Bart
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47 years old
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
United States
Last Login: 11/8/2009
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| General | Music, music, music, books (about music), films (about music), recording and music. Oh yeah, I like concerts as well... | | Music | On the premise that there are only two types of music, the kind you like and the kind you dont like, my musical tastes are all over the place. My first love is the sixties mod and garage scene, powerpop and punk, followed by classical, jazz, singer-songwriter and pop, then hip hop, Spanish music, and ESPECIALLY local San Diego groups. Favorite acts? How much time you have? I like any band Morgan Young has ever been in and any group that either John Reis or Robbie Rist have performed with. Plus, in no particular order, music from sixties Disney Films or Dick Van Dyke, The Zombies , Emitt Rhodes , Los Brincos, Wings , Jellyfish, The Beatles, The Jam and ALL things Weller, Wire , The Kinks, Cape May, Rain Parade, Cri Cri (Mexican kids records from the 50's and a bigger influence on the Shambles than you might suspect:-), Elton John (c'mon you know the early 70's stuff was genuis pop!) , Elvis Costello, The Osmonds (you heard right - Phase III and Crazy Horses are both powerpop classics!), AJ Croce, Buzzkill Romantics, Mark DeCerbo, The Hitmakers, The Penetrators (the San Diego late 70's early 80's group), The Nashville Ramblers and offshoots, The Crawdaddys (all the various lineups), the Trebels, Louis XIV, Irradio, The Melanies, Dizzy, Sugarplastic , Kate Bush , XTC, Samuel Barber (classical), Gustavo Romero, Augustin Lara, Vicente Fernandez, Gilbert Castellanos, The Yardbirds, Matthew Sweet, The Plimsouls & Peter Case, Psychedelic Furs, 20/20 , The Who, Bobby Darin , Neil Finn & Split Enz (one of the best shows I ever saw), Teenage Fanclub, Harry Mancini, Big Star, The Beat, The Onlookers , Supertramp, Chicago, The Action , Mod Fun , Rookie Card, The Pursuit Of Happiness, The Mockers, The Wondermints, Stew, Jigsaw Seen, The Stereotypes (you must hear these guys! brilliant), The Remains, The Lovin Spoonful, The Dragons, Squeeze, Jason Falkner & The Grays, Walter Clevenger, The Rooks, Big Star, The Coyote Problem, Chardon Square, Modest Proposal, Rinaldi Sings, Boo Hewerdine, Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower, Scarlet Symphony, The Beat Farmers, Cindy Lee Berryhill, No Knife, Polara, Klattu, The Pursuit Of Happiness, NRBQ, Sam Phillips (both the Sun records producer and the former Christian singer), Todd Rundgren, Richard X Heyman, Cheap Trick, Squire, The Jetset, Mood Six, The Times, Angel (That Magic Touch!), The Killers, Silver Sunhine, The Beach Boys, Firetown, Starz (they were GREAT live), Babys, Badfinger, Byrds, Birds, The Funseekers and a zillion more.... | | Movies | I don't watch many unless there's a music aspect to it, but that said Bunny Lake is Missing (Otto Preminger and the Zombies), Rope (Alfred Hitchcock), That Darn Cat (Disney), Mary Poppins (The Sherman brothers rule!) The Jokers (with Oliver Reed and Michael Crawford), Quadraphenia (naturally:-), Northwoods Holiday (with the Funseekers), Stardust (David Essex's only great role) and The Comic (with Dick Van Dyke) are amongst the ones I'll gladly watch again. | | Television | ...I dont watch much, but when I'm home I always try to catch Leno's monologue. I mean come on - watch TV when there are tons of cool clubs and bands to check out? | | Books | Paul Williams has always been an inspiration, also Jim Carroll's "Basketball Diaries," anything by Ray Bradbury or any of Dan Clowes or Peter Bagge's graphic novels make a great way to make a plane ride bearable. Well that and a lot of alcohol... | | Heroes | Again too many to list, but Lennon/McCartney, Weller and John Kass (thanks for everything John:-) come to mind... |
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theordinaryboys, Rinaldisings, Recording Techniques, the zombies, San Diego Music Scene, LANDLORD JIM'S COCKTAIL MACHINE!, ROCKBOXX every Wednesday @ A.C.lounge!, jr's SAN DIEGO AFTER DARK
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| Status: | Single | | Zodiac Sign: | Virgo | | Smoke / Drink: | No / No |
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Shambles CD release show - FREE @The Casbah, November 29
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This Thursday Night - Wendy Bailey & True Stories @ Lestats
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Tonight 10/23 @ Java Joes - Wendy, Bart, Billy & Danny
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New Manual Scan / The Shambles Che Underground Post w/ unseen pics
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Tonight, Oct 3 - Wendy Bailey & True Stories (Bart Mendoza, Danny Cress, Billy Fritz)
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About me:
Hmm. We'll start with the fact that I'm a massive insomniac (I HATE sleeping- I might miss something:-) I'm writer by trade and a musician because I cant do anything else:-) In the past, amongst other things, I worked at two of the greatest record stores ever, Licorice Pizza and Off the Record. I also spent 11 years working for Capitol Records (yes, the big round building in Los Angeles and I moonlighted for Chrysalis, Angel, Enigma, EMI, Rhino, SBK...) As a scribe, I've penned liners and bios for many groups and albums in the U.S., Europe and Japan, as well as writing for many San Diego publications (The Reader, San Diego Union Tribune and Night & Day, Citybeat, Downtown News, Beach & Bay Press, The Beacon Penninsula, The La Jolla Village News, The Troubadour, The La Jolla Light , Music Matters, Pacific Beach Life, North Park News etc) and many national and international mags as well. I usually have three or four pieces running a week in various publications, and yes it's true - I have seven pen names I use in the press and liners, but no I wont say which ones:-) My life is all music all the time. Currently I am helming a small indie label, Blindspot Records, working with San Diego based artists. Bandwise, in the eighties I was front man with Manual Scan, one of the last groups signed through IRS distro offshoot Faulty Products. In 1992 I became part of the Shambles, the group started by Manual Scan's Kevin Donaker Ring after the bands split. The Shambles are still going strong (check our website www.theshambles.net for regular updates) and I also play bass with jangle popsters The Spring Collection. I've also recently formed a new group, True Stories, alongside Danny Cress and Joe Poma.I do play solo gigs from time to time and occasionally strum alongside the likes of Static Halo's Dylan Martinez's or Four Eyes frontman Mark DeCerbo. I also work with roughly a dozen other bands on thier recording projects. I've been very fortunate to perform at some very cool spots around the globe, including The Marquee, The 100 Club, El Sol, Rancho Grande, The Casbah and many others, and have penned songs that many artists have covered (Canada's Kingpins "Plan Of Action", the Lola's "I Cant Dont Want To," The Eddies "Jungle Beat," Marie Haddad's "Where You Are," Glowfriends "Blindspot" etc.) with "Survive" (co-written with the brilliant Jeppe Riddervold) winning first place in the 2003 EMI Publishing Awards held in Berlin. I guess thats basically me. I just re-read this an it seems a bit much, but then again I guess you wouldn't be reading this if you weren't interested
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If you'd like to find out more about my music related projects check out The Shambles website: The Shambles- it's continually updated with a detailed discography, pages on recording sessions, photos, side projects, covers, memorabilia and much more. To hear some tunes check out: MySpace.com/TheShambles while Manual Scan can be found at: MySpace.com/manualscan
TRUE STORIES aka Wendy Bailey, Danny Cress, Billy Fritz and Bart Mendoza - Sept 19 at O'Connell's, opening for Bad Science Fiction!
Out Now! Staring at The Sun VII - Free! Includes music from the Shambles and an incredible line up of Steve Poltz, The Modlins, The Anna Troy band, Wendy Bailey, circaNow, Lualta, Brooklyn, Dave Humphries, The Spring Collection, Patric Petrie, Lualta,Christopher Cash, Folding Mr. Lincoln, CocoLafe, Bad Science Fiction, Daniell Lo Presti & the Masses, Echo Revolution, The Shake Ups, Revolution 89, Laura Kuebel, Brooklyn and Fuzz Huzzi, & more!
Out Soon!
Finally! Out Sept 5 is "Forty One Sixty: The Songs of Manual Scan / The Shambles" - featuring songs from The Lola's, Jeremy, Mark DeCerbo (w/AJ Croce), The Kingpins, Cockeyed Ghost, The Andersons (w/Robbie Rist), The Truckee Brothers, Yeh-Yeh, Anthony Meynell (Squire)& Sugarplum, Mark LeGallez (The Risk) with The Eddies (w/Earle Mankey), Herb Eimerman,Rachael Gordon, Ed James, Happy Losers, Static Halo, The Ringles and many more. Notes and quotes for the booklet from John Davis (Superdrag!), IPO Founder David Bash and legendary Crawdaddy publisher Paul Williams! We're still finalizing the track listing so if you'd like to be included, just let us know!
Current Productions
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Out NOW!- The Shambles "Desde Ayer" - Sixth album, 14 tracks! Available from Jam Records
www.jamrecordings.com/catalog.php?inventory_id=2021
Out NOW! The Spring Collection, "In Between,"playing bass, keys and singing on thier second album at Earthling Studios. Mike Kamoo will once again produce and play drums!www.myspace.com/
Out NOW! Anna Troy's new album "Wait Another Day"!Features Greg Douglass (Steve Miller/Greg Kihn) and a hidden cover of Manual Scan's "I Can't Don't Want To Faster"
Out Now!! Tribute to The Jetset w/ liner notes detailing Paul Bevoir's connection to San Diego and songs from The Shambles("Hard to Say Goodbye"), Rinaldi Sings, Cola Jetset, The Che Men, The Risk,The Eddies, The Spring Collection, Herb Eimerman and more!
On the horizon!: Tribute albums to The Risk, Ringo Starr ("Snookeroo"), Ricky Nelson ("It's Late") and 20/20 ("Remember the Lightning")!
Out Now! The Grams contributing background vocals to thier new album,"Love Factory" and the upcoming Static Halo album!
Out Now! The Young Idea - "A Tribute To Squire" - from England's Twist Records- The Shambles perform two tracks, Bart wrote the liner notes and there is a world-wide line-up of Mod Fun, Paul Bevoir, The Che Men, The Spring Collection, Yeh Yeh, The Eddies, Jeremy, The Little Murders, Trash, Mega Super Ultra, Smodati, The Shingles, The Relatives, The Vagabonds and The Decievers.
Out Now! Manual Scan - Plan of Action 7" EP - Yep, a cool reissue of the band's 1982 release on Spain's Munster Records!
Out Now! Television Personalities tribute "I Would Write A Thousand Words," featuring The Shambles take on "If I Could Write Poetry," - new from Canada's finest, The Beautiful Music.
Press!
Out Now! The Shambles are on the cover of The Troubadour's Sept 2008 issue!Check back issues on newsstands...
The latest edition of Spanish magazine Ansia de Colores includes a free CD with an exclusive track from The Shambles, a cover of The Beatles "Fixing A Hole" !!
The latest edition of Italian magazine Misty Lane includes aan interview with The Shambles
Goldmine's July 2009 issue includes a review of the band's "20 Explosive Hits" while Big Takeover #64 (Summer 2009) reviews "Desde Ayer"!
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Who I'd like to meet:
I've been lucky enough to meet a lot of my heroes over the years (mostly work related) but Mark Twain, John Lennon, Samuel Barber, Emitt Rhodes, Alfred Hitchcock, Walt Disney, Jim Carroll, Shelley (the poet), and the young Aundrey Hepburn would be amongst my wish list, if in most cases not very likely...
****UPDATE! I met Emitt Rhodes....:-)
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