Steel Toed Slippers

Genre: Rock
Secondary Genre: Funk Humboldt County, California USA Contact

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From Humboldt to Hollywood and back again... young songwriters searching for higher ground in the realm of modern sounds with influences spanning the entire 20th century.

Artist Information

Biography

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Will Nicoll and Matt Moss formed Steel Toed Slippers in November of 2006 after meeting at their small high school in Humboldt County, California. What started as a simple guitar and drums 'jam' became something very ambitious after Nicoll introduced his own songs to the group. Enlisting Nick Maury on bass, STS went about performing all over Humboldt and Mendocino counties, rapidly creating an intriguing buzz around the community. Delta blues spirit fused with singer/songwriter elements and a strong funk vocabulary made these small town boys sound like they were on to something big. At a show, one may sense some overtones of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pink Floyd, and even Tom Waits. Steel Toed Slippers had their first major show as an opening act for Paul Barrere and Fred Tackett of Little Feat, who also served as one of STS' main influences. They would go on to open up for Little Feat three years later at the legendary Canyon Club in southern California.

After relocating to the LA county area to pursue their music full-time, Steel Toed Slippers hooked up with Stephen Perkins of Jane's Addiction, where they recorded a demo in his home studio. This new era of STS songs was then brought to producer Roger Cole (Zappa Plays Zappa, The Monkees) who showed them a new level of discipline and self-development. The band toured up and down the state of California at notable venues such as the Harmony Festival, The Canyon Club, the Whiskey A Go-Go, the Roxy, the Mint, the Sacramento County Fair, and several colleges including UC Santa Barbara, Sonoma State University, Cal State Long Beach, Cal State Dominguez Hills, and San Francisco City college.

Steel Toed Slippers just finished a new CD and is available now at http://www.steeltoedslippers.bandcamp.com The project was co-produced by Kenny Gradney (Little Feat) and 8 time Grammy Award winning guitarist Johnny Lee Schell (Bonnie Raitt). Six of the nine tracks feature Kenny Gradney on bass. The project was mixed by legendary producer/engineer, Ed Cherney (http://www.edcherney.com). One song from the new record is featured in the June issue of Relix Magazine on the CD Sampler of the month, and the CD will be featured in the July issue of Relix this summer!

You can also catch Keyboardist Chris Norton (Zappa Plays Zappa) sitting in and touring with us when he isn't on the road with Zappa!

Instrumentation

Will NIcoll - Guitar and Vocal
Matt Moss - Drums and Vocal
Nick Maury - Bass

Discography

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'Here Comes'.. The new project from Steel Toed Slippers, produced by Kenny Gradney of the legendary rock act Little Feat and Johnny Lee Schell of Bonnie Raitt and B.B. King's bands, is out and available now as a NAME YOUR PRICE digital download at http://www.steeltoedslippers.bandcamp.com

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Press

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    Local band to compete in National Battle of the Bands John C. Osborn/For the Times-Standard Arti...

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  • Steel Toed Harmony [+ Show ]

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  • Local Musicians get National Accolade [+ Show ]

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  • KRFH SLAM FEST Battle of the Bands [+ Show ]

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Setlist

Adventurous originals and new interpretations of familiar covers... Always growing, adapting, writing

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