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J.R. Hill & The Oktars

About Me



Debut Album out now 22 songs!!!!buy now!! / buy later

our new album Is out now and we are booking a big summer tour.Click Here for Our Electronic PRESSKIT

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/31/2006
Band Website: http://www.jrileyhill.com
Band Members:

j.r. hill is : james riley hill on guitar singing (on solo recordings lots of other stuff)

the oktars is:Steve St. Basham on Bass, Jesse Hill (my second cousin) on guitar, and Cole Woods on Drums, Kara Peters Parkinson on pianoboards and Vocals


Influences: Chickens, Cows
good mood, bad mood syndrome
Dogs cats my pals, archie comix

When saying infuences i mean these people make me want to make music when I hear them:

Sly and the family Stone, Prince, Captain Beefheart, Motown, Brian Wilson, Bruce Springsteen, jerry lee lewis, Miles Davis, Micheal Jackson, Jandek, Keiji Haino.
Sounds Like: Various things

Check out Billy Bakes A Pie (spy) an epic puppet movie.


Record Label: Mortfell Oktorium Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New songs, New albums

hello everyone who might care to know.currently I am working on 2 new albums. 1 of them is with the Oktars it is a series of songs half new, half re-recordings of older songs of mine that I feel neede...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:28:00 GMT

Animals

there are certain people, made of never, that would like to address.Where did you get it all of that, I would likely to know?Is there a t-shirt I can wear?
Posted by on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:31:00 GMT

Buying Mortfell Oktorium Stuff. CD’s etc.

so farMortfell Oktorium is run out of this email [email protected] you would like to buy anything, I will send it to you wherever you are.Send me a check in da mail!!!!! or somethin...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:04:00 GMT

OCTOBER TOUR!!!!!! EAST COAST!!!!!

hii am going on tour in October.If you are looking for want to help me book show and youdo or ive in a city between here and there that would be nice.I am gonna be gone for sooooo long, like a month, ...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:49:00 GMT

Mortfell Oktorium NEWSfork 001

As was stated in the jan. 2001 issue of instyle:the level of the regulators most commonly dissaperated on a weekly menage. The full instalators caused a shocking ingagement; wit and not overly.As made...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:29:00 GMT

Album

Hello everybody who reads stuffI have been working hard and stuff on my new album, my first album, it is very close to release now I think, I am soon going to book a date for the release.Yup
Posted by on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:47:00 GMT

Show at LAbel

Hello Friends.I am playing a show at Label art gallery sat the 7th of April, with ian La Rue and Stephan and others.It will gonna be $5 dollarsPlease come or don't I don't give a fuckactually I doI ca...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:15:00 GMT

a new song, a new tour, a new day, a new light

I amnot touring anymore, i am gonna realease an album first, sorry to all my western canadian fans, of which there are none...un bun fun   There seems to be something funky with these new songs, ...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:35:00 GMT

Sorry about the 15th show!!!!!

sorry to anyone who tried to go to the show at hemp rock, there a problem with communication, with management, meaning they were being kind of jerky, so they just closed down without telling us, obviu...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 21:35:00 GMT

Disgust Show is actually Sept 15th!!!!!!!!!

Disgust Show is actually Sept 15th!!!!!!!!!
Posted by on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:34:00 GMT