frank Esposito	Chip McKibben
Joe Montepare	Mike Tremante

Frank Esposito - Lead Vocals, Keyboards, Guitars
Frank is from Glenville via New York City. Frank was the lead singer and keyboardist for the Howard Stern Show band Pig Vomit and the K-Rock house band. In addition to his work on the Radio and TV shows for Howard and at live events at Madison Square Garden, Nassau Coliseum, Capitol Theater, The Bitter End, Village Gate, Lone Star Roadhouse, The Ritz  and other major venues; Frank has performed, recorded and sung with many artists including Bon Jovi, The Who, Jethro Tull, Foreigner, The Happenings, Billy Squier, Colin Hay, Patti Smythe, Felix Cavaliere, Dee Snider & Leslie West as well as members of the Billy Joel band, Blood, Sweat & Tears, KISS, Hall & Oates, John Mellencamp and Ringo Starr's All-Stars. Frank's original music project band Drive-tsc can be seen and heard at www.drive-tsc.com and at www.myspace.com/drivetsc . Frank Esposito uses Korg, Roland, Fender, Seagull, dbx, Elixir, Furman, Digi-tech, Audix, Alesis and Mackie equipment, Shure Wireless systems, Monster, Neutrik, Planet Waves and Whirlwind Interconnects, SKB and Calzone cases, Ultimate Support Systems, Crown amplification with JBL and Altec sound reinforcement.

For Chip McKibben, it's all about the groove. In the many styles he has delved into, his work has been consistently about tight playing, energy, and pushing himself and his fellow musicians to the highest standards of live performance,  whether playing classic rhythm and blues, prog and art rock of the 70's and 80's, even jazz and Broadway.
After a break from the scene, Chip has returned to live performance with fresh attitude and a dedication to hard work and professionalism. He is always on the lookout for players with the same outlook.

A Lifetime of Music and Learning: A native of Schenectady, NY, Chip started his music education with lessons from his piano teacher grandmother, and beginning trombone in grade school. He distinguished himself at Linton HS on the formidable bass trombone as a soloist in both concert band and jazz ensemble, and becoming active in the ensembles at Schenectady County CC and at SUNY Albany. He also worked in pit orchestras throughout the Capital Region into his 2 yrs at SCCC, graduating from there with honors.  From there he headed to Boston and The Berkelee College of Music, looking at a career in big band jazz.
But something happened along the way. He had become a great fan of both the 70's fusion movement, and british born progressive rock. He was drawn to what he saw as a similar and powerful sense of the groove in such diverse groups as Weather Report and Yes, and in particular the explosive playing of both Jaco Pastorius and Chris Squire. he picked up his first Fender Jazz as a high school junior and just began playing along to records at home, starting with Rolling Stones and The Who (John Entwhistle becoming yet another influence) and progressing to Steely Dan and favorite fusion groups (Pat Metheny and Jon Luc Ponty as well as Weather Report and others).

The turning point came in two places. The first was finally seeing Jaco live with Weather Report, just before the release of Word Of Mouth, and before Jaco's mental decline. It made him begin to question his values in what he really wanted out of music, to stay anonymous within the brass section, or give his personal voice a greater role in a band.
An experience at Berklee sealed it. Wading through a page black with notes, he glanced at the bassist seated next to him, reading chord changes and making his own note choices. Freedom!
He left behind Berklee and Boston, the bass trombone, as well as a seperate spiritual crisis, and formed what became the rock group ESP with fellow SCCC classmate Mark Luce, writing and recording through much of the eighties. They acheived critical notice but little popular success and eventually parted ways.

Joe Montepare Jr. - Drums, Lead Vocals
Joe is the founding member of The Outta' Hand Band and has been rocking the North East with them for about 6 yrs. He is a second generation musician in the Upstate NY . Joe loves nothing more than to jam with the killer musicians that make up T.O.H.B. Joe plays  Tama ,Ludwig and Gretch Custom Drumkits, 1966 Ludwig Supraphonic Snare,1972 Ludwig Acrolite snare ,Evens G2 coated drum heads any cymbal that sounds good(Sabian 16" Explode crash,14"AAX HHats,6"splash ,Zildjian A custum 18" crash,6.5" splash 22" vintige ride, Toca Congas, Zildjian Dip sticks,Pearl Stands,Tama Iron Cobra pedals, Shure Beta mics & in-ear monitoring system , Yamaha sub-mixer and JBL Loudspeakers.

Mike Tremante, I started piano lessons at around 8 years old and guitar at around 13. I was in bands throughout high school. During this time Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Mike Bloomfield came out and everything changed. A few months after I graduated I moved to Kingston with the “Hardstone Farm” band and did roadwork throughout the northeast states for the next few years with constantly changing bands from the Kingston/Woodstock area. During this time I became deeply drawn to the blues of BB King, John Lee Hooker, and Lightning Sam Hopkins. At age 22 I went to Berklee for around two years and studied theory, technique, and improvisation as well as instrumental and theoretical innovators like Charlie Parker and Jim Hall. After Berklee I hit the woodshed with a metronome and listened extensively during this time to guys like Jaco, Gary Burton, Mick Goodrick, Pat Metheny, Keith Jarret, Joe Zawinal, Pat Martino, and Chic Corea. After a year and a half or so of that I did a stint of rock gigs on the north Jersey shore and then moved to Florida and gigged R&B around Daytona/Ft Lauderdale/Miami Florida where I also taught. I did that for awhile and then returned to upstate NY, worked on my brother’s farm for another year during which time I rehearsed, wrote charts for and performed with the big band at Cobleskill College. I then learned computer programming, got a real job, and raised a family in Glenville. I played and recorded all the while with local groups such as “The Out of Control Rhythm and Blues Band”, “The Night Kings”, and “Out Of the Blues” and did numerous pick up gigs with everyone from “The Refrigerators” to “Ernie Williams”. At one point I was flown out to L.A. for a week to record with a buddy and some of his L.A. studio pals. More recently I studied on my own as well as with world renowned jazz guitarist John Abercrombie. My last steady gig was with “Larry Lewis and Solid Smoke” for the last year and a half of the band’s existence before Larry died, rest his soul. During this time I also worked as a solo artist playing jazz standards and since have done many blues, jazz, rock, and R&B pick up gigs. I also occasionally work with the “Tremante/Benoit Band” playing jazz. I’ve been recording some of my original instrumental jazz/blues oriented tunes and improvisations, so far one of which, “Chill Kitty”, can be heard at www.soundclick.com/miketremante. I also appear with my friend Marcus Benoit on Marcus’s recently released blues CD titled “Whiskey On Ice”.
     My rigs will vary with the gig as I own lots of amps which I have either modified or totally rebuilt. This is a skill I learned on my own in an attempt to attain the sounds my stock equipment could not deliver as I couldn’t afford to hire the work out. Guitar sounds like those of fusion players Larry Carlton or Robben Ford are what I was going for, and I couldn’t afford a Dumble or a Trainwreck. So my amps are mostly Fenders that I did my thing to. I recently bought a Pod and an M-Box at the suggestion of my friend Chuck D’aloia, who lives at a musically creative and technical level far beyond that of us mere mortals and is by far one of my favorite guitar players, anywhere, to record to hard disk in my living room. I may even use the Pod on stage, although I have been pretty much a tube amp snob to this point. I sometimes use a Boss ME-50 multi-effect to split the signal to stereo with digital reverb, chorus, and delay. My main gigging guitars include a Fender Tele with Joe Barden pickups, a Gibson ES-135 and a Gibson Les Paul.

     I now welcome this opportunity with “The Outta Hand Band” to return to my musical roots and play this driving style of rock n roll where I can use some of my home made toys and really make them work, make the tubes glow, the transformers sweat and the speakers pant, just make them work like they were meant to. Any guitarist worth his salt will tell you that there is nothing in this world quite like leaning back, suspended in mid air by the sound of your guitar on a stage in front of 500 people.
 

The Outta Hand Band

myspace/theouttahandband