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