J. Deno Brown -- Bass

J. Deno Brown, a South Florida transplant, plays a variety
of bass lines from the driving drone to the melodic flair. Deno has played in previous projects with a variety of styles. Storybook, a neo folk rock band, a la Indigo Girls as well as with Second Glance, the popular Atlanta recording group.

 Deno grew up in Grafton Ohio, a rural community in the Cleveland area. His earlier musical influences would be bands such as Rush, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, The Rolling Stones, etc... However, Deno continues to be influenced by more recent bands such as Pearl Jam, Sound Garden, Metallica, Live etc...

 Deno moved to the Atlanta area and played guitar or bass in several high school and basement bands. In 1994 he joined Storybook.  After recording their demo and playing shows for several months dissension within the band caused a split in June 1995. Storybook's lead singer songwriter went her way leaving Deno, along with the rest of the group without a lead singer and material.

 Chris Hester, Cousin to Murray Attaway of Guadalcanal Diary fame & friends of the now voiceless Storybook musicians, was looking to start a new solo project.  With a ready made band available the decision was made and Second Glance was off to the races.

 With Second Glance, Deno helped to record and produce the bands first EP " The Stage is Set," saw their Debut CD entitled "3 Words" released on J-Bird Records  as well as playing the hottest venues on the Atlanta music scene.

 After 4 years, while in the middle of recording the follow-up to "3 Words," Deno found it necessary to leave Atlanta and Second Glance for reasons unrelated to the band. While the decision to leave was very hard to make, Deno felt the move to South Florida was in the best interest of his family. Deno and Chris remain friends and plan to collaborate on future projects.

  Once the move to South Florida was complete in 1998 Deno spent a few months settling in to the new surroundings. Happening upon a local music trade magazine, Deno answered an ad-- Bassist Wanted-- and joined up with Mike Hertel, Carol Ascari, & Jason Canary of Downpour.

Over the next couple years Deno played an integral part of the group as webmaster and focusing on band promotions along with his bass duties -- The months saw personnel changes which would normally kill most bands. With Mike and Carol both leaving and returning at various times, Jason & Deno were able to maintain and keep the group going.

Early 2001 saw Mike leave the group with Carol, Jason, & Deno firmly inplace, Tony Colella was added to the line up on lead guitar. The Group then decided on Filmore Street to replace the Downpour moniker!!!

The rest of 2001 saw Filmore Street open for such national acts as "Draw the Line" , An Aerosmith Tribute band - "The Soft Parade"  , A Doors Tribute band, and the Southern Rock Masters "Molly Hatchet"  as well as finish their 3 song demo "Road Work Ahead"

January 2002 saw Carol leave the band to get married and Tony left to pursue his education at Full Sail in Orlando -- Deno & Jason worked diligently to replace the missing players. as of april 2002 not having found the players needed the future looked dim.

Adam of The Factory, Ft. Lauderdales Premier Rock club called to say that "Burner" , a Fellow South Florida Rock act had just been signed by Arctic Records, wished that Downpour would play their CD release party. Downpour, now being Filmore Street.

Deno & Jason on a whim called Mike Hertel & Artie Manno formerlly of Downpour, both of which were excited to play. Thus bringing the Downpour Players together as Filmore Street.