Andrei "Dropdown Drei" Sebastian - Bass & Background Vocals,
Eric Kalb - Drums & more Drums,
James "Worm" Wormworth - Drums and newest member of the
"Tonight Show with Conan O' Brien" Band.
Best of luck "Wormy"
Influences
Jimi Hendrix, Link Wray, Travis Wammack, Lonnie Mack, the 3 Kings (Freddie, Albert, B.B.), Scotty Moore, Cliff Gallup, Gene Vincent, Mickey Baker, Jimmy Spurill, Buck Owens & Don Rich, Sun Records and Sam Phillips, Excello Records, Cosmo Matassa, Paul Burlison & the RnR Trio, the Beatles, Brooklyn, NY & NYC, NY State (it’s a beautiful State!), New Orleans, Memphis, the Mississippi Delta, Johnny Winter, Willie Dixon, Dan Penn the Kinks, the Animals, Led Zep, Jimmy Page, Hank Williams, Matt "Guitar" Murphy, Memphis Slim, Robert Johnson, Tommy McClendon, Skip James, Charlie Patton, Lonnie Johnson (GREAT!), Eddie Lang (GREAT!), Otis Rush, Cobra Records, Ike Turner (get the instrumental CD on ACE Records out of the U.K. - OH MY GOD!!!), Willie Johnson (Howlin’ Wolf’s guitar player when he was in Memphis & on Sun Records), the Prisonaires & especially "Just Walkin’ in the Rain"(It has been a major influence on me.) Johnny "Guitar" Watson - major bad ass in the 50’s with his INCREDIBLE guitar playing & singing, Elvis Presley (you must go the Graceland, Sun Studios, Stax Records, Beale St, Rock n Soul Museum...etc) Johnny Cash, Luther Perkins, Charlie Rich, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Oribison Roland Janes, Elmore James, Danny Gatton, James Burton, Al Casey, Jimmy Bryant, Merle Haggard, Hank "Sugarfoot" Garland, Don Rich, Vee Jay Records, Bea-Baby Records, Chess Records, Bobby Powell (soul singer), Al Green, Willie Mitchell (great producer) Otis Redding, Nina Simone, the Staple Singers, Southern Gospel, the Swampers, "Wicked" Wilson Pickett (R.I.P.), the Allman Brothers, Duane Allman, the Sam Phillps Bio on A&E (I’ve seen it 50 X on DVD), the Beatles Anthology on DVD (what a band, what a story!), Marc Bolan and T - Rex (love it), one hit wonders from the 50’s, 60’s & 70’s, AM Radio when i was a wee lad in the 70’s, Keansburg, NJ (again, when i was a wee lad in the 70’s), Bear Moutain (my first real exposure to the beauty of NY State), Camp Sussex (great times and my first real exposure of the beauty of NJ...Hey, I’m not kidding!) Brian Setzer, the Stray Cats, Pat Hare, Willie Johnson, Reggie Boyd, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Howlin’ Wolf, Hubert "Bad Ass" Sumlin, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Eddie "Bad Boy" Taylor, Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, (the late, great) Little Milton, Stevie Ray Vaughan (or) Stevie Rave-On, Little Walter, Otis Spann, Pinetop Perkins, Dexter Gordon, Jeff Beck, Billy Bremmer, Rockpile, the Pretenders, Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, Bob Dyaln, Mike Bloomfield, Steve "the Colonel" Crooper, Al Jackson, Duck Dunn, the MG’s, Stax Records, Sam & Dave, Issac Hayes (back in the day), Motown, Holland & Dozier, Smokey Robinson, the Temptations - especially the "Psychedelic" period (Ball of Confusion - GREAT, GREAT STUFF), the Funk Brothers & Sisters (Carol Kaye), Detroit (for all the great music), Chicago (for the migration from the South and the birth of "Chicago Blues"), Highway 61, Texas, Joe Walsh, AC/DC, Bon Scott, Grahm Nash & David Crosby from the 70’s BBC "In Concert" - AMAZING harmonies, songs and vibe (i just got this on a DVD Boot and i could watch it all day), those special buds that Paul McCartney, the Black Crowes, Snoop Dog, pretty much every band i know and almost every person i know (dead & living) seems to enjoy. Jimmy Vaughan, Les Paul, Jimmy "Organ" Smith, "Big" John Patton, Chuck Berry, Snooks "I knew U had some big legs" Eaglin, C.C. Adcock, Warren Storm and all the great Swamp Pop, RnR, Blues, Cajun, Zydeco from the Acadiana Region of Louisiana (Lafayette and the udder 7 parishes). Art Blakey, Charlie Feathers, Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, Dick Dale, Johnny Horton, Merle Travis, Merle Haggard, Roy Clark, Jerry Reed, Grady Martin, Roy Nichols (love his playin’), Jimmy "Six Days on the Road" Colvard, Little Richard, Louie Armstrong, Dexter Gordon (Go Baby, GO!), Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald (inhuman!), Frank Sinatra (some dude from Hoboken), Delbert McClinton (bad ass soul singer), ZZ Top, Billy "Tone" Gibbons, James Brown, Jimmy Nolan, the JB Horns, Sly & the Family Stone, the Kinks (again), Black Sabbath, the Reverend Horton Heat, Rockabilly, Neo-Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Cow-Punk, the Ramones (R.I.P. - Joey, Johnny & Dee Dee), Hilly Kristal (R.I.P. 8/29/07), CBGB’s - I’m really sad that it’s closed for good. CB’s always treated Slick Pelt great and we (especially Manny) were always really proud to be part of CB’s history and the band played those shows full tilt (we actually played all our shows full tilt, but that was Slick Pelt), Link Wray (again!), the Ventures, Analog, Ugly Sounds, Beautiful Sounds, Old Tube Guitar Amps, proud to call Travis Wammack my friend, the "F" train in Brooklyn, Coney Island Boardwalk, the Lower East Side, the Hudson Region/Berkshire’s of NYS, MA & CT (Copake Lake, Craryville, Hillsdale, Great Barrington, MA & all the good peeps of that area), Tarrytown, NY, Long Island City. Mom (RIP 3.5.07), Dad, Bro & all my family, friends & lovers... ; ) Slick Pelt and my brothers in the band: Manny "Willy" Berlingo - Lead Vocals (RIP 2002), Mikey "Chops" LaConte (Slap, Bull Bass Player extraordinaire), "Wild" Bill Tello - Drums, Kevin "the Kid" Dorn - Drums All the Kats that play in my BFL (Blues For Love or is it Blues F**kin’ Loud! Band) w/ Andrei "DropDown" Drei Sebastian - Monster Bass/Bckgrnd Vox, James "Worm" Wormworth - Drums/Screamapillar Imitations, Tommy "Goose" Seguso - Drums/Mouth Trumpet "Fa, Fa, Fa" all the great musicians i get to play, jam, hang, drink, party with: Paul Tillotson - Keys Brian "B.C." Charette, - Keys Darro "Sparky" Sandler - Drums Mikey Merritt - Bass (Conan O’ Brien) Jimmy Vivino - Guitar (Conan O’ Brien) Jerry Vivino - Sax (Conan O’ Brien) Santo Fazio & Three Of Cups (Restaurant) Family & Friends: , Mummy the staff (past & present), Deb Jones, Michelle, Sissy Marini. The Kats who are on the latest project I produced the love handles: Peter Zouzias (Zeus) - Songwriter, Drummer & Punchingbag, Mikey "Buzz" Gornall - Great Singer from Parma, Ohio and President of the Sebastian Bach Fan Club. Vin Cin & Electric Plant Studios (Brooklyn, NY) - gettin’ & capturing great sounds is what it’s all about. All of the above have influenced me and continue to inspire. Many, many more to come...
Sounds Like
the Blues, Rock, Soul, Funk, Rockabilly, Surf, RnR,
Old School Country, Honky Tonk and anything else
we like...all rolled into one big...
THE NEW CD "SOUTH NEW YORK" to be released Summer/Fall 2009 on MMM Records. Available right here & now!
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The new CD from the Michael Louis Band is pure North meets South.
The Brooklyn, NY Trio made the pilgrimage to the deep south for the “stank”, recording in Tupelo, MS, Memphis, TN, & Muscle Shoals, AL. Co-produced by guitar legend Travis Wammack (16 yr old guitar prodigy in the early 60’s with his hit instrumental “Scratchy”, Little Richards band leader/Guitarist for 10 years & Fame Studio session guitarist for the likes of Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Lou Rawls and even the Osmond’s “One Bad Apple”) who said “Yeah, This CD has to have it (the stank) and it does!” It’s a raw, energetic CD where you can hear the sound of a real band playing together “live”, capturing the moment and keepin’ it real! From the soulful “Ain’t That Kinda Man” to the funk of “Shade Tree”, country meets the Kinks in “Country Girl”, the Southern rock feel of “ Saturday Night”, the Allmanesque “Let It Go”, the Meters meets psychedelia on “Cause Of Us”, inspired by the before-during-after of Katrina’s effects on the Gulf Coast. The CD then takes on a different vibe with the heavy blues-rock of “Reasons & Seasons”, delta blues “I Fought The Law” (yeah, that “I Fought The Law”), the old blues chestnut “Ramblin’ With That Woman” (where Michael & Travis got to trade licks), the super cool acoustic vibe of “Molly” (“They run for her just like a choo-choo trolley”), the mid-West rock sound of “Let Me Love You (With All My Heart), a killer rockabilly instrumental “Super Directional” and finally “Memphis Sound” & Memphis Sound (the Interview). I was lucky enough to not only be inspired (thanks to Travis) to write a song in tribute to all the great music (rockabilly & otherwise) that came out of Sun Studios (thank you Mr. Phillips), but to have Sun Records legends Sonny Burgess & Billy Lee Riley sing on “Memphis Sound” (along with Travis & myself). The vocal session for “Memphis Sound” was cut @ Sam Phillips Recording Inc. in Memphis just a few blocks from Sun. The great Sun Studio session guitarist, Roland Janes, engineered the session. Roland can been heard on the rockabilly classics “Red Hot” & “Flying Saucer RnR” and almost all the Jerry Lee Lewis sides that came out of Sun (and alot more stuff). I also got to interview Sonny, Billy, Travis and special guest Sun Studio drummer, J.M. Van Eaton. That is the final track on the CD. Whew!!! With me on the journey were Andrei Sebastian – Bass (Yosi Piamenta Band, Billy Bell Band) & Eric Kalb – Drums (Sharon Jones, Charlie Hunter, Deep Banana Blackout). I couldn’t have done it without them and without you. Thanks & you know we love you – TMLB
“You guys may be from New York, but it must be South New York” – Roland Janes
FIND YOUR WAY HOME TO “SOUTH NEW YORK”
Just wanted to say thanks for the request and have a great weekend! Check my page for new songs from Albany, 7 Years Past & Frank White (Feat. Blake Tahoe).
Thanks for the add request. Good to have yall as a friend. I listened to your play list and it sounds good man guess i like saturday night the best so far. Keep on rockin and if you get time listen to some of the other garage bands on my page.
Tempe definitely rocks.. and it rolls.. and all kinds of other sh*t, too Yeah, if you come through AZ, get in touch, because it could be a cool stop on the way through. I have a few suggestions and contacts if you want to consider a gig in this area... Keep on keepin' on.. I play keys.. if you don't tour with keys, let me know about sittin' in!! no sh*t.
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