{"id":2,"date":"2017-01-05T20:17:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T03:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fatdaddyspecial.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2023-06-13T21:16:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T04:16:30","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fatdaddyspecial.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fatdaddyspecial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/FDS-Exhuast-burn.jpg\" alt=\"FDS Exhuast burn\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"686\" width=\"731\" title=\"FDS Exhuast burn\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n<h3>\n\t\tOur Approach\n\t<\/h3>\n\t<h3>Our philosophy<\/h3>\n<p>write and play the coolest rocking blues tunes as we can. for those that want to hear it&#8230; \u00a0pretty simple &#8230;lol until you start doing it&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>\n\t\tOur Story\n\t<\/h3>\n\t<h3>Our Story<\/h3>\n<p>there is much in our backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>but the story of this band is still being written&#8230;.;)<\/p>\n\t<p>yle=&#8221;text-align: center;&#8221;&gt;<strong>Meet the Band<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Phil Maldonado<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Vocals and Guitar<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Vocalist\/ songwriter for various hard rock bands Rage in Eden, Temple of Thieves,<\/p>\n<p>Rare Touch, Prime Cutt as well as writing and recording with many local artists and\u00a0bands<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Chief- Lee Bryan<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Bass \/Vocals<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Toured and recorded for 30 plus years with Restless, Charlemagne, Isom Country , Solomon Burke and others\u00a0and opened up for The Rolling Stones at various venues<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank Yanno<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Guitar \/ Vocals<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A Journeyman guitarist \/singer, songwriter, producer into the FDS fray in 2023 and has helped make the FDS big sound even bigger and his style and experience fills out the bands sound and attitude.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Pete Holmes\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Drums\/Vocals<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Laying down the boom is the incredible thunder of Drummer Pete Holmes. Pete has been\u00a0laying\u00a0down the boom for decades, crushing the skins for bands such as Black &amp; Blue, Malice, Ratt, Michael Schenker and more and is a huge part of the attack &amp; final magical piece to the FDS rhythm section.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fatdaddyspecial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bb-plugin\/cache\/20180102_014327-square.jpg\" alt=\"20180102_014327\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"503\" width=\"477\" title=\"20180102_014327\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<h5><strong>Phil Maldonado<\/strong><\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fatdaddyspecial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bb-plugin\/cache\/IMG_20181208_204338_703-square.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20181208_204338_703\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1836\" width=\"1836\" title=\"IMG_20181208_204338_703\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<h5><strong>Frank Yanno<\/strong><\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fatdaddyspecial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bb-plugin\/cache\/Pete-Holmes-photo-e1491361549608-square.jpg\" alt=\"Pete-Holmes-photo-e1491361549608\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"360\" width=\"360\" title=\"Pete-Holmes-photo-e1491361549608\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<h5><strong>Pete Holmes<\/strong><\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fatdaddyspecial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bb-plugin\/cache\/unspecified-1-square.jpeg\" alt=\"unspecified-1\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1367\" width=\"2048\" title=\"unspecified-1\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<h5><strong>Chief-Lee Bryan<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Approach Our philosophy write and play the coolest rocking blues tunes as we can. for those that want to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatdaddyspecial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatdaddyspecial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatdaddyspecial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatdaddyspecial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatdaddyspecial.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/fatdaddyspecial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6450,"href":"https:\/\/fatdaddyspecial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/6450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatdaddyspecial.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}