Clint Niosi

Band History

Clint Niosi was born in Shakopee, Minnesota in 1979. For most of the eighties he ran around his neighborhood in Bloomington, MN. His parents taught him the family trade (glass etching) and introduced him to some excellent oldies music. Clint's older brother made sure he had a healthy dose of heavy metal, while his sister showed him the refinement of 80's top 40 radio.

In 1993, much to Clint's dismay, his family moved to the convergence of evil known to some as Mansfield, Texas. One month prior to the move, however, Clint's father provided him with his first guitar. Without many friends in his newfound home, Clint spent hours in his room trying to learn classic rock and all those Seattle bands' songs that he taped from the radio. Clint went on to study the musical history and lyrics of the majority of popular music that was released between A.D. 1950 and 2000. In 2001 he stopped listening to the radio so much.

As a songwriter, Clint describes his personal taste as "old fashioned." "I like melody and a good harmony... those never go out of style." Clint was the songwriter for several bands that failed to last very long. One band would break up, he would write new songs for the next, then that band would break up, etc, etc. Eventually Clint found himself with a pile of songs and no band. So he continued to play the songs.

Clint recieved a B.A. in English from the University of Texas at Arlington. In 2008, he finished a full length album titled, The Sound of Dead Horses Beaten Against Cold Shoulders.

Occasionally he writes in the third person.

Information from the artist's site

Members

• Clint Niosi guitar, lead vocals, vocals

Influences

The Cure, Robin Hitchcock, Ministry, The Beta Band, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Herman Hesse, Jane's Addiction, Lou Reed, Mazzy Star, Neil Young, Black Sabbath, Shonin Knife, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, The Talking Heads, Concrete Blonde, Syd Barrett, Kurt Vonnegut, The Hollies, Ween, The Flaming Lips, Chuck Berry, Ella Fitzgerald, Robert Johnson, Howlin Wolf, Jimi Hendrix, The Animals, John Coltrane, Nine Inch Nails, Skinny Puppy, e.e. cummings, Roger Waters, Blondie, The Cranberries, Lorena McEnitt, Aldus Huxley, Dead Can Dance, Missing Persons, Dr. Demento, Kahlil Gibran, Radiohead, Portishead, Lovage, Serge Gainsborough, Toni Morrison, Gary Numan, Dante, Heart, Fleetwood Mac, Book of Love, Elliott Smith, The Beach Boys, Leonard Cohen, Jethro Tull, David Bowie, Electric Light Orchestra, Pulp, Brian Wilson, Brian Eno, Nirvana, Rachmaninov, The Shins, Three Dog Night, Vivaldi, Tommy James and the Shondells, The Unicorns, William Burroughs, Tori Amos, Erasure, Heart, ABBA, Nick Drake, Men Without Hats, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Magnetic Fields, Os Mutantes, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Twisted Sister, Thin Lizzy, Meat Loaf, New Order, The Pet Shop Boys, Johnny Cash, Cat Stevens, The Cars, Slayer

Albums by this artist

The Sounds of Dead Horses Beaten Against Cold Shoulders Released 2008