Congress of the Cow at Stimy's Memorial Show at Casbah, 2/16/11

Some shots of Congress of the Cow's set at the Casbah:







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R.I.P. Stimy Part III

I would just update the other posts, but for ease of posting across platforms, a new post is easier. I got my hands on the MP3 of Sunday's The Local Pyle dedicated to Stimy. Click to stream, or right click/save as to download. I don't know if there is a time limit or a max download for this file (Thanks to everyone who pointed me to Dropbox for hosting) so I'd recommend downloading it now.

R.I.P. Stimy, Part II

I hope that everyone got to hear The Local Pyle on FM 94/9 on Sunday because it was a stellar and loving tribute to Stimy and it was made clear just how deep his contributions as a musician and as a person were felt throughout the San Diego music community and beyond. He will truly be missed. There are memorials and services in the works, but in the meantime, I wanted to share some things.

First, Eric Howarth has posted the entire Congress of the Cow record online. This download will only be available for a few more days, so make sure you grab it for free while you can.

As a tribute to Stimy, I put together this zip file that includes the entire Congress of the Cow album that we put out on M-Theory Records the label back in 2002. I included a doc with lyrics, a couple press photos, the album cover, and even a dinky little camera shot of an old Inch poster at the Casbah with No Knife that I found. Spent a little time going through some old files to see what I had.

Congress of the Cow featured Stimy, Ray, John, and Francis. John sang vocals/wrote lyrics on 2 of the tracks (Motor Mouth and New Juan)

I encourage you to read the lyric sheet as Stimy always wrote songs from the heart about personal things...never contrived. You knew what he was going through by listening to the lyrics.

Please share with your friends who would appreciate. The file will be available to download for a week from now.

Here's to a much better 2011 and thanks Stimy, Ray, John, and Francis for creating a great record with Mr. Gar Wood at "The Box". R.I.P.

Here's a Lakeside Orchestra video that Heather Johnson posted.


And, in case you missed my post last week, you can grab a full catalog of free Sub-Society downloads, on this site.

Also, Jason Bang posted a ton of old archival videos from the San Diego scene circa '93/'94 on YouTube. You can check out a ton of videos here. If you wanna get straight to the Inch video, click here.

R.I.P. Stimy

The local music community is closing out 2010 with some sad news. Michael Steinman, who everybody knew as Stimy, has passed away. The singer of seminal San Diego bands Inch, Sub-Society, and Congress of The Cow was a legend around town but had been living in Colorado for several years. In October, he returned to San Diego for the Livewire Anniversary party and from what I'm told, blew everyone away in a way only he could. Details of his death have not been released but word spread like wildfire across Facebook and friends and family are reeling at the shocking news.

I didn't know Stimy personally, but as someone who followed the local music scene from a very young age, I had the opportunity to see Sub-Society and Inch numerous times and loved that they were open to playing all ages shows back then. The impact that this bands had on San Diego's music development are still felt today. If more details and information on services become available, I will post them here.





For a full catalog of free Sub-Society downloads, check out this site.
See more photos at http://www.seemichaelsphotos.com/ and see his post about the October show here.

Stimy at Livewire, 10/9/10

Remember the era of Inch and Congress of the Cow?


Stimy was back in town and playing a solo set of all of your old favorites.





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