Steve Bartek
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Steve Bartek | |
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| Born | January 30, 1952 |
| Origin | film scores |
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| Instrument(s) | Guitar |
| Years active | 1967-present |
Steve Bartek (born January 30, 1952, in
Career
Early career
Bartek's career started while at
After college he worked at the Baked Potato with Leon Gaer under the leadership of Don Randi until joining the theatrical ensemble The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo in 1975, where he met his collaborator Danny Elfman.
Between 1979 and 1995, Bartek was lead guitar in new wave band Oingo Boingo with Elfman. Bartek also orchestrated the horn arrangements for the band and co-produced many of their albums.
Film and television
Bartek has composed music for
As an orchestrator, Bartek has worked on over 50 productions with Danny Elfman as of 2007, including most Tim Burton productions, Mission: Impossible, Good Will Hunting, Spider-Man and Milk, and has done orchestration work with composers Jon Brion and Stephen Trask.[citation needed]
Bartek provided the soundtrack for Donovan Cook's indie film Rideshare: The Movie, alongside former Oingo Boingo member Johnny "Vatos" Hernandez.
In 2015 Steve performed the theme to Harvey Beaks.[1]
Other work
Steve Bartek did horn arrangements for Avenged Sevenfold's song "A Little Piece of Heaven" as well as for John Hiatt's "Little Head". He produced Raya Yarbrough's eponymous album and arranged strings for the song "Early Autumn".[citation needed] He also did a string arrangement for Ricky Martin's "Vuelve".
Bartek played the acoustic guitar on the Bangles cover of "A Hazy Shade of Winter" on the Rick Rubin arranged soundtrack for the 1987 film "Less Than Zero".
Bartek plays guitar for the TV series
Bartek also contributed music to both the ride queue and exit of Disneyland's short-lived Rocket Rods attraction in 1998, including a synthesizer arrangement of Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild" and "World of Creativity (Magic Highways of Tomorrow)", the latter being a radical re-arrangement of "Detroit", a song originally written and composed by the Sherman Brothers for the 1967 Disney film, The Happiest Millionaire.[citation needed]
Bartek is an admirer of composer Raymond Scott,[citation needed] and in 2012, he worked with Ego Plum in arranging a live tribute show held at the Walt Disney Concert Hall's REDCAT entitled "Machine Man: The Musical Mayhem of Raymond Scott".[2][3]
Bartek played guitar on Gerald Casale's 2021 single, "I'm Gonna Pay U Back".[4]
Select filmography
- 1989 Communion
- 1991 Guilty as Charged
- 1991 Past Midnight
- 1994 Cabin Boy
- 1995 National Lampoon's Senior Trip
- 1995 Coldblooded
- 1997 Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
- 1998 Meet the Deedles
- 1998 Psycho
- 2000 Snow Day
- 2000 An Extremely Goofy Movie
- 2000 The Crew
- 2001 Get Over It
- 2001 Novocaine
- 2003 Carolina
- 2007 The Simpsons Movie
- 2008 Art Of Travel
- 2011 Rideshare
References
- ^ "Ego Plum". 459.
- ^ Johnson, Reed (November 8, 2012). "Raymond Scott, fave of Bart Simpson, in REDCAT music tribute". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ "Raymond Scott Tribute". REDCAT. November 9, 2012.
- ^ "THE NEW SINGLE: 7-inch metallic gold vinyl". DEVO's Gerald V. Casale Official Site + Store. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
External links
- Steve Bartek at IMDb
- Steve Bartek discography at Discogs
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