Partner with Fred Beato and David Pack to complete the BEATO BAND Debut Album and Video!

Fred Beato and David Pack found themselves at a crossroads moment in 2006: both of them had invested over 35 years of their lives building successful brands in the music industry.  Pack was the co-founder and former lead singer, guitarist, songwriter for legendary rock band Ambrosia, and Beato the Pres/CEO of Beato Bags, Inc. the #1 manufacturer in the USA of custom drum bags, used by the world’s most popular drummers.

Fred and David have known each other for forty years- since high school, when they played together in a band that won the U.S. Battle of the Bands!

After losing touch for decades, they discovered seven years ago that they’d unknowingly moved  within a few miles of each other in Orange County, CA. They rekindled their friendship during this time and started sharing the devastating impact that changes in the music industry had on their lives.

China had undercut Beato’s once-flourishing retail drum bag manufacturing business— almost destroying everything he’d spent his life building, as his accounts all vanished in favor of cheap foreign product (Beato Bags are made in the USA,) and Pack shared the extreme effect caused to his music career by illegal file sharing, the return of the 99 cent single, entire CD's given away as free goods, no protection for intellectual music property online, the recession causing radio stations to go out of business, and the demise of the physical CD.

Amidst these challenges, they both found hope in hanging out with each other and having a little fun in their home recording studios. What neither had expected was that the results would start evolving into a monster music CD project of the first magnitude, and from that a larger vision for a new global business venture.

Pack says “Fred and I are still feisty fire-in-the-belly kind of guys, still passionate as ever about music even as we enter our golden years; so we let the music lead us to a new place, like we used to as teen-agers.”

That new place has become their debut music project BEATO BAND CD and a plan for a new music centric beat-powered life-style brand “BEATO”

“The idea is to build on the existing global platform Fred has established for the last 30 years so beautifully with the Beato name- it’s authentic and it ROCKS!” says Pack.

"We are here at Indiegogo to seek funding to finish Phase One: to get the Beato Band Music CD finished and properly launched, and to start incubating the Beato 'brand' by giving our first proto-type apparel, tech & music instrument protectors, and luggage products as 'perks' for you fantastic backers out there who can feel the love here!  Phase two will be the global launch of our Beato life-style brand." And phase three? “Hawaii, we land in the sand with Beato products in hand,” jokes Pack.

"We got inspired by the 'Old Guys Rule' founder, who is a local surfer in San Clemente, who one day two decades ago invented an 'Old Guys Rule' sticker for his car window because of his passion for surfing and the old school long board style, and now he has a beloved global brand, built from what he loves doing most. And he’s surfing into his 60’s! Don’t you just love that?" says Pack. "That’s Fred and me but with music-- BEATO!”

But first, let’s get the BEATO BAND ALBUM and VIDEOS completed!

And that’s where YOU come in. Fred and David have worked on this record on and off for 5 years completely out-of-pocket- no record label, no backers. When they started this project, the word “crowdsourcing” didn’t even exist! Now it has become an incredible way for artists to share their projects, their stories and their successes with the very people who helped them get where they are- the fans, the supporters—and in our case, the “Beato Band Believers!” We need to finish the recording, then mix, master and manufacture the CD’s, and make a video or two. A label launching a band's debut album spends hundreds of thousands of dollars; Beato Band is asking for the bare minimum to finish the project, and every dollar raised beyond the goal will go towards promotion, a website, and other project-related items that will kick it up to the next level.

PERKS!

The “Perks” are too good to pass up. You’ll get the first Beato Lifestyle proto-type products, from T-shirts, to Ipad bags, from baby travel-change diaper drum bags to the indestructible famous All Purpose Airline carrier that Ringo Starr favors! 

Beato Prototypes- iPad, Laptop, Portfolio, Airline carrier, Snare and Baby Changer Drum-shaped Bag

You’ll get the swag that until now was only available to Fred’s superstar endorsees. And you’ll get Perks from Pack— his arsenal of 70’s and 80’s Ambrosia memorabilia—  in exchange for helping us fund the Beato Band album and the start of the Beato lifestyle brand. Even personal Skype calls with Fred and David, handwritten lyrics- and for a lucky bidder or two they will even perform at your event!

MORE ABOUT THE MUSIC

We thought you'd want to HEAR some of the music from BEATO BAND rather than continue reading about it, so here is a very special "Sneak Preview Video Reel" just for you to check out the songs and some rare photos, along with a short David Pack career highlights reel!

“Our little fun project turned into a monster when Dave started writing new original songs for it” says drummer Fred Beato. “That scared me into practicing drums 8 hours a day, getting back on the bicycle so I could pull off the recordings. Pack is a perfectionist and it paid off!”  When they played Pack’s 7-minute opus “CUBA BC”  (about Fred’s true life immigration story) for legend Emilio Estefan last year, he said it was great, and needed to be finished professionally with a serious video and film component. He said this song alone could spawn a Broadway musical.

Fred's License Plate, which inspired the song Cuba B.C.

Pack says: "Boomers invented the mass music industry as we know it, and BEATO BAND is our way of saying 'don't ever count our generation out!' Fred and I are serial entrepreneurs, we've both created successful brands from scratch for over 4 decades, and that's the spirit that built America... and that's what Beato Band and the Beato brand is all about!"

As Steve Jobs famously said about Apple, “We sell dreams, not just products.”

Everything starts with a dream. The BEATO BAND album and the future BEATO lifestyle brand are DREAMS that you can help make come true. "Please partner with us to help us fulfill the dream we left behind forty years ago- making an album together. Thank you."

PERK PICS:

FRED'S RARE ELVIS AND BEATLES POSTERS FROM HIS PERSONAL COLLECTION:

HANDWRITTEN LITHO OF AMBROSIA LYRICS ON PARCHMENT:

ALBUMS OFF THE "PACK RACK" ---

PACKMAN ALL-STARS T-SHIRT FROM BILL CLINTON'S INAUGURAL BALL (MUSIC DIRECTED BY DAVID!):