Joe Vitale Jr. Music

Joe Vitale Jr. is the son of veteran Rock n’ Roll drummer Joe Vitale. He has spent the bulk of his life growing up on the road with such acts as Joe Walsh, Crosby Stills & Nash, Dan Fogelberg, The Eagles, and many others. After nine dedicated years, Joe Jr. has finally 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 multi-instrumentalist (Guitar, Drums, Vocals, Keyboards, Bass, etc.) but is also a digital audio engineer.

Over the past nine years, Joe has 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 as well as doing the digital audio editing work on the 2005 Stephen Stills’ album “Man Alive.” The work completed on that album won Stephen Stills a Humanitarian award from Unicef for the song “Feed the People.” He also was the digital editor and pre-mastering engineer on the Stephen Stills album, “Just Roll Tape.” Joe Vitale Jr. presented at the 2007 and 2008 NAMM shows as a key speaker for Sony Creative Software™ describing work done on several music videos he wrote the music for & directed.

These songs reflect Joe’s struggles & triumph over adversity, as well as a fun escape for the listener. The album while secular in nature derives a lot of it’s messages from Biblical principals. Joe’s faith in Christ has kept him pushing forward all of these years. This powerful album contains the singles “It’s Not Me, It’s You,” “You Make Me Feel Alive,” and the title cut “Dancing With Shadows.”

In September of 2010, Joe released the single “Jingle Jingle” an industrial remake of the popular Christmas song “Jingle Bells”, along with a hard hitting and 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 went as an alternate stage name “J. Ravenwood”.

In October 2011, Joe won the “Best Music Video” award for his song “Never Look Back” which Joe directed and the film “Making Friends” won “Best Horror Film” which Joe composed the soundtrack for at the 2011 Canton International Film Festival.

Joe continues to write, record and perform live new music and is in the process of recording his next full length album.

Official Website: www.joevitalejr.com

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Drums : Percussion : Guitar : Vocals : Keyboard : Bass : Song Writing : Producing

Performing Live/Studio : Audio Editing : Audio Mastering

Vari Loud Musik™ / BMI Affiliated