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Box
Set
Bill Bottrell & the Stokemen
Date:
Mar 17, 2001
Doors: 8:30PM
Show: 9:00PM
Tickets:
Om Sale Now
$13 adv/ $14 door
Age Restrictions:
6 and over.
Kitchen:
Open
Seating: Limited Seating Available.
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Bill Bottrell is a record producer
and songwriter based in Northern California. His work has produced
11 Grammy nominations, and his productions have sold more than 36
million records. In the 80s he worked with huge media stars like Michael
Jackson and Madonna, and Bill grew skeptical of the mega-business
side of the music industry. He retreated to Pasadena near his home
and built a radical new recording studio which allowed him the freedom
to experiment with new economics and production methods. He was instrumental
in popularizing the rootsier, simpler sounds in the 90s. He started
a musical think tank with his friend David Baerwald and it came to
be called the Tuesday Night Music Club. This loose collective produced
huge hits and even bigger controversy. Attacks from the industry and
the media led to the eventual breakup of the collective. Bottrell,
retreating still further from the world's media capital, spent two
years in seclusion in Albion, California, writing and playing local
clubs. He stepped back into the mainstream in 1998, when he met Shelby
Lynne. Together, they wrote and recorded the critically acclaimed
album for Island Def Jam entitled "I Am Shelby Lynne." The
LA Times has called it the Album of the Year. As a result of that
album Shelby Lynne received a Grammy for best new artist and Bill
was nominated for Producer of the Year in 2000.
Bill's solo work has evolved
into a cabaret-style live show with his band, The Stokemen. They continue
to excite and surprise their audiences with their crazy antics and
brilliant songs. |
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