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Peter Tramo

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About Me

I am Pete. I am a musician and a composer. I don't really play any instrument as well as I would like, but well enough to make a sound and a melody. I write melancholy songs, because that state is the only time I feel anything worth singing about. I like to write random things that pop into my head onto napkins, receipts, bathroom walls, etc... I often forget not to rely on my best intentions.. I like real people...kind people...creative people...people who DON'T claim that they have everything figured out about religion and/or politics, people who put other people before themselves and people who look like elves... I have composed scores for certain award winning indie films, which I love doing because it allows me the freedom to mangle sounds and get away with it. I like cooking. I like eating raw fish...I like forests. I like wine and aged cheeses, together or alone. I have a fetish for vintage instruments, microphones, and analog recording equipment. I like to build my own effect pedals. I like to build my own cables for the studio, so I can attest to their quality and endurance. I like lox and bagels. Good scotch makes me smile. I respect eastern cuisine more-so than any other culture. I like baking my own artisan breads during the first snowfall of the year, adding Calamata olives if I am feeling frisky. I like snow. I like dark beer, dark chocolate and strong coffee... I love my niece, Gena Victoria (who is only 2 years old, and frightens me everyday with her intelligence). I love living... I am generally a happy person who does not allow himself the freedom to be so free all of the time.
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Member Since: 9/28/2006
Band Website: invisiblemountains.com
Band Members: Pete Tramo- vox, guitars, keys and various other noise making objectsTimothy Mercer- b.g. vox and guitarsAnd various musicians from all genres will be added to this work in progress.
Influences: Remy Zero, Spartan Fidelity, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Smiths, Grandaddy, Ryan Adams, Jeff Buckley, Sigur Ros XTC, Glen Phillips, Elliot Smith, nick cave and the bad seeds, Bernard Fanning, The Decemberists, Willie Nelson, Anthony Bourdain, Rocky Votolato, unkle, sigur ros, andy york, thom yorke, unbelievable truth, the sad song co., sean watkins, chris thile, gomez, ray lamontagne, Sarah McLachlan, sparklehorse, red house painters, Jon Brion, Dane Cook, Talk Talk, pink floyd, ryan adams, bjork, peter gabriel, aimee mann, jon brion, nina simone, sam phillips, elliot smith, Greg Brown, Neil Diamond, Cory Sipper, nick drake, toad, neutral milk hotel, coltrane, wilco, richard thompson, alice in chains, mutual admiration society, nickel creek, the verve, leo kotke,UNDERCAST, Tori Amos, Our lady peace, The Beatles, Gillian Welch, gomez, whiskeytown, simon and garfunkel, elton john, aimee mann, radiohead, headless-household, olivier messiaen, randy newman, nickel creek, flapping flapping, mazzy star, built to spill, james taylor, my morning jacket, sonvolt, gomez, duncan shiek, paul simon, jonah wilson, csny, leonard cohen, neil finn, the smiths, grandaddy, dishwalla, tool, grateful dead, garcia, grisman and rice, pefect circle, dj shadow, crowded house, the orb, patti smith, steve poltz, john doe, morrisey, cory sipper, sade, phil roy, the cardinals, ry cooder, emmy lou harris, chopin, 10,000 maniacs, native american flute ensemble, john lennon, blue rodeo, joni mitchell, jackson browne, jay farrar, rem, allison krauss and union station, uncle tupelo, bob dylan, stevie wonder, richard and linda thompson, teddy thompson, the shins, ours, bela fleck, richard ashcroft, procol harum, george harrison....
Sounds Like: Sounds like what Whiskeytown hanging out with Radiohead,while drinking gin and walking through a heavily wooded area, listening to Crowded House, would sound like...
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

"So It Goes" Goodbye Kurt Vonnegut

I woke up this morning with the news of Kurt Vonnegut's passing, at the age of 84. "So it Goes"....   Ironically, yesterday I started, (for the fourth time,) re-reading "The Cat's Cradl...
Posted by Peter Tramo on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:16:00 PST

Seasonal depression...Bring it on....

I suffer from a not yet clinically diagnosed, but self diagnosed form of "seasonal depression," meaning that I get, well, depressed at every turn of the season. Fall is my favorite of all the seasons,...
Posted by Peter Tramo on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:00:00 PST

Note to self...Don't die....

I  am going to make it a point, that by the new year I will start and finish 2 things that I have been putting off for way too long.  Well...at least one thing....
Posted by Peter Tramo on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:54:00 PST