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steinway

Music is everybody's possession

About Me

steinway began in 2000 as a vehicle for my four track lo-fi pastiches featuring SK1 loops, fisher priced dj-ing, toy instruments, live and programmed percussion along with my jack of all trades guitar, bass, drums, and vocals.
i currently play drums in a band called pretendo (who just finished our new recording aided & abetted by mixmaster martin bisi) and anyone else who'll let me.
some of the artists i've had the pleasure of playing with in the past include; 1,000 words (s/t & live shows), the wonderbreads (live shows), the dub club (live shows), pops carter & the funkmonsters ("live at club dada" & live shows), little jack melody & his young turks ("on the blank generation", vid below, "world of fireworks", fashion parade" on "delicacy & nourishment: the lyrics of ernest noyse brookings" & live shows), brave combo (percussion on "no no no cha cha cha" & live shows), the humphries ("s/t" & live shows), skeleton key ("the motel ep", "fantastic spikes through balloon" & live shows...dave sardy rocks!), shudder to think (percussion "50,000 BC"...ted nicely rules!), mono puff ("unsupervised", vid below, "it's fun to steal" & live shows..flansy for brooklyn borough president), they might be giants ("new york city" on "factory showroom"), john stuart mill ("a check" & "eternal story" on "forget everything"), enon ("believo", certain singles, "marbles explode" on "lost marbles and exploded evidence" & live shows), phoebe legere ("god woman" on "revelations book II"), vic chesnutt (live shows), sea foxx ("dead in the water" & live shows), frank bango ("fugitive girls", "the sweet songs og decay" & live shows), tom warnick ("may i see some id" & live shows), the fuxedos (live shows), paul slavens (live show), scrote (live shows), the radishes (live shows), morricone youth (live show), yoko ono at the oya festival in oslo, norway (vid below), steve poltz (live@joe's pub, nyc), and most recently daniel johnston (live@warsaw, nyc).
MONO PUFF-THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO NEWPORT
YOKO ONO@OYA IN OSLO
LITTLE JACK MELODY - BABYLON

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/26/2004
Band Website: pretendo.tv
Band Members: stephen sumio calhoon
Influences: trouble funk (emmet nixon), E.U. (william "ju ju" house), rare essence (quentin footz davidson), chuck brown & the soul searchers, junkyard band, secret code crew, northeast groovers, coldcrush brothers, stetsasonic (devastating beat creator), ultramagnetic mc's, public enemy, biz markie, big daddy kane, dolemite, the beastie boys, a tribe called quest, the roots (questlove), coldcut, thievery corporation, dr. octagon, nrbq, the kinks, the who (keith moon), early whfs (weasel!), (the) razz, m. colburn, tommy keane, ted nicely, lynwood briley, danny gatton, the slickee boys (dan palenski), switchblade, root boy slim, zappa, captain beefheart, black market baby, the meatmen, the ramones, bad brains (earl), helmet (john stanier), the jesus lizard (mac mcneilly), television (billy ficca), the pixies (david lovering), the clash (topper headon), xtc (terry chambers), big audio dynamite (greg roberts), wharton tiers, miles davis, stockhausen, stravinsky, esquivel, ennio morricone, carl stallings, spike jones, glenn semonelli jr., bill reichenbach sr. (charlie byrd trio), gene krupa, max roach, art blakey, jimmy cobb, kenny clarke, joe morello, colin bailey, elvin jones, charlie watts, ringo starr, john bonham, peter criss, hal blaine, al green (al jackson), james brown (clyde stubblefield), bob marley (carlton barrett), steve jordan, tony thompson, stewart copeland, martin chambers, clem burke, david robinson, and the master drummers of burundi.
Sounds Like: varese and antonio carlos jobim on acid and hangin out with al bell and prince paul
Record Label: Morpheus Has A Posse
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Ron English

Went out to my favorite Park Slope Club Barbes to see a sreening of a documentary about a genius artist friend of mine from Denton, Texas Mr. Ron English. Ron lived in a house right near the camp...
Posted by steinway on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:00:00 PST

Morricone Youth@Sin-é

had a blast last night subbing for greg "mallets" o'keefe in my pretendo band mates devon & john's "other" band morricone youth at sin-é. unfortunately, i missed poingly due to dietary needs but ...
Posted by steinway on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 02:26:00 PST

Yoko In Oslo!

I just got back from Oslo, Norway where I had the distinct honor and pleasure of playing with my former band mates in Skeleton Key- Chris Maxwell and Erik Sanko, along with Doveman himself Thomas Bart...
Posted by steinway on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 04:23:00 PST

look + listen: an Echo Park Film Center youth film project

i received a package yesterday from friends of mine paolo & lisa at the echo park film center out in LA containing a DVD entitled "look listen: an EPFC youth film project" featuring short fil...
Posted by steinway on Sat, 31 Dec 2005 01:11:00 PST