Subject - Jeff Gretz
Birthplace - Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Has also called home: Indiana, Pennsylvania; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Currently resides in : New York City, New York
Education: BA Music Performance (Indiana University Of Pennsylvania)
Primary Instrument: Drums, various pitched and non-pitched percussion
Also plays: Piano
Plays in private: Guitar and Bass
Currently works with: Conelrad, Zao, Emanuel And The Fear, Zero Spanish and various solo and collaborative
efforts
Has worked with: From Autumn To Ashes, the opd, Zombi, Creta Bourzia,
Disco Bitch And The Funk Machine, Austrian Death Machine, Hung,
A-UX, Powdered Monster, Loadbang Ensemble, Betty Black, Leo Coltrane,
Epigene, Nate Wooley, Travis Laplante, The Pittsburgh Sound, Marla
Mindelle, Mistaruddy, Torus, The Hill Jordan Quartet, Johnstown
Symphony Orchestra, Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra
of the Alleghenies, Uptown Rhythm And Brass, Ben Hackett, Brooksfoundjake,
Creation, Lumb, Tehran Iran, Crank Radio, Catchpenny, Double Whammy
Butt Burrito Brigade, Clockwise Quartet and sat in more orchestra
pits in musicals than you'd care to know, has also played more weddings
and "bar gigs" that you'd EVER care to know, in addition to many
other gigs that he'll never remember
Inspiration -
Music: All sorts of things, especially Edgar Varese, Ornette Coleman,
Cheap Trick, Burt Bacharach, Bjork, The Melvins, Black Flag, Slayer,
Ennio Morricone, Fiona Apple, Aphex Twin, Magma, Johnny Cash, Neil
Diamond, The Beach Boys, Iannis Xenakis, G.G. Allin, Albert Ayler,
Melt-Banana, Bad Brains, Steve Reich, Swans, Igor Stravinsky, and
Steely Dan.
Film: David Lynch, Luis Buñuel, John Waters, Alejandro Jodorowsky,
Harry Everett Smith, Dario Argento, George Romero, Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Matthew Barney, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Federico Fellini
Writings: William S. Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Bukowski,
Franz Kafka, Hunter S. Thompson, Music reference books, Art/Photography
books
Art: Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Weegee, ManRay, Hans Arp, Marcel
Duchamp, Jackson Pollock, basically anything from the Dada/Surrealist
movements
Turn-Ons: Cooking, Wine, Designer Toys, The Pittsburgh Steelers,
Celebrity Gossip Websites, Outsider Art
Turn Offs: Sublime, The F Train, The NY Yankees, Florida, questions
about Christianity, people that refer to "The Biz" |
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