bill craig

About Me

Bill Craig :At age 16 Bill had an original song on the top-40 radio station with the widest listening audience in the US(WABC AM), but that was not yesterday nor the day before, and it has been all sideways from there. His former band "Blue Hotel" was featured on K-Rock in New York and 3 of his songs were contracted by publishers in Nashville.(No hits!) He has performed, produced, and written radio spots and jingles sporadically for a variety of advertisers.Until recently he performed and recorded as part of the folk/pop duo "Mungo Park". The Cd "paranormal" by Mungo Park is available thru CDbaby.com. (TAXI raves;"Unique, good music, clever lyric.") It includes 12 of his original songs.Bill is also known in some circles as Kevin Rinaldo, playing that role in the Spinal Tap meets The Rutles, mockumentary band "The Legendary Rinaldo Brothers". And The Legend continues! His real name not withstanding, he is not now nor has he ever been a member of the Irish Rovers.("Oh those sally uneecorns!").Bill Craig is presently at home working with his personal trainer, aroma therapist, and all manner of self-help gurus... NEW SONGS ON THE WAY!

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Music:

Member Since: 03/02/2007
Band Website: www.cdbaby.com/mungopark
Band Members: B.C.-12 String acoustic guitar and vocals. Mike Casey- percussion at many shows. Recordings feature Rave Tesar- keyboards, Alex Craig - Electric guitar and bass. Ed Sikora bass. And Chuck Bobrowski and Mike Casey on Drums. Pat Mc Garrigle(Sean Rinaldo)- Bass and backing vocals on "Ragtop"(Oops, that one is not on this page anymore. It will be back). Kermit Driscoll- Bass on "Dreamtime". "Someone Kind" is a demo from 1982 (I know!). It features Marc Kustin on bass and BC on all other instruments and all vocals. The two Blue Hotel tracks (1989) are Jean Burton on lead guitar and vocals, and BC on lead vocals and a bit of nylon string electric guitar on "Sounds" and one note synth ..". Rick Van Horn is on drums and Rich Clark on bass. The live Blue Hotel was Bill, Jean and Rod Coppola (R.I.P.) on bass and vocals, and Michelle Spadaro on drums.

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Influences: Beatles, Dylan, Laura Nyro, Jimmy Webb, Joe Meek, Joe Orton, Scott Walker, Tim Hardin, Buffalo Springfield, The Brill Building, Buddy Holly, Martin Amis, T.C. Boyle, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Kingsley Amis, Charles Portis, Graham Gouldman, SCTV, Gerry Marsden, Jesse Colin Young, Jerry Corbitt, Arthur Alexander, Arthur Lee, Bryan Maclean, Gene Clark, Alan Price, Eric Burden, Todd Rundgren, Nazz, The Who, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, Tom Waits, Jimmy Reed.

Sounds Like: A lot of fun! Count me in!
Record Label: Radiant City/Sock Puppet
Type of Label: Indie

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