Walter Steding, The Wizard, Charles, Nick and Em Z
Influences
Here's some of the people who've made music we like:
Rolling Stones, Velvet Underground, The Clash, The Jefferson Airplane, The Byrds, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Who, The Yardbirds, The Animals, The Grateful Dead, Cream, The Allman Brothers, Neil Young, Al Green, Antietam, Apples in Stereo, Aretha Franklin, The Band, The Beach Boys, Beck, Blind Faith, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Blondie, Bo Didley,Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Bukka White, Buffalo Springfield, Charlie Patton, Cornershop, Cowboy Junkies, Curtis Mayfield, Dandy Warhols, David Bowie, Desmond Dekker and the Aces, Doc Watson, Dry Branch Fire Squad, Elmore James, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Folk Implosion, Frank Zappa, Funkadelic, Galaxie 500, The Grip Weeds, Hank Williams, The Heptones, The Hives, Hot Tuna, Howlin' Wolf, Iggy and the Stooges, James Brown, Janis Joplin, Jimmy Cliff, Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, Johnny Cash, John Spencer Blues Explosion, Joy Division, Junior Murvin, Kings of Leon, The Kinks, Leadbelly, Led Zeppelin, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Loretta Lynn, Mad Professor, Marvin Gaye, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, The Mekons, The Melodians, Merle Haggard, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Moby, Bill Monroe, The Mooney Suzuki, Muddy Waters, My Bloody Valentine, The New York Dolls, Nirvana, Norman Blake, The Patti Smith Group, Portishead, Price, R.E.M., The Raconteurs, Rage Against The Machine, The Ramones, Rev. Robert Wilkins, Rev. Gary Davis, Robert Johnson, Roots Radics, Santana, Scientist, The Seldom Scene, The Skatilites, Skip James, Sleepy John Estes, Sly and the Family Stone, Son House, Sonic Youth, Sonny Boy Williamson (both of them), Soul Coughing, The Stanley Brothers, Stevie Wonder, Tampa Red, Television, The Temptations, Toots and the Maytalls, Traffic, The White Stripes, Woodie Guthrie, X, Yo La Tengo, and of course, WALTER STEDING
Sounds Like
Walter playing Woke Up Mixed Up with David Byrne and Chris Stein. For a current non synth version check out our latest CD, Nuclear Lipstick
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This guy in North Carolina made a really funny video using our song; Monkey Magic Medicine.................cool beans!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdvJeH0kWGY
A video by Steve Oppel
A Gracious Endorsement by NBC News Anchor, Brian Williams. If Brian Williams likes it, you know its good!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/3171027830894606
Nuclear Lipstick
Crazy Mary carries the flame for a time when downtown Manhattan was at its post-punk apex – gritty, smart, artful, edgy and sexy, before its soul was taken over by corporations and developers. But true to the ideals of the era from which they emerged, the band remains fully engaged with the modern, eschewing sentimentality and nostalgia. Their new album, Nuclear Lipstick, carries their music forward (with new members) and keeps their mélange of psychedelia, world/tribal music and Velvet Underground inspired no wave very much alive and well.
Crazy Mary began in 1998, founded by guitarist and songwriter Charles Kibel, a veteran of the Lower East Side rock scene. With five studio albums to their credit (and two remix albums), the band has enjoyed extensive college radio play, favorable reviews in the New Yorker, the Boston Globe, the Village Voice. In addition, they’ve played several festivals, including CMJ, the Howl Festival, the EST fest and others.
But the real stories of Crazy Mary circa 2008 are new full time members Em Z on lead vocals and especially Walter Steding on fiddle, and the impact they’re making on Crazy Mary’s sound. The Australian native Em Z’s intense and driving vocals have brought a new dimension to the band. And Steding, who has been contributing to the band since 2002, has now become a full time member, bringing the full depth of his talent, experience and pedigree to the band.
Introduced to the band by Blondie founder Chris Stein, Steding was a pioneer of the No-Wave movement in the late 70’s, the leader of the TV Party Orchestra, Glenn O’Brien’s TV-show house band, in addition to recording with luminaries such as Robert Fripp and Jim Carroll. He appeared in O'Brien's cult film classic, Downtown 81 playing a legendary gig at the Mudd Club . A solo artist in his own right, Steding was managed by Andy Warhol, for whom he worked as a painting assistant from 1980 up until Warhol’s death in 1987. Warhol produced Steding’s solo album, thereby earning Steding the distinction of being one of the two artists Warhol ever produced – the other one being the Velvet Underground.
Steding brings an incredibly emotional style to the band, and his term for the way his style of playing is “hand diatonic glissando,” a way of sliding into the notes on his fretless violin. As he explains, “I use every note in the scale and I hit every vibration – so I can cover the spectrum of both western and world music. I try to play something that you’re familiar with but is also beyond the familiar.”
On Nuclear Lipstick, it’s obvious that Steding’s style fits the band to a ‘T,’ especially in songs like “Americanized,” a self-described anti-war and anti-global imperialism song where Steding’s fiddle runs run the gamut from the melodic to the atonal, reminiscent of John Cale’s viola work in the Velvet Underground. Produced again by Kibel, the album spans the gamut from full out rock to contemplative and dissonant instruments, and it encompasses the humor of “That Same Old Feel Once Again,” Crazy Mary’s take on the classic “I’ve Been Everywhere” road song style of Johnny Cash and the wry observation of the heyday of the era of CBGB’s, the Mudd Club, Max’s Kansas City in “The Last Cool Scene.” And with poet and author Victor Bockris providing liner notes and legendary photographer Marcia Resnick contributing the photography, the band keeps the feeling and possibility of their scene continuing.
The band is eager for people to hear the new directions their music has gone. As Charles Kibel declares, “We want to get the new album to as many people as we can. We’re eager to perform it live. I’m so excited about the band’s new lineup – I feel like the material suits the new personnel the best it ever has.” On Nuclear Lipstick, Crazy Mary has found the right people to play the right songs at the right time, taking the band to a new level, with a spirit reminiscent of the times when art and music create something seminal.
Photo by Marcia Resnick
Photo by Marcia Resnick
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