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Gregg Yeti & The Best Lights

"Heart Palpitations Of The Rich & Famous" is here!

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"Got tight last night on absinthe. Did knife tricks." -Ernest Hemingway
"Goddamn floating whorehouse, death is the navigator." - William S Burroughs
From underground 'zine publisher and promoter, to musician, to running his own record label, Gregg Yeti has been a fixture in the Syracuse, NY music scene since the mid-90s. It’s only over the past few years that he began performing solo, however, primarily a result of the 2002 breakup of his former band The Flashing Astonishers (New Red Archives/Substandard).
Had you visited Gregg’s myspace page shortly after FA’s demise, you’d have seen the following self-penned description of his new project: “Gregg Yeti plays all of the instruments on his recordings, writes and sings the lyrics and music, records it all at home on his ancient PC, produces and reproduces the releases, arranges the cover art, and lives the d.i.y. ethic because he trusts no one to ever do anything right."
Gregg did eventually entrust a few friends to help piece together his first proper full-length release (which is a culmination of work from his earlier EPs along with a few new gems), namely Shawn Stoyle (Gracer, Sleepaway) on drums for four tracks, and most notably Jessica Rudy on lead & backing vocals. Rudy sings on the epic opener “Deal With You Perfect” with Syracuse friends Ashley Cox & Lisa Romano, and she leads with her lilting voice on the tragic “Half On The Way” (a song originally written by the great Massachusetts songwriter Jesse Sterling Harrison) and the airy “Colonize Your Eyes.” “I love women’s voices and I fully intend to include them whenever I can, even if it means giving up the singing spotlight,” he says.
Highlights such as “Laughter Be Your Slave” and “My Narcoleptic Sara” indicate that as a songwriter, Yeti’s years of paying his indie-rock dues have paid off in spades. And with songs like the dreamy “Deal With You Perfect” and the upbeat, shared guy/girl vox in “Adventures in Bad T-shirts” on to the ever-endearing “Brighter Than The Sky,” and “Erase Her Eraser”, Heart Palpitations… never ceases to entertain fans of intelligent lyrics and good hooks.
Preproduction studio work & mixing was done by Doug White of Watchmen Studios in Buffalo (Gym Class Heroes, Lemuria, Tearwave, Psyopus, Earth Crisis), and Jocko at Syracuse’s More Sound Studio (John Brown’s Body, Ed Gein, From A Second Story Window) handled final mixing & mastering.
A compilation of Gregg Yeti’s earlier EPs is planned for later this year, to be called Wonder Buckets. MyGen Profile Generator

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Member Since: 2/17/2005
Band Website: greggyeti.com
Band Members: Gregg Yeti. Past & Present Best Lights: Jehn Cerron, Bobby Budd, Christoph Ennis, Sean Trinkaus, Ryan McDaniels, Lincoln Tubbs, David Lester, Jessica Rudy, Robert Kane, Andrea Lee Higgins. Plus Doug White & Jocko are invaluable for studio help!
Influences: henry darger, helium, the duckhills, nick cave, the go betweens, the rolling stones, ride, my bloody valentine, pavement, jesse sykes, bob mould, sugar, lou reed & velvet underground, dandy warhols, vetiver, belle & sebastian, brian jonestown massacre, guided by voices, slowdive, landspeedrecord!, pete krebs, leatherface, grant lee buffalo, the jesus lizard, birchville cat motel, lifetime, goner, pj harvey, rocket from the crypt, dcfc, the boo radleys, aviso hara, big boote', chapterhouse, fledgling death, the dwarves, the wallmen, bleach, the nightblooms, lush, gerty, oasis, the frogs, fat day, ashley cox, built to spill, ambulance ltd, black tambourine, arcade fire, husker du, galaxie 500, jawbreaker, ned's atomic dustbin, guitar, hot water music, eric's trip, enon, cardiacs, dinosaur jr, latimer, lilys, stereolab, snfu, smile, velocity girl, teenage fanclub, the church, snowpony, cursive, worm quartet, flake music, the spells, social distortion, longwave, U2, majestic twelve, modest mouse, elysian fields, mogwai, nada surf, eazy-e, sonic youth, robyn hitchcock, sebadoh, face to face, descendents, guitar wolf, dionne warwick's psychic soldiers, flying saucer attack, codeine, david bowie, ccr, damon & naomi, low, blur, massive attack, the black keys, diamanda galas, godz, glenn branca, mazzy star, echo & the bunnymen, doves, hot hot heat, iggy pop, elliot, the smiths, field mice, espers, sun kil moon, four tet, felt, futureheads, jesse sterling harrison, yo la tengo, brittle stars, do make say think, ll cool j, fugazi, nation of ulysses, the who, coldplay, east river pipe, eagles of death metal, primal scream, down by law, charlatans, smashing pumpkins, supertouch, dEus, neil young, pretty things, samiam, stone roses, clap your hands say yeah, can, polvo, bloc party, spiritualized, promise ring, queens of the stone age, jon spencer, elliott smith, swirlies, beat happening, this afternoon, chavez, clawhammer, hayden, the circle stars, pacer, bongwater, red house painters, chameleons, electric chick magnets, laika, dracula jones, beulah, lookwell, ted leo, less than jake, cocteau twins, pinhead gunpowder, calla, gybe, rich kids on lsd, the sames, sleater kinney, slapshot, sloan, jawbox, clinic, hot snakes, big star, long since forgotten, secession movement, the creation, a silver mt zion, skip spence, all speakers are microphones, velvet elvis & the pimp-slap snorting corpse fuckers, american analog set, brmc, animal collective, amon tobin, broken social scene, bruce springsteen, firehose, drive like jehu, idlewild, iggy pop...

Sounds Like: whatever............................................

Record Label: Eskimo Kiss Records, Koala Syndicate Music (BMI)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Green Porno

isabella rosselini is a fucking nutjob :) http://www.sundancechannel.com/greenporno?go=watch...
Posted by Gregg Yeti & The Best Lights on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:26:00 PST

neitzsche, bill clinton, yoda or thom yorke?

The Quotation Vexation Sensation Score: 83% (10 out of 12)...
Posted by Gregg Yeti & The Best Lights on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:37:00 PST

a new serial killer?

I find serial killers interesting because of their psychological life-ways - like "why is this guy more predetermined to 'off' a bunch of people than the guy I work with who has one hell of ...
Posted by Gregg Yeti & The Best Lights on Thu, 22 May 2008 10:21:00 PST

WEFEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!

i need a breathalyzer on my computer, i swear to god. but i'm ok right now, just listening to the new French Kicks album & it is soothing. i am so ready to get the fuck out of syracuse for a few d...
Posted by Gregg Yeti & The Best Lights on Mon, 19 May 2008 11:38:00 PST

here’s a fun story for you

Colombian 'hit' that set off a UK cocaine warA drugs baron from Liverpool built up a £200m fortune through his links with the Colombian cartels. But when he tried to cheat the South American trafficke...
Posted by Gregg Yeti & The Best Lights on Sun, 18 May 2008 11:28:00 PST

when?

when do you realize you are in your mid 30's or later... and pointless... and noone cares... keep blogging, losers... focus on your day jobs & stop pretending you make music...
Posted by Gregg Yeti & The Best Lights on Sat, 17 May 2008 10:15:00 PST

100,000 dead. but that ain’t nothing

it's amazing that 3 or 4 of these have happened in the general lifetime of friends & family I know... just in the last 40 years... i just heard that they up the recent cyclone deaths in myanm...
Posted by Gregg Yeti & The Best Lights on Wed, 07 May 2008 02:37:00 PST

buy the heart palpitations cd & get a ton of free stuff!

from ESKIMO KISS RECORDS website (www.eskimokissrecords.com)We are so excited about the new Gregg Yeti & The Best Lights CD that we just can't wait another minute to unveil it! So it is now available ...
Posted by Gregg Yeti & The Best Lights on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:05:00 PST

awesomness

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Posted by Gregg Yeti & The Best Lights on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:01:00 PST

INTRODUCING: The Suddenly Nervous

Check out my new little project with Syracuse's poet-star Jane Cassady: THE SUDDENLY NERVOUS
Posted by Gregg Yeti & The Best Lights on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:32:00 PST