"He reminds me a bit of an old Dylan bootleg I heard way back when, except this guy knows how to play guitar."
-- the Global Virtual Homemade Music Radio Show
"I popped the CD in & 25 seconds into the first song, "Fight Song," I was floored."
-- Babble and Beat Music Magazine
"An antidote to mediocrity comes straight from L.A. in the form of Lo-Fi rock maestro Lil Beck."
-- Richard Wink, founding editor of GloomCupboard.com
"An indie rock music legend in the making."
-- Jason Glass, Supernautica
Hailing from the same suburban Chicago high school that gave us John Hughes, Lil Beck (a.k.a. Greg Oguss) moved to New York City to play guitar for the Alt-Rock group The Rolls. The band was a local favorite, performing at venues such as CBGB’s, the Mercury Lounge, the Continental Divide and many others. In 2000, the group split up and Oguss headed for Los Angeles.
For the next several years, Oguss was in and out of hospitals, battling a nerve disease and the effects of pain medications. Meanwhile, he began writing and recording music. Since 2005, under the name Lil Beck, he has self-recorded and released four full-length albums: "From Shit to Champagne," "Mr. Low-Fi Guy," "Dyin’ Ain’t Loofy" and "Life After Hip Hop." Under the name Carman 9, he released an EP, "Moj & Greg Ride Again," with The Rolls' Moj Brookstein. The albums feature an eclectic mix of Garage Rock, Blues, Hip-Hop, Punk and New Wave, displaying the lyrical cynicism of artists like Elvis Costello, Warren Zevon, Lou Reed, Paul Westerberg and Bob Dylan.
Lil Beck's next record, a concept album about cyber-groupies and micro-celebrities, will be available soon.
Lil Beck's "Dyin' Ain't Loofy" and "From Shit to Champagne" are also available on CDBaby:
hi, this my 2nd clip : Massimo Marzari’s film « THE
LAST SECOND » against violence. The music is « black butterfly »
(Lizzy Ling / Minimatic) one of the songs of my album « un tigre ds le
bungalow ». Director of photography : Aldo Piscina.
Hey bro thanks for the shout out/quote on yer page. The music sounds supah, the perfect soundtrack for the early hours of the bible-black pre-dawn. Booshe.
What does one send to the Lighthouse indeed! At any other time Lily could have suggested reasonably tea, tobacco, newspapers. But this morning everything seemed so extraordinarily queer that a question like Nancy’s—What does one send to the Lighthouse?—opened doors in one’s mind that went banging and swinging to and fro and made one keep asking, in a stupefied gape, What does one send? What does one do? Why is one sitting here, after all? (Woolf)
yeah, Jim still does the hoots, they have a new venue, I haven't made it out to yet, but it would be really cool to catch you there. lots of good spots for you to play in mpls, stay in touch!
Obviously your aware that slurve mag digs your music. We would even like to feature on of your songs on our myspace and website. If you have any exclusive songs that arn't on your myspace that we could put up for our viewers that would be cool. Hit us up lil beck and the whiteboys.
Hey Brody Just A Quick Reminder...Hope You Didn't miss Gossip Girl Last Night. Did she get expelled or what you fucking FAGGOT!...Just kidding although....I do bet you watch the new 90210 as well.........
RockAnd Fucking Roll Deal With It!!!! HOw Are You Man?????? I saw this guy riding around on a motorcycle wearing a black leather jacket..mumbling some shit about how this drug dealer was after him.......said something about going to see his brother Patrick.........
The Godfathers first US concert in nearly 20 years...The Godfathers first ever American Saint Valentines Day Massacre concert...See The Godfathers LIVE at The Metro, Chicago on Saturday February 14th 2009...Tell all your friends - The Godfathers are coming!!!
