Tim Mungenast is a friend who artfully maintains a family and a band near Boston. The Music business is famous for destroying domesticity, but Tim found a level that works for him. We're enthused to spotlight a creative survivor!
We've known lots of players at Tonefrenzy, and from years of gigging before our Internet adventures. There's a big, soft spot in our heads for live performers! Your skills, solos; all of that, grows faster when you work! Audiences focusing on you, cycle energy back to the band; a curious buzz from touching many people at once. Yet; after a certain age, many players find themselves married w/ a family, and "give up" on music. Don't let that happen to you!
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Most young art fans live to become adults; then life gets complicated. Don't give up gigging, you WILL miss it! Tim Mungenast sets his surreal poetry to music in clubs, then goes home to his family, (and a day job, sometimes). This integration allowed family life, while providing a badly needed hit, for "Daddy-O"! |
Below is a blurb; in his own words, for a guy who worked out his details. An interview and music will follow. Web site is www.mungenast.com
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Tim Mungenast is a Tyrolean-American guitar shaman, a middle-class mystic who grew up in a tiny, very rural town in Central New York. He sees High and Low culture are merely two sides of the same corn... which is good, because he is half goat. Corn is good. Goats are good. All is good. [ Artwork by Tim's daughter - Ed. ] |
While he has had a serious Hendrix fixation since childhood, and dotes on the usual suspects like Floyd (both the Syd and Gilmour periods) and the Doors, he has unusually eclectic musical tastes, from Harry Partch to Mashmakhan to Debussy to Bach organ pieces. TV themes, movie soundtracks, even the Moog bleeps that used to start radio news programs... it all gets put into the grinder, along with the spacey sounds of out-of-range radio stations.
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Surrealism and Dada have played a huge part in his formation as a musician and a person. Growing up as an eccentric in a conservative farm town, Tim found solace and encouragement in discovering the works of like-minded souls... even if these like-minded souls were European drunkards and opium fiends who had been dead for decades.
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But enough about the past! Right now, Tim is busily pursuing parallel paths as a purveyor of modern psych/pop/rock (and its various subgenres), AND avant garde/improv. He loves them both and refuses to play favorites. He even does folkadelic mostly-acoustic music (think Tyrannasaurus Rex before they became T.Rex).
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Tim's guitar and voice is joined by the brilliant rhythm section of Cul de Sac veterans Michael Bloom (bass) and Jon Proudman (drums), but other sounds and textures are thrown into the classic power-trio formula. "My favorite rock bands were not afraid to sound pretty, not afraid to experiment. Look at the Yardbirds, Zeppelin, Hendrix, Cream: they were not afraid to switch from heavy to sweet and back again. Anyone got a Harmonium, cheap?"
[ Interview/ audio to follow, THANKS TIM! Tonefrenzy.com ]
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