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Koo koo ka choo... |
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| Location: | Los Angeles, California |
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| Last Login: | May 5, 2008 (159 days back) |
About Me |
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| Steve Creason is a man of many talents. Typing is not one of those talents, however. He plays a pretty good guitar, composes, arranges, teaches, coaches, writes, reads books on parenting and anger management and plenty of other, more interesting stuff and even paints living rooms. Heck, he'll run down to Home Depot for ya on a hot day in Phoenix, and he'll do it with passion...we're not at liberty to divulge the source of that passion, but passion it is. What more could anybody ask for? So, please listen to some music, check out a blog if you're into the whole reading thing, visit a few top friends, maybe even go to stevecreason.com and most importantly, have a beautiful day.Free MySpace Layouts by Iron Spider |
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My Interests |
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Music:Member Since: 4/1/2006Band Website: stevecreason.com Influences: Wes Montgomery, Miles Davis, Frank Zappa, Charles Mingus, Don Ellis, Motown, Weather Report, Maurice Ravel, Louis Armstrong, Arnold Schoenberg, Claude Debussy, Pat Martino, Phil Upchurch, Fats Waller, George Duke, Herbie Hancock, George Clinton, John Hartman, George Benson, Grant Green, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderly, John Williams (both of them), Julian Bream, Art Blakey, Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Joe Williams, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Moe Zart, Luigi Beethoven, J.S. Bach, PDQ Bach, Jim Svejda, Ralph Vaugh-Williams, Bartok, Horace Silver, Thelonius Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Monty Alexander, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Grady Tate, Joe Henderson, Jerry Goldsmith, Ernst Krenek, Gabriel Faure, Frank Sinatra, Billy May, Nat King Cole, Henry Mancini, Elmer Bernstein, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Nelson Riddle, Nicholas Slonimsky, George Bizet, Luis Bonfa, Hugh Masekela, Claus Ogerman, Buddy Baker, Leonard Bernstein, Leonard Slatkin, Sun Ra, Donnie Hathaway, Stevie Wonder, Roberta Flack, Chaka Khan and Rufus, Paul Jackson Jr, Eugene Ormandy, Earth Wind and Fire, that Philadelphia Sound, that Stax sound, Billie Holiday, Reel Big Fish, Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Gil Scot-Heron, Tom Waits, Dr. John, Mendelssohn, Sir Georg Solti, Jimmy Hendrix, Joe Satriani, War, Jimmy Smith, The Meters, The Doors, G. Verdi, G. Holst, Jeff Beck, Larry Carlton, The Crusaders, The Offspring, Henry Johnson, Eric Gale, Steve Cropper, Cornell Dupree, David T. Walker, Al Mckay, Tony Maiden, Joe Pass, Oscar P, Milton Nascimento, Steeley Dan, Dave Holland, Jerry Goldsmith to name a few... Sounds Like: My influences are listed, and I hope I get a little bit of all of them into my music, somewhere...but it's still my music...hope you like it... Record Label: OLDUVAI RECORDS Type of Label: Indie |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Jazz / Funk / Indie) |
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My Blog |
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Hello Everyone |
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| Karl Haas.Used to live in Detroit, so he's gotta be alright...studied piano with Schnabel... Karl Haas Interviewok...This was a guy who cared about music and devoted his life to sharing his insights ... Posted by Steve Creason on Thu, 01 May 2008 12:08:00 PST |
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Daring lousy guy |
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| My left calf muscle popped when I was running around the Rose Bowl last week. This is the sort of thing that happens when you get older. When I was younger it was dislocated kneecaps, broken wrist, ... Posted by Steve Creason on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:22:00 PST |
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Ciao Bella |
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| This tune was source music in a film by Dennis Petersen. I studied composition with Wayne Peterson. So I used to spell Dennis' name wrong all the time just to drive him nuts. The movie is about a w... Posted by Steve Creason on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:50:00 PST |
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Remnant Thoughts |
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| This is also based on a Coltrane tune...a song flute meets surf drums and some fooling around with the guitar sound and I had to borrow her bass for a couple of these tunes...Remnant Thoughts was the ... Posted by Steve Creason on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:21:00 PST |
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Don’t Even Try It... |
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| Yeahhhhh, took the kid to the doctor to get a shot and when he saw the size of that needle he got into that pre-emptive "back off if you know what's good for you" mode, so I had to hold the guy down..... Posted by Steve Creason on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:17:00 PST |
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The Queen of Paris |
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| She sang a brand new song into a little recorder...wishes, wishes, and one day she might be the queen of...Paris...so I wrote a song for her with a bit of Ravel and ska and this is what you get...mayb... Posted by Steve Creason on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:14:00 PST |
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And By The Way, Folks |
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| This guy down the street passed away last night...I just found out a few hours ago. Heart Attack. And I guess I can see that happening now...looking back on it...but it came as a shock...never thoug... Posted by Steve Creason on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:21:00 PST |
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Hooray for Our Team |
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| After Kurt Vonnegut passed away I was depressed for about a week. A week sounds reasonable...anything more would be debilitating...after a week you need to snap out of it and get your act together...... Posted by Steve Creason on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 01:19:00 PST |
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Just avoiding the inevitable... |
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| The inevitable and inexorable (spelling????) tug of the moulding...yes, the flooring is down and now I need to put in the moulding, but i also need to borrow a saw and put my car in the shop and run a... Posted by Steve Creason on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:35:00 PST |
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Short People |
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| I'm putting a new floor in a big chunk of my house. A friend loaned me his table saw, he's a bass player and he had a big jam session over at his house. I stopped by a little on the late side, wound... Posted by Steve Creason on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:03:00 PST |
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My Friends |
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