| Member Since | 3/7/2006 | | Band Website | www.kramershimmy.com | | Band Members | KRAMER has played his Hofner bass guitar with no guitar strap in WEEN ('94), BUTTHOLE SURFERS (85), SHOCKABILLY ('82-'85), HALF JAPANESE ('87-'88), B.A.L.L. ('88-'91), BONGWATER ('87-'90), THE CAPTAIN HOWDY (w/partner Penn Jillette, '92-'97), THE FUGS (1984 reunion band), and one glorious gig with GG ALLIN's SUPERSCUM (the notorious "Cat Club" gig in NYC). His first "professional" gig was as keyboardist/synthesist for DAEVID ALLEN'S NEW YORK GONG (in 1979 at the tender age of 21). Proof of Kramer's tenure with the Buttholes can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKFCQZnNZmQ (though that gig was in '85, not '83). From 2000 until early 2003, Kramer retired from this fucking business and studied theater and directing under ARTHUR PENN at The Actors Studio in NYC, and then composed the music for Penn's production of FORTUNE'S FOOL on B'way, which swept the "male" acting awards at the Tony's that same year. From 2004 and 2006, Kramer again all but retired from this fucking business and went to work for JAMES RANDI chasing psychics (frauds), mediums (frauds) and fortune tellers (frauds) the world over. Two years of that was more than sufficient, and he now divides his time between mixing and mastering chores at his Florida studio, and travelling the globe to produce artists who ask nicely. Kramer most recently mixed and mastered LITTLE AIDA's "MAD COUNTRY", during which time he fell in love with the band and signed them to SECOND SHIMMY. MAD COUNTRY is NOW available worldwide via CARGO (UK), NAIL (USA), and via digital download at iTunes and elsewhere. | | Influences | Directors: John Cassavetes, Robert Bresson.
Literature: W.G. Sebald, Nicholson Baker.
Music: fuck it.
Artist: Matthew Barney.
Photographer: Macioce.
Magician-Mentalist: Jamy Ian Swiss. | | Sounds Like | Artists KRAMER has Produced/Recorded/Mixed (or in some cases DISCOVERED) include: LOW, GALAXIE 500, DOT ALLISON, ROBERT WYATT, 22 PISTEPIRKKO, WILL OLDHAM, DANIELSON FAMILIE & BROTHER DANIELSON, JEFFREY LEWIS, DANIEL JOHNSTON, EMILY RODGERS, DAMON & NAOMI, PUSSY GALORE, BONGWATER, B.A.L.L., LUNA, LINDA DRAPER, WEEN, UNCLE WIGGLY, THE WAITRESSES, THE FUGS, BUTTHOLE SURFERS, HALF JAPANESE, JAD FAIR, ROPE INC., WHITE ZOMBIE, SAETA, MIKE DOUGHTY, LIDA HUSIK, PALEFACE, KING MISSILE, DOGBOWL, EDITH FROST, VELVET MONKEYS, FLY ASHTRAY, REIN SANCTION, WORKDOGS, THE TINKLERS, REBBY SHARP, DEAN WAREHAM, TULI KUPFERBERG, JOHN S. HALL, THE MABUSES, THE CAPTAIN HOWDY (w/PENN JILLETTE), PENN & TELLER, TRAINS & BOATS & PLANES, Senor CHINNARO, BEEF, BRAINVILLE, ALLEN GINSBERG, PUSSYWILLOWS, GWAR, JOHN ZORN, DAEVID ALLEN, HUGH HOPPER, PIP PYLE, JELLYFISH KISS, A.C.TEMPLE, SHOCKABILLY, WALKINGSEEDS, DAS DAMEN, SYD STRAW, MARC RIBOT, PERVERTED BY DESIRE, JAYNE SACHS, MINTY, TIN EAR, EUGENE CHADBOURNE, DEREK BAILY, R. STEVIE MOORE, MIKE WATT, MOE TUCKER, LOU REED, ROGER MANNING, DEBBIE HARRY, YO LA TENGO, BANK OF SODOM (w/JELLO BIAFRA), THE FURTHERS, DRAZY HOOPS, LEOPULDE, ALICE DONUT, CABLE, FRED FRITH, GRENADINE (w/MARK ROBINSON), RAYMOND LISTEN, MILKSOP HOLLY, ADULT RODEO, EGOMANIACS, JON SPENSER BLUES EXPLOSION, PETER STAMPFEL & THE BOTTLECAPS, UNREST, ROYAL TRUX, JOY ZIPPER, LOTION, SUFJAN STEVENS, SERENA MANEESH, SUKI EWERS, TROND, MINDY MISTY, HOWARD AMB, THE ORANGE BEACH, AMBULANCES, URGE OVERKILL (Kramer produced the hit single from Quentin Tarantino's PULP FICTION - "GIRL, YOU'LL BE A WOMAN SOON"), etc...
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MOST RECENT RELEASES include a REMIXED AND RE-MASTERED DANIELSON FAMILE 10-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE DOUBLE-LP, "THE HYPERJINX FOUR"; a studio-only band with DANIEL JOHNSTON, KRAMER, DON GOEDE and RON ENGLISH....Re-Mastering all 5 SHOCKABILLY LP's for shocking new clarity....producing the debut LP by LEADER CHEETAH (the best band to EVER come out of Australia)...and mixing/mastering the forthcoming debut from EMILY RODGERS on Misra Records....etc etc etc. | | Record Label | www.secondshimmy.com | | Type of Label | Indie |
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