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Bruce Pilato is a 31-year veteran of the entertainment business,
who currently owns and operates Pilato Entertainment,Marketing
& Media, LLC a company that provides
entertainment marketing, artist management, promotion, advertising, and
project development to a number of domestic and international entertainment
and corporate clients.
Pilato Management, a division, has been involved with the
careers of a myriad of US and British platinum recording artists, including: Emerson
Lake & Palmer, ASIA (original members line-up), The Carl Palmer Band , Greg Lake, Lou
Gramm, Foreigner , Sex Pistols founding member Glen Matlock, and The
Tubes. Recently the Pilato company has also
worked with up-and-coming singer/ songwriters Jessi
Hamilton from Raleigh, NC; Nicholas
Russell from Seattle ; and a number of young artists based in New York
In 2001, Pilato worked with ex-Beatle RINGO
STARR & HIS NEW ALL STARR BAND, at the
request of Starr's representatives, David Fishof Presents. He was
involved in tour planning, marketing and assembling the band.
Presently, Mr. Pilato is involved in catalog development
for several labels. He has worked on the CD release of the legendary King
Biscuit Flower Hour Radio show archives on the
BMG distributed King Biscuit Records label. He is also an executive producer
of the weekly radio concert broadcast heard on over 300 radio stations. He
has been involved with the clearance and liner notes of several releases
including titles by Ozzy Osbourne with Black Sabbath, The
Fixx, Bob Weir (Grateful Dead) , Foreigner, Humble Pie, Deep Purple, America,
James Brown, Cher, Robin Trower, The Steve Miller Band, Triumph, Bill Monroe,
Bachman Turner Overdrive, David Crosby, Billy Squier, The Hollies, ELP, Greg
Lake, 10cc, Steve Forbert, Rick Derringer, Ian Hunter, and many others.
Mr. Pilato has also written and produced several video
projects, including a filmed account of the 1990 Country Gold Music Festival
in Japan (starring Ricky Skaggs, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and others), for
which he won the 1991 Silver Cindy Award for Best Public Relations Video,
issued by the National Association of Visual Communicators. He also wrote and
produced for a TV series called Rock Story for European television from 1996 2000 with Los
Angeles-based with Meticulous Productions.
Pilato began his career in the music business as a
journalist in 1976, while still in college. Upon his graduation from Syracuse
University's Newhouse School of Communications, he began covering the music,
audio, and video industries for a number of publications. He has had 1,500
published articles featuring his interviews with celebrities such as
ex-Beatles Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr; The Rolling
Stones; Bonnie Raitt, The Who; Little Richard; James Brown; Pink Floyd; Peter
Gabriel; Led Zeppelin; Red Hot Chilli Peppers; Frank Zappa, and hundreds of
others.
He has worked as a Contributing editor and/or writer for THE
ASSOCIATED PRESS; GANNETT NEWS SERVICE ; NEW
MUSIC REVIEW, MIX MAGAZINE, ILLINOIS ENTERTAINER, THE SCRANTON TIMES,
ELECTRIC CITY; USA TODAY, CRAWDADDY, PULSE, US WEEKLY, THE AMERICAN BAR
ASSOCIATION JOURNAL , and several other
publications. He is also the
chief archivist and writer for www.wolfgangsvault.com
Over the years, Mr. Pilato has worked as a consultant for
many entertainment firms, artists, record labels, film companies and
marketing/ advertising firms, including: Metropolitan Entertainment,
Sanctuary Records, Castle Records, Sparrow Records- EMI Music, RCA / BMG
Records, Universal Music Group, PolyGram Records, BMG Home Video, Continuum/
MCA Records, Epic Records/ Sony Music , K-Tel International, EMI / Sparrow
Records, The King Biscuit Flower Hour; Dera & Associates Public
Relations; Playboy Home Video, music artist Jan Hammer; Paradigm Records/
Warners ADA; iKinetik Dynamic Imaging UK; Kodak; E!Entertainment Network;
American Gramophone Company (Mannheim Steamroller); and Grand Avenue
Pictures, in Hollywood. He is a past Executive Director of the Empire Music
Conference, and is presently writing a book on his years in the music
business which features excerpts of many of his most famous interviews.
In the year 2000, with attorney Robert Brenna, Pilato,
formed AORTA ENTERTAINMENT INC .,
an independent record company. In 2002, Aorta merged with the New York City
based independent label, Xemu Records, to form a joint venture called A2X
Records, LLC , distributed nationally by Redeye
Distribution. A2X Records has offices in New York City and Rochester, NY.
The first A2X release is a compilation album called WHEN
PIGS FLY- THE SONGS YOU NEVER THOUGHT YOU’D HEAR, which was co-produced by Cevin Soling and Bruce Pilato. It
features new recordings of classic covers done by artists such as Ani
DiFranco & Jackie Chan, Devo, The Fixx, The Oak Ridge Boys, Billy
Preston, and others.
Bruce Pilato is a voting member of The National Academy of
Recorded Arts & Sciences's GRAMMY AWARDS. His music,film,video and
entertainment-oriented print archives make up one of the largest private
collections in the United States encompassing over 2,000 square feet.
Bruce Pilato, lives in Webster, NY, with his wife Lori,
and three sons.
Pilato Entertainment, Marketing & Media LLC
482 Bay
Meadows Dr
Webster, N.Y.
14580 USA
Office:
585-454-2756
Fax:
585-671-8747
E-mail:
Brucetune@aol.com
Website: www.pilato.com
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