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Gamalon is a jazz-rock fusion band from Buffalo, New York. Its founding members included drummer Ted Reinhardt and guitarist Bruce Brucato, who had played together since the 1960s. [1] The band's self-titled debut album released in 1987 reached No. 8 on the Billboard jazz chart the following year. [2] [3] In 1996, it released the album Held to the Light. [4]
In 1982, Brucato and Reinhardt joined forces with Puleo and Greg Piontek and Rick McGirr to create Gamelon. In the mid-1980s, the classic line up of Puleo, Brucato, Ted Reinhardt, and brother Tom Reinhardt was formed, re-spelling their name to the more phonetically pleasing Gamalon. This lineup released their self-titled debut album Gamalon in 1987. Following that release the lineup was augmented by violinist Geoff Perry. They went on to record Aerial View and High Contrast. In 1995, Puleo left the band and was replaced by Tony Scozzaro. This lineup recorded one album, Held to the Light. After Scozzaro left, guitar duties were handled by Nori Bucci and Dave Schmeidler. After bassist Tom Reinhardt left the band, he was replaced at various times by Jim Wynne and Jack Kulp, before returning to the lineup in the 2000s.[ citation needed ]
Past guitarists have included Nori Bucci, who was featured in Guitar Player in 2007, [5] and recognized by the magazine as one of the top female guitarists in 2017, in part due to her "intense yet beautiful work in the band Gamalon" which "is fairly well documented on YouTube". [6]
The band played a reunion show in 2012 in New York with the classic 4-piece lineup.
Bruce Brucato died on January 15, 2014.
On March 4, 2015, founding and core member Ted Reinhardt died in a plane crash. Reinhardt has also played with Rodan, Taxi, Willie and the Reinhardts, Ron Locurto and the Reinhardts, the Dave Constantino Band, Junction West, Left Hand of Darkness, and Spyro Gyra. In 1973, playing with a Buffalo band called Rush, Ted opened for Genesis in Buffalo, NY.
Three Gamalon members (brothers Ted and Tom Reinhardt, and Bruce Brucato) played in a band called Rodan (Buffalo, N.Y) in the 1970s, along with keyboardist Rick McGirr and bassist Bill Ludwig.
Cracker is an American rock band formed in 1990 by lead singer David Lowery and guitarist Johnny Hickman. The band's first album Cracker was released in 1992 on Virgin Records; it included the single "Teen Angst ", which went to #1 on the U.S. Modern Rock chart. The band's follow-up, the 1993 album Kerosene Hat included the hit songs "Low", "Get Off This", and "Euro-Trash Girl".
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