BAND WEBSITE: OYSTER CLUB &
HOME PLANET
List
of sites for purchasing digital downloads of our music
(photo by Molly
Ruttan)
Oyster Club is composed of 2 of the 3 original members from the band
Home Planet, Steve Tarnoff: Singer/songwriter and guitarist, and Mike Roux:
drummer and backup vocalists. Former Home Planet bass player Mark Whitten is in
another band at this time. (Home Planet has not been together since the end of
the last millennium). Joining “Oyster Club” provisionally as time and
college permits is Martin Tarnoff a.k.a. Suiauthon Lhûgrancion (son of band
leader Steve Tarnoff) playing bass and adding some younger blood to the
trio.
The band plays 60’s and 80’s
influenced rock with a philosophy that rock music is essentially plugged-in
folk music. Oyster Club continues to perform Home Planet music (which can be
purchased on CD baby.com and other online outlets) and has composed more tunes
now released on the CD, "Grateful Living In The Shadows". The CD is a
three act program touching on various aspects of the human condition. In short,
world/global conditions, relationships, spirituality and death.
At present we are working on
more material and experimenting with new musicians, instruments, and styles.
The seeds of inspiration for the next future CD are being sown.
Oyster Club is named after one
of the several intellectual clubs whose membership was composed of prominent
intellectuals from the Scottish enlightenment (e.g. economist Adam Smith;
philosopher David Hume; geologist James Hutton. Benjamin Franklin dropped
in as well). We could all use some enlightenment.
Contact us at: oysterclub@verizon.net to get on or off our e-mail list.
GIGS - Past and present (We don’t play that often so catch
us when you can)
FRIDAY, January 8, 2010 at 10:15 pm. We will be playing
at TAIX 321 LOUNGE . Martin will be on bass, and Shuli on bassoon.
FRIDAY, JULY 31ST at 10:15 pm. We will be
playing at TAIX 321 LOUNGE . Martin will be on bass, and Shuli on bassoon.
We played a private party April 4th as
“Stripped Oyster Club” at TAIX with some added woodwinds (bassoon) and guest
Shuli. Martin was not be there on bass.
Martin Tarnoff was on College break during our gig Friday
January, 16th, 2009 tentatively to be our CD release gig at TAIX 321 LOUNGE (CD
info below) but the CD came out March 2009.
TAIX 321 LOUNGE Friday, August 1st 2008 was
suppose to be Martin’s last gig before Going to college but he was sick and we
went on without him as “Stripped” Oyster Club. We were well received even without a bass player. We did several songs
for the first time in public as well, we were sorry that Martin could not be
there but “the show must go on”.
Our last gig with Martin before he went to Bard College
was: SATURDAY JUNE 7th 2008 at the annual community arts festival on
the grounds of: Betty
Plasencia Elementary School (our first
gig was at the festival in 2007).
A synopsis of our gig Friday September 21st
2007 (first club gig as Oyster Club) at TAIX 321
LOUNGE by Steve Tarnoff. We had a very good
reception, in other words enthusiastic applause and thumbs up. I can't seem to
shake the Jell-O Biafra comparison of my voice but hey what's wrong with a
Jell-O-Neil Young-Clash-ska-country-surf-a dash of Black Sabbath/Joy
Division-eclectic mélange, kind of like seafood/oyster chowder. Martin playing
bass and keeping up with it all impressed the 20’s something crowd at the
bar. In the words of a young Jimmy Paige/Marc Bolin look alike: "He
was awesome". I got to debut my post-cancer song "like a
sieve" and a few songs that may have not been performed in public before,
or maybe once or twice long ago in another life.
(photos by Molly Ruttan)
STREAM SONGS
MULTI-TRACK DIGITAL
RECORDINGS RECOREDED AT CATASONIC
STUDIOS IN ECHO PARK
1998 FOR: THE CD TITLE “WE COME IN PEACE” BY HOME PLANET
(This
15 song CD is on sale at CD BABY.COM and is available at download sites such as:
Apple
iTunes, PayPlay (digital
downloads cheaper than iTunes), Tradebit, groupietunes.com, Rhapsody, Yahoo,
Ringtone
companies, etc.
List
of sites for digital downloads
(photo by Molly Ruttan)
an)
THE SONGS BELOW ARE
ON THE OYSTER CLUB CD.
We are did this
ourselves and laid down tracks as time permitted.
We have a portable 8
track digital multi-tracker (but records 4
tracks at a time).
We then loaded the
final tracks into Pro
Tools for final mixing. Mastering
was completed at the recording studio of Gabe Moffat.
The streams below are not totally finished mixes and tracks, and have not been through the mastering process. They sound different than the CD.
They are available
below to you as alternate versions of songs that are on the CD.
All songs written by, and are the intellectual property of
Steve Tarnoff, except
the cover song. The CD is organized into a 3 act, 13-scene program on themes of
the human condition.
The CD is available on CdBaby.com now. CLICK HERE
CD Title: Grateful Living in the Shadows (A three act program on themes of the human condition)
ACT
1 Wrong Situations
VIOLENT PEOPLE (scene 1: any wrong place on the globe)
BUSH
AND FRIENDS (scene 2: Washington
DC/Crawford Ranch Texas, 2000-2008)
ACT
2 Mars And Venus Encounter
WORM
HOLE (scene 1: encounter, endorphins
galore, reification)
SHE’LL
BE COMING AROUND THE MOUNTAIN (scene 2:
reunion)
SOME
BODY NEW? (scene 3: reification, the human
marketplace, comparative shopping)
WORK IT
OUT (scene 4: a place of hope)
LOVE
OUT THE DOOR (scene 5: under the exit
sign/ the wormhole closes)
ACRIMONY (scene 6: a place of bitterness outside the wormhole)
JUST
BECAUSE [cover] (scene 7: a self-respecting
reality)
ACT
3 Wherever You Go There You Are/ The Time Is Always Now
WHAT
JAH GONNA DO NOW (scene 1: a
place of reflection)
LIKE A
SIEVE (scene 2: where sands run through
life’s hour glass)
WILL
YOU KNOW? (scene 3: your mind, cosmic
reifications on; nothingness, the cosmos, a cloud, heaven, hell,
purgatory)
CHECK IT OUT (scene 4: take your pick; toxic waste or transcendental communion)
LINKS: ARTISTIC FRIENDS AND FAMILY
Some Artistic Friends
Molly
Ruttan Illustration - Los Angeles CA
Phideaux
- Los Angeles CA
John
Dentino - Los Angeles CA
Johann
Weyringer – Salzburg, Austria
Kurt Palm – Vienna, Austria
Elizabeth
Raybee – Potter Valley, Mendocino County CA
Michael
Charnes – Potter Valley, Mendocino County CA
Shirley Sue - Los Angeles CA
Tarnoff’s musical cousins
(mostly country/bluegrass,/gospel)
BEARFOOT: Back Home (Jason
Norris – plays mandolin/fiddle) - Alaska
BEARFOOT: Only Time Knows (Jason Norris – plays mandolin/fiddle) - Alaska
BEARFOOT: Follow Me (Jason
Norris – plays mandolin/fiddle) - Alaska
SHIRLEY RAYE &
BILL MURPHREE: Country Classics (Bill Murphree
sings) - Alabama
BILL MURPHREE/SHIRLEY
RAYE: Feeling Is Believing (Bill Murphree sings) -
Alabama
SHIRLEY RAYE &
BILL MURPHREE: Thanks To Calvary (Bill Murphree
sings) - Alabama
Shirley
Raye - Official Web Site (wife of Bill Murphree) –
Alabama
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