Rescue Me Actor Michael Lombardi Shows His Musical Side With Apache Stone
05/07/2009
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(Plan A) Hard-rock upstart band Apache Stone will make a sustained multi-media splash over the course of the next several months, with a self-titled debut album completed, and a major continuing part in Rescue Me, one of television's most-admired series.
The founder, lead singer and chief songwriter of Apache Stone is the young actor Michael Lombardi, introduced to the public in 2004 as Mike Silletti, the "probie" � newly-hired probational rookie � in the firehouse of FX's multiple Emmy-nominated dramedy Rescue Me. In the new season of the show, just underway, APACHE STONE will be seen and heard through the year: Each of the band members have speaking roles in a plot arc tracing the formation of the group by the now-seasoned fireman Silletti, starting in the fifth episode. The band will perform two songs onstage in the last third of the show's 22-episode current run.
Lombardi explains that the series' writing team, headed by series creator and star Denis Leary, has often drawn story lines from the cast members' real lives, "and put a comic element, or a twist on them." Appropriately matched to the edgy, gut-level realism of the show, the two songs slated for the Rescue Me performances are the introspective and penetrating rockers "Synthetic Self" and "Social Outlaw."
These and two other album advance tracks are Posted currently on the band's MySpace.com home page. Lombardi and the band members are also featured in video interviews about Apache Stone's real-life history and its involvement with the series at http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/rescueme/band.php.
The members of Apache Stone (Hank Woods, guitar; David Leatherwood, bass & background vocals; Mark Greenberg, drums, and Nick Bacon, guitar) were gathered through an organic networking by Lombardi, whose presence in the New York music community dates back over 10 years, to his study of the drums at New York's Drummers' Collective, as a college student. As such, the album Apache Stone represents a return to a serious longtime love, and not a moonlighting lark. And the recorded results erase any doubt, displaying an assurance and a competitiveness � an unexpectedly complete readiness -- that belies Apache Stone's relative youth as a unit.
The Apache Stone album was produced by Arthur Bacon and engineered by John Duva � both of them also noted session musicians and arrangers -- at the Connecticut's Sonalysts Studio, built as an exact sonic replica of Manhattan's legendary Power Station.May 8 Don Hill's New York, New York
Jun 4 North Star Bar Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jun 6 El N Gee Club New London, Connecticut
Jun 10 The Stephen Talkhouse Amagansett, New York
Jun 13 Tuxedo Junction Danbury, Connecticut
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