Davide Mattucci
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"Local Band Spotlight"

by: Maryana Fama

This trio has more fire behind it than any band yet . In a little over five months this band has done what most bands can't
get done in years. They have played venue like The Vault, ESPN ZOne with 98 Rock Charles, Village Pub in Towson and
various other venues in and around Baltimore and Washington. These guys are also very grounded and allow their music to speak for themselves. Their collective influence is The Police and they draw from them for the instincts as a band, but certainly aren’t a carbon copy. Other more modern influences, as lead singer Dav Mattucci explains, include “ bands like The Strokes, The Who, The Beatles and some others who tend to just simplify the production and arrangement of a song and focus on the melody.”

This is the key to their quick and rising local stardom. Their name was copped from a Wordsworth poem called “The
Fountain: A Conversation," a holdover from Mattucci’s background in English Literature in college.

Music came early on for each of the band’s members. Eaton summarizes, "I was always banging on things as a kid and a music teacher took notice of me in class and put me behind a kit. From there I took lessons and got the basics and have been teaching myself since.”

They spend a lot of time listening to other bands and want to be like them, but at the same time what to distinguish themselves as being a band that is simplistic, yet demanding of attention in the music industry. "I think hearing
great music and wanting to make great music of our own is also inspiration. By the same token, hearing awful music can
become incentive to improve what 's going on in music today."

Mattucci is the chief songwriter, generally starting with lyrics and chord progressions. Sharing them with Cottone and Eaton is what brings them to life, as Mattucci explains. The songs generally come together very quickly from that point on, and the driving bass and drums are what propel the melodies and guitar in all of their music.

The band is undeniably talented and I would urge all our readers in DC and Baltimore to check out some of the area’s finest local talent when you can!

- University Reporter


Discography

Wisermind (Self Titled EP) 2003
Solo Recordings available free online

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Born in Baltimore MD, I was raised on every imaginable form of music. My father was a trumpeter and when he immigrated to the U.S. in the 1950’s from Italy, he continued playing in latin, ethnic, and jazz bands. I was exposed to rock, pop, punk, and even country from the 70’s and 80’s by stealthily listening to my older brothers’ album collections while they weren’t home.

I began playing piano when I was eight as well as dabbling with the other instruments lying around our house, but was pulled away by the allure of county-wide high-school athletic glory. When my dreams of hockey stardom faded, after a controversial roster alteration, I turned my attention back to music. Unfortunately, being that my brothers were far older and married, the piano, guitar, and drums on which I had learned had been taken to my brother’s new home leaving me instrument-less. Though enterprising, I didn’t have the financial clout to purchase another $5,000 piano. Newly refocused, I decided guitar was what would lead to my preeminence in rock and roll.

I settled on an acoustic guitar my freshman year of college and taught myself to play, applying all the air, and steering wheel, guitar technique I’d mastered. With the help of technological advances like pause, play, and rewind on a compact-disc player, along with the unwittingly supplied tutelage of Pete Townshend, Andy Summers, Joe Strummer, and that guy from Pearl Jam who didn’t play the leads, I slowly learned the instruments’ fundamentals and eagerly joined bands in the Baltimore area. From there I began playing electric guitar and I returned to playing piano and drums, as well as bass.

At the end of college, I formed the band Wisermind with dear friend and bassist Joe Cottone. We eventually found drummer Anthony Eaton, and a clamorous trio heavily influenced by the Police was born. We released an EP in 2003 and favored very well on the Baltimore music circuit, as well as Garageband.com, and local radio stations.

Eager to do something more melodic that would give me a larger platform for my widely influenced past, Wisermind amicably disbanded. Today, I continue to write, record, and perform original music, as well as post mildly-acerbic auto biographical blurbs for web showcases in the hopes of promoting myself and my music. Thanks for reading...