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Instrumental Guitarist Mike Grande has been playing guitar for over 20 years. Mike started teaching guitar at the age of 15. At 16, Mike was performing all over the Tri-State area. Many times Mike needed to have his parents accompany him to play shows because he was too young to get into the local bars. Over the course of twenty plus years, Mike has maintained a steady student clientele while also doing session work in New York City. Mike spent many years performing his own songs live with numerous bands. It wasn’t until 1994 that Mike decided to focus primarily on instrumental music. “Frustrated with rising studio costs, I decided to open my own recording studio”. With nothing more than a reel to reel, a few guitars, an amp, drum machine and some keyboards, Mike was soon writing and recording his own material on a daily basis. Since the nineties, Mike’s home studio evolved into a full recording studio suite, with live rooms, a vocal booth and a state of the art control room. With his new studio, Mike would now be producing, recording and engineering his debut album; ‘My Dash Between the Numbers’. Mike was lucky enough to have Adam Reich assist him in engineering this album. “Adam Reich and Rob Racalbuto have been friends of mine for years. Getting them to play on this album added a dimension to the music that could not have been achieved by anyone else”.