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Pete Krebs

Freshly minted.

About Me


I make hundreds of dollars a year as a professional musician, teaching guitar lessons to the future rock stars of America and playing with Portland's own Stolen Sweets.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/6/2005
Band Website: petekrebsmusic.com: stolensweets.com;
Band Members: Pete Krebs
Influences: Oh, geez...the Beatles, the Kinks, Greg Sage/the Wipers, the Replacements, Husker Du, the Jam/Paul Weller, Mark Lanagan, Mike Johnson, 28th Day, Barbara Manning, the Inbreds, Wire, X, the Blasters, Los Lobos, Gang of Four, Dead Moon, Nick Drake, Michael Hurley, the Holy Modal Rounders, Jimmy Boyer, Neil Gilpin, Billy Kennedy, Tim Acott, Count Basie, Freddie Green, Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt, Patrick Saussois, Fapy Lafertin, Coleman Hawkins, Louis Armstrong, Chet Baker, Lester Young, Sidney Bechet, Art Tatum, Nat King Cole, Oscar Moore, Tiny Grimes, Whit Smith/Hot Club of Cowtown, Eddie Lang, Bucky Pizzarelli, Little Fats Waller and my Dog Willy the Shrimp.

Slim Galliard

The Beatles

Oscar Moore & Nat King Cole

Charlie Christian

The Clash

Cats and the Fiddle

Bucky Pizzarelli

Count Basie

Freddie Green

Sounds Like: Me, hopefully.
Record Label: Rough Trade, Sub Pop, Cavity Search
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Latest PK News 4/19/08

OK... so, I know I've been very lame here in the MySpace universe. Hard to get ahold of, crotchety, etc. BUT this, among many things in my life, will change. So, let's talk about some of the new st...
Posted by Pete Krebs on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:23:00 PST

Willamette Week Story + online interview

Heya, Just a head's up that on Wed. 2/9 Willamette Week here in Portland will be publishing a story about my musical exploits in conjunction with a week long series beginning the following Monday whi...
Posted by Pete Krebs on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 05:27:00 PST

Recent News

Hey Folks,Instead of my rather lame attempts at writing not-too-funny blogs about food, etc., I thought I'd just give an update on my musical news.I'm primarily playing with the Stolen Sweets these da...
Posted by Pete Krebs on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:06:00 PST

The Unbearable Lightness of Eating

I have a high metabolism. This usually pans out in a few different way -- gluttony, obsession, dizzyness. I'm one of those people who can eat whatever they want, whenever they want and usually appea...
Posted by Pete Krebs on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:42:00 PST