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Joe Vitale Jr. is the
son of veteran rock n’ roll drummer Joe Vitale and spent the bulk of his
life growing up on the road with acts his Dad performed with, such as Joe
Walsh, Crosby Stills & Nash, Dan Fogelberg, The Eagles, and many others.
Joe Vitale Jr. has himself toured as a percussionist with Joe Walsh, The
Stephen Stills Blues Band and Crosby, Stills and Nash.
After nine dedicated
years of writing and recording, Joe Jr. completed his first solo album.
The uniqueness of Joe’s sound derives from his use of rock and industrial
influences. Joe Vitale Jr. is not only a songwriter and
multi-instrumentalist (guitar, drums, vocals, keyboards, bass, etc.), but
is also a digital audio engineer and an award winning director &
cinematographer.
Over the past nine
years, Joe has also been working for Sony Media Software creating loop
libraries (Latin Percussion, Junkyard Rhythms, Organ Donor, and the
recently released Vital Drums: The Vitale
Collection) for ACID.
Joe presented at the 2007 and 2008 NAMM shows as a key speaker for Sony
Creative Software™ describing his work on several music videos he wrote &
directed. He also did the digital audio editing work on the 2005 Stephen
Stills’ album “Man Alive,” which won Stephen Stills a Humanitarian Award
from UNICEF for the song “Feed the People.” Joe also was the digital
editor and pre-mastering engineer on the Stephen Stills album, “Just Roll
Tape.” He also edited, mixed and pre-mastered the 2009 Stephen Stills
video and CD, “Stephen Stills Live at Shepherd’s Bush.”
In December of 2008,
Joe released his powerful album, “Dancing With Shadows,” which reflects
Joe’s struggles & triumphs over adversity and contains the singles “Fight
It Or Self Destruct,” “I Don’t Belong Here,” “Mysterious,” “Never Look
Back,” and “Break!” His relationship songs “It’s Not Me, It’s You,”
“Beautiful Girl,” “You Make Me Feel Alive,” and the title cut “Dancing
With Shadows,” give the album a full emotional range. This is a self
biographical album and while secular in nature his faith in Jesus Christ
is throughout the album. His belief and faith has kept Joe going all
these years.
In September of 2010,
Joe released the single “Jingle Jingle,” an industrial remake of the
popular Christmas song “Jingle Bells,” and a somewhat comical music
video. That same month Joe started working with Smooth Stone Productions™
on a post apocalyptic thriller film called “SAFE” released at film
festivals in 2011, winning honorable mention at the Myrtle Beach Film
Festival. He composed the eerie, Hitchcock-like soundtrack & was the
Director of Photography for the production. For this particular film he
used an alternate stage name “J. Ravenwood”. Joe also directed two music
videos for rising pop/country singer “Morgan May”, and worked on
soundtracks for several other films including “Making Friends” (2011) and
“The Teacher’s Lounge” (2011), and began writing his second primary album.
His music video “Never Look Back” won Best Music Video at the Canton
International Film Festival and won Best Film for “Making Friends,” for
which he composed the soundtrack.
In 2011, Joe formed The
Joe Vitale Jr. Band to perform his original music from his CD and is
currently touring.
Official Website:
www.joevitalejr.com
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/joevitalejrofficial
MySpace:
www.myspace.com/joevitalejr
Twitter:
www.twitter.com/joevitalejr
YouTube:
www.youtube.com/user/joevitalejrofficial
Vari Loud Musik™ / BMI
Affiliated
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