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A Portrait of the Artist as an Uneven Young Man

by Uneven Steven

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Criticality (Gregory) 05:45
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2.
After Hours (Gregory) 05:05
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Metered Dose (Gregory) 03:37
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Taliaferro (Gregory/Costa) 04:35
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Funkythumb (Gregory) 05:13
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Eww, why does your thumb smell like that? Huhhh, I got a funkythumb! Good god, funky-funky! Huhhh, such a funkythumb And here come Drew with nine funky other ones Funky drummer! Funky drummer! Good god, hit 'em with the Giffstick! P-U!!! Ugh! Aw little girl there ain't no time To wash my, to wash my stinky thumb Ow!!! Can I rinse it off do you suppose? No, no, no I tried that scented soap It didn't leave me with any kinda hope I tried to rinse it off in the shower But the water didn't have the power It just, it just made it worse Good god, it just keeps getting funkier and funkier Uh, gross
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4D Glasses (Gregory) 05:26
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Daddy Longlegs (Gregory) 05:12
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Daddy Longlegs Oh Daddy Longlegs etc.
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Liquid Avocado (Gregory) 05:49
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Ganymede Spa (Costa) 05:13
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Babylon Gonna Babble (Gregory) 05:27
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QEMFD (Costa/Gifford/Gregory) 06:40
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Eighty-Eight (Costa) 03:36
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Funk Against Fascism (Gregory/Costa) 04:15
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I can't keep this instrumental 'Cause there's something fundamentally wrong In this land that I love And I'm not down with violence But I'm not cool with silence When push has come to way, way, way past shove Now, I love my country but I'm righteously pissed To see America coming to this We've got angry young men wearing nazi boots Marching round throwing stupid salutes? And now there's stars and bars On the bumpers of the cars Right in the neighborhood where I dwell And while I'd like to think these people are basically good Truth is that they scare me to hell But I'm not gonna watch my country go up in ashes Gonna keep using love to bring funk against fascists And if you don't wanna know how the story's gonna end Then here's a spoiler alert Funk is gonna win!
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Giffed Horse (Gregory/Costa) 05:57
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Hey everybody Let me tell you what it's all about Sit right down and let me tell you what it's all about Hey everybody Look a Giffed Horse in the mouth Look him in the mouth right now and say Hey everybody

about

Relevant quotes:

“To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.”
-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“We make art in an environment hostile to dreamers.”
-Frank Zappa

“What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”
-William Blake

“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
-Oscar Wilde

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
-Albert Einstein

“All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.”
-Mary Wollstonecraft

“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
-Maya Angelou

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion”
-Albert Camus

“Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.”
-Robert Anton Wilson

“I learn the rules like a pro, so I can break them like an artist.”
-Pablo Picasso

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
-Henry David Thoreau

“You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard for the opinions of other people.”
-Aleister Crowley

“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.”
-Katharine Hepburn

“Shut the fuck up and listen to the music, you jive ass motherfuckers!”
-John Zorn

credits

released December 2, 2022

Drew Costa: keyboards (all songs), guitar (1, 4, 10, 11, 12, 14), vocals (7, 14)
Steve Gifford: drums (all songs)
Steve Gregory: bass (all songs), guitar (1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 14), vocals (5, 7, 13, 14)

guitar solos:
special guest Joe Frisino: Criticality
Steve Gregory: After Hours, Taliaferro, QEMFD (first solo)
Drew Costa: Babylon Gonna Babble, QEMFD (second solo), Eighty-Eight

Breanne Harvey: additional vocal on 5

Basic tracks recorded by Joe Saba at ZazaSound[HD], Voorheesville NY. Overdubs recorded by Costa/Gregory. Final mixes and mastering by Joe Saba at ZazaSound[HD].

Cover painting: Clarke Hingeford. Please check out more of his work at www.artpal.com/clarkehingeford

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Uneven Steven Albany, New York

Uneven Steven plays "Progressive Groove Music", an original, instrumental synthesis of rock, funk, blues and jazz. Inventive and exciting, they have been wowing audiences in the Albany NY area since 2012. They released their full-length debut "Believe In The Uneven" in early 2018. ... more

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