Steve Fitzpatrick

Steve Houston, bitch!

Master, disaster, blaster, faster, raster, ops

Profile

• Guitarist
• Record Label
• Musician
• Audio Engineer

Instruments

• Guitar
• Keyboard
• Vocals

Genres

• Rock
• Electronic
• Blues
• Avant Garde
• Weird
• What The Fuck
• Metal
• Industrial

Influences

• Pink Floyd
• Motorhead
• Eyehategod
• Ministry
• Killing Joke
• Throbbing Gristle
• Frank Zappa
• Captain Beefheart
• Melvins
• Black Flag
• Joy Division
• Ad Nauseum

Equipment

• Gretsch Guitars
• Ibanez Guitar
• Taylor Acoustic
• Boss Pedals
• Mxr Carbon Copy Bright
• Tc Electronic
• Vintage Traynor

What is music to you? What does it give you?

Music is a form of art utilizing acoustic waves. While the principles of music are rooted in physical phenomenon (scientifically provable stuff), music at it's ultimate horizon also emanates a sense the profound primal! Deep, dark shit... Bottomless wells of the mind. Ultimate horizons of the spirit.

What is your music dream?

Make exactly the music I want, which is what i am doing right now, and having it pay for itself. Constantly do music...

If you could change the world - what would you start with?

Are you kidding? Let's let the world go down the toilet! Woo! No... Hold the greedy bastards accountable for all of the mindless (go ahead and argue with me!) damage that they have done!

Which is the most memorable song from your childhood?

"The Streak" by Ray Stevens

Who are your favorite musical artists or bands?

Ministry, Joy Division, Frank Zappa, Throbbing Gristle, Captain Beefheart, Pink Floyd, Sepultura, Eyehategod, ad nauseum...

What inspires you to make music?

The catharsis and the release... And some other stuff... Ask me later.

What is the message you want to send with your music?

Ultimately: none! Think for yourself! Use your imagination! Enjoy life! See that there are many sides to everything! Don't be fetus!

How do you feel when you perform in front of an audience?

Like I'm partially not there... Like I'm emitting a stream of all the darkness inside outwards to explode into fire! Like I'm having fun.

How do you see the musicians’ reality nowadays? What could be improved?

Well it's never been easy. A more straight-forward system of merit and value would help... Cleaning up the filthy music industry.

What do you think of Drooble?

Good so far. Just got on it.

What frustrates you most as a musician?

The difficulty in finding adequate work-space around here... Long-term, affordable work-space. The insensate world of music promotion and the machine that spits artists, and many more, out after having chewed their bones!

Do you support your local scene as a fan? How?

Yes. Go to shows as much as I can.

What qualities should a musician nowadays have in order to get their music heard by a larger audience?

Perseverance. Good business sense. Guess which I don't have? But I can figure anything else out. I mean anything else out!

Share some awesome artists that we’ve never heard of.

Iron Cthulhu Apocalypse, Iron Monkey, Slaves BC, hecklehammer, Jonathan D.L., Spurge, Hart Deer, Antlered Aunt Lord, Ilsa, WHORES, Unus Mundus

• wall
• videos
• photos
• songs