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Osvaldo Paese

"We aren't in Kansas anymore Todo......."

About Me

If you want to know more about me and my music....just listen to it.

I play open mics around town(once or twice a week), in the Chicago Suburbs and in Chicago sometimes. If you are interested in coming, please send an email you know? I have shows as well, and i post them in my calender on here. As much as i like writing songs, and i've written many, i love playing live.

I play an open mic at the SUBTERRANEAN in Chicago. 9:00 PM - 2:00 AM - NO COVER 21 & OVER ....EVERY 1ST, 2ND, 4TH MONDAY.
For booking please just write me a message or send one to my email address at [email protected]
Also, please please, check out my youtube channel(which has even more of my own music) at... http://www.youtube.com/osvaldopaese

"Find Beauty In Unity" - original....
"Family Plan"-original.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/4/2007
Band Website: osvaldopaese
Band Members: Osvaldo Paese and his many clones which refuse to let him be. :*(
Influences: GOD, you can't top that I'm sorry. James Perrino, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Lenny Bruce, Federico Fellini, Ani Defranco, Martin Scorsese, my mother, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Wilco, Bruce Springsteen, U2, George Carlin, Bill Maher, Ennio Morricone, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, The Arcade Fire, Igor Stravinsky, David Bowie, Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, Nirvana, Isaac Newton, Woody Allen, Plato, Bela Bartok, William Blake, Allen Ginsberg, Bo Diddly, James Brown, Madonna, Kanye West, Bob Marley, Marcello Mastriani, Diane Keaton, Al Pacino, Pablo Picasso, Hiernonimus Botch, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Bill Gates, Dustin Hoffman, Sonic Youth, Caravaggio, The Velvet Underground, John Cale, PT Anderson, The Coen Brothers, Zach Galifinakis, The Kinks, Gwen Stefani, Led Zeppelin, Karl Marx, Martin Luther King Jr., Cornell West, Akira Kurasawa, The White Stripes, The Doors, Warren Zevon, Franz Schubert, Eric Johnson, Randy Newman, Alexander Pope, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Beck, The Flaming Lips, Johnny Cash, Towns Van Zandt, Simon and Garfunkel, Richard Strauss, Charlie Chaplin, Christopher Guest, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Franz Kafka, Frank Zappa. People who really have supported me (family and friends, you know who you are). And of course, things and people that i don't like are influences too like greed, oil companies, crooks, fools, passiveness, George Bush. BULLSHIT! That's a big influence too. And lions! And Blue Whales! And Walt Disney! And Gregory Peck! And Marlon Brando! And Uma Thurman! And and, the English language.....
Sounds Like: Someone who has too much fun thinking of an answer. But in short answer, Leonardo the ninja turtle singing the songs Britney Spears will be writing in the year 2169. Just like that, you can tell from the first note.

I've also got 18 video's on my YOUTUBE channel for anyone to see. I will be posting more on there, periodically. I spend more time on there too.
Here's a link to that:http://www.youtube.com/osvaldopaese

And here's a link to purchase my album from the great website cdbaby. It's a 70 minute long CD with 13 songs on it. The majority of it is not available anywhere else.

Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Youtube info and such....

I have a lot more music of my own to listen to on my youtube channel.  18 video's to be exact.  And i'm gonna post more on there too....gradually.  http://www.youtube.com/osvaldopaese ...
Posted by Osvaldo Paese on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:34:00 PST

New Album: Definitions, now available online....

My album "Definitions" is now available through a great website called CD Baby.  It's the only album online.   I played all the instruments on the cd.  I wrote all the music and l...
Posted by Osvaldo Paese on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:50:00 PST

A piece of fiction i wrote called, "Nobody Knows The Trouble I See"

                              Nobody Knows The Trouble I See  ...
Posted by Osvaldo Paese on Tue, 08 May 2007 08:48:00 PST