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Pat B

About Me

I'm from Detroit, Michigan. I live in Santa Cruz, California. Dig it.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 28/12/2005
Band Website: www.leftcoasting.com
Band Members: Patrick Blizinski ...hammond organ / clavinet / pianos / accordion / harmonica / vocals / guitar with several bands.Most recently, I've been playing with Ten Mile Tide... a San Francisco based band. Well written songs, instersting jams... all-in-all some great music to shake your bones too.The band I call my own is Left Coasting, a San Francisco based funkrockensoul band (www.leftcoasting.com)I squeeze an accordion and tickle the ivories with a Santa Cruz based Americana project led by Bryn Loosley called The Back Pages (www.brynloosley.com)A lifelong Deadhead, I bring my motown funk stylings to the China Cats as a part time member of the band - a Santa Cruz based Grateful Dead Cover band, that is.And you can find me playing with the Dedicated Maniacs from time to time... OR with Doop in River Rouge, MI OR the other Inside Outlaws downriver OR the peeps on the East Side of Detroit who I've known forever.Music is the best. Let's play!
Influences: The Meters, Ryan Adams, The Band, The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead, The Black Crowes, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Wilco, Bruce Hornsby, Stevie Wonder, Motown (The Funk Brothers), Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Bob Seger, Neil Young, Billy Preston, Ivan Neville, My Morning Jacket, James Brown, John Lennon, Chuck Leavell, Doop, Gretchen, Ty Stone, the Midwest, the precipitation on the island of England, the funk in New Orleans, and the soul of Detroit.
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Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Santa Cruz Summertime and a Jack White Poem

Hey now A quick update for those of you who still read this stuff. I moved to Santa Cruz last month!  For those of you back in the midwest, it's about eighty miles south of San Francisco right on...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:20:00 GMT

Frozen in these crossroads

I haven't written anything in a really long time on here.  I guess I spent more time on myspace when I first moved away from Michigan, in hopes of keeping a connection to my midwestern ...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:07:00 GMT

Marek Blizinski - Polish Pride

Polish Jazz Guitarist, Marek Blizinski "His playing is characterised by a synthesis of focus and a unique selection of sounds. He never performs with the aim of showing off, in a manner where fingers...
Posted by on Sat, 12 May 2007 17:31:00 GMT

Tougher on You

Doop and Ty threw a new song at me called "Tougher on You."  I threw in some tracks on the B-3 and the accordion.  Now, YOU can listen if you head over the the Doop and the Inside Outlaws pa...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:47:00 GMT

Crowesbase

You can read my review of last month's Brother's of a Feather show at: http://crowesbase.com/tapelisting.cfm?TapeID=1825
Posted by on Thu, 18 May 2006 15:51:00 GMT

April Pics and Stories

My first gig in San Francisco was at the Hotel Utah Saloon. Cool place.  Good food and beer, and a great little crowd.  We played with a band from Canada so I got my fill of talking hockey ...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 13:03:00 GMT

Big Sur and the Monterey Aquarium

It's been a while since I've hit up this space... I've been a busy boy, working 50+ hours a week and playing in two bands 45 minutes away.  But spring is here, everything seems primed for a new s...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Apr 2006 13:32:00 GMT

Redwoods Are Big

In Big Basin Park... x Find me!
Posted by on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:05:00 GMT

Back in the D

Well, for a weekend at least. So I always get sucked into Fishbones... then B-nuts shows up with the best hoodie I've seen in years. Razor, Larry, Jake and O tune up. Jeremy takes over. ...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:58:00 GMT

Pics from the recording sessions

Continuous Peasant - from left to right: JF, Brandon, myself, Caitlin, and Chris. Set the controls... That's a Baldwin. More sessions to go.
Posted by on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 21:52:00 GMT