John McLoughlin, Piano & Lead Vocals

John began playing piano across the street from his Long Island home at the age of 6. He would play chinese checkers with Mrs. Peas (no kidding!) in return for her permission to play on her piano. John's parents later bought him a small plug-in organ for Christmas one year, on which he explored numerically structured songs such as the musical masterpieces "Home On The Range" and "Bicycle Built For Two." He pestered his parents until they purchased a second-hand piano which still graces the living room of his parents' home in Baltimore. His every spare minute was spent playing it. Through high school, he saved his money and purchased keyboards and recording equipment.  "Just What You Wanted" is his fourth release, recorded at Mother West in New York, John's original home.

 

Len Sitnick, Bass

Len catapulted into the music world at age nine playing clarinet in elementary school. He wowed parents and friends alike when he got to take solos for “Day by Day” and “Rock Around the Clock” in the Winter Concert that year. He was always in the hunt for first chair; however, 5 years later, orthodontia kept him from excelling on instruments from the woodwind family, so he decided to take up guitar. He began taking classical lessons, but then gave up on them, because he really wanted to play “Hotel California” and “More Than A Feeling” to impress his peers. His classical training did allow him to perform a killer rendition of “Dust in the Wind”, though. Once Len switched guitar teachers to someone with much longer hair, he was off and running, learning to play many hits of the late 70’s and early 80’s.

Throughout college, Len continued to play guitar in several informal projects, and in his senior year, he landed a summer job as a singing waiter on a dinner cruise ship, entertaining the masses with “Shower the People” and “Blue Suede Shoes”. Show business was in his blood, now!

In 1994, Len started a new pop/rock band, called “Mind the Gap,” which played all original material in Baltimore and DC area clubs, including the 8 by 10 and the Bayou.

Christmas of 1995, a shiny new black bass arrived under the tree. Once he got a taste of pumping out all those low-end booty-shaking notes, Len was hooked, and he retired his guitar. He played bass in several local cover bands, and was the bassist and a songwriter in the original pop/art rock band Approaching Violet for several years.

But now Len has found a comfortable musical home with LT, Gary, and Marty. It’s great to play such a variety of music, and to support LT’s amazing original material.

 

Marty Wachter, Drums

Marty started banging on things around the house at an early age when he got bored of “air-conducting” the background music that would accompany TV shows of the late 60s and early 70s. After several years of this, his father hooked him up with an old friend who played drums in the old swing and big band clubs around San Francisco. Al Spieldock gave him his first lessons and a real calfskin drum. The rest is history!

Marty played in various high school rock bands while studying privately with various instructors in the Baltimore area. He attended and actually graduated from Berklee College of Music with a degree in Music Production and Engineering. After several years of burning out on long-late night recording sessions in various studios in Boston, Baltimore, and LA, Marty took a break from the music industry to gain more respectful employment by earning a masters degree in Computer Science.

Marty met Gar and Len while working as Front Page’s sound man in the late 80s and has been playing off an on with them for several years. Marty’s musical background and style is a perfect complement to John and his incredible lyrics and piano work.

 

Dave Weber, Guitar

Dave Weber grew up in Potomac, Maryland in a mostly non-musical family. Dave had no musical training yet he loved listening to his favorite progressive rock bands: Camel, UK, Bruford, and others. About the closest he came to playing guitar was air-guitar to “Won’t Get Fooled Again.”  In his senior year of high school, Dave took his first guitar class; Dave’s air-guitar playing days were over.

In 1982, Dave went off to study computer science at the University of Maryland. He got involved in a campus Christian youth group and became a member of the worship band. Since then, many of Dave’s live musical performances have been in church bands, a tradition Dave continues today. During the 80s, Dave became an accomplished MIDI and drum programmer. In 1989, Dave and two friends, released an instrumental CD called Network – Three of a Kind. It featured several songs on which Dave played all the instruments.

Dave became friends with Gary and Len and was introduced to the John LT Band early in 2003. Dave started gigging with the band as a temporary fill-in for Gary. Dave continues to be on guitar at many of the band's gigs. He considers it a privilege to make music with such good musicians and friends.

 

Gary Young, Guitar

A talented multi-instrumentalist, Gary Young has been involved with music since the age of 8. One night at age 10 he turned his Uncle Stan's tiny guitar amp up all the way and discovered distorted guitar, and hasn't looked back since. While he, like Len, played clarinet, he decided he'd stick with guitar, since the two tones he could wrangle out of the woodwind were "thuuhhh" and "squaaaaawk."

In his teens and twenties, Gary was a founding member of Front Page, which played the Baltimore area for a dozen years, performing songs in the progressive, top 40, and classic rock genres. In the John LT Band, Gary's guitar playing is influenced by Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Edge from U2, and Steve Lukather of Toto.  Gary is also proficient on both keyboards and drums.  At some gigs, you may see Gary filling in behind the drum set.  Gary also has a nose flute and threatens to use it with the band, but they won't let him.