Monte Lee Pittman was born on November 19,1975 and is an American musician and studio musician based in Los Angeles, known largely as Madonna's long-time guitarist and for playing for heavy metal band Prong.
22 Facts About Monte Pittman
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Monte Pittman started playing guitar as a teenager when he received his first guitar at age 13.
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Monte Pittman took music theory and piano lessons from Delores Rhoads at the Musonia School of Music in North Hollywood.
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Monte Pittman moved to Los Angeles in 1999 and worked at a guitar store as a salesman.
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Subsequently, Monte Pittman was invited to join the band for Madonna's Drowned World Tour.
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Monte Pittman has played in every incarnation of Madonna's live band since then.
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Monte Pittman shares writing credits with Madonna on the tracks "Easy Ride" from American Life and "It's So Cool" from Celebration.
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Additionally, Monte Pittman has contributed performances to Madonna's studio recordings, appearing on 2005's Confessions on a Dance Floor and 2008's Hard Candy.
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Apart from world tours Monte Pittman has joined Madonna on stage in many special events, most notably at Live 8 where he played for thousands of people at Hyde Park in 2005 and at the 2007 Live Earth where he had the chance to jam "Big Bottom" with Spinal Tap, James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett among a dozen of other bass players on stage.
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Between September 2015 and March 2016, Monte Pittman toured with Madonna on her Rebel Heart tour.
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Monte Pittman was introduced to Prong's Tommy Victor by White Zombie drummer Ivan de Prume; the two hit it off, and Monte Pittman joined Prong in 2000.
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Monte Pittman handled guitar and bass duties for the 2003 album Scorpio Rising.
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On Prong's 2007 release Power of the Damager, Monte Pittman wrote 5 of the 13 songs and provided backing vocals alongside bass duties.
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Monte Pittman has worked in the studio with Melanie C and Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
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Monte Pittman has been known to perform solo acoustic shows in between his responsibilities with Prong and Madonna.
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Monte Pittman recorded the album in the summer of 2011 and Noah Shain produced it.
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Monte Pittman was nominated in four categories at Artists in Music Awards and by popular demand he was invited to perform at the ceremony on February 10,2012.
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Monte Pittman started working on new material on July 1,2012, in Copenhagen, with Danish producer Flemming Rasmussen.
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On 2016's Inverted Grasp of Balance, Monte Pittman joined drummer Richard Christy and bassist Billy Sheehan.
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Monte Pittman released Between the Space on Metal Blade in August 2018 and undertook a tour with Sebastian Bach of Skid Row in the USA.
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Monte Pittman uses the Gibson Les Paul as his primary guitar.
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Monte Pittman has been known to use Eventide, Boss, MXR, Crybaby, Ernie Ball, Electro-Harmonix, Digitech, Line 6, Dunlop, VoiceLive 2 by TC-Helicon and Fishman effects pedals.