo of (Hurricane) for the song "Higher". The other title "Juicy Lucy" was written and performed by Cold Shot.[18]
[edit] Musical equipment
Anthony Gallo plays mainly Strat style guitars, he has four that he's built on his own throughout the years. One has an alder body and a Performance neck, including a Floyd Rose locking vibrato bridge with Seymour Duncan JB's in it. The other is an American Strat (replaced with a vintage-style fulcrum bridge) Performance neck and active EMG's. For acoustic guitars he uses a Baby Taylor and a vintage Martin. His amp set up is a modified Marshall JCM 800 series run through a series of modified effects and a Line 6 through four Marshall cabinets each with vintage 30 Watt Celestions and sometimes he uses 25 watt Celestion Greenbacks. He sometimes A-B's his clean channel with standard Fender Twin reverb running through a Boss Chorus Ensemble CE-5 and a Boss Digital Delay DD-3.
[edit] Discography
| Title | Release | Label | Band |
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| Party Animal 2 | 1983 | Mystic | New Regime |
| The COPulation Compilation | 1983 | Mystic | New Regime |
| Welcome to Venice | 1984 | Suicidal | Suicidal Tendencies/Los Cycos |
| Life After Deth | 2002 | Menzanator | Nick Menza |
| Abyss | 2003 | Independent | Dennis Lotka |
[edit] Photo gallery
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Gallo 97
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Anthony Gallo 2009
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Anthony Gallo 2010
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Anthony Gallo @ Motorhead "2011"
[edit] References
- ^ "California Births, 1905 - 1995". Familytreelegends.com. http://www.familytreelegends.com/records/calbirths?c=search&first=Robert&last=Gallo&spelling=Exact&4_year=1965&4_month=4&4_day=10&5=Male&7=Los+Angeles&SubmitSearch.x=90&SubmitSearch.y=14&SubmitSearch=Submit. Retrieved 2011-11-04.
- ^ Gigi Perreau - Biography
- ^ "New Regime Discography at Discogs". Discogs.com. http://www.discogs.com/artist/New+Regime. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
- ^ a b c "Nick Menza - Drummer - Megadeth". Menza.com. http://www.menza.com/. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
- ^ "Suicidal Tendencies Cyco Miko Guitar Cover". Wn.com. http://wn.com/SUICIDAL_TENDENCIES_CYCO_MIKO_guitar_cover. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
- ^ "Suicidal Records - CDs and Vinyl at Discogs". Discogs.com. http://www.discogs.com/label/Suicidal+Records. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
- ^ "Welcome to Venice Compilation". PunksAndSkins.com. http://www.punksandskins.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=89340&hilit=Welcome+To+Venice. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
- ^ "Los Cycos Discography at Discogs". Discogs.com. http://www.discogs.com/artist/Los+Cycos. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
- ^ "Photo Gallery". Davewaterbury.net. http://www.davewaterbury.net/Photo_Gallery.php. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
- ^ "California Novelist Songwriter Rick Alan Rice Offers Music, Literature, Essay, Biography and Verse". Rarwriter.com. http://rarwriter.com/LinksLA2.htm. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
- ^ "Nick Menza". MEGADETH.com. 1964-07-23. http://www.megadeth.com/whois/bio/nick.html. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
- ^ "Ex-Megadeth Member Nick Menza Talks Firing". rockdirt.com. 2002-03-14. http://rockdirt.com/ex-megadeth-member-nick-menza-talks-firing/1401/. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
- ^ New Wave of American Heavy Metal - Google Books. Books.google.com. http://books.google.com/books?id=uIIf03bGyAAC&pg=PA298&lpg=PA298&dq=Anthony+Gallo+Suicidal+Tendencies&source=bl&ots=ZzFN0rRycQ&sig=nHDqC-IrFNMtkA_PmlxXGXBsuhE&hl=en&ei=gxU7TuybIZPJsQLttLUR&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CFsQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=Anthony%20Gallo%20Suicidal%20Tendencies&f=false. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
- ^ "Nick Menza". VQPR. http://www.vqpr.com/nickmenzapress-body.htm. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
- ^ "Nick Menza Looking for Frontman - in Metal News". Metal Underground.com. 2011-04-20. http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=1995. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
- ^ "Across the Tracks". Chucksconnection.com. http://chucksconnection.com/across.html. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
- ^ Across the Tracks (1991) - IMDb
- ^ Across the Tracks (1991) - Soundtracks
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