peety is a name I came up w/ myself (got it from the blind kid's bird on Dumb & Dumber, or a spoof on Petey Pablo, not sure). The L originally stood for Luttenbacher, a surname I took from the band the Flying Luttenbachers, but I shortened it so I wouldn't get in any trouble. I made it into one word, pronounced (pee-tee-EL).

I've only played live twice (both times in 2005), at the old Fraught Run underground record shop here in Durango, CO. My friend who owned it is in Denver now: the store isn't here anymore. It was OK, I get very nervous live, and was sweaty and really didn't know what I was doing to be honest. But both shows went over really well. I went into an extended 12-minute jam playing the same riff over & over, and after a while the audience picked up whatever instros they could find and played and stomped along. My friend who owned the place had to whisper to me to stop, there were others that had to play. Afterwards, there was some guy from the East Coast who said it was the most amazing thing he'd seen live musically. That was a pretty cool night. The other local bands were great, too.

Internet could make the music industry, for the first time, truly ALL-INCLUSIVE in that all musicians from outsider to pop genres can have a stab at making a name for themselves publicly. Music should be traded freely among all artists, like one big ol' global tape swap.

Not right now. That might be a pretty ridiculous notion because my music is not very "hip" or "accessible." But I'm doing OK BY MYSELF right now.

Started in 1999-2000 when I would use a hand-held microcassette recorder to record myself playing my mom's old acoustic guitar she had in the late 60s, and which she nicknamed "The White Rabbit." Would mess with the variable speed control on the recorder to create weird noise (scrape its mic across the strings, etc.). All those tapes are unfortunately lost. Acquired a thrift-store electric guitar, pawn-shop Fender amp, and various thrift-store keyboards along the way. After I moved in with my girlfriend in 2003, got a 4-track recorder in late 2004, and the rest is history. Not really THAT much to tell, yet. Oh yeah, and I'm renting-to-own a REAL sax now, since 2009...no more canned wailing!!

Noisy, lo-fi, naive-ish homemade freak-improv-jazz-rock, noisy effects-guitar, skronky sax, somewhat minimalist, influenced by Half Japanese, (The Psychedelic) Stooges, Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor, Jandek, Suicide, Sonic Youth, GbV (especially Alien Lanes), Lou Christie (vocally), Pussy Galore, etc., etc., anything like that.

Ann Arbor, MI is the birthplace of underground rock 'n' roll over the last 30-35 years. Almost all the bands I admire/am influenced by got their start there. Baltimore. Chicago. I'll always have a spot in my heart for Vegas and Durango, CO (where I got my start), for some reason.

4-track cassette recorder (Tascam MPF01, Tascam DP-01 digital and Zoom MRS-4 digital), various cheap keyboards, one GOOD keyboard, electric guitar, Zoom effects pedal, cheap toy-ish drum pad I bought at a drug store where I used to work (in the early days), cheap plastic toy guitar (sometimes), found sounds (somewhat), etc., etc., and my Mac to "master" everything and burn it to disc, make album art in Photoshop, etc.

My stuff strives to be a very-poorly-improvised, bad-performance art-based shit-mélange of free jazz, rhythm and blues, n0ise, and rock 'n' roll. It's as much performance art as it is music, and as much c0medy as it is performance art. I play mainly the sax and keys. And'sall SKR0NKY....