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About Me

The Damien Pratt began in 1994 when the Nevertheless broke up (1990-1995). Damien resided in Connecticut for most of those years and ran Connecticut's only indie rock bed and breakfast, hosting and sharing the bill with such acts as Low, Apples in Stereo, Archers of Loaf, Tuscadero, The Softies, Blond Redhead, and Velocity Girl to name a few. Damien moved down to NYC in 1998 where he played with various musicians which made up The Damien Pratt collectively. Damien formed The Squeaky Fromme in 2004 with Nina, Dave jr and Brother Jim and released an EP called PHOTOGRAPHY. Damien in these various incarnations played such venues as Brownies (rip), Mercury Lounge, Luna Lounge, Cake Shop, Sidewalk Cafe, CB's Gallery, Sin-e (rip), and Pianos to name a few.

REVIEWS:

"Damien goes it alone on stage and frequently evokes less weighty moments of Robin Zander and/or Marshall Crenshaw's oeuvres regardless. His good natured clowing while lamenting baby birds fallen from nests doesn't hurt"

- Chuck Eddy Village Voice

"...Great Big Star/Guided By Voices inspired songwriting, great musicianship (almost all by Pratt) and some wonderful instrumentation. Pratt's Voice complements his songs, it has a lot of range and can handle both slow intimate songs as well as revved up powerpop"

-Shredding Paper

"...Give Pratt a Casio keyboard and he produces a bouncy, soul singing number that could give Mdnite-Vultures-era Beck a run for his Hollywood money..."

-Fairfield Weekly

"...These tunes, most likely holdovers from Damien's solo run, help frame the band's delicate side and give a good idea of the breadth of their artistic and dynamic range. The wild diversity is reminiscent of The Replacements' Hootenanny, tough far less sloppy..."

-Cincinnati Citybeat

"..you're a self-centered cocksucker, you know that?"

-Ellen Munley
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Member Since: 8/30/2005
Band Website: trolley-bus.net/thedamienpratt.htm
Band Members: The Damien Pratt has had several members come and go from over the years. Some of the members, under legal advisement, have requested not to have their names mentioned. Those who we can mention are Matt Galvin, Jim Plouffe, Peter Riccio, Dave jr, Brett Tyson, Brian Sinclair, Bill Villano, Scott English, Brian Fostervoid and Nina57. Damien has been flying solo with a cheap sampler and a loop pedal, trying to to recreate a sense of camraderie with machines."I Don't Know" LIVE @ PHS - 1989

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Influences:
Black Flag, Husker Du, The Replacements, Cheap Trick, Holiday Rain, The Control Group, The Postal Service, Costello, Jerry Jeff Walker, Coltrane, Bach, The Nils, Uncle Tupelo, ABBA, Michael Bolton's first album ONLY, Swervedriver, Grant Hart, Perfect, Minutemen, Elliot Smith, Beach Boys, Montrose, Humble Pie, ELO, 38 Special, The Outfield, Arcade Fire, The Mountain Goats, GBV, Lys Guillorn, Farmertan, Queen, Bowie, Def Leppard, Badly Drawn Boy, John Croner, Black Sabbath, Aerosmith (first four albums only), Morningwood, Richard Thompson, Joni Mitchell, Ken Cormir, The Art Assemble of Chicago, Pixies/Breeders, Throwing Muses, joe Jackson, Hawkwind, The Soft Explosions, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, the guy who sang "We Don't have to Take our CLoths Off", The WHO, Thin Lizzy, Humble Pie. Big Star, Johnny Cash, Fleetwood Mac, The Hold Steady, Brian Wilson, Moody Blues, Joe Meek, Radiohead...

Sounds Like: Drawing from so many influences, it is really hard to pin down. Damien sure likes pop music and has been known to cover Amy Grant and Hall and Oats songs!
Record Label: Poverty Records, Serendipity DoDa, Trolleybus (JP)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Jesse Reynolds for City Council!!!

My friend Jesse, whom was my manager at a video store very long ago is running for city council in Wallignford Connecticut. Jesse is a great guy, smart as a whip and very funny. We had a l...
Posted by The Damien Pratt on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:25:00 PST

Bergman!!

Thanks so much Bergman for blowing my mind when i was visiting England during my teen years and ended up in a quiet town an hour south of London by bus (forget the name of the town) where I went to a ...
Posted by The Damien Pratt on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:30:00 PST

Into the land of Podcast....

So my old Friend Elizabeth from Una Pong got in touch with me and informed me that she is doing Podcasts of Una Pong material. We recorded every pratice we did for years on a two track reel to r...
Posted by The Damien Pratt on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:32:00 PST

THANKS KURT!!!

GOD did he make me laugh....and kept me company in high school....may you rest in peace!!
Posted by The Damien Pratt on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:23:00 PST

She's Not There!!

The Zombies for me set themselves apart from the rest of the "British Invasion". There songs always had a haunting element for me, and i don't mean that in a bad way. It certainly has some...
Posted by The Damien Pratt on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:10:00 PST

It's Our First . 4

I have been trying so hard to find my deluxe edition of The Who, Live At Leads...and i feel like i am just repeating everything that has been written about this album...but for me, behind Queen "Live ...
Posted by The Damien Pratt on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:52:00 PST

NO CHEAP THRILL!!

I have been listening to a lot of Suzanne Vega lately....i remember hearing her first album back when i was a freshman....before the "luka" mania.....after that her albums were luke warm to me until s...
Posted by The Damien Pratt on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 06:08:00 PST

New Buckingham Album

I gotta say, i was a little hesitant picking up the latest Lindsey Buckingham record...not that it wouldn't be filled with great songs, but i was longing for him to do something more along the lines o...
Posted by The Damien Pratt on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:18:00 PST

HOLD STEADY Damien!!!!

So....i saw the Hold Steady on Sunday at Irving Plaza after leaving Ellen's dinner party early. I only heard a couple of songs from them that Dave jr played me but Dave was insistent that i atte...
Posted by The Damien Pratt on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 08:08:00 PST

Donnie Iris

Well, coming home on friday i was feeling pretty grim from the autumn weather that is arriving....that is another story entirely...but thank god for youtube and john mori....we watched several Survivo...
Posted by The Damien Pratt on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 04:14:00 PST