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My musical career is/was nothing if not eclectic. This collection of streamed audio examples demonstrates just that... These are recordings that are available nowhere else. My collection of cassette and DAT recordings of live shows, rehearsals, improv sessions, and bizarre studio takes is daunting and sometimes frankly scary both in size and in content. Let me know what you like, and I will upload more.
My cagemate and musical buddy Joe has a collection of his realaudio takes, including some guitar jams we recorded direct to his hard drive in 10/97. Check out "Breskintunes."
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A cantata for Soprano, Baritone, and chamber orchestra, Domina et Felis was the senior project for my music degree. The libretto is based on a number of poems written by my mother, Jungian Analyst Janet Dallett, about her relationship with her cat Thunder. In this recording, we hear the final two selections of the 30-minute cantata, in which the protagonist rejects the need for a man in her life, and embraces the goddess within her. The part of Domina in this performance is sung by Marilyn Sterbick, and the orchestra are members of the Port Townsend Community Orchestra, conducted by myself.
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Joe Breskin and I doing his "dinosaur song" live to HD at Foresight when we were cagemates AND still had time between projects to jam.
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The opening track to my album "The Migration of Morningales," this performance was recorded off the board at the Antique Sandwich Company in Tacoma, at one of the Tuesday night Victory Music open mics. Deb Seymour plays the second guitar (rhythm and 2nd solo)
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This is a weekly program I produced for KSER Radio in Everett for 6 months in 1992. I carried a portable DAT recorder with me while on tour, and taped local musicians in their element, filling out the time with interviews. This is one of my favorite shows from the series, featuring Cici Dawn and Rebo Flordigan, aka the "Rodz sisters," and an absolutely amazing Los Angeles songwriter named Andy Manhoff.
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Phyl Sheridan wrote this tune that I just had to learn - his own take on the theme established in Reverend Gary Davis' Cocaine Blues. This is me performing live at the Outpost Performance Space in Albuquerque during the live variety show on KUNM on March 22, 1992. This is at the end of about 38 hours without sleep, including a drive from Denver the night before in 5 inches of snow. One of my best performances on tape.
Peanut Butter sessions happened when one of us would start tape rolling. We would then joke, clown, and play until the tape ran out. Larry and I had an incredible musical connection, and the improvisations that we produced are still among the most creative and spontaneous that I have ever participated in. Oh, and did I mention silly? None of these tracks are prerehearsed.
By the way, in the six years that Peanut Butter was active, there was a grand total of two live performances... neither was recorded.
GirlfriendThis is the one that started it all. Classic Peanut Butter - detuned guitar, strong rhythm, and an idiotic conversation in recitative.
There's a Gorilla (in the back seat of my car)"Get away from my car" was one of the leitmotifs of Peanut Butter's milieu. In this song, the offending autophile is a real ape.
Black White Car (outside my door)They're coming to take you away - you better get some clothes on...
Smoking DucksIn Which Peanut Butter show their Cheech and Chong influences. No music here, unless you count the explosion.
When I Needed YouOne of our few truly lyrical moments. I actually used to perform this as a solo song (after tweaking the lyrics a bit).
Leave Me LonelyNEWS FLASH! Steve Peanut sings lead for once, in a heartwrenching story of a man who must be castrated in order to marry the woman he loves. She leaves him, but he subsequently has a successful career as a pop castrato.