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| HISTORY |
1972 FV is founded and gains popularity in NW Indiana. Lineup: Gerry
Magallan (trumpet), Chris Guerra (vocals, keys), Stanley Serna (vocals), Dan
Rodriguez (vocals, bass), Mario Moreno (guitar), Cesar Salinas (flute,
congas), Peaches (drums), and Rick Coy (sax).
14-year-old Al Mora gets his first guitar and learns his first chords from his
longtime friend 20-year-old Emilio Nieto.
1973 FV places 2nd in the Chicago FM LOOP Battle of the Bands.
1974 FV paces 1st in the Chicago FM LOOP Battle of the Bands.
1977 FV disbands.
1979 Al Mora leaves engineering school to try to form his own band. Al
gets in a garage band called the Salamanders. They learn a half-dozen cover
songs but give up after a few months, due to the lack of having a bona-fide
lead singer.
1981 FV is re-formed and goes on the road. Lineup: Gerry Magallan
(trumpet, guitar, keys), Chris Guerra (vocals, keys), Dan Rodriguez (vocals,
bass), Al Mora (guitar), Pete Galvan (drums), Miriam Cancel (vocals), Dave
Johnson (sax).
1982 Gerry, Miriam, and Dave leave. Lineup: Chris, Dan, Pete, and Al.
1983 Chris leaves and is replaced by Steve Stephanovich.
1984 Dan leaves and is replaced by Nester Gomez. Steve leaves and is
replaced by Gabe Medina.
1985 Gabe leaves and is replaced by Chat Gomez (no relation to Nester).
1986 Al leaves and is replaced by Al Gomez, Nester's brother. Pete leads
the band through various lineups for the next five years.
1991 Pete shuts the band down.
1993 Al starts recording originals under the Free Verse name. Al slowly
builds up a home recording studio and accumulates recorded originals.
1997 Al moves to Southern California. He plays for tips on Saturday
evenings at Newport Pier.
1999 Al puts a Free Verse CD up for sale on MP3.com named "She's Got
Everything."
2000 Samantha, Albert's 6-year-old daughter, records "Sing and Swing."
2002 MP3.com shuts down. Al and Samantha continue to practice and
record.
December 2004 Al, Barbara (mom), and Samantha see America in concert.
Al promises in the America chat room to write an America tribute song,
record his daughter singing it, and start a new music web site.
May 2005 freeverseband.com web site launched featuring the America
tribute song From London to LA sung by Samantha. Al announces on the
America message board that the site has been launched featuring the song he
had promised to write back in December.
January 2006 A link to the song From London To LA is placed on the
official America Fans site home page.
The Emilio Nieto page is added to the Free Verse web site.
Al orders the book An American Band authored by America co-founder Dan
Peek. Dan wrote the following message on the title page: "To Al &
Samantha Mora, Enjoyed your song 'From London To L.A.' Samantha
has a great voice! Dan Peek." What a thrill for the Moras!
September 2006 Samantha records her first rock song, Star. The song
was Samantha's concept and she contributed to writing guitar parts and
lyrics.
March 2007 Free Verse records and posts its newest original, Crazy Thing,
on the web site. Steve Lowry places a link on the official America Fans
home page to the Crazy Thing page.
2007 Al and Samantha Mora perform their first paid engagements together
in Crown Point.
February - March 2008 Al writes Valentine as a Valintines Day gift to
Barbi, records it, creates a Valentine video, and posts the video on YouTube
- Free Verse's first music video.
March - April 2008 Free Verse continues to post music videos on YouTube.
See the videos at YouTube.com/ajmora. At 5/26/08 Free Verse has posted
12 videos which have been viewed over 4,000 times; a hit rate twenty times
the freeverseband.com hit rate. Free Verse also starts offering music
downloads for sale on freeverseband.com and myspace.com/freeverseband.
Magallan (trumpet), Chris Guerra (vocals, keys), Stanley Serna (vocals), Dan
Rodriguez (vocals, bass), Mario Moreno (guitar), Cesar Salinas (flute,
congas), Peaches (drums), and Rick Coy (sax).
14-year-old Al Mora gets his first guitar and learns his first chords from his
longtime friend 20-year-old Emilio Nieto.
1973 FV places 2nd in the Chicago FM LOOP Battle of the Bands.
1974 FV paces 1st in the Chicago FM LOOP Battle of the Bands.
1977 FV disbands.
1979 Al Mora leaves engineering school to try to form his own band. Al
gets in a garage band called the Salamanders. They learn a half-dozen cover
songs but give up after a few months, due to the lack of having a bona-fide
lead singer.
1981 FV is re-formed and goes on the road. Lineup: Gerry Magallan
(trumpet, guitar, keys), Chris Guerra (vocals, keys), Dan Rodriguez (vocals,
bass), Al Mora (guitar), Pete Galvan (drums), Miriam Cancel (vocals), Dave
Johnson (sax).
1982 Gerry, Miriam, and Dave leave. Lineup: Chris, Dan, Pete, and Al.
1983 Chris leaves and is replaced by Steve Stephanovich.
1984 Dan leaves and is replaced by Nester Gomez. Steve leaves and is
replaced by Gabe Medina.
1985 Gabe leaves and is replaced by Chat Gomez (no relation to Nester).
1986 Al leaves and is replaced by Al Gomez, Nester's brother. Pete leads
the band through various lineups for the next five years.
1991 Pete shuts the band down.
1993 Al starts recording originals under the Free Verse name. Al slowly
builds up a home recording studio and accumulates recorded originals.
1997 Al moves to Southern California. He plays for tips on Saturday
evenings at Newport Pier.
1999 Al puts a Free Verse CD up for sale on MP3.com named "She's Got
Everything."
2000 Samantha, Albert's 6-year-old daughter, records "Sing and Swing."
2002 MP3.com shuts down. Al and Samantha continue to practice and
record.
December 2004 Al, Barbara (mom), and Samantha see America in concert.
Al promises in the America chat room to write an America tribute song,
record his daughter singing it, and start a new music web site.
May 2005 freeverseband.com web site launched featuring the America
tribute song From London to LA sung by Samantha. Al announces on the
America message board that the site has been launched featuring the song he
had promised to write back in December.
January 2006 A link to the song From London To LA is placed on the
official America Fans site home page.
The Emilio Nieto page is added to the Free Verse web site.
Al orders the book An American Band authored by America co-founder Dan
Peek. Dan wrote the following message on the title page: "To Al &
Samantha Mora, Enjoyed your song 'From London To L.A.' Samantha
has a great voice! Dan Peek." What a thrill for the Moras!
September 2006 Samantha records her first rock song, Star. The song
was Samantha's concept and she contributed to writing guitar parts and
lyrics.
March 2007 Free Verse records and posts its newest original, Crazy Thing,
on the web site. Steve Lowry places a link on the official America Fans
home page to the Crazy Thing page.
2007 Al and Samantha Mora perform their first paid engagements together
in Crown Point.
February - March 2008 Al writes Valentine as a Valintines Day gift to
Barbi, records it, creates a Valentine video, and posts the video on YouTube
- Free Verse's first music video.
March - April 2008 Free Verse continues to post music videos on YouTube.
See the videos at YouTube.com/ajmora. At 5/26/08 Free Verse has posted
12 videos which have been viewed over 4,000 times; a hit rate twenty times
the freeverseband.com hit rate. Free Verse also starts offering music
downloads for sale on freeverseband.com and myspace.com/freeverseband.
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