Biography
In 1992, I was a 20 year old wide eyed drummer trying to find my way along with my band while living in the Hudson Valley of New York. PEACEBOMB was a band who I had heard of from friends, who had spoken of them with the sort of passion and gusto that gets you excited just listening to their reports. Needless to say, the first time I saw PEACEBOMB I was floored. It was evident to everybody within earshot and to the growing music scene in the Hudson Valley, that by a wide margin, PEACEBOMB was the best thing going!
Their strengths were that they were all great, fluid, innovative musicians, the types that could improv so well that you'd think it was something rehearsed for hours on end. Rhythmically, they could stretch so far from the one with such ease and make it look easy. They were fierce. They were aggressive, both musically and lyrically. Another thing that really drove the band was their chemistry. They had an abundance of it. It was so evident that if you didn't know what "having chemistry" meant in a band, seeing PEACEBOMB, it would jump out of your soup and kick you in the head.
Their guitar player, Dan McBride, is/was a melodic genius who had the ability to create memorable, hummable, yet very dissonant and angular parts. Their drummer, Chris Gartdrumm, is/was just a flat-out badass. He could hit very hard, but also was very complex. Joe Stote, who is/was the defacto band leader, created the basis for PEACEBOMB to have an image and purpose. He made PEACEBOMB a movement, more than just guys playing songs. Joe Cuchelo, playing a crucial role in the overall PEACEBOMB sound by coming up with unique countermelodies and never overplaying. A strange bird by the name of Max Oleson was recruited to be their lead singer. He fit in so well, it was hard to believe they existed without him. He is/was also the uber character in a band full of them.
So, as the story goes, it was a foregone conclusion that PEACEBOMB was going to be big. They recorded a full length record in Woodstock, New York with Producer “Robert Frazza” and they played the mainstage at Woodstock '94 and were poised to make a run.
Listening back to tracks like "People Person" , "UFO's" and "Slackers", there is so much to the songs, so much depth and texture. It also has a lot of heart and soul. Oh, and great music by great musicians.
John Bongiorno (Pinnacle Entertainment)
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