Whyfret
Overview
My name is Jabe Amato, I offer live acoustic entertainment consisting of guitar and vocals performed by yours truly as a One-Man Band. I play and sing anything from The Beatles and Eagles to Radiohead and Foo fighters and everything in between. My performances can be tailored specifically for your needs such as background instrumentals to a fully interactive experience. I am available for public and private parties as well as weddings and corporate events.
My rates are based on length of time, distance travelled and if you would like me to learn specific songs for your customized set list.
Reviews
25 reviews
Jeanna L.
August 7, 2018Work with Jabe! He is THE best!
Hands down, Jabe is THE best! He was our guitarist for our wedding ceremony at Monarch Beach Resort, and we couldn't have been happier. He was SO chill, friendly, and effortless to work with and had an impressive, diverse song list (we went with Super Mario Bros. for our recessional, and Jabe plays the radest version on the bass.) He is flexible and can also customize and learn any songs! Did a combo of acoustic and voice and was awesome at both.
Jabe is reliable, punctual and professional. He was on site to set-up and soundcheck in advance to ensure everything was perfect. Our guests commented how pleasant and great he performed. Pricing is very reasonable, but seriously, the experience with Jabe on our big day was priceless. Work with Jabe. I repeat, work with Jabe!
Hired as: Guitarist, Wedding Singer
Jim H.
January 26, 2015Perfect Evening Entertainment
We had Jabe set up in our backyard for my wife's 40th birthday party. His music, song choices and overall talent was superb. Not to mention, he's got a great personality too. There's no doubt he was the main reason our party was such a success. As guests left at the end of the night, we were overwhelmed by the number of compliments we received on Jabe's behalf. He's amazing and we can't thank him enough!
Hired as: Guitarist
Julie H.
July 3, 2014Jabe of Why Fret was amazing!
He was truly fantastic in every sense! Jabe arrives promptly, set up quickly with great wireless speakers for position flexibility and sounded incredible. He can play every genre of music and took minimal break time. Several of our friends and family asked for his contact information and where they can here him play.
Hired as: Guitarist
Gilda
August 8, 2025My 60th tea party
Whyfret was the icing on the cake. I was so pleased with our setup. Whyfret made the ambiance complete. Played the perfect song choices with class and energy. Upbeat and connected with guests. He is a most for all my parties.
Hired as: Singing Guitarist
Stephanie M. D. O.
May 29, 2025Profession, Talented, Personable
Jabe was a great to work with. Incredibly talented. Will definitely be booking him for future events.
Hired as: Guitarist
Whyfret
Thank you so much Stephanie!
Booking information
Price range: $200 and up
Languages: English
Gig length: 30 - 300 minutes
What to expect
My performances range from subtle background music to a fully interactive experience.
You can customize a set list from my current song choices and I also offer to learn specific songs.
I specialize in wedding, private parties and corporate events as well.
About
Hello! I was born in dayton, OH but came to southern california (Anaheim) when I was three weeks old.
Got into music at a young age starting with the Viola, Saxophone and eventually the guitar at age 13.
I grew up listening to classic rock but also enjoy Classical, Jazz, Blues, R&B, Hard rock, Reggae and I love Funk!
I really enjoy interacting with the crowd, taking request and getting everyone involved.
Additional booking notes
I supply Everything for my performances other than electricity.
I will bring a 2 speaker powered PA, Mic's, cables, stands etc.
I usually bring my ipod as well to play before and after if so desired.
Services offered
Past booked events
October 2025
11
Saturday
Birthday Party
5:30pm - 7:30pm
•
Laguna Hills, CA
July 2025
26
Saturday
Birthday Party
4:30pm - 6:30pm
•
Ontario, CA
May 2025
28
Wednesday
Nonprofit Event
5:30pm - 7:30pm
•
San Juan Capistrano, CA
March 2025
08
Saturday
Birthday Party
6:00pm - 10:30pm
•
San Diego, CA
01
Saturday
Anniversary Party
6:00pm - 7:00pm
•
San Juan Capistrano, CA
June 2024
06
Thursday
Festival
6:00pm - 8:00pm
•
Culver City, CA
May 2024
30
Thursday
Dinner Party
5:30pm - 7:00pm
•
Irvine, CA
February 2024
27
Tuesday
Corporate Event
7:00pm - 10:00pm
•
Huntington Beach, CA
July 2023
29
Saturday
Corporate Event
6:00pm - 8:00pm
•
Anaheim, CA
January 2023
30
Monday
Corporate Event
12:00pm - 2:00pm
•
Orange, CA
September 2022
11
Sunday
Wedding Engagement
9:00pm - 9:15pm
•
Huntington Beach, CA
August 2022
17
Wednesday
Cocktail Party
7:00pm - 9:00pm
•
Los Angeles, CA
14
Sunday
Wedding Reception
11:00am - 3:00pm
•
Dana Point, CA
February 2022
24
Thursday
Cocktail Party
4:00pm - 6:00pm
•
Newport Beach, CA
November 2021
18
Thursday
Corporate Event
6:30pm - 8:30pm
•
Costa Mesa, CA
July 2021
02
Friday
Wedding Ceremony
10:00am - 11:00am
•
Laguna Beach, CA
July 2020
12
Sunday
Birthday Party
1:00pm - 1:15pm
•
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
June 2020
06
Saturday
Personal Occasion
7:30pm - 8:00pm
•
Laguna Beach, CA
March 2020
14
Saturday
Wedding Reception
3:30pm - 8:30pm
•
Newport Beach, CA
13
Friday
Cocktail Party
3:30pm - 4:30pm
•
Laguna Hills, CA
January 2020
25
Saturday
Birthday Party
6:00pm - 9:30pm
•
Irvine, CA
11
Saturday
Corporate Event
5:30pm - 10:00pm
•
Huntington Beach, CA
November 2019
08
Friday
Corporate Event
12:00pm - 2:00pm
•
Colton, CA
September 2017
23
Saturday
Wedding Ceremony
3:00pm - 4:00pm
•
San Diego, CA
22
Friday
Wedding Ceremony
1:00pm - 3:00pm
•
Fountain Valley, CA
May 2017
27
Saturday
Wedding Ceremony
4:30pm - 6:00pm
•
Newport Beach, CA
April 2017
05
Wednesday
Corporate Event
6:00pm - 8:00pm
•
Newport Beach, CA
December 2016
11
Sunday
Cocktail Party
1:00pm - 5:00pm
•
Irvine, CA
October 2016
22
Saturday
Nonprofit Event
10:00am - 4:00pm
•
Cabazon, CA
August 2016
28
Sunday
Baby Shower
1:00pm - 3:30pm
•
San Clemente, CA
April 2016
08
Friday
Funeral/Memorial Service
1:30pm - 3:30pm
•
Lake Forest, CA
November 2015
14
Saturday
Wedding Reception
4:00pm - 5:00pm
•
Cerritos, CA
January 2015
23
Friday
Birthday Party
7:00pm - 11:00pm
•
Tustin, CA
June 2014
28
Saturday
Birthday Party
5:30pm - 9:30pm
•
Laguna Beach, CA
Set list
A
Aerosmith
Dream on
Alice in chains
Got me wrong
Am I inside?
Would?
Brother
Rooster
America
Horse with no name
Ventura highway
The Animals
The house of the rising sun
(I had to learn how to sing and play this song when I was 15 in order to get my ear pierced)
B
The Band
Up on cripple creek
The Weight
The Beatles/John Lennon
Imagine
Come together
Blackbird
In my life
Across the universe
While my guitar gently weeps
The ballad of John and Yoko
Sgt. Pepperʼs Lonely HCB
A lil help from my friends
I am the walrus
Norwegian wood (one of my mom's favorites)
Bungalow Bill (still not sure what he killed)
Here comes the sun
And I love her
Michelle
Get back
Rocky racoon
She came in through the bathroom window
Dig a pony
I'm only sleeping
Girl (My Story)
I've got a feelin'
The Black Crow's
She talks to angels
Black Sabbath
Paranoid
War pigs
Planet caravan
The Black Seeds
So true
David Bowie
Life on mars? (Mai's fav)
The man who sold the world
Five years
Space oddity
Suffragette city
Queen bitch
Star man
Ziggy stardust
Moonage daydream
In the heat of the morning
Soul Love
Jimmy Buffett
Margaritaville
Pirate looks at 40
Changes in Latitudes
He went to Paris
C
Cameo
Word up!
The Cars
Just what I needed
Best friends girlfriend
Johnny Cash
Ring of fire
Folsom prison blues
I walk the line
Hurt
CCR
Bad moon rising
Have you ever seen the rain
Down on the corner
I heard it through the grapevine
Harry Chapin
Cats in the cradle
Chef (Isaac Hayes from South Park)
Chef's chocolate salty balls
City and Colour (for my Canadian friend(s)
Hello, I'm in Delaware
Comin' home
Alex Clare
Too close
Eric Clapton/Cream
Sunshine of your love
Layla
The Clash
Should I stay or should I go
Coldplay
Yellow
Clocks
Collective soul
The world I know
The Commodores
Easy (this song is Easy)
CSNY / Neil Young
Ohio
Old man
Heart of gold
Hey hey, My my
Teach your children
The Cure
Boys don't cry
Catch
Just like heaven
Close to me
The Caterpillar
Jumpin' someone else's train
A forest
Love song
Lullaby
D
Charlie Daniels band
Devil went down to Georgia
Danzig / Misfits
Mother
I'm the one
Skulls
Howe Day
Collide
The Grateful Dead
Casey jones
Friend of the devil
Uncle johns band (one of my Sister and Niece's Favorites)
St. Stephen
John Denver
Take me home country roads
Depeche mode
Never let me down again
Personal Jesus
Somebody
The Doors
Peace frog (cousin Shan loves it)
Roadhouse blues
Love me two times
Riders on the storm
Bob Dylan
All along the watchtower
Subterranean homesick
Like a rollinʼ stone
Just like a woman
You belong to me
Rainy day women
Knocking on heavens door
Make you feel my love
Don't think twice, It's alright
Dynamite Hack
Boyz in the hood
E
The Eagles
Hotel California
Desperado
Take it easy
Already gone
Tequila sunrise
Life in the fast lane
Emerson Lake & Palmer
From the beginning
Lucky man
Elton John
Rocket man
Your song
Bennie and the Jets
Extreme
More than words
F
Fleetwood Mack
Landslide
Foo fighters
Everlong
G
Gotye
Somebody that I used to know
Al Green
Here I am
Letʼs stay together
Green Day
Basket Case
Time of your life
David Grey
Sail Away
Guns & Roses
Patience
Sweet child o' mine
H
Juliana Hatfield
Ugly (I was so in love with Juliana in H.S.)
My Sister
Ben Harper
Please me like you want to
Jimi Hendrix
The wind cries Mary
Angel
Bold as love
All along the watchtower
Foxy lady
Castles made of sand (my favorite)
Hey Joe
I
Chris Isaacs
Wicked game
J
Jabe Amato
In time
Searchin'
Free
Michael Jackson
The way you make me feel
Billie Jean
James
Laid
Jane's Addiction
Jane says
Janis Joplin
Me & Bobby McGee
Jet
Are you gonna be my girl?
Jethro Tull
Life's a long song
Thick as a brick (I like playing this song)
Locomotive breath
Bungle in the Jungle
Jack Johnson
Upside down
Belle
Flake
You and your heart
K
Kansas
Dust in the wind
Ben E. King
Stand by Me
The Knack
My Sharona
The Kinks
Lola
Lenny Kravitz
Let love rule
Heaven help
Believe
Rosemary
Fields of joy
Sittinʼ on top of the world
Mama said
Fly away
L
Led Zeppelin
Babe, Im gonna leave you
What is and what should never be (I like to open with this song)
The rain song
Ramble on
Tangerine
Thank you
Your time is gonna come
Stairway to heaven
Over the hills and far away
Gallows pole
Live
Lightning strikes
Los lonely boys
(How far is)Heaven
The Lumineers
Ho Hey
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Sweet home Alabama
Simple man
Free bird (PLAY SOME SKYNYRD!!!!!)
M
Marcy playground
Sex & candy
Bob Marley
Three little birds
No woman no cry
I shot the sheriff
Redemption song
Bruno Mars
Locked out of heaven
Richard Marx
Now and Forever
Mazzy star
Fade into you
Don McClean
Miss America pie
Bobby Mcfarren
Dont worry be happy
Metallica
One
Sanitarium (master of puppets is the best Metallica album ever!!)
George Michael
Faith
Steve Miller
Fly like an eagle
The joker
Take the money and run
Swingtown
Modern English
I'll melt with you
Morphine
Buena
Van Morrison
Brown eyed girl
Gloria
Mott The Hoople
All the young dudes
Jason Mraz
I'm Yours
Lucky
N
Willie Nelson
If you've got the money honey, I've got the time
Mama's don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
Aaron Neville
Tell it like it is
New order
Bazaar love triangle (I really like the Frente version)
NIN
Hurt
Sin
The only time
Nirvana
Lithium
Heart shaped box
Dumb
About a girl
Polly
O
One Republic
Good life
P
Johnny paycheck
Take this job and shove it
Tom Petty
Last dance with MJ
Breakdown
Freefallinʼ
The Wild one, forever
Don't do me like that
Here comes my girl
Fooled again
You got lucky
Running down a dream
American girl
Learning to fly
Into the great wide open
Yer so bad
Stop dragging my heart around
Wilson Pickett
Mustang Sally
Pink Floyd
Wish you were here
Money
Comfortably numb
Goodbye blue sky
Breathe/Time/Breathe
If
Fat old sun
Eclipse
Thereʼs no way out of here
Pigs
Fearless (Fearless!!!)
Mother
Pigs on the wing (yeah both parts)
In the Flesh
Shine on you crazy diamond
Prince
Kiss
Raspberry beret
Purple rain
Q
Queen
You're my best friend
Crazy little thing called love
R
Radiohead
Creep
High n' Dry
Fake plastic trees
Karma police
Lou Reed / Velvet Underground
Iʼm waiting for my man
Perfect day
Wild child (niece's fav)
Sweet jane
Rock nʼ roll
Walk on the wild side
Sunday morning
Some kinda love
Femme Fatale
Who loves the Sun
Red hot chili peppers
Under the bridge
Soul to squeeze
Rihanna
Stay
The Rolling Stones
Beast of burden
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Sympathy for the devil
Todd Rundgren
Hello, Its me
I saw the light
S
Adam Sandler
At a medium pace
Santana
Black magic woman
Evil ways
Shocking blue
Venus
Silver sun pick-ups
Panic switch
Simon & Garfunkle
Mrs. Robinson
Only living boy in NY
Sly & the family Stone
Thank you
Smashing pumpkins
Drown
Today
Softcell
Tainted love
Elliott Smith
Speed trials
Cat Stevens
Wild world
Stray cats
Stray cat strut
Soggy bottom boys
Man of constant sorrow
Spinal tap
Gimme some money
George Straight
All me Ex's live in Texas
T
Talking heads
Psycho killer
James Taylor
Fire and Rain
Mexico
The Temptations
My Girl
Tenacious D
F@€k her gently
Ten years after
I'd love to change the world
Tool
Sober
Train
Marry me
The Traveling Wilburys
Handle with care
T. Rex
Bang a gong
Summertime Blues
V
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Mary had a little land
Velvet underground (see Lou Reed)
Violent Femmes
Blister in the sun
Kiss off
Add it up
Prove my love
Please do not go
U
UB40
Red red wine
W
Joe Walsh
Life's been good
Hank Williams Jr.
Family tradition
Bill Withers
Ain't no sunshine
The Who
Behind blue eyes
My generation
Brenton Wood
Oogum oogum
Gimme some kind of sign
Y
Neil Young (CSNY)
Influences and inspiration
I love classic rock such as The Beatles, Zeppelin, Floyd and Hendrix.
Setup requirements
Shade if the event is outside, I perform better when I'm not Sweating
1 Power outlet with ground post (three Prongs)