JimmyPirate – Lead Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Auxillary Percussion“Sea Dog” Marty Peters – Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Backing Vocals
Gary Gorskil – Bass Guitar
“Commodore” Bill Moore – Drums and Auxillary Percussion
BIOGRAPHY – A Summertime Experiment Gone Horribly WRONG!
Pirate Dreams came together in name in May of 2003, when two music store schmoes,
Jim Jowsey and Justin Kubiak decided to put together an acoustic project for the beach bars
up and down the Western New York coast of Lake Erie. The project featured the slacker
nation music of Jimmy Buffett as well as other stripped down versions of popular songs and
certain “blue” material. Jim called in a few favors from some booking agent friends and
before you knew it the boys had over 40 shows booked for that first summer, all before they
had their first rehearsal. They added Justin's old friend Johnny Panic on the congas and
were off, taking the beach bars by storm. It was a hell of a summer.
It was in that first off-season that Jim realized that a full band and sound might be in
order so when Justin took off to play some winter dates with another group, he went to work
building Pirate Dreams into the four piece phenomenon it is today. Starting off with local
country artist Jon Payne, Jim hooked up with bassist Dave Rennicks and an an old friend of
his, Dean O'keefe on the drums and the group was off for year #2, filled with more beach
bars, “parrot head” events, outdoor festivals and even a few private parties. A few personnel
changes here and there and the group settled into the lineup you see now, Jimmy on the
lead vocals and acoustic guitar, Dave on the bass guitar and backing vocals, Marty Peters
filling in the vast majority of the guitars and backing vocals and Buffalo music scene elder
statesman Bill Moore on the drums and taking care of auxillary percussion.
Going into their seventh year, the band has settled into a groove that is uniquely their
own in their home area, “Trop Rock”, a mish mash of Rock-n-Roll and Country sounds that
celebrate escapism, the getting lost on a tropical island variety. With local, regional and
national music festivals under their belt, a repertoire of summertime tunes diverse enough to
keep anybody dancing all night long under the stars and a disc of their own tropically
inspired creations helping to establish a name for themselves as songwriters, Pirate Dreams
is poised, locked and loaded to do what they do best. Take their tropical, laid back musical
vibe to the masses, mix up a boat drink or two and sail off into the sunset, with a few
thousand like minded friends trailing along for the ride.
Pirate Dreams Promotional Video2009 Song List
These and whatever else happens to sound good.
Pirate Dreams
Memento
Tropical Breeze
Palm Tree in Buffalo
Saturday Night in New Orleans
Cool, Clean Water
Van Morrison
Brown Eyed Girl
Tom Petty
Won't Back Down
Runnin' Down A Dream
Mary Jane's Last Dance
American Girl
Great Wide Open
You're So Bad
Sam Cooke
Another Saturday Night
Bob Marley and The Wailers
Redemption Song
Three Little Birds
Harry Nilsson
Everybody's Talking
Jeremy McComb
Wagon Wheel
The Proclaimers
500 Miles (I'm Gonna Be)
Crosby Stills and Nash
Southern Cross
Paul Simon
Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard
Barenaked Ladies
Pinch Me
Old Apartment
Brian Wilson
The Beach Boys
Sloop John B
Colin Hay
Down Under
Cheap Trick
California Man
She's Tight
Don't Be Cruel
IWant You To Want Me
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Sweet Home Alabama
America
Sister Golden Hair
Ventura Highway
Billy Joel
Only The Good Die Young
Bruce Hornsby
Every Little Kiss
David Lee Murphy
Loco
Jack Johnson
Breakdown
Banana Pancakes
John Prine
Let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian
Santana
Smooth
Tom Cochrane
Life is a Highway
UB40
Red, Red Wine
The Tragically Hip
Ahead By A Century
Happy Hour Fireworks
Little Bones
Nautical Disaster
New Orleans is Sinking
Yer Not The Ocean
Shooter Jennings
Walk of Life
John Fogerty
Walkin in A Hurricane
Rambunctious Boy
Warren Zevon
Werewolves of London
Lawyers, Guns and Money
Jerry Jeff Walker
L.A. Freeway
Bob Seger
Feel Like a Number
Sunspot Baby
Down on Main St.
Fire Down Below
Jimmy Buffett
Margaritaville
Fruitcakes
Boat Drinks
Schoolboy Heart
Changes in Latitudes
Barometer Soup
5 O'Clock Somewhere
A Pirate Looks at 40
One Particular Harbor
Son of A Son of A Sailor
Why Don't We Get Drunk
Coconut Telegraph
Come Monday
Volcano
Fins
Cheeseburger in Paradise
The Rovers
Wasn't That A Party
Contact Information:
To get ahold of us...
Email / info@piratedreams.com
Pirate Dreams
194 Humboldt Ave.
Angola, NY 14006
716-392-5310