Jody Porter

Jody Porter
NYC, August 2011.
Background information
Genres	Power pop, rock and roll, psychedelic rock, shoegaze, rock
Occupation(s)	Musician, songwriter, guitarist, record producer
Instruments	Guitar, Vocals
Years active	1990–present
Labels	Yep Roc, Virgin, Atlantic
Associated acts	Fountains of Wayne, The Belltower, Jody Porter and The Black Swans, Albert Hammond, Jr.
Website	www.jodyporter.com
Notable instruments
Gibson Les Paul Custom & Junior Gibson Firebird Gibson ES-335 Fender Telecaster Fender Jazzmaster

Jody Porter is an American musician. He is the guitarist of Grammy Award-nominated power pop band Fountains of Wayne. The band has released four major label albums, including Welcome Interstate Managers on Virgin Records in 2003, an RIAA-certified Gold LP. The album spawned the hugely popular U.S. Top 40 hit and number 1 music video "Stacy's Mom".

Known for his impressive virtuoso abilities and British guitar pop playing style, Jody first garnered attention fronting and writing the songs for London-based band The Belltower in the early 1990s. The band was credited as trailblazers in the shoegazing music scene and is known to have been the first American band in the genre. Although the band created a buzz for itself overseas, including Melody Maker and NME singles of the week and top chart positions, their major label debut Popdropper sold marginally. The band came back to the US and eventually broke up in 1996.

Porter was then asked by his friend Adam Schlesinger (who had already been brought into The Belltower briefly) to join his newly formed band Fountains of Wayne before their self-titled Atlantic debut. Porter continued with Fountains of Wayne through their 1999 release, Utopia Parkway. However, after the band was dropped from Atlantic Records in 2001, Fountains of Wayne went on hiatus. In 2003, the band reformed and entered the studio to do a spate of demos which would eventually become Welcome Interstate Managers on Virgin records. The band received two Grammy nominations in 2004 and released Out of State Plates, a collection of b sides and rarities the following year. They reassembled in 2007 for their next studio album Traffic and Weather which was said to have been recorded largely by Schlesinger and Porter.