On the wall is a framed Daily News article featuring its specialty drinks. We have no records of past relationships for Vito Bratta. I seen Mike Tramp a few months ago and even though he is great on his own I would have loved to have been able to have seen him with White Lion. White Lion was a Danish/American rock band that was formed in New York City in 1983 by Danish vocalist/rhythm guitarist Mike Tramp and American lead guitarist Vito Bratta.Mainly active in the 1980s and early 1990s, they released their debut album Fight to Survive in 1985.

1,502,797 relationships already tested. Hidden comments will still appear to the user and to the user's Facebook friends. It shows in his great solos, and so many people love the way he played like Eddie with the hammer-ons and all that stuff like the Van Halen solo on “Ain’t Talkin’ Bout Love.” I just love the way Vito played solos on “Wait” and “Little Fighter” and some of the others. In his fiction, like the newly released "Dear Vito," he writes about what he knows. . White Lion released their debut album, Fight to Survive , in 1985.

He formed White Lion in 1983, with Mike Tramp. Do you think that it reached the expectations of the band's earlier releases? With age, comes a different mindset. Even though there’s two people in there writing the songs, the 80’s were a phenomenal decade. Just to get back to what I started to say in the start of this rant, I played into 94 and then called it quits till 2004.

A – It’s almost like I’m going to have to answer the last question first. and

He co-founded White Lion with lead singer Mike Tramp in 1983 and played with the band until 1992. Big Game followed in 1989 and Mane Attraction in 1991. The rest is history. Vito Bratta is a member of the following lists: 1961 births, People from Staten Island and Musicians from New York City. He was born in 1961.

We don’t have the same hit on the second one. According to our records, Vito Bratta is possibly single. Tramp: I don't really miss anything, because I have learned to live with that today is a different time. Money is where the innocence ends and the arguments start. Those shows are all about ratings and the now. The ones that end up making it, don’t even win. Service to humanity is fundamental to Bratta's life.

But if there are only few 9s or none at all, Vito will gain a sense of his personal place among the human race. The band achieved success with their No. Heavy Paradise : What is the thing that you miss most from those days? Heavy Paradise: Allow me to take you back to 1983 when [the debut WHITE LION album] "Fight To Survive" was released. Zezima, 49, is a writer and blogger who was first published at the age of 21. Tramp: No, of course not.

Next, the author, better known to readers as Mickey Z, describes the eclectic blend of languages his protagonist, James Hemming, hears on his walk home: "The Astoria streets were a bustle of immigrants - Greeks, Hispanics, Middle Easterners, East and South Asians - and this mix resulted in a strange noise, rarely heard anywhere in the world.".

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TERMS OF SERVICE / And the guys I was doing a project with there, which was basically a live project, were late. It wasn’t until 1987 that people noticed White Lion and the talents of Vito. White Lion was playing the last show and Vito and I just went to the airport — I went to California and he went to New York — and we just said… We didn’t even look at each other. Login

[3] Bratta's partner in White Lion, Mike Tramp, also remarked that Bratta's skills as a guitar player and songwriter were unmatched: Vito the guitar player and Vito the songwriter and musician, he was in a calibre all by himself. About. It was a dream come true.

He co-founded White Lion with lead singer Mike Tramp in 1983 and played with the band until 1992.

He spent his whole life perfecting his art.

Vito on the other hand, went home. Vito is the reason I’ve played guitar for 26 years now…Hell, I have 6 Steinberger guitars and one Steinberger bass. Vito Bratta is a 59 year old American Guitarist.

I'd like to think I'd try to be like BB King every day of my life if I were famous. Do you keep in touch with Vito? I just heard about the death metal thing on there that reminds me of a story I gotta tell ( I told this one to Mike after his show…I was playing in a band and we played covers and originals and the bass player booked this show and we all showed up and found out it was a death metal fest) so we was the opening band for this show…I was sick with a temp of 103 degrees but, had never cancelled a show and wasn’t going to now if I could help it. He formed White Lion in 1983, with Mike Tramp. In 1997, he injured his wrist and finds it painful to move his hand up and down an electric guitar's neck; however he still manages to play classical guitars without excessive discomfort. ^ He nailed it when he said those songs were written when they had nothing and were hungry. There was never any closing.

The tale by Michael Zezima, a life-long resident of the borough, in his ninth book, "Dear Vito," begins on the Q101 bus. Create Your profile . Months after the Mane Attraction release, Vito and Mike just called it quits. 8 hit "Wait" and No. An audience still existed for White Lion music.

The term artist, career and longevity do not exist in these shows. So it’s taken me many years to really understand what the fuck happened here.”. Bratta often employed two-handed tapping, sweep picking, pinch harmonics and various whammy bar techniques. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account.

When Lion ended its reign in December and went back to Denmark. White Lion came to be in the following way as told by Mike Tramp in Rockeyez; As I mentioned above, MABEL had turned into STUDS and played hard rock, I had become the leader and we went to the States and became LION. Instead of spending money on new music, I started hunting out all the second hand record shops and started picking up vinyl from the seventies and eighties rock music. According to our records, Vito Bratta is possibly single. Tramp also mentioned that many accomplished guitar players turned him down when he attempted to put together a new version of White Lion: We tried to do new White Lions with Warren DeMartini and Paul Gilbert and all these others, and no one wanted to do Vito. And the interesting thing… [People say] ‘Well, why shouldn’t you carry on?’ [But we got] no call from the record company, no call from the managers, no call from the merchandising company… All these people were making millions of dollars off us.

As things like that happen, you start to get the negative things. The novel's main character is a personal trainer, and Zezima worked for most of his life in gyms, teaching martial arts. The novel chronicles Hemming's attempts to find fame by taking on Bratta's persona and his ill-fated encounters with the female character, Indigo. If any young guitarist or songwriter is looking to have a career in the music business, you need to be ready to put in the time. He was born on Saturday July 1st 1961, in Unknown. Vito's ethnicity is Caucasian, whose political affiliation is currently a registered Republican; and religious views are listed as Christian.

He was 22 years old at the time. Vito said in the Eddie Trunk interview that it was hard for him to write songs for another band that wasn’t White Lion. Vito is now married. From the very first page of his latest novel, you can tell the author hails from Queens.

[1] Bratta was influenced by Jimmy Page, Eddie Van Halen, and other rock and blues guitar players of the 1970s and 80s. The following points were revealed during the Eddie Trunk interview: Bratta's father went through a 5-year illness, which required a large amount of personal time and commitment on Vito's part, both emotionally and financially. This underlying goal begins to emerge as Vito gains a better understanding of himself. The band achieved success with their No. In order to understand why Vito Bratta walked away from it all… Help keep Vito Bratta profile up to date. I said if we’re gonna play this we’re gonna do our set list as is…they may kill us but as is. Wikipedia. "We like to kid ourselves and say life is linear.". Tramp: When I look back, I think it should have been listed as a new band. "That naturally led to not accepting all the mainstream explanations to things.". With self-knowledge comes a greater awareness of who Bratta is, what his true goals in life are, and what direction he wants to set for his life. He spent his whole life to become a master virtuoso on the guitar. He has written books about war propaganda, activists in the service industry, and an alternative history of World War II. Bratta was influenced by Jimmy Page, Eddie Van Halen, and other rock and blues guitar players of the 1970s and 80s. The tour that followed, opening up for AC/DC was even bigger. But this time, I was in Indonesia, where I partly spend a lot of my time because my wife and two young children are there.

White Lion came to be in the following way as told by Mike… And, at that time, there’s no hope.

( Log Out /  Throughout his life Vito will heal and enlighten those around him, and in his later years Bratta will have mastered his healing techniques and learned to apply his compassion for others effectively. Mike Tramp continued with Freak of Nature. Vitto I really hope to hear your awesome guitar work again really soon even if it’s not with mike tramp but, I hope the two of you do something together again soon.

"Dear Vito" takes place in Astoria, where Zezima lives with his wife. and more from FamousFix.com. I went to a Tab Benoit show about 3 … CONTACT, New Fossil Species Discovery Named After ROTTING CHRIST, HATE ETERNAL Releases Instrumental Version Of 'Upon Desolate Sands' Album, ALICE COOPER Releases 'Fact Video' For 'Elected', RON KEEL Defends DONALD TRUMP: 'Elections Don't Divide People; Weakness Divides People', STRYPER's MICHAEL SWEET Will Vote 'For Our Future' And Not 'For Personality': 'It's Not About The Messenger; It's About The Message'. Vito Bratta will be drawn to doing much public service, and the long-term good of his community and even the world will occupy his thoughts increasingly. Vito Bratta (born July 1, 1961) is an American guitarist and the former main songwriter for the rock band White Lion.