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Richie Castellano is a singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist from New York. By the age of 18, Richie had won awards from the Songwriters Hall of Fame, BMG World of Expression and Berklee College of Music. In 1998, he released his first album, Alone In My Basement, recording all the parts himself in his 16 track analog basement studio. The album was featured in EQ Magazine.

Richie attended Purchase College Conservatory of Music, graduating with a Bachelor and Master of Music, Summa Cum Laude and completing the 6 year program in 4 ½ years. While at Purchase, Richie recorded his second album, Progeny 1999 with high school friends Andy Ascolese and Andy Graziano

During this time, Richie also produced Regina Spektor’s debut album 11:11 along with several other projects for CMH/Vitamin Records.

In 2004, Richie joined Blue Öyster Cult on bass, moving over to guitar/keyboard shortly after, going on to play over a thousand shows all over the world. With BÖC, Richie would co-produce 8 live concert videos and  the critically acclaimed album, The Symbol Remains, which features 7 of Richie’s songwriting contributions.

From his home studio, Richie released 2 more albums, 2 Part Invention and MorningStarlett. He also became a YouTube creator scoring a viral hit with his One Man Bohemian Rhapsody cover which currently sits at over 2 million views.

Soon after Richie started The Band Geek Podcast which eventually became an internet cover band with rotating members, including Andy Ascolese and Andy Graziano. The Band Geeks currently have over 30 million views and over 100,000 subscribers on YouTube. Their videos caught the attention of Jon Anderson, former lead singer of Yes. This resulted in the Yes Epics and Classics Tour featuring Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks.

The success of the tour led to the creation of TRUE, an album of new original material from Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks. The album was well received by critics and fans, voted album of the year by a Prog Magazine Reader’s poll, with Richie also being included in their top 10 bass players list.

2025 will see more touring with Blue Öyster Cult and Jon Anderson, along with the release of a live concert video from the 2023 Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks tour. 

Richie lives in Staten Island and spends most of his time in his home studio where he has produced and composed music featured on MTV, EA Games, Superbooths and The Chelsea Detective. He’s been interviewed by Rolling Stone, Billboard, Fox News, Guitar Player Magazine and Prog Magazine.

Updated January, 2025

Richie Castellano – Wikipedia

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    This is Robert “Prof Progresso” Thomason, host of the Professor Progresso’s Rock Theatre show on Radio Darmstadt (Darmstadt is near Frankfurt, Germany). I’ve been a YES fan since 1971 and have been featuring the band’s catalog on the show over the past several months. In January of this year I awarded my True Prog Award to Jon and the Band Geeks for the album True. I started the PPRT show in 2006 and this is only the second time I felt compelled to issue an award for any album! That’s how good I think it is! I left a message on Jon’s website without a response. Perhaps you could pass this note along to Jon and ask if he would be interested in receiving a copy of the Award. Also I am including a text for a show ID. If you are willing to just record it on your memo recorder and send it back to me that would be great! If you did so today I could use it on the show tonight. I will be featuring the live album tonight on the show. (very nice, by the way.) I would need to receive it my 2pm EST to use it on the show tonight. Otherwise I’ll use in on future shows.
    ID text:
    Hi, this is Richie Castellano of the Bend Geeks and you’re listening to Professor Progresso’s Rock Theatre (leave a short pause) on Radio Darmstadt. (Darmstadt is pronounced darm-shtott)
    If you would also pass this text along to Jon for him to record that would be icing on the proverbial cake!
    Also, if you are interested, I’d like to do a short interview with you for the show, maybe via Zoom or another chat platform.
    Our Facebook page is: profprogresso
    Our show email is: prof.progresso@radiodarmstadt.de

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