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SPIDER NICK MARTIELLI
Nicholas
Salvatore Martielli was born while his parents were on a winter
vacation in Miami Beach, Florida. It was a lazy Sunday morning, January
14th, at 10 o'clock. To ease the pain of childbirth his mother was
administered sodium pentethol. Specialists regard this as the reason
why he's always late for everything and behaves as if he were
perpetually on vacation. His first four years were spent living above a
tackle shop in Mastic Beach, NY, where his pastimes included following
stray dogs across the busy Montauk Highway and running to Pogie's
candystore in his diapers. Eventually his parents wised up and moved
him out to beautiful, rural East Quogue, a small summer-resort town,
cleverly disguised as a quaint fishing village on the eastern end of
Long Island. It was here that he spent the bulk of his childhood and
early youth. An exceedingly bright but rebellious student at East Quogue Elementary, and later Westhampton Beach
High School, his favorite activities invariably involved some kind of
mischief. In desperation his parents packed him off to The State
University of New York in Geneseo where he was delighted to discover
thousands of bright young people like himself, with way too much time
on their hands. His many vocations have included: building houses
and tennis court fences; cleaning oil burners. He has washed dishes for
some of the finest eating establishments in Long Island's fabulous
Hamptons, and lives to tell about it. He is a fully certified New York State High School Physics & Math Teacher and has also taught at the college level. He is a fully certified P.A.D.I. Open Water SCUBA Instructor. He is a fully certified electronics technician and field engineer. At the moment he is fully cerifiable. His personal crowning glory is his status as a graduate of three classes at Tom Brown's Wilderness Survival & Tracking School. His lifetime goal is to marry a beautiful organic woman and live on a beautiful organic farm He now drives himself to even higher levels of insanity by fronting, managing, booking, leading, directing, cajoling, accounting to, singing for, and playing tenor saxophone in the all consuming monster that he himself created from the ruins of several lifetimes...SPIDER NICK & THE MADDOGS!! He also writes many songs about milkshakes and small animals. Please, won't you help. Contact Nick: nick@spidernick.com |
MATT SPITZ
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Contact Matt: Matt@spidernick.com |
JAMES 'BIG JIM SLADE' FULFARO
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James Fulfaro is the
alto/bari sax player of Spider Nick and the Maddogs. A fan for many years James hooked up
with the Maddogs through a mutual friend of Spider Nick's, named "Big" John
Frank, who sent him an e-mail from Nick calling for horn players. Then after becoming a
regular at rehearsals James played his first show at the Downtown in Farmingdale. James is
a student of music education with background on all woodwinds. He also plays flute,
accordion, and stringed instruments. Musically James has played classical (particularly
the baroque era), jazz, swing, funk, rock and Latin music in many school bands
(coincidentally he once spent two years under former Mad Dog, Tyrone Jones) well on sax
and flute. Besides being a full time Maddog and student, James makes his living as a
professional instrument repairman (a skill he learned from the late Donald Russo) and a
private music teacher. He is employed at Scott Russ Music in Freeport and Do It Up Studio
in Merrick. Also he works as a semi-professional stagehand, working on plays on both the
island and in the city and is a writer of short stories, stage plays, and films. His
musical influences include Charlie Parker, Real Big Fish, The Dance Hall Crashers,
Flogging Molly, The Specials and Rancid. Contact Jim: jim@spidernick.com |
MIKE HEGARTY
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COMING SOON!!!!
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JAY 'THE HATCHET' HACKETT
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"When I was about 8 or 9, my uncle handed me something that would change my life forever, KISS ALIVE!". Years would go by before Jay would pick up his first guitar. At a mere 16 years of age, he started his first band, with help from his brother Glenn (ex-Maddog drummer) and a few friends, they formed EDNA’S GOLDFISH. "Before we had horns in the band it was more progressive sounding like Rush meets Jane’s Addiction with a splash of Primus and a touch of Zepplin."A few years later they added some horns and jumped on the Ska wagon. While still playing with EDNA’S, Jay decided to expand his guitar playing by forming a Hardcore band called MINIBOSS. A year later he called it quits with both bands to help form SPIDER NICK and THE MADDOGS. "It’s not like I had any bad vibes with anyone in the other bands, I just need to expand, musically, to learn from other musicians." Now with influences as diverse as Ace Frehley, Ernest Ranglin, Chuck Berry and Nokie Edwards, Jay’s energetic stage presence and brilliant guitar stylings are part of what makes seeing SPIDER NICK & THE MADDOGS an exciting experience. |
CHRIS 'DA MADDOG' MALONE
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The story
of Chris Malone starts on August 9th, 1983. Interested in music at an early age, he began
to play the trumpet (age 10) at Southdown elementary in Huntington. He transferred over to
Long Island Lutheran High School in 1997. The following year, some friends who had
introduced Chris to ska, punk, and hardcore, would bring him to the 'Celebrate Huntington'
festival in Heckscher Park to see a performance that would change his life forever. The
performance consisted of three bands: Channel 59, The Scofflaws, and Spider Nick & The Maddogs, the band he would later join: That night was his first, of hundreds, of ska shows. He spent that night dancing, jumping around, and singing along to songs that he'd heard over his friend's portable CD player head phones over the previous two years. After that, Chris took his playing much more seriously. He played trumpet for his first band, 'The Jimmy Kickers'. He began playing trombone in 1999, and slowly started to incorporate this into his performances. The band eventually broke up. But the members became the nucleus of other projects that included: Mary's Laugh, Death 101 (later renamed The Fad), and The High School Football Heroes Chris eventually started his own project -Johnny and The Super Villains. They went through 27 musicians (15 drummers!) in a period of 2 years. During this time, Chris also joined a ska-punk group called "Forced Laughter" from Floral Park. With them, he spent his first time in a professional recording studio. They even played at NYC's own, world famous, Roseland Ballroom. His enthusiasm for playing made him a valuable part of both bands. During a performance at Ground Zero in Bellmore, NY- shortly after joining Forced Laughter - Chris' trumpet was stolen! So, he made the full-time switch to trombone. Happily, he became much better on the trombone than he'd ever been on the trumpet. Chris began his engineering studies at Manhattan College in 2001. And he was a promoter for the infamous benefit show for LIAAC (The Long Island Association for Aids Care) with Scott Bleck, and Kevin O'Dell. With bands such as Spider Nick and the Maddogs, The Scofflaws, Kicked In The Head, Perfect Thyroid, The Blackouts, The Arrogant Sons Of Bitches, Straighter Than Pete, What's Your Problem Brian, and many more. At this show, Chris left JATSV. He was then able to turn his full attention to Forced Laughter. He continued to write and perform with them for several years. Chris would play for a variety of bands including The Rudie Crew (2002), and 32 Degrees In Hell (2002 - 2004) who went on to a decent amount of success. They toured all over the northeastern US. He also recorded with "The Flaming Tsunamis", a skacore band from Connecticut. Chris was hired by "Gaijin A Go-Go", a Japanese Go-Go band from Brooklyn. And it was on a train to that gig that Chris ran into Spider Nick and heard about a possible horn position. (Nick was heading into Manhattan to fight his arrest at the infamous Feb. 15th 2003 protest in Manhattan. He beat the rap!) In November of 2003, at the notorious 'Celebrate Huntington' festival, Chris was finally invited to come and join Spider Nick & The Maddogs. This turned out to be a great fit for Chris and the band. He has been making great music with them for the last two years! Chris now handles much of the band's booking, as they proceed to make their 4th CD. In addition to Chris's trombone duties in Spider Nick and the Maddogs, he is also currently playing trombone for the NJ/NYC based, ska institution, known as Bigger Thomas.
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