GotchaCovered
AMELIA
Amelia has been singing since she could talk, playing the piano since she was four, and involved in music and theater for as long as she can remember. She has been in a number of choirs and has been a featured soloist in several classical performances, including Handel's Messiah, Mozart's Coronation Mass, and Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols. Amelia's day job is choral director of a local middle school. She is excited to join Gotcha Covered to expand her musical repertoire and most of all, have a lot of fun!
SCOTT
VOCAL, KEYBOARD, GUITAR, SAXOPHONE, AND HARMONICA
Porter started playing drums as a kid in the late 70s and played his first live gig at "Springfield Days" when he was only 12 years old. From that moment, he was hooked on playing live music for audiences to enjoy. Throughout his West Springfield High School years, his band "The Rumor", played all kinds of shows including high school dances, pool parties, house parties, and even clubs and bars despite being underage. At the University of South Carolina, he and a couple of musician friends formed the band, "Tootie & The Jones". Through their reputation for great live shows, the band grew a loyal following and shared the stage with regional and national acts from across the southeast. Tootie & the Jones still play regularly in SC today. After college, Porter left SC and returned to Springfield where he continued playing in numerous bands throughout the 90s - most notably "Lunar Groove", whose music is available on Spotify.
Starting in 2000, full time commitments to music took a backseat to raising a family and a long stint of coaching girls travel soccer. Then, as fate would have it, while attending a concert, a friend of Lip's suggested he and Porter should play music together, and Lip extended an invitation. Porter accepted and now keeps the beat for "Gotcha Covered" and the rest is, as they say, "Rock & Roll History."
Vocal, acoustic & electric guitar
VOCAL, GUITAR, piano, percussion
"Gotcha Covered" has been playing great cover tunes for the local DC area since 2014, bringing you the tunes you know and that you forgot you knew from across the decades. Classic rock, rock, pop, country, blues, R&B are all part of the fun. Looking for great musical memories and great fun? We've "Gotcha Covered".
Tom started playing guitar with a couple of friends in 1976. After learning some basic chords from them, continued learning on his own. First band was Tom, Bill and Tom. A trio playing some blue grass and country. This lead to Sweet Honey & The Bad Mouth Boys when a friend won the Miss Buffalo Country Western pageant with her beautiful voice. Sweet Honey was one of the best country bands in Buffalo from 1978-1982 playing a mix of cover and original music. Two original songs, "Easy Going Man" and "I'll Get Even With You" were recorded to a 45 and received some local air in the Buffalo market. When Sweet Honey split up, Tom, Bill and Tom kept playing for fun. Tom then took about a 30 year break from playing music to make a living and raise a family. After discovered some friends in the Northern Virginia area that also played, joined them for some fun which eventually evolved into Gotcha Covered Band, a group of Dad's getting back to what they loved doing years ago and bringing that fire back into theirs, their families and your lives once again. Hope you can make the time to come out and gave some fun with us. We don't play out much, but when we do, we have a great time and you will too!
Mike is a HUGE, lifelong fan of live music, and has attended performances around the world throughout his 23 year stint with the U.S. Air Force. During that time, he also played bass for a few AF charity events and was immediately hooked on performing live! After a decades-long sabbatical from musical production, he heard the rocking sounds of "Gotcha Covered" emanating from an open garage in his neighborhood during COVID. They already had a bass player but were in desperate need for a sound expert to take their act to the next level. Mike fit the bill perfectly. Mike has worked with other local bands, but is now devoting the vast majority of his energies to his amazing "Gotcha Covered" friends, while still spending time "behind the boards" for community events, including: The River Crossing Cafe Open Mic Night, at St. Christopher's, fundraising picnics for the "Independence Club" recovery shelter with the "Another Sandwich Band"; and "Recovery Unplugged" addiction center reunions.
VOCAL, PerCUSSION
Gotcha Covered marks a long overdue and much enjoyed return to music for Scott after a nearly 30-year hiatus. Music and theater performance were a large part of Scott's high school and college years, including lead and supporting roles in a wide variety of productions, ranging from 'Guys and Dolls' to 'Little Shop of Horrors' to Romeo and Juliet, to 'Evita'. Scott has played a wide variety of instruments since age 10 and honed his vocal skills in school choirs. School singing tours included performances in Quebec,Italy, the United Kingdom, and across the U.S. However, Scott's favorite musical memory of those early years is collaborating with his high school classmates to stage a "takeover" of the high school jazz band to form the Blue Zeus Blues Band, a 10-piece group that entertained local school and festival audiences with tunes by such groups as Sam and Dave, the Blues Brothers, Tower of Power, and Booker T and the MGs, You can even find a Blue Zeus rockcumentary on YouTube. Now, nearly 30 years later, Scott has rediscovered his passion for music, and is sincerely grateful to be pursuing that passion with three great friends and talented musicians, and is thrilled to be playing for and sharing this experience with his family and friends.
STEVE ("LIP")
tom
DEANNA
bass guitar, vocal
About the band
Sound, Lights, (More) cowbell, vibraslap
amelia
Mike "The Fry Guy" Fry
PORTER
steve ["Porter"]
This is Deanna’s first foray into singing with a band, but she’s always had a passion for music and has viewed it as the soundtrack to life. It’s been central to so many memories or for others, the accompaniment. Growing up in Ohio, she took dance and voice classes, participated in musical theater, and sang with her college choir. Fast forward through the years of graduate school, career, and other creative endeavors, and she mostly enjoyed music as a collector, concert-goer, and prolific mix-tape/CD maker. She’d occasionally get her singing fix, though – singing that first dance song at a friend’s wedding or jumping on stage with her favorite disco band. A few years ago, Deanna decided to return to voice lessons, and a year later, she connected with Gotcha Covered. Ever since that first rehearsal, she’s had a blast and is proof that we can throw ourselves into new, cool, and scary adventures at any age. She’s extremely grateful for the chance to work with such multi-talented musicians and looks forward to increasing her range and repertoire. To her bandmates and the fans that support Gotcha Covered, she says, thank you, and rock on!
Scott
guest artists - Kevin and paul
DEANNA
Steve “Lip” Lipton has described his music journey as “being a fan with an instrument.” He is equally happy strumming a 6 string with friends around a fire pit, recording original songs in his home studio, or performing on a stage with the band in front of hundreds of people. While he is comfortable playing guitar, mandolin, drums and even a little keyboard, Lip always seems to return to the bass when playing with a group. Maybe that’s because he was tapped to play bass in his college band three weeks before he even owned an instrument, let alone knew how to play it. While 35 years have passed since he stood in line all night to buy that discounted red Yamaha 250, his commitment to rocking has never wavered. He has played in bands large and small, sharing the stage with professional musicians and people who, like him, are in it just for the fun. Now Lip has joined Gotcha Covered, teaming with Woody to forge the band’s legendary heart-stopping, pants-dropping, house-rocking, earth-quaking, booty-shaking, love-making rhythm section. This adventure has turned into a blessing of new friends, new music, and new smiles to be shared with you.
percussion, vocal
TOM