Master Thieves has officially agreed to play at The Westcott Theater's Holiday Party on December 19. The news gets better! MT will open up for Ryan Montbleau Band, The Brew, and Dark Hollow. Show starts at 7pm with MT. Tickets will be $20.
Line up:
7pm Master Thieves
Dark Hollow
The Brew
Ryan Montbleau Band
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Brian & Amy Scheid, fans of both Master Thieves and Dark Hollow, asked Chuck if he would do a solo acoustic show for their annual summer ending party. Not feeling too comfortable with the solo thing, Chuck asked Mike Vincitore of Dark Hollow if he would be interested in joining him for the gig. Mike obliged and the two of them started working on acoustic material which included solo originals from both musicians as well as covers from Grateful Dead, Van Morrison, Rolling Stones, Warren Zevon, and Bob Dylan. The party was a big a success and the two musicians are now currently booking more acoustic gigs.
Thanks Brian and Amy for your hospitality and great party!
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Golden hosts the Master Thieves at Fort Squaterdale Recording Studio in Norwich, NY. Mark, Denise, Eric, and Chuck made the 1 1/2 hour trek out to Norwich to record a new demo CD.
The 2 day recording session was a great opportunity for the Thieves to spend some quality time together and a blast jamming old tunes and some future new originals. The new demo CD should be ready for distribution by mid-March.
I would like to introduce the following new members of the band.
Eric Tozer on the drums, joined the band in December 2008. With only 4 practice sessions under his belt, he managed to rip up the beats for 3 1/2 hours at back-to-back shows (Jake's Grub & Grog and Coleman's). Eric brings a ton of experience to the band with past projects in Happiness Hotel and Plainman Brown. We quickly found out that Eric is not just a drummer, but a percussionist. Eric layed down some sweet tracks with the djembe on a new studio version of No Slowing Down during our recent session at Fort Squaterdale Recording Studio.
Brian Golden on guitar, joined the Thieves in January 2009. Golden was introduced to the band by Eric Tozer. Eric has been friends and fellow band member with Golden for about 15 years playing in Happiness Hotel and Plainman Brown together. He brings a lot of versatility to the Thieves specializing in blues. Golden has especially gel'd with guitarist Chuck Dorgan as they both share the pursuit for that perfect overdriven tone. Golden also plays guitar with the Bad Weather Blues Band out of Binghamton, NY.
Brian Vischi, sound engineer, assists in perfecting the Thieves live sound. Vischi immediately made a huge impact during his first gig at Coleman's show on January 31.
The Master Thieves are proud to announce that once again, the crowed ROCKED at George O'Deas last Saturday night!! Would like to thank Joanne Perry for helping us out in the absence of our ACE Denise Shuart. Denise had a prior commitment and Joanne agreed to fill in for her until she got there. Joanne did a really “KICK ASS” job!!!!!!!!!! The crowd kept a dancing and the drinks kept a flowin thanks to Joanne, The Thieves, and of course Lauren and Emily’s friends ( Thank you ladies ) plus THE RUGBY TEAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations Tim and Katie on your engagement!! Whew – WHAT A NIGHT! The new additions to the Master Thieves set list seemed to go over well and the show was recorded ( Thank you Mike ). Great after hours too for the hard core Thieves followers!
August 23 - We headed back to Amber Inn to close out the summer. As always, we had a great crowd there. Always a fun time at the Amber Inn. We would like to thank Joe Perry and Doug Lin for their inspirational acoustic opening act.
M.T. made it's debut at Aherin's Pub at Split Rock on September 6. The band had a great time and the dance floor was full all night long. The crowd at Aherin's was awesome. We would like to thank Steve Kaufman (81 South) for coming up and joining the band for a couple tunes. Additionally, we had guest appearances from Dave Kwasigroch and Jake Laufer to close out the evening singing American Pie with Kenny Tyminski strumming the chords.
We're back in Armory Square (Shenanigans Bar & Grill)after a long road trip to the country. No worries though, we rocked the out-skirts of CNY like we do downtown. Thanks Amber Inn Crew ~ great place to jam!
Thieves had their latest show recorded by Greg Wilson from Cedarwood Studios. Some of those recordings are now on the MP3 page,...go there, go there now.
Master Thieves ROCKED Bull & Bear at the Syracuse Winter Fest WinterJams!
Master Thieves made their debut at Coleman's Irish Pub on April 3. It was a successful outing with a crew dancing until 1:30am.
Next, M.T. plans to hit the recording studio to put together a small compilation of original music. Yes, we write music. No, we're not just a cover band.
May is a busy month for the Thieves as we travel all over CNY playing in Cato, Marietta, and Auburn. The band really looks forward to playing in Auburn to help raise money for the Patrick Townsend family. He was hit by a car back in October and has suffered severe brain trauma. He is in a rehab facility in Schenectady, NY. If you are planning to only attend one M.T. show this year, please make it this one, it's for a good cause.
For more info on the Patrick Townsend Fundraiser
Master Thieves are please to announce their next show will be in Kenny Tyminski's home turf at the Amber Inn in Marietta, NY on October 20, 2007. We plan to have an acoustic opening act start around 8:30 to 10 and then M.T. start aournd 10ish.
Please welcome our newest member, bassist Mark Oland, to the Master Thieves Family. We just finished up a successful show opening up for The Breakfast last Saturday, September 27 at the Mezzanote Lounge. Next, The Thieves play this Saturday, September 29 at Downtown Manhattans in Syracuse. FYI - October is a busy month for us personally, so we will only play one show on October 20th at Mezzanote Lounge.
Master Thieves, Ken Tyminski & Chuck Dorgan, invited all sorts of musicians to help out in our St Patrick's Day Bash up on Tipp Hill.
Johnny G came out
with his infamous colored wood blocks and drum sticks, this cat is crazy! Todd Hess bought a
new bass guitar the day before, just for this party! We thank you and
great job. Ryan Weller, Burnz
Explosion (Rochester, NY), ripped up all sorts of tunes including No Slowing
Down! Sweet chops Ryan. Also special appearances by:
Dave Dufresne
(guitar) Jim Welch (guitar) Grant (guitar) and
his wife (lead vocals)We lost yet another band member, Steve LaDue. No, I did not fire him! For now, I'm concentrating on my own solo stuff seeing I'm not doing all that great of a job leading a band.
I just finished recording my own version of Grateful Dead's Althea per request of the infamous, HOSS. Goto my MP3 page to download it and load it on your iROD immediately! Later
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February 21, 2007 - New guitar player joins Master Thieves
Ken Tyminski joins Master Thieves as lead guitar, vocals, and rhythm guitar. Ken is no stranger to the Syracuse music scene and brings the Thieves years of experience.
Recently I've been working with Todd Hess to put together a couple acoustic tunes to play at the Mike & Joe Acoustic Show. Todd is playing mandolin while I strum through some chords and choke on my harmonica. Here's a couple tunes from our first practice session. More to come on this one.
Master Thieves has yet another new guitar player. His name is Nate Scicchitano. This cat can play. Master Thieves has a private party on November 18.
Uncle John's Band - Chuck Dorgan w/ Special Guest Todd Hess on mandolin
The Weight - Chuck Dorgan w/ Special Guest Todd Hess on mandolin
Two new additions to Master Thieves --> Steve Ladue (drummer and vocals) and Greg Coccagnia (guitar).
New recordings from one of our practice sessions:
Can't Buy Me Love ~ Steve's song and does a great job singing it!
Lawyers, Guns, & Money ~ Warren Zevon tune I love to play.
Jam->All Along The Watchtower ~ I got a new Phase Shifter!
Ophelia ~ You're welcome Hoss, don't bitch about the sucky singing.
Sweet Jane ~ Another one of my favorites.
Hey everyone! - No new gigs line-up just yet, but look out for us in August. The band is really coming together and we are starting get some good jams together. I want to say "thank you" to all the supportive emails and guest book entries, keep them coming. We'll try to record some of these jams and get them out here for you to download.
OK, here some mp3's recorded from a Canon digital video camcorder and then converted to audio files. Not the best tunes of the afternoon, just happens to be what was recorded.
You Ain't Going No Where ~ This is a Robert Zimmerman tune we cover.
Up On Cripple Creek ~ Wish I could sing it like Levon.
West LA Fadeaway ~ We love The Dead!
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Happy Birthday Kelly! About 80 people attended this surprise party. Thanks Patty for inviting us to come out and play, good times. Thanks Joe Precourt for coming out and showing us how to rock!
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The band with no name made it's debut at Todd Wranesh's kegger, I mean house-warming party. Dave Mulvaney did a great job playing lead guitar and John Goldworthy was his usual mad-man behind the drums. The weather sucked and forced us to setup in Todd's one car garage, but we made the most of it and jammed to an awesome crowd.
Guest musician, Keith Renfrew, came up and played some of his favorites, while Dave and I noodled around trying play along.
Lawyers, Guns and Money seem to be a crowd pleaser along with Dave's screaming solo for All Along The Watchtower.
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