Bill Davis - Bass guitar and vocals
Jeff Kane - Lead guitar and vocals
Sean O'Brien - Lead vocals and guitar
Matt Shelley - Drums
Influences
Sean O'Brien and His Dirty Hands CD "Goodbye Game" is now on Itunes. Sean O'Brien's CD "Seed of Mayhem"
now on iTunes. ..
X, Howlin' Wolf, Queens of The Stone Age, The Who, The Velvet Underground, Television, Sleater-Kinney, the Stooges, Mathew Sweet, The Leaving Trains, Superchunk, R.E.M., Denim TV, The Suspects, True West, The Mariettas, The Meantime, The Hangmen, Gun Club, Gang of Four, XTC, The Specials, Elvis Costello, Nick Drake, American Music Club, James Brown, Joni Mitchell, The Dream Syndicate, Kendra Smith, the B-52's, Pylon, Wire, My Bloody Valentine, Tom Verlaine, Lou Reed, The Beatles, Radiohead, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Patti Smith, Neil Young, Lucinda Williams, Karen Dalton, June Tabor, Joni Mitchell, Vasht Bunyan, Sandy Denny, Richard Thompson, Linda Thompson, Beth Orton, Tindersticks, The Yardbirds, Hank Williams, Sonic Youth, Suicide, Leadbelly, Bob Dylan, The Shaggs, Larry Williams, Johnny Burnette, Billy Lee Riley, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, The Everly Brothers, Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds and Rockpile, The Verve, Ry Cooder, Flaco Jimenez, Juanna Molina, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, The Feelies, Smokey Robinson, Booker T. & The MG's, The Only Ones, Johnny Thunders, New York Dolls, The Smiths, Morrissey, The Skatalites, Alton Ellis, Al Green, The Staple Singers, The Band
Sounds Like
Sean plays the Denim TV song, "Two Flies" - Live in Berlin, Germany. Recorded February 20, 2009.
Live performance of "The Good Fight" - Annie's Social Club - San Francisco
Live video of "7.5" from Mr. T's Bowl - 5/19/07 - Los Angeles
The Dirty Hands play "Amanda Ruth" by Rank & File - from Mr. T's Bowl - 5/19/07 - Los Angeles
Live video of a rare Mariettas reunion (minus Henry) playing Doyle Dean's tune "The Wheel"
Crime Spree by The Mariettas
Directed by Kelly Christensen
Sounds like:
Johnny Cash, Radio Birdman, Rain Parade, Rank & File, Flaming Groovies, Rockpile, Robyn Hitchcock, John Doe
Sean O'Brien is the former lead singer of several California-based rock groups going back in time almost twenty-five years. First was MEANTIME, a power pop quartet that eventually mutated into the Davis, CA psychedelic cowboys, TRUE WEST. Next came DENIM TV, whose two albums, Denim TV and Starving Rich, both broke the CMJ Top 100 in college radio airplay upon release, leading to a very successful national tour.
In 1991, Sean moved to Los Angeles, where he collaborated with math professor and former Angry Samoan Gregg Turner on Sante Fe, by The Mistaken for the independent label Triple X. This winsome CD garnered some pleasant press and appeared in the Top 35 radio airplay in Holland upon release. 1999 saw the release of 12 by The Mariettas, a powerful punk-pop quartet which included former members of several legendary LA-area groups; such as The Leaving Trains, Baby Lemonade and Arthur Lee and Love. 12 drew great notices in the US, as well as in the United Kingdom, in music magazines such as Luke and Bucketful of Brains.
Sean returned to his native Bay Area in 2001. He recorded several new songs acoustically and refined the material for Too Personal, the first solo CD of his career. Sean plays guitars throughout, though two guest musicians do appear on the album. Polly Klemmer, of The Mistaken, plays piano on two tracks. Also, on "The Answer is In", Sean is joined on acoustic guitar by his old friend Russ Tolman, solo recording artist and former guitarist of TRUE WEST.
In 2006 Sean released Seed of Mayhem, featuring members of all of the above mentioned. That year he formed his permanent group, Sean O'Brien and His Dirty Hands: featuring Jeff Kane on lead guitar, Bill Davis on Bass, and Matt Shelley on drums. The Dirty Hands released their first CD, Goodbye Game, in 2008. The CD got a lot of great press. In 2009, The Drug of Memory was released. This compilation of tracks covers nearly thirty years of recorded work with the following bands: The Meantime, True West, Cottonmouth, The Mariettas and some solo work. The majority of these tracks have never been released. One track, "Smoke Me" features guest artist Chris Cacavas.
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Hi Sean, just got your parcel, thanks a lot! Have to listen some more to write more... in the meantime ... counting the days till 21st of June (Summer!) Big party all over Berlin www.fetedelamusique.de/3.0.html Cheers, Katja
Hi Sean & Pals, Wow, it's a small world sometimes...I really like your music...great that you heard Johanna's show.. kinda freaky that you are called Dirty Hands as I have a track on my new album called Dirty Hands...whadda they say about 'great minds.... anyway, yeah I hope to come back your way in 2010. Hope to see you then.
Hello from Finland! It's a name-dropping FRENZY!!! I just released my new cd featuring Alejandro Escovedo, Mark Lanegan, Steve Berlin (los lobos), Chris and Carla from the Walkabouts, Peter Case, Scott McCaughey (YFF, REM)and Jim Roth (built to spill). CD has liner notes by Biographer Charles R. Cross (BackStreets-Springsteen...Heavier than Heaven-Cobain...Roomful of Mirrors-Hendrix...etc. Also I have finally put "Passing Thru" on my site as well for you to hear...this is the one with Eddie Vedder, Victoria Williams, and Carla Torgerson trading verses with me...it has not been availablé for a long time, and I also have it on i-tunes, etunes, amazon and rhapsody. Okay...I hope you are doing well!
Hello! Just wanted to drop in and let you know that pre-orders for my new jazz standards album "Bittersweet" are now taking place! The first 100 pre-orders will receive a signed and numbered copy! Release date is set for May 19th, but you will get your copy a few days earlier! Kate and I are very excited about the record, and we can't wait for you to hear it. Head over to www.bittersweetthealbum.com to pre-order! Thanks! ~Mark
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