SGBand

SGBand performing at The Bitter End.

The Stefani Germanotta Band (also known as the SGBand) was a band founded by Stefani Germanotta in 2005 after she left New York University. The band ended in mid-2006, after Stefani met with producer Rob Fusari and became Lady Gaga. This was her second band after Mackin Pulsifer, which was also mentionned in her line notes for The Fame published in 2008.

History

After leaving New York University, Stefani made a deal with her parents: They gave her one year to be signed to a record label or she would have to return to the university. The band was formed in September 2005 and by November, they began working on a five tracks demo, Words with producer, Joe Vulpis. The band gained fans with their live performances and Stefani updated her website "StefaniMusic".

“We used to rehearse at this really dingy practice space on the Lower East Side, like, under some grocery store, where you’d have to enter through those metal doors on the sidewalk, and she had this huge keyboard that she’d wheel down the street from her apartment on Rivington and Suffolk,” said Calvin Pia, former guitarist.

On January 20, 2006, the band played at The Bitter End and sells out the Words demo. They continued to do concerts and writing music and by March, sold their first EP, Red and Blue at the band home base, The Bitter End. It is unknown if the two songs (Captivated, Electric Kiss) she played for The UltraViolet Live in 2005, was performed with the full band later.

The band fizzled out in mid-2006 when the two young men started getting busier with school and Stefani started getting busier with the music industry, landing with producer Rob Fusari, who nicknamed her Gaga shortly thereafter. None has heard from Lady Gaga since the group split. “I tried calling her once when she started blowing up,” Calvin Pia said, “but her number had changed.”^{[citation needed]}

Members

• Guitar: Eli Silverman
• Drums: Alex Beckman
• Bass: Calvin Pia
• Keyboard/Singer: Stefani Germanotta

The band boys

Materials

Words (CD-R Demo)

1. Something Crazy
2. Wish You Were Here
3. No Floods
4. Words
5. Red and Blue

Red and Blue (EP — 2006)

1. Something Crazy
2. Wish You Were Here
3. No Floods
4. Words
5. Red and Blue

Performed live songs

• When You're Not Around (Recorded, rumored to be the demo title for Something Crazy)
• D'yer Mak'er (Led Zeppelin cover)
• Hollywood (Recorded)
• Again Again (Performed, recorded in 2006 ¹)
• Master Heartbreaker (Recorded)
• John's Song
• Walk the Road

(1) Might have been recorded in a studio but only the Rob Fusari's version is known to exist.