| Gary "Yo" Senator Guitars, Lead, Rhythm and Backup Vocals Years Playing Music: Off and on for over 30 yrs. History: I started playing acoustic guitar in front of my 5th grade school music class. I can’t tell you when. Talk about scared. I got my 1st electric guitar in 1964. My first band was The SideWalk Cast with now percussion player for The Dukes, Tony Rivera. It was a lot of fun using TV cabinets for mains. I finally ended up in a famous country rock band called RUNN and played the Rochester circuit for over 4 years. Started a small sound company back in the 80’s and worked for a fantastic Blues and R & B band, King Juke. Later on after a few more bands I started doing sound work for Jeff Cosco, Mike Gladstone, of Uncle Plum & Mike Cosco for about three years. After that I ended up with that great band from “Shorts Bar” in Fairport, Geoff Harder and the Moonlighters for over 5 years, which was the first official real band that my brother Rick and I played together besides garage bands. After going through a few of life’s long lessons Rick and I started play together again and hooked up with Tommy “B” from the Lowriders and then "Hurricane" Dave last year to form Rochester's Alterative to Youth, …….."CoMoTioN". Gear: Currently using Mark Kean, Ibanez, Fender and Epiphone guitars. A Yamaha Modeling amp and various BOSS foot pedals round out the sound. I’m sort of an equipment nut like our bass player. Always looking for that missing piece of equipment, keep it light, no more TV cabinets. |
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