Artist description HYPNOTIC FANTASY OIL is rhythm-heavy, jazzy, funky, stony, extra sugar on your Corn Flakes, roll down all of your windows, don’t forget to feed the goldfish ‘cuz you’re not comin’ home ‘till next week… Lemonade, for a thirsty world… “Campfire Rock For A Disco Planet” - - Beat Poetry Groove’a’longs jam-packed with super-hero musicianship. Their latest CD “Black Light Postcards” contains 13 songs about sex, love, food, and radiator clamps. The disc is an equally marvelous soundtrack for butt shakin’, caffeinated road trips, drunken games of horseshoes, and any activity involving water balloons.

Music Style really really really good

Musical Influences P-Funk, Tom Waits, Brand New Heavies, Cake, Beck, Sublime, 311, Rush, Oingo Boingo, Van Halen, Elvis Costello, James Brown, Sly Stone, AC/DC, Enigma, Bootsy Collins, Thelonious Monk, Jane's Addiction, The Beastie Boys, Billie Holiday, Babba Maal, Miles Davis, Zap Mama, Prince, Frank Black, The Pharcyde's first album, Earth Wind and Fire, Talking Heads, Sade, and Tons more.

Similar Artists Beck, Cake, Sublime, Dave Mathews, Soul Coughing, Sugar Ray, Citizen King, G Love, Smash Mouth, 311, Frank Black, The Spin Doctors, Flatten Manhattan

Artist History Keith Bartels and Todd Everett formed the band in 1998, as "an alternative to doing something responsible with their lives". The two originally met at a jam session held in the unfurnished, yet charming, living room of acid-jazz-vibraphonist Aaron Mars. That first jam raged ferociously for hours, and judging by the number of neighbor kids who had suctioned their faces to all of the windows around the house, it sounded pretty damn good! Bartels & Everett have played from San Diego, L.A., and San Francisco to as far away as Moscow, in their former bands Flatten Manhattan, Fuse Box, See Spot Groove, and Clockwork, which received radio airplay and CMJ chart activity, while the bands shared stages with No Doubt, The Gin Blossoms, Stone Temple Pilot, King Missile, Buck O' Nine, Skankin' Pickle, and a TON of cool local bands.

Group Members Keith Bartels:Lead Vocal & Bass, Todd Everett: Guitar, Keyboards, & Vocal, Mario Rodriguez: Guitar & Vocal, Sean McNeil: Drums

Instruments Vocals, Bass, Guitars, Keys, Drums

Albums Black Light Postcards

Location San Diego, CA - USA

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