BAND WEBSITE: OYSTER CLUB & HOME PLANET

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(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, 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

 

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(photo by Molly Ruttan)

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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

 

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


WEB PAGE STARTED 10-23-07

The tracks from Oyster Club on the podcast below are the same track as the rough mixed unmastered tracks above.


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