ART PAUL SCHLOSSER

Hi,I'm ART PAUL SCHLOSSER a street musician,artist,poet,comedian, & sometimes people think I give directions.I was born in Chicago and we moved to Madison and I mostly play on State street but I have performed all over the midwest including Milwaukee,The Twin Cities,Aurora,Illinoise and various other small towns in Wisconsin and nearby states and I also have performed in Boulder Colorado & Seatle Washington but there is no telling if I'll ever go back or not !I have also been on TV,Movies & Dr Demento has played 7 of my songs on his radio show and 2 of them made the Funny 5. Perhaps he may or may not play more so if you like request them at http://www.clamhead.com/drd.php and remember whether I do get on Dr Demento or not you can always check out my music on the internet at Apple iTunes ..Or Rhapsody,Napster,Music Net,Verizon & other cool download stores. Or buy a CD or 2 at CD Baby like some of these and soon there will be more:)Actaully maybe you want to know the order they came out ?Well my first recordings were just like Daniel Johnston's even though I never heard of him at the time. They were cassette tapes that I recorded on a Boombox cassette player.I doubt there are to many of them left but some people might have a couple and the 1st one was called Hi,How Are You which is the same name that Daniel Johnston gave to his cassette tape.But I actaully wrote a song called Hi, How Are You not just name the cassette tape that and if I had known about Daniel's I might have not named it that.It came out in 1988 and right away I put out another one called Going Down The Road Feeling Good or was the second one Living in Wisconsin.Anyways it's hard to remember but there was maybe 7 Boombox recordings including The Blues + 2 which included Vegetables and Lemonade,Covers & He Died on A Cross for MeSo as I was doing this some people were complaining about the quality of my recordings so in the fall of 1988 a friend of mine let me record a cassette tape in the basement of WORT 89.9 it was the first version of My Cat Was Taking A Bath.But if you have it and compare it to the songs on this CD you might have the rarer one that I lost the original from1.So my first CD was My Cat Was Taking A Bath & Dead Skunk Perfume plus 23 others songs and it came out in 1990 but actaully the songs on this recording were recorded after the songs the cassette Happy Birthday.2.So if your interested in the knowing the facts I recorded Happy Birthday the cassette tape in Dec 1989 but the CD didn't come out until 1991.Back in those days it was easier and faster to put out cassette tapes becasue you could make as little as you wanted to but CDs you were required to make at least 500 if not a Thousand.I am not sure how many copies of My Cat Was Taking A Bath & Dead Skunk Perfume there are but I believe it was 500 or a Thousand and they are all gone but the few at CD Baby and the one or 2 copies I have at home.My Third CD was another combined 2 cassettes but I was more selective and chose 2 I thought would be popular.I thought I Want To Be Madonna ? & Greene plus 41 other songs and jokes was going to be a fast seller because the cassette tape of I Want To Be Madonna ? sold well but people didn't understand the song I want To Be Madonna ? I was on MTV doing it but they thought it was a tribute to Madonna when it was kind of being funny.One of the strangest songs on this CD is Santa is in Jail has helped to sell the CD a little in Madison but for the most part I had this one on CD Baby for years and know one check it out.3.My 4th CD I'm a Prince by the Artist still known as Art Paul Schlosser was my first CD to not come from 2 cassette tapes though I did throw in a few popular songs from cassette tapes at the end of the CD but to the most part more of the songs are only on this CD.It also was different because I recorded the first 23 songs on Electric Guitar.The Title was an idea that Derek from Ivory Library ask me about. He said are you going to change your name too so I decided that is Prince was no longer a Prince but was now an Artist well then I would become a prince but keep my name the same.4.My 5th CD put out in Decmeber 1996 or 1997 brought me back to folk music but I played alot of it blues style and wrote alot of strange love songs for the Cd so I called it Be My Valentine.I had a very successful CD release party at OCayz Corral with Digibot and another really cool band at the time. The CD also got a nice review by the Isthmus.The cover is a drawing by Dan Huran who drew me from behind me and gave me the picture.5.Well along this time 2000 I was trying to get my music on the Dr Demento radio show and I had given him copies of some of the other CDs but he just didn't play them because he was worried that his audience might not like them but I'm not the type to give up.So because Reinventing myself was very popular I send it to Dr Demento and for some reason I had forgot I said "And here is my new number one hit " and the next thing you know he started to play that song Have A Peanut Butter Sandwich in April 2001. The CD was around for awhile since 1999 and it was getting a few sales because it was an all Electric Keyboard CD which is why it is called Reinventing Myself.The Cover was designed by Jeff Berry who had entered my CD Cover contest mention in David Medaris's column in the Isthmus.I like the cover because it looks like a rocket ship but if I had really looked at the cover I might have changed my mind because it also is a kazoo but there isn't any kazoo on Reinventing Myself6.So in 2000 or so I was E-mailed an E-mail from a guy who started a little label he called little hands and he said he wanted to make a best of CD but I wasn't sure I wanted to do that or not but I had just recorded these 2 cassete tapes and one had a bunch of new weird songs one or two on Ukulele and the other hand a cross between some of my hits which I recorded on Ukulele and a bunch of old traditional blue grass folk tunes which I played on Ukulele using some finger picking.Well I sent him the cassette tapes and he liked them and gave me copies from his label.They were all burned CDs put in cardboard folders and numbered except for about 5 I recently had made for CD Baby.I think there are only about 75 but there might be a few in Michagan that no one bought.It was a really strange experiance first some DJ comes from Michagan I believe Ann Arbor and I send him my CD after E-mailing him a couple times.I believe the radio station is WCBN then I get the E-mail from this guy who is putting out these CDs and he send me 25 and them 50 more. Then some guy starts sending me money first $50 dollars for 2 CDs and then he wants to have me come to Michigan and play and he sends me $100 which is part of $300 he is going to send me then I hear from him no more.Well anyway here is the CD that little hands produced.What I think is really odd is right after the guy who wanted me to come to Michagan buys a copy of They Won't Play This On The Country Western Radio is when he quite writing me.I rteid to send him an E-mail but the computer said he wasn't excepting E-mail from me. I think it would have been fun to play there but we'll never know.7.Well right after this I recorded my first full length cassette that I put on CD later.It was called Smile You're On Kandid Kamera and it was recorded in the summer of 2001 or was it 2000 anyway it started to get popular so I sent the CD which didn't come out until 2002 to Dr Demento because it had the song The Backstreet Boys(I Want To Kill Them) unfortunitely I'm not the only person to come up with this idea.Still the CD has sold pretty good and maybe you would like to check it out:8.So about July 2001 I ment the Great LukeSki and he bought all my CDs. Then I had him on my TV show in the fall and he contacted me every now and then and one time we were discussing radio airplay and he suggested I put out a Best of CD which would make it easier for radio shows to know what to play of my music.So I thought well what would be my best song and Luke produce a CD for me.The CD cover is a picture of me and Simon at this Christmas party at WYOU December 2002.The CD was produce and given out as a demo by Luke in 2002 and Purple Bananas On The Moon was played on The Dr Demento show but the CD didn't come out until 2003.9.The Best of was the First of my CDs to go into Apple iTunes and the other download stores. I also put out 2 live CDs in 2003.The First one was Art Paul Schlosser live at The Hog and it was released with a performance at The Wild Hog in the Woods Coffee House.10.The Other one was a live performance at the Club De Wash.Both of these CDs where tapes that where made while I was performing.The live at the Hog one I had intended to put out earlier but didn't feel it was good enough but after listening to it again thought it was very good because it includes my mistakes and shows just what it is like to see me live.The Club De Wash one sounds just what it was like to perform at Club De Wash.The Club De Wash one was a little short so I had a couple of songs that I recorded with Robert Monthey who I used to call Bob that I threw in on the recording just because I didn't have a place for them and the CD was a little short.The Live at The Club De Wash Cd was the first CD which I attempted to have a Band back me.It really should have come out in 1994 but I wasn't sure after the concert I wanted to go this route.11.My next release was Vote for Me/It's a Joke and it brought me back on Dr Demento's Funny 5 for a limited time because of the Governor race in California but mostly Dr Demento just played it now and then during the regular show.Vote for Me/It's a Joke was a cassette tape that I put on a 7" 5 song blue vinyle EP record because records had made a comeback in 1996 and I thought since it was an Election year I would release my first and only record.Actaully believe it or not I did sell more that 300 of the 500 copies but yes I still have a few and you can get a copy of the 7" by mail at Art Paul Schlosser 5510 Pheasant Hill Rd,Madison,WI 53716.The CD was released July 4,2003 and all 100 copies sold out so I had 5 more made for CD Baby so it could be put into the download stores.12.As you can see from my last couple of recordings, starting with Live at the Hog that I started to put out older recordings.The reason was is CDs became more affordable because you didn't have to put out as many.Also why bother recording new music if you have a recording sitting around that could be released.This is also the best way to get more recordings out is if you put them out in smaller amounts.But having some new songs to record and a couple of unfinished CDs I thought I would go back to Randy's recording one more time I think December or January 2004.One of the CDs I was planning on releasing was my 3 gospel cassettes on one CD and since I just wrote some new gospel songs and you can fit 78 minutes of material on a CD I thought maybe I could put my 2 gospel songs that were really popular at the time on it.One called Do You Want To Walk On Water ? sounded like a good title for the CD.I released the CD in the spring of 2004 and the song Eat Nutritiously was played on Dr Demento13.Then there was a recording project half finished which had 7 cheese songs that were parodies of of Buddy Holly,Elvis,The Doors,The Monkees and the Beatles and another weird Parody which didn't mention cheese at all called Mary had a big Lamb.What I originally wanted to do was release a cassette tape called Words of Cheese by Buddy Holly Cheesehead but I don't know why I added Mary Had A Big Lamb but since I started it back in the mid 90s I thought I should finish it. I was also going to put out Art Paul Schlosser is destroying the Beatles because I started writing alot of parodies to Beatle songs but I didn't have enough for a CD so since I also was planning on releasing a deranged christmas CD with parodies of christmas, I thought how about just a whole Parody CD. Dr Demento like the weird idea of calling myself Buddy Holly Cheesehead so he played Let's Eat Cheese Mama.14.The ABCs of Art Paul Schlosser's World was the last CD that was part of the last recording ay Randy's Recording.This one I released in the Fall of 2004 when I performed live at the King club with the Great LukeSki & Motor Primitives.It has every song as a letter of the Alphabet.Dr Demento played Let's Loitter which was the last song Dr Demento has ever played of my music.He played it twice onece in the fall of 2004 and again in January of 2005.15.I didn't release much in 2005 because I was compiling Art Paul Schlosser{The Tribute !} which came out in the fall of 2006.Infact at the King Club where both me and the great LukeSki performed we recorded I'm More Demented than you(Pink Pants) which is one of the songs on the CD.I have recently sent it to Dr Demento but he hasn't played it yet.16.So now as I am collecting songs for Art Paul{The Remix Project} which I will be releasing in 2008 I am slowing releasing the rest of my cassette tapes and putting them on CD and then into Apple iTunes and other download stores.Here they are as they have been coming out:Warning came out in March and has gotten a little publisity.17.Here is a video of Pirates one of the songs on Warning:Then after hearing some of the songs Jim Anderson decided to add music to them and since I like his idea I gave him more songs to listen to and possiblely add music to. It Takes A Whole World is the result and it has inspired me to get others to also add to my songs so now I am compiling and hoping to release Art Paul{The Remix Project} for sometime next year.18.Here is another 2 cassette tapes released on CD:19.& here is my most recent release which is a new Best of CD compiled by the great LukeSki from my CDs 8-15 excluding The Best of Art Paul Schlosser:20.One of these days I hope to finish this collection but with the help of Robert Monthey I am managing to squeeze a few more songs from cassette tape onto CD and here is the latest CD which is number 21:If you are a collector I can now give you a deal on 10 of the CDs for $95 if you message me your list first so I can tell you whether I have the CDs.