Dave Pino
Dave Pino is an American guitarist, songwriter and producer, best known as the songwriter/guitarist and co-founder of the bands Damone and Waltham.
Life and career
Pino was born in 1977 to immigrant parents in Massachusetts. In 1999, his band Waltham was recognized by the Boston Music Awards as Best New Artist. In 2002, Pino's side project Damone signed a record deal with RCA Records; the band released the album "From The Attic".Pino performed in Powerman 5000 from 2007 to 2012. He is currently performing with Andrew W.K. and PPL MVR. He resides in Burbank, California.
He co-owns Pino Bros. Ink, a tattoo parlor in Cambridge, MA with his brother Frank Pino Jr.
Other bands
Pino has played in various other bands including:- Jetfuel ]
- Piggy D. And The Evacuation Plan
- Ankla
- Seemless
- Burn Your Wishes
- Robby Roadsteamer
- Damone
- Pino produced the single "How To Be Human" with Spider One on the 2014 Powerman 5000 album, ''Builders of the Future''
Movies
- Freaky Friday
- Rugrats Go Wild
- It [Runs in the Family |It Runs In the Family]
- Thunderbirds
- ''America's Heart and Soul''
Other work
- Composer for VH1 "Stevie TV" Season 2
- Art Director for Alice Cooper's "Along Came A Spider"
- Stock Footage actor for the Samsung commercial for the SCH-U900
- Actor in the independent film God Of Vampires
- Art Direction for John 5's "The Devil Knows My Name" instructional DVD
- Stock Footage for American Idol's "America's Top Band" TV Commercial
- Guitarist on the tracks "Ready to Shave" and "Christmas Pain in Christmas Town" from the video game Hypnospace Outlaw
Discography
- 2002 – Waltham - Permission To Build, Waltham
- 2003 – Damone - From the Attic
- 2005 - Waltham - Waltham
- 2009 - Powerman 5000 - Somewhere on the [Other Side of Nowhere]
- 2011 - Powerman 5000 - Copies, Clones & Replicants - Cleopatra Records
- 2014 - Waltham - ''Wicked Waltham''