Bob Gaudio

Gaudio is a member of the Songwriters' Hall of Fame. The band regularly updates a road journal on their website (http://www.guster.com/), and can often be found after shows for autographs. He lured Neil Diamond to Nashville to record the album "Tennessee Moon." In recent years Gaudio has focused on musical theater, writing the music for the 2001 London production of "Peggy Sue Got Married." Gaudio was instrumental in mounting "Jersey Boys," a musical play based on the lives of The Four Seasons, which is running at the La Jolla (California) Playhouse through January 2, 2005 and is headed for Broadway. The band is also known for their connection with their fans. In the 1990s Gaudio moved to Nashville and produced recordings for Canadian country artist George Fox, among others. Guster's sound is also defined by their vocal harmonies, with both Ryan and Adam singing lead vocals on different songs; in "What You Wish For," all three sing different lyrics simultaneously. He produced the movie soundtrack albums for Diamond's "The Jazz Singer" and "The Little Shop of Horrors.". Ryan playing bass, Brian playing drum kit).

In particular, he produced six complete albums for Neil Diamond. The complexity of the new album required the addition of Joe Pisapia (guitar, keyboards, backup vocals), as well as allowed the original members to diversify their instrument choice (e.g. In addition to his work for the Seasons and Sinatra, he wrote and/or produced for Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Barry Manilow and Roberta Flack. violin, bass, drum kit), their live shows generally kept this line up until the Keep It Together tour. Gaudio had stopped touring with the Seasons in 1971 so that he could focus on writing and producing. While Guster's studio albums include more instruments (e.g. The original Four Seasons were inducted into the Rock and Rock Hall of Fame in 1990. Brian Rosenworcel, the band's primary percussionist, adds to Guster's unique sound with a combination of bongos, cymbals, and other drums, playing many live shows using only his bare hands.

The songs became big hits for a reconstituted discofied version of the Four Seasons (Valli was the only original left). The characteristic usually first brought up about the band is their choice of instruments: two members playing acoustic guitars, and one member playing drums and various percussion. Later in the 1970s Gaudio wrote "Who Loves You" and "December 1963 (Oh What a Night)" with his future wife Judy Parker. A live album, Guster on Ice, compiled from two shows at Portland, Maine in December, 2003, was released in 2004. Gaudio and Holmes also wrote and produced Frank Sinatra's 1970 album "Watertown.". The band released their fourth album, Keep It Together in 2003, with the first single, "Amsterdam", getting significant play on the radio. and Ace in the U.K. The band also released their first video, a song from L&GF entitled "Fa Fa".

Appreciation of "The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette" has grown over the years, and it was released on CD (minus the newspaper cover) in the 1990s by Rhino in the U.S. With the backing of a major label, the band appeared on late night shows like David Letterman. The album was a commercial failure and marked the end of the Four Seasons' first period of success, but the album's quirky newspaper-style cover influenced the covers of subsequent albums by Jefferson Airplane, Jethro Tull, and John Lennon. A year later, the band released the album Lost and Gone Forever, produced by Steve Lillywhite. With lyricist Jake Holmes, Gaudio sought to join the trend toward more socially conscious pop music by writing and producing the album "The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette," released by the Four Seasons in 1969. In 1998 the band signed to Sire Records and re-released Goldfly. Gaudio-Crewe compositions also became major hits for other artists, including the Tremeloes ("Silence is Golden") and the Walker Brothers ("The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore"). Shortly after the release of Parachute another artist called Gus signed a deal with a major record company, forcing the band to rename themselves "Guster." In 1996, the band independently recorded their second album, Goldfly, releasing it early the next year.

Together with producer Bob Crewe, Gaudio wrote a string of subsequent '60s hits for the Seasons, including "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Walk Like a Man," 'Ronnie," "Save It For Me," "Bye Bye Baby" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" (the first big success under Valli's name as a "solo artist"). The band independently recorded their first album in 1994, entitled Parachute, while still in college. Gaudio played keyboards and wrote the Seasons' first hit, "Sherry," in 1962. A year later, after writing a few songs in their dorm rooms, the band named themselves "Gus" and booked their first gig. He shot to musical fame at the age of 15 as a member of the Royal Teens when he wrote the hit "Short Shorts." For years afterward he seemed destined to be a one-hit wonder until he met Frankie Valli, Tommy DeVito, and Nick Massi, all from Newark, New Jersey, forming the group that became the Four Seasons. The band members met during freshman orientation at Tufts University in 1991. Bob Gaudio (born November 17, 1942) is an American singer and songwriter from the Bronx, New York. Guster is an acoustic rock band, originally formed in Boston, Massachusetts by members Ryan Miller (guitar/vocals), Adam Gardner (guitar/vocals), and Brian Rosenworcel (drums/percussion).

1994 - Parachute. 1997 - Goldfly. 1999 - Lost and Gone Forever. 2003 - Keep It Together.

2004 - Guster on Ice.