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The Steak House Mints

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Ladies and Gents! Introducing The Steak House Mints! They are super cool. They are good at sports. The Mints are proud to announce the arrival of their debut album, "Out of the Sky". This album will blow your mind, man. This album will eat your favorite album alive. This album will change the course of history, human and otherwise. This album is an honor roll student at Roberto Clemente Community Academy. This album is available at CD Baby! Please click on the CD Baby link below to get your copy. Witness the first single from the record, "If I were President". Please check out the video for said tune up there to the left a little...

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Member Since: 26/12/2007
Band Website: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlnyWEuMAuw
Band Members:The Steak House Mints are a band without a past. Hopefully the same can not be said about our future. We are from Chicago. Steve Gillis is the former drummer for Filter and he is the most ass kicking drummer in Chicago. He is also a tough-guy. Vijay Tellis-Nayack is the baby of the band. He plays keyboards and sitar. He is one sentence away having a PhD in rockology. Some would call him a boy genius, but that would be a stretch. Scott Tipping is our guitarist. He's the funny one. He is prone to outbursts. I would say Shawn Sommer plays bass, but that would be a gross understatement. He makes sweet, efficient love to the bass. To tell the truth, I am a little worried his head is going to fall off when he plays. Until that time, he will play with the passion of an Irish clog dancer on "So You Think You Can Dance". My name is Billy Dave, I sing and write this stuff. Thanks for stopping by!
Influences: The Beatles, The Zombies, Os Mutantes, The Magnetic Fields, The Flaming Lips, Brian Wilson, Chet Baker, Astrud Gilberto, The Police, Serge Gainsbourg, The Flying Burrito Brothers, David Bowie, The Velvet Underground
Sounds Like: Morning in America, bacon sizzling on a skillet, coffee percolating, a choir of laughing babies, God sneezing, what do you say to God when he sneezes? It sounds like that.
View The Steak House Mints's EPK
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Rock N Vote Finalists We Are

Howdy,The Steak House Mints have been selected from among hundreds of submissions as one of Chicago's top ten unsigned bands. Please vote for us here http://chicago.metromix.com/music/article/vote-on...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:18:00 GMT

The Mints on Television

So, I just signed contracts for licensing agreements with Real World, Road Rules, Bad Girls Club, and Keeping Up with the Kardashians. We won't know which shows use them until just before the shows ...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:49:00 GMT

Great Chicago Sun Times Review of Out of the Sky

December 14, 2008 BY JIM DeROGATIS Pop Music CriticThough one might question the wisdom of naming your band after that bowl of stale candy at the counter of an old-fashioned restaurant (best avoided f...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:00:00 GMT

Leicester Bangs review: http://www.leicesterbangs.co.uk/dec08-11.html

The Steak House Mints - Out Of The Sky (Independent)There were a lot of power-pop type bands coming out of Chicago in the '80s and '90s, but it's all slowed down over recent years. In fact, The Steak ...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:08:00 GMT

The New CD is Here!

Hey Everybody! (anybody?)The new CD Out of the Sky is here! Please follow the link on our profile page to purchase a copy from CD Baby. Thanks for your support!- Billy Dave
Posted by on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:48:00 GMT

American President Chokes on Vomit, Not His Own

Good Morning,Today the world was saddened to learn that President Billy Dave Sherman was found, face down in a pool of vomit. Sadly, the vomit was not his own. From what we know at the present time,...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:32:00 GMT