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.
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Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: Major