Walter Ino is a Los Angeles-based stage and studio multi-instrumentalist with decades of touring and recording experience, hailing from Pittsburgh where he was originally classically trained in piano. He is currently the keyboardist/guitarist/music director for Tommy DeCarlo, the singer of Boston; the keyboardist for Asia featuring John Payne; and also currently the keyboardist/saxophonist/guitarist for the Voices of Classic Rock show, which features legendary singers Lou Gramm (Foreigner), Steve Augeri (Journey), John Elefante (Kansas), Bill Champlin (Chicago), Fran Cosmo (Boston), and many more.
He spent 2018-early 2019 as the lead guitar player for Eagles of Death Metal. He spent 2011-2018 as a member of the multi-platinum, GRAMMY Award-winning band Survivor, playing keyboards, guitars, and singing background vocals. He also currently tours as the keyboardist with legendary band The Babys, occasionally as the guitarist with Wilson Phillips, and is also musical director and orchestrator for “The Music of Led Zeppelin with Orchestra,” “A Night of Symphonic Rock,” “A Night of Symphonic Metal,” and “Rewind,” a national orchestral rock show featuring members of Starship, Foreigner, Berlin, Survivor, MSG, and more. You can also see him as a rotating member of the award-winning Las Vegas and Branson show, “Raiding The Rock Vault,” featuring band members from Heart, Bad Company, Whitesnake, Bon Jovi, Ozzy Osbourne, Billy Idol, and more. Walter is also the guitarist for an all-star tribute to the music of Rush, called “A Farewell to Kings,” featuring Brian Tichy of Whitesnake, Francesco DiCosmo of Thin Lizzy, and Jonathan Sindelman of the Alan White band.
You can catch Walter playing in and around the LA area on a weekly basis. He plays keys, guitar or bass in weekly bar band gigs along side LA and Orange County's finest musicians, such as Dizzy Reed (Guns N' Roses), Eric Dover (Jellyfish/Slash's Snakepit), Frank Simes (The Who, Roger Daltrey), members of Buckcherry, Wallflowers, Fuel, Melissa Etheridge, Billy Idol, Duran Duran, Zappa, Lisa Loeb, Quiet Riot, Ace Frehley, Mr. Big, Jefferson Starship, Jerry Garcia Band, Metalocalypse, Galaktikon, LA Guns, Stevie Knicks, Ben Harper, Foreigner, Whitesnake, Steve Vai, Beck, Edgar Winter, Five for Fighting, Lita Ford, Spock's Beard, Asia, Avril Lavigne, Cassadee Pope, Vertical Horizon, Five for Fighting, and many more. He also runs his own studio, "Secret Asian Man Studios," where he has produced for many artists of different styles, mixed for various artists, and written and recorded music for TV and movies, including music for the Hallmark Channel, USA, Discovery Channel, and more. He also plays with his original rock trio occasionally in and around LA.