Steve Bartek
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Steve Bartek | |
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Born | January 30, 1952 |
Origin | Garfield Heights, Ohio, United States |
Genres | Rock, classical, film scores |
Occupation(s) | Orchestrator, composer, conductor, guitarist |
Instruments | Guitar, flute |
Years active | 1967-present |
Associated acts | Strawberry Alarm Clock Oingo Boingo Danny Elfman |
Steve Bartek (born January 30, 1952, in Garfield Heights, Ohio) is an American guitarist, film composer, conductor, and orchestrator. He is best known as the lead guitarist in the band Oingo Boingo and for his orchestration work with composer Danny Elfman.
Career[]
Early career[]
Bartek's career started while in high school, writing songs and playing flute with the psychedelic rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock. In 1974 he graduated from UCLA with a degree in Composition.
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 television series including The Tick, Tales from the Crypt, Nightmare Ned and Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories, and movies including An Extremely Goofy Movie, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Romy and Michele: In the Beginning, Snow Day, Novocaine, the 1998 remake of Psycho and . In 1992 he was nominated for a Saturn Award for his soundtrack to Guilty as Charged. In 2005, together with Danny Elfman and Stewart Copeland, he was awarded an BMI Film & TV Award for his work on Desperate Housewives.
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.
More recently, he provided the soundtrack for Donovan Cook's indie film , alongside former Oingo Boingo member .
In 2015 Steve performed the theme to Harvey Beaks.[1]
Other work[]
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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 's eponymous album and arranged strings for the song "Early Autumn". 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 Battlestar Galactica, Trauma and Walking Dead.
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.
Bartek played guitar on Gerald Casale's 2021 single, I'm Gonna Pay U Back.[2]
Select filmography[]
- 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
References[]
- ^ http://egoplum.tumblr.com/post/116362458966/harvey-beaks-opening-theme-extended-q-what
- ^ "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
- 1952 births
- Living people
- People from Garfield Heights, Ohio
- American music arrangers
- American rock guitarists
- American male guitarists
- American television composers
- American film score composers
- American male film score composers
- American new wave musicians
- 20th-century American guitarists
- Guitarists from Ohio
- 20th-century American male musicians
- 21st-century American guitarists
- Strawberry Alarm Clock members
- 21st-century American male musicians