About Gil Mantera's Party Dream

Gil Mantera's Party Dream are stepbrothers Ultimate Donny and Gil Mantera from Youngstown, Ohio. Donny plays guitar and sings. Gil plays keyboards, bass, and sings through a vocoder. There is no real genre that can hold them. Live is the best way to experience this band. Their career started at a Youngstown bar called Nyabhinghi. When a band failed to show, the brothers took the stage and started to rock the house. The duo started playing shows back and forth between the Youngstown and Columbus, Ohio scenes in 2000, sharing stages with a variety of bands of different genres. They often play with and have collaborated with Grand Buffet of Pittsburgh, PA. In 2004, the band self-released the album Once Triangular. It was a way for longtime fans to introduce friends to the band's comedic rock style. Their infamy began to spread! In 2006, they released Bloodsongs. Their fan base grew even further. In 2009, they "tricked" a.e. paterra into joining GMPD as a drummer, and released the album, "Dreamscape" which was released on their own record label, Psychic Dog Records. At live shows you may catch covers of Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams", Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through The Grapevine", and Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart." You also may see these 2 guys named Richie and Glenn. They're rock star wanna-be's that act as The Party Dream's stagehands. They call themselves Royal Fudge.