Kramer, 1958-

LC control no.	no 98051584
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Kramer, 1958- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Kramer (Musician) Kramer (Composer) Kramer (Vocalist) Kramer, Mark, 1958-
Birth date	1958
Place of birth	New York (N.Y.)
Special note	Machine-derived authority record.
Found in	LCCN 95-784026: Real men, 199-? Fair, Jad. The sound of music, 1999, p1998: label (Kramer) Chairman of the board [SR] p1993: container (Kramer, vocals) iTunes, Mar. 30, 2018 (Best known as the in-house producer and proprietor of the Shimmy-Disc label, Kramer (first name Mark) has also had an extensive career as a musician, mostly with other bands or collaborators, but occasionally solo as well. Born in [New York, NY in] 1958 ... Kramer served a brief stint as the Butthole Surfers' touring bassist, then decided to concentrate on running his Shimmy-Disc label and Noise New York (later Noise New Jersey) recording studio. As well as being a member of the twistedly humorous bands B.A.L.L. (later Gumball) and Bongwater ... From the late '80s on, Kramer was a highly active collaborator, releasing projects with Jad Fair of Half Japanese, John S. Hall of King Missile, Ralph Carney and Daved Hild, ex-Gong frontman Daevid Allen, ex-King Missile member Dogbowl, ex-Soft Machine bassist Hugh Hopper, and Captain Howdy, a band featuring magician Penn Jillette on vocals and cartoon voice-over master Billy West (Ren & Stimpy, etc.) on guitar. Kramer's solo career began in 1993 with the release of The Guilt Trip, which was followed in 1994 with The Secret of Comedy and 1995's Japanese-only Music for Crying; the albums combined Kramer's warped humor with his ample production skills and (sometimes) pop songwriting sense. In 1998, Kramer returned to solo recording with Songs from the Pink Death on Shimmy-Disc and Let Me Explain Something to You About Art on Tzadik. A second Kramer release on Tzadik, The Greenberg Variations, arrived in 2003. He returned to the label for 2012's The Brill Building, a collection of covers of songs written by Brill Building greats including Carole King, Burt Bacharach, and Neil Diamond given Kramer's distinctive approach. He continued to produce albums for artists ranging from Colleen Green to Permahorn, and in 2017 launched the vinyl-only label Shimmy-500) <https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/kramer/1189249053> Wikipedia, Mar. 30, 2018 (Kramer: Mark Kramer (born Stephen Michael Bonner in New York City in 1958), known professionally as Kramer, is a musician, composer, record producer and founder of the New York City record label Shimmy-Disc. He was a full-time member of the bands New York Gong, Shockabilly, Bongwater and Dogbowl & Kramer, has played on tour (usually on bass guitar) with bands such as Butthole Surfers, B.A.L.L., Ween, Half Japanese and The Fugs (1984 reunion tour), and has also performed regularly with John Zorn and other improvising musicians of New York City's so-called "downtown scene" of the 1980s) Second shimmy web site, Mar. 30, 2018: Kramer biography (Kramer stopped using his first name long before Jerry Seinfeld's fictional TV neighbor became part of the cultural vernacular) <http://www.kramershimmy.com/secondshimmy/?/bio/>
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