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Pete Thurston

About Me

native san diegan, born in kansas city, mo. i play music with notes and words and stuff. been doing it for a while. check me out on 91x in san diego every friday morning for the "musical movie reviews." um... i play shows and stuff a bunch, too. i think that's enough bio, right?

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 14/08/2004
Band Website: www.petethurston.com
Band Members: pete thurston - guitars, vocals jeff johnson - bass guitar fozzy the bear - rocktabulous sex appeal
Influences: beck, gregory page, steve poltz, jason mraz, rivers cuomo, among the millions of other dorks with guitars.
Sounds Like: pete thurston, kids incorporated, zach attack. wants to sound like: steve poltz, gregory page, municipality of kickass bitchenness.
Record Label: no-fi records/one and only productions

My Blog

the dotcom

Just wanted to post a heads up that the dotcom [the petethurston.com] is accessible by me again.  Which means that soon I'll feel really bad about procrastinating and not doing any updating ...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:04:00 GMT

Pink is the new Pink.

So today was super fuckin random.I got a call this morning to play a Pink song on the radio. I'm used to being asked to play weird things on the radio now, but this was super strange. See, I was to pl...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:18:00 GMT

so. the top 8, huh?

to pre-emptively avoid the "wtf" messages, yes.  i finally did my top 8.  and i did it based on two criteria:   1. i must have been REALLY REALLY drunk in your presence at least once OR...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:31:00 GMT

the best e-mail i've gotten in the last 4 days:

hey pete, just want to let you know that you pretty much lick ass and cant wait to see you play at Lestats. now, i realize what he was going for, but i also realize that every once in a while, somebo...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Nov 2005 23:54:00 GMT

SDMA Nomination!!

hey crew!just a really quick note...i just found out that i was nominated again this year for a San Diego Music Award for Best Acoustic Artist. that is just the coolest. i'm up against all my buddies ...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Aug 2005 14:03:00 GMT

i'm really really lazy. no really... i am.

hey guys, i'm really lazy, so i haven't put any of my upcomings shows on my myspace page, but head over to http://www.petethurston.com and check out all the exciting shows in the next few weeks.  ...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Jun 2005 23:26:00 GMT

npd today

my flow be stolen again. it's no pants day today, according to nopantsday.com. i knew the holiday existed and have loved it for the few years it's been celebrated [wooden shoes be damned, this one's...
Posted by on Fri, 06 May 2005 12:05:00 GMT

wanna be cool and have lots of friends?

i'm starting to teach guitar lessons. i've had a lot of requests previously to do it, and couldn't. but now i am. so if you wanna have the opposite sex drool all over you and buy you expensive gi...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Apr 2005 11:28:00 GMT

yes, i am, in fact, aware...

i have been a very bad music player guy lately. and for that, i'm sorry. it's been WAY too long since i've done any of the following: 1. worked on the new CD at all. 2. written anything new. 3....
Posted by on Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:49:00 GMT

weather

this is how much it rained at my apartment today: .607 inches this is what the sign said on the freeway on my way home from my show: "floods possible due to storm." i'm not making that up. .p...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Dec 2004 00:29:00 GMT