Coordinates	38°53′39″N77°2′54″N
Name	Spider Stacy
Birth name	Peter Stacy
Born	December 14, 1958
Origin	Eastbourne, England
Instrument	Vocals, guitar, tin whistle
Genre	Folk rock, folk punk, Celtic rock, Celtic punk
Occupation	Singer-songwriter, musician
Years active	1977–present
Associated acts	The Pogues, Kirsty MacColl, Dropkick Murphys
Background	solo_singer }}

Peter "Spider" Stacy (born 14 December 1958 in Eastbourne) is an English musician. He is one of the founding members of London Irish band The Pogues.

Stacy got his start in music in London's punk scene during the late 1970s as frontman for The Millwall Chainsaws (latterly featuring a young Shane MacGowan on guitar) who later changed their name to The New Republicans. He is said to be the inspiration for Young Ones character Vyvyan. In 1981, he teamed up with Shane MacGowan again, Jem Finer and James Fearnley to form The Pogues and is credited with naming the band. Initially, his role was confined to co-vocals. As Shane became more confident as a front man, Stacy learned to play the tin whistle, which remained his role until the departure of MacGowan left him with lead vocal duties. He is unusual in that his playing style owes little, if anything, to the traditional Irish approach.

Stacy was with The Pogues until they disbanded in 1996, having provided lead vocals on The Pogues last two albums. During this time they had their biggest American single with the Stacy-penned ''Tuesday Morning'' which peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Rock Chart. It was the highest placed single that The Pogues had on their own in the UK charts hitting No. 18 in 1993. Their higher placed singles had guest musicians Kirsty MacColl and The Dubliners.

Stacy has done very little touring outside The Pogues, claiming not to enjoy anything as much as The Pogues live experience. He appeared playing whistle on "Fairytale of New York" and singing back up vocals on "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis" at Kirsty MacColl's last ever show at Shepherds Bush Empire, London, in October, 2000. He played the odd show with Boz Boorer (Morrissey), Alabama 3, Shane MacGowan & The Popes and a couple of small tours with The Vendettas in the late 90's. He has played a handful of shows in the US in 2004 and 2008 as sometime member of the Filthy Thieving Bastards and appears on the I'm A Son Of A Gun album. (2007)

Stacy rejoined The Pogues when they reformed in 2001, and has been with them ever since.

Outside of The Pogues, Stacy performs with the current Pretenders guitarist James Walbourne regularly, and they have supposedly been recording an album for the last five years.

In 2005, he appeared with Patti Smith at the Festival Hall in London during her Meltdown season. He sang "Joe Hill" with her band and accompanied her on whistle whilst she sang a 17th-century murder ballad.

In June 2006, Stacy appeared on the soundtrack of an art exhibition in Lyon, France. The soundtrack was composed by Susan Stenger with contributions by Robert Poss, Alan Vega, Alexander Hacke, F.M. Einheit, Will Oldham, Kim Gordon, Bruce Gilbert, Ulrich Krieger, Warren Ellis, Jim White, Jennifer Hoyston, Andria Degens and Spider Stacy, and conceived by Mattieu Copeland.

In 2007, along with Ronnie Drew, Stacy appeared on the album version of "(F)lannigan's Ball" from the Dropkick Murphys album ''The Meanest of Times''. It reached No. 20 on the Billboard charts. He appears on stage with them regularly.

James Fearnley of The Pogues and Stacy guest appeared with the Shout Out Louds in October, 2007 at the Henry Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, singing The Pogues' "Streams Of Whiskey". He has since played whistle live with them in London in 2008 and 2009.

In 2007 "Love You Til The End" a Pogues single from the 1995 album Pogue Mahone, with Spider on vocals, was used throughout the romantic comedy ''P.S. I Love You'' starring double academy award winner Hilary Swank. This led to a wave of new, mostly female fans turning up to shows in the United States and is fast becoming one of the most popular Pogues songs.

Stacy took part in Tom Morello's Justice Tour in 2009, duetting with Steve Earle on their 1988 collaboration "Johnny Come Lately".

Most recently,Stacy has appeared on several releases by experimental musician Neil Campbell's "Astral Social Club." They have also performed live together in London.

April 2011 Spider appeared at Tipitina's, New Orleans with Gogol Bordello where they performed Ewan MacColl's Dirty Old Town. He also re-recorded a version of the song with Anton Newcombe of the Brian Jonestown Massacre in 2009.

Stacy was closely involved with Jean MacColl's "Justice For Kirsty" campaign until December, 2009 when it was incorporated into The Music Fund For Cuba, a cause close to Kirsty MacColl's heart at the time of her death in 2000. Spider and The Pogues continue to support her and her family through this charity.

Other work

Stacy appeared in the Alex Cox movies ''Straight to Hell'' (1986). Co-stars included Dennis Hopper, Jim Jarmusch, Palme d'Or winner Kathy Burke, Dick Rude, Courtney Love, Joe Strummer & Grace Jones and ''Walker'' (1987) with Joe Strummer, Ed Harris & Miguel Sandoval. In addition, he worked with the Comic Strip's "Eat The Rich" (1987) with Lemmy, amongst others. As of April 2011 he has been filming HBO's Treme playing James "Slim Jim" Lynch, an English street musician.

He has worked with Flash artist Adam Philips on the award winning ''Brackenwood'' flash series, most notably penning and playing the Bitey theme tune in the episode "The YuYu" (2005).

External links

The Pogues official website [Twitter @SpiderStacy] [myspace.com/spiderstacythepogues]

Category:1958 births Category:English male singers Category:Living people Category:People from Eastbourne Category:The Pogues members

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Coordinates	38°53′39″N77°2′54″N
name	The Pogues
alias	Pogue Mahone
background	group_or_band
origin	Kings Cross, London, England
genre	Celtic punk, folk punk
years active	1982–1996, 2001–present
website	Pogues.com
current members	Spider StacyJem FinerShane MacGowanJames FearnleyAndrew RankenPhil ChevronDarryl HuntTerry Woods
past members	Cait O'RiordanJoe StrummerDave CoulterJames McNallyJamie Clarke }}

The Pogues are a Celtic punk band from London, formed in 1982 and fronted by Shane MacGowan. The band reached international prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. MacGowan left the band in 1991 due to drinking problems but the band continued first with Joe Strummer and then with Spider Stacy on vocals before breaking up in 1996. The band reformed in 2001, and has been playing regularly ever since, most notably on the US East Coast around St Patrick's Day and across the UK and Ireland every December. The group has yet to record any new music and, according to Spider Stacy on Pogues.com, has no inclination to do so.

Their politically-tinged music was informed by MacGowan and Stacy's punk backgrounds, yet used traditional Irish instruments such as the tin whistle, cittern, mandolin and accordion.

The Pogues were founded in Kings Cross, a district of North London, in 1982 as Pogue Mahone—''pogue mahone'' being the Anglicisation of the Irish ''póg mo thóin'', meaning "kiss my arse".

Band history

The roots of The Pogues were formed when MacGowan (vocals), Peter "Spider" Stacy (tin whistle), and Jem Finer (banjo) were together in an occasional band called The Millwall Chainsaws in the late 1970s after MacGowan and Stacy met in the toilets at a Ramones gig at The Roundhouse in 1977. MacGowan was already with The Nips, though when they broke up in 1980 he concentrated a bit more on Stacy's Millwall Chainsaws who changed their name to The New Republicans. During this period MacGowan and Finer auditioned unsuccessfully for a licence to busk at Covent Garden. In 1982 James Fearnley (accordion) joined MacGowan, Stacy, and Finer, calling the band Pogue Mahone. The new group played their first gig at The Pindar of Wakefield on 4 October 1982.

They later added Cait O'Riordan (bass) and Andrew Ranken (drums). The band played London pubs and clubs, and released a single, "Dark Streets of London," on their own, self-named label, gaining a small reputation—especially for their live performances. They came to the attention of the media and Stiff Records when they opened for The Clash on their 1984 tour. Shortening their name to "The Pogues" (partly due to BBC censorship following complaints from Gaelic speakers in Scotland) they released their first album ''Red Roses for Me'' on Stiff that October.

The band gained more attention when the UK Channel 4's influential music show ''The Tube'' made a video of their version of "Waxie's Dargle" for the show. The performance—featuring Spider Stacy repeatedly smashing himself over the head with a beer tray (in the manner of Bob Blackman's infamous "Mule Train/Mule Tray")—became a favourite with the viewers, but Stiff refused to release it as a single, feeling it was too late for it to help ''Red Roses for Me'' (in fact Stiff was by then in deep financial trouble). Nevertheless, it remained a favourite request for the show for many years.

With the aid of punk and New Wave forefather Elvis Costello they recorded the follow-up, ''Rum Sodomy & the Lash'', in 1985 during which time guitarist Philip Chevron joined. The album title is a famous comment falsely attributed to Winston Churchill who was supposedly describing the "true" traditions of the British Royal Navy. The album cover featured ''The Raft of the Medusa'', with the faces of the characters in Théodore Géricault's painting replaced with those of the band members. The album shows the band moving away from covers to original material. Shane MacGowan came into his own as a songwriter with this disc, offering up poetic story-telling, such as "The Sick Bed of Cúchulainn" and "The Old Main Drag", as well as definitive interpretations of Ewan MacColl's "Dirty Old Town" and Eric Bogle's "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" (this had previously been covered by Shane's fellow punk contemporaries The Skids in 1981).

The band failed to take advantage of the momentum created by the strong artistic and commercial success of their second album. They first refused to record another album (offering up the four-track EP ''Poguetry in Motion'' instead); O'Riordan married Costello and left the band, to be replaced by bassist Darryl Hunt, formerly of Plummet Airlines and Pride of the Cross; and they added a multi-instrumentalist in Terry Woods, formerly of Steeleye Span. Looming over the band at this period (as throughout their entire career) was the increasingly erratic behaviour of their vocalist and principal songwriter, Shane MacGowan. Their record label, Stiff Records, went bankrupt soon after the 1987 release of the single "The Irish Rover" (with The Dubliners). Members of the band, including O'Riordian, acted in Alex Cox's ''Straight to Hell'', and five songs by the band were included on the film's soundtrack album.

Success and breakup

The band remained stable enough to record ''If I Should Fall from Grace with God'' in 1988 (with its Christmas hit duet with Kirsty MacColl "Fairytale of New York", which was voted "the best Christmas song ever" in VH1 UK polls in 2004) and 1989's ''Peace and Love''. The band was at the peak of its commercial success, with both albums making the top 5 in the UK (numbers 3 and 5 respectively), but MacGowan was increasingly unreliable. He failed to turn up for the opening dates of their 1988 tour of America, and prevented the band from promoting their next album, ''Hell's Ditch'', so in 1991 the band sacked him. Vocal duties were for a time handled by Joe Strummer, before Stacy finally took over permanently. After Strummer's departure, the remaining seven Pogues recorded ''Waiting for Herb'', which contained the band's third and final top twenty single, "Tuesday Morning", which became their best-selling single internationally. Terry Woods and James Fearnley then left the band and were replaced by David Coulter and James McNally respectively. Within months of their departures, ill health forced Phil Chevron to leave the band; he was replaced by his former guitar technician, Jamie Clarke. This lineup recorded the band's seventh (and final) studio album, ''Pogue Mahone''. The album was a commercial failure, and, following Jem Finer's decision to leave the band in 1996, the remaining members decided it was time to call it quits. According to Shane MacGowan, amongst the reasons of the breakup was disagreement concerning the political orientation of his songs, the band not wanting to sing too obvious pro-republican songs — though some of their previous songs were already politically engaged : for instance, ''Streams of Whiskey'' is about the poet and IRA member Brendan Behan. Soon after the breakup Shane MacGowan recorded a song called ''Paddy Public Enemy Number One'' as a tribute to the Republican leader Dominic McGlinchey, a former leader of the INLA killed a few years before.

Post-breakup

After the Pogues' break-up, the three remaining long-term members (Spider Stacy, Andrew Ranken and Darryl Hunt) played together briefly as the Vendettas. They played mainly new Stacy-penned tracks, though Darryl Hunt also contributed songs, and the band's live set included a few Pogues songs. First Ranken then Hunt left the band, the latter going on to become singer/songwriter in an indie band called Bish, whose self-titled debut album was released in 2001. Ranken has gone on to play with a number of other bands, including hKippers, The Municipal Waterboard and, most recently, The Mysterious Wheels. In addition to The Vendettas who Stacy freely admits lost all attraction when the Pogues reformed, Spider continued to write and record music with various bands, including the James Walbourne, Filthy Thieving Bastards, Dropkick Murphys and Astral Social Club. Shane MacGowan founded Shane MacGowan and The Popes in 1992. They only managed two studio albums but struggled on until 2002. His autobiography ''A Drink With Shane MacGowan'', co-written with his journalist girlfriend Victoria Mary Clarke, was released in 2001. Jem Finer went into experimental music, playing a big part in a project known as "Longplayer", a piece of music designed to play continuously for 1,000 years without repeating itself. In 2005, Finer released the album ''Bum Steer'' with DB Bob (as DM Bob and Country Jem). James Fearnley moved to the United States shortly before leaving the Pogues. He was a member of The Low And Sweet Orchestra and later the Cranky George Trio. Philip Chevron reformed his former band The Radiators, which briefly included former Pogue Cait O'Riordan. Terry Woods formed The Bucks with Ron Kavana, releasing the album ''Dancin' To The Ceili Band'' in 1994. Later, he formed The Woods Band, releasing the album ''Music From The Four Corners of Hell'' in 2002.

Reunion

The band, including MacGowan, re-formed for a Christmas tour in 2001 and performed nine shows in the UK and Ireland in December 2004. In 2002 ''Q'' magazine named The Pogues as one of the "50 Bands To See Before You Die". In July 2005, the band — again including MacGowan — played at the annual Guilfest festival in Guildford before flying out to Japan where they played three dates. Japan is the last place they all played together before MacGowan was originally sacked in 1991, and they have a strong following there. They played a date in Spain in early September. The reunited Pogues played dates in the UK with support from the Dropkick Murphys in late 2005, and re-released their 1987 Christmas classic "Fairytale of New York" on 19 December, which went straight in at #3 in the UK Singles charts on Christmas Day 2005, showing the song's enduring popularity. On 22 December 2005 the BBC broadcast a live performance (recorded the previous week) on the Jonathan Ross Christmas show with Katie Melua filling in for the late Kirsty MacColl, the first time the band had played the song live on television. The following week they performed live on the popular music show ''CD:UK''.

Shane MacGowan wrote a blog for ''The Guardian'' website in 2006, detailing his thoughts on the current tour. The band was awarded the lifetime achievement award at the annual Meteor Ireland Music Awards in February 2006. In March 2006, the band played their first U.S. dates with Shane in over 15 years. The band played a series of sold-out concerts in Washington D.C., Atlantic City, Boston, and New York. Later they played a series of highly acclaimed and sold-out gigs during mid-October 2006 in San Francisco, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles, and toured Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London, Dublin, and Nottingham in mid-December 2006. They began a second U.S. tour in March 2007, once again to coincide (and conclude) with a Roseland Ballroom New York City show on Saint Patrick's Day. 2007 has proved to be the most prolific year of touring since the reunion. A tour of the west coast of America and eleven dates in the UK in December complement the headlining festival appearances made in the summer across Europe (Sweden, Belgium and Spain). They continue to be in huge demand, often selling out very large venues, despite criticism of selling out, and claims that arenas and festivals do not suit the band's sound. Guitarist Phil Chevron has stated there were no plans to record new music or release a new album. Chevron said that one way to keep enjoying what they were doing was to avoid making a new album, although he did say that there still is a possibility in the future for new music, but certainly not in the near future. Terry Woods has commented that MacGowan has been writing, and most of it sounds good. In 2008 the band released a box set ''Just Look Them Straight in the Eye and Say....POGUE MAHONE!!'', which included rare studio out-takes and previously unreleased material.

The band has received mixed reviews of some recent performances though they continue to pull the crowds. Reviewing a March 2008 concert, The ''Washington Post'' described MacGowan as "puffy and paunchy," but said the singer "still has a banshee wail to beat Howard Dean's, and the singer's abrasive growl is all a band this marvelous needs to give its amphetamine-spiked take on Irish folk a focal point." The reviewer continued: "The set started off shaky, MacGowan singing of `goin' where streams of whiskey are flowin,' and looking like he'd arrived there already. He grew more lucid and powerful as the evening gathered steam, through two hours and 26 songs, mostly from the Pogues' first three (and best) albums". In December 2010 the Pogues (with support from Crowns) played what was billed as a farewell UK Christmas tour.

In March 2011, the Pogues played a six-city/ten-show sold out US tour titled "A Parting Glass with The Pogues" visiting Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Boston, and New York (in that order), with only the last three cities getting more than one show. It may, or may not, be the last time they tour the States. Stacy said “I think we are basically pretty certain this is the last tour of this type we’ll be doing in the States. There might be the odd sort of one-off here and there. We’re not saying this is absolutely, definitely the end.”

Current members

Shane MacGowan: vocals, guitar, banjo, bodhrán (1982–1991, 2001–present)

Spider Stacy: vocals, tin whistle (1982–1996, 2001–present)

Jem Finer: banjo, mandola, saxophone, hurdy-gurdy, guitar, vocals (1982–1996, 2001–present)

Andrew Ranken: drums, percussion, harmonica, vocals (1982–1996, 2001–present)

James Fearnley: accordion, mandolin, piano, guitar (1982–1993, 2001–present)

Philip Chevron: guitar, vocals (1985–1994, 2001–present)

Darryl Hunt: bass guitar (1986–1996, 2001–present)

Terry Woods: mandolin, cittern, concertina, guitar, vocals (1986–1993, 2001–present)

Former members

Cait O'Riordan: bass, vocals (1982–1986, 2004)

Joe Strummer: vocals, guitar (1991-1992; also replaced an ailing Phil Chevron for a U.S. tour in 1987)

Dave Coulter: mandolin, violin, ukulele, percussion (1993–1996)

James McNally: accordion, whistles, percussion (1993–1996)

Jamie Clarke: guitar, vocals (1995–1996)

Discography

Hit-song 'Fairytale of New York'

"Fairytale of New York" was released as a single in 1987 and reached #1 in the Irish charts and #2 in the British charts over Christmas (the time of peak sales). The song has become a festive classic in the UK and Ireland over the years, and was voted the best Christmas song of all time three years running in 2004, 2005, and 2006 in polls by music channel VH1 UK, despite not achieving Christmas Number One when it was released. It was also voted as the 27th greatest song never to reach UK#1 in another VH1 poll, and also voted as the 84th greatest song of all time by BBC Radio 2 listeners in their "Sold on Song" top 100 poll. In 2007 the record was briefly censored by the BBC because of the word "faggot" being deemed potentially offensive to gay people. Following protests from listeners, including the mother of Kirsty MacColl, the censorship was lifted.

Albums

''Red Roses for Me'' (1984): #89 UK

''Rum Sodomy & the Lash'' (1985): #13 UK

''If I Should Fall from Grace with God'' (1988): #3 UK, #88 US, #15 NO

''Peace and Love'' (1989): #5 UK, #118 US, #13 NO

''Hell's Ditch'' (1990) #12 UK, #187 US

''Waiting for Herb'' (1993): #20 UK

''Pogue Mahone'' (1996)

Live albums

''Streams of Whiskey: Live in Leysin, Switzerland 1991'' (2002)

''The Ultimate Collection including Live at the Brixton Academy 2001'' (2005): #15 UK

Compilation albums

''The Best of The Pogues'' (1991): #11 UK

''Essential Pogues'' (1991)

''The Rest of The Best'' (1992)

''The Very Best of The Pogues'' (2001): #18 UK

''The Ultimate Collection'' (2005): #15 UK

''Dirty Old Town: The Platinum Collection (Budget CD)'' (2005)

''Just Look Them Straight in the Eye and Say....POGUE MAHONE!!'' (Anthology/Box Set of rare and unreleased tracks) (2008)

Video

''The Pogues: Live at The Town & Country Club St Patricks Day 1988'' VHS 1988

''POGUEVISION" Music Video Collection - VHS 1991

Singles

Year	Title	Chart positions	Album
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	"Dark Streets of London"
"Boys from the County Hell"
	"A Pair of Brown Eyes"
"Sally MacLennane"
"Dirty Old Town"
						-
	"Irish Rover" (featuring The Dubliners)					-
"Fairytale of New York" (featuring Kirsty MacColl)
	"Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah"					''Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah''
"Misty Morning, Albert Bridge"					''Peace and Love''
	"Summer in Siam"					''Hell's Ditch''
"Jack's Heroes" (featuring The Dubliners)					''Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah''
					Red Hot + Blue (Produced by the Red Hot Organization)
						''Hell's Ditch''
"Rainy Night in Soho (remix)"					''Poguetry in Motion''
"Fairytale of New York" (re-issue)					''If I Should Fall from Grace with God''
1992	"Honky Tonk Women"					''Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah''
2005	"Fairytale of New York" (re-release)
2006	"Fairytale of New York" (re-entry of re-release)
2007	"Fairytale of New York" (re-entry on downloads alone)
2008	"Fairytale of New York" (re-entry on downloads alone)
2009	"Fairytale of New York" (re-entry on downloads alone)
2010	"Fairytale of New York" (re-entry on downloads alone)
2011	"Fairytale of New York" (re-entry on downloads alone)

References

External links

Official Pogues site

Official Shane MacGowan site

''The Guardian'' article

"dirty old town"

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Philip Ryan (born 17 June 1957 in Dublin), professionally known as Philip Chevron, is an Irish singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the guitarist for The Pogues.

Career

In the late 1970s, Chevron was the lead singer and a founding member of short-lived punk rock outfit, The Radiators From Space, receiving some critical acclaim, albeit little widespread popularity or financial success. Following the breakup of the band, he lived in London for a time, meeting and befriending Shane MacGowan through time spent working together at a record shop.

Following the release of the Pogues' 1984 debut album ''Red Roses For Me'', he was invited to join the band on a short-term basis as cover for banjo player Jem Finer's paternity leave. He then took over as guitarist following MacGowan's decision to concentrate on singing—thereby becoming a full-time member of the band in time for the recording of its second album, ''Rum, Sodomy and the Lash''.

Although living somewhat in the shadow of MacGowan during his time with The Pogues, and lacking the former's pitch-black sense of humour and distinctive vocal style, Chevron proved himself as a singer-songwriter in his own right, creating the popular ballads "Thousands Are Sailing" and "Lorelei" amongst others.

Although primarily known as a guitarist, he is also a skilled player of the banjo and mandolin, as first demonstrated on The Pogues' third album, ''If I Should Fall from Grace with God''. Chevron left The Pogues in 1994 following much-publicised problems with drugs and alcohol.

In 2003, he reformed The Radiators (Plan 9) along with ex-Pogues bassist Cait O'Riordan. They released the critically acclaimed ''Trouble Pilgrim'' in 2006. It topped the independent record charts but did not make any inroads into the mainstream. The album included a tribute to Chevron's friend, Joe Strummer.

In recent years, he has become, in effect, The Pogues' unofficial spokesperson and resident expert on the reclusive Shane MacGowan—frequently visiting online forums and directly answering questions from fans. In 2004, he personally oversaw the remastering and re-release of The Pogues' entire back catalogue on CD. He now tours regularly with The Pogues, who reunited after a successful reunion tour in 2001.

In June 2007 it was announced on The Pogues' website that Chevron had been diagnosed with a case of "locally advanced" throat cancer. In early 2008 it was announced via The Pogues official website that Chevron had recovered, and to his surprise and joy his hearing had returned to almost pre-treatment levels. He embarked on the March 2008 tour of the United States and managed to sing "Thousands Are Sailing" in each of the performances.

When not touring with The Pogues much of his time is spent seeing plays, musicals and operas primarily in London, Dublin and New York. Occasionally, he is involved professionally with productions and his reviews are regularly published on The Pogues official forum under 'Speaker's Corner.'

External links

The Pogues official website

The Radiators from Space official website

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Hugh Pool (born Hugh Eustis Pool, March 17, 1964, New York) is an American musician who plays guitar in a unique style that melds traditional Delta blues with country music and classic and psychedelic rock and roll. His instrument of choice is a National, a resonator guitar somewhat like a Dobro, played through a distortion pedal. He also plays harmonica, sings and plays standard electric guitars. These days Pool divides his time equally between the stage and the studio and has engineer countless albums by many notable New York bands.

Pool was inspired by Neil Young, Deep Purple and the Allman Brothers, Pool started playing the guitar at the age of 15. When he was 20, he headed to New York to play his music in the subway system.

Pool has shared the stage with such luminaries as Patti Smith, Government Mule, Professor Washboard, Levon Helm, Leslie West, Johnny Winter, Dave Edmunds, John Mayall, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, and more. His first recording as a leader, Spirits Treat Me Gently, was tracked in 1993. That release came out on Red Tug Records, a record label started by Mr. Pool.

He has performed on the ''Emeril Lagassi Show'', ''The Mitch Albom Show'', and ''Late Night With Conan O'Brien'' in addition to a cameo in the short-lived CBS 2006 television series, ''Love Monkey''. His original songs have been used for television, movies, award-winning documentaries and an off Broadway play.

Pool has made his living as a musician and can be found playing New York clubs regularly. A second recording, ''Live at the Rodeo Bar'', attempts to capture this experience.

He is also a founding member of the blues group Mulebone with John Ragusa.

He also spends time engineering and producing bands and he has worked at Excello Recording as an engineer for 8 years. Here he has worked with talented folks like Debbie Harry, Kiki & Herb, Pagoda, Michael Brecker, Radio 4, Joseph Arthur, The Tirefires, Matt Smith, Larry Campbell, Tony Garnier in addition to a host of others.

Discography

''Spirits Treat Me Gently'' (1993) Red Tug Records RTR 2998

''Mulebone'' (2001) Red Tug Records

''Live at the Rodeo Bar'' (2001) Red Tug Records RTR 2002

''Shed'' DVD (2005) Red Tug Records

References

External links

Excello Recording

Category:American blues guitarists Category:American rock guitarists Category:Living people Category:1964 births

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birthname	Emily Jean Stone
birth date	November 06, 1988
birth place	Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.
othername	Riley Stone
occupation	Actress, voice actress
yearsactive	2004–present }}

Emily Jean "Emma" Stone (born November 6, 1988) is an American actress. Stone was a cast member of the TV series ''Drive'', and made her feature film debut in the comedy ''Superbad'' (2007). She appeared in ''The House Bunny'' (2008) and ''Ghosts of Girlfriends Past'' (2009). She then starred in the horror-comedy ''Zombieland'' and the indie comedy ''Paper Man'' in 2009. In 2010, Stone voiced the character Mazie in ''Marmaduke'', and starred in the high school comedy ''Easy A'', which earned her a nomination for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.

Early life

Stone was born in Scottsdale Arizona, the daughter of Krista (née Yeager), a homemaker, and Jeff Stone, a contractor. She has a brother who is younger by two years. Stone's paternal grandfather was of Swedish descent, and his family's surname was anglicized to "Stone" when immigrating to the U.S. through Ellis Island; her ancestors also lived in Pennsylvania Dutch Country.

She was a member of the Valley Youth Theatre while growing up, a regional theater in Phoenix, Arizona, where she appeared in her first stage production, ''The Wind in the Willows'', at the age of 11. Stone attended Sequoya Elementary School and then Cocopah Middle School for sixth grade. She was home schooled for two years, at which time she appeared in 16 productions at Valley Youth Theatre, including: ''A Winnie-the-Pooh Christmas Tail'', ''The Princess and the Pea'', ''Cinderella'', ''The Wiz'', ''Titanic'', ''Honk!'', ''The Little Mermaid'', ''Schoolhouse Rock Live!'', ''Alice in Wonderland'', and ''Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'', and performed with the theater's improv comedy troupe.

Stone attended Xavier College Preparatory, an all-girl Catholic high school, as a freshman for one semester. She gave a PowerPoint presentation to her parents, set to the Madonna song "Hollywood," to convince them to let her move to California for an acting career. She dropped out of high school, and in January 2004, moved with her mother to a Los Angeles apartment, at the age of 15. She was then home schooled, so that she could audition during the day.

Career

2004–present

Stone launched a career in television after winning the role of Laurie Partridge on ''In Search of the New Partridge Family'' (2004), a VH1 talent competition reality show. The resulting show, ''The New Partridge Family'' (2005), only produced a pilot episode. Stone next had appearances in the television series ''Medium'', ''Malcolm in the Middle'' and ''Lucky Louie''. In 2007, she had a regular role on the Fox drama ''Drive'', playing Violet Trimble, until the series was cancelled. She also auditioned for ''Heroes'', and overheard in the casting room "On a scale of 1 to 10, you are an 11" — the casting directors were referring to Hayden Panettiere, who was cast as Claire Bennet instead. Stone called this experience "rock bottom."

Stone made her feature film debut in the 2007 teen comedy ''Superbad'', playing Jules, the love interest of lead character Seth (Jonah Hill). In 2008, she appeared in the comedy ''The Rocker'', with Rainn Wilson. Stone played Amelia, the bass guitarist in a band featuring singer Teddy Geiger. Stone learned to play bass for the role. Also that year, Stone appeared in ''The House Bunny'', starring Anna Faris, alongside Katharine McPhee, Kat Dennings, Rumer Willis, and Colin Hanks. Stone played the president of a sorority and sang on a single from the film, "I Know What Boys Like," a cover version of the 1982 song by The Waitresses.

In 2009, Stone appeared in ''Ghosts of Girlfriends Past'', a romantic comedy directed by Mark Waters, the director of ''Mean Girls'', starring Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner. Stone played "The Ghost of Girlfriends Past," a takeoff of the Ghost of Christmas Past from Charles Dickens' ''A Christmas Carol''. She starred in the horror/comedy ''Zombieland'', along with Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg. The project began shooting in Atlanta in February 2009. Stone played Wichita, a survivor/con artist from Wichita, Kansas, traveling across the U.S. with her younger sister Little Rock (Abigail Breslin).

Stone starred in ''Paper Man'', alongside Jeff Daniels, Ryan Reynolds and Lisa Kudrow, directed by Kieran and Michele Mulroney. Stone plays Abby, a babysitter that Daniels' character hires after moving to Long Island. Stone began filming the independent comedy on November 11, 2008, in Montauk, New York, using well-known local locations.

Stone had a voice role in ''Marmaduke'' in 2010, a film adaptation of the long-running comic strip about a Great Dane. She voiced Marmaduke's friend, Mazie, a tomboyish Australian Shepherd. Stone landed her first leading role starring as a high school student in ''Easy A'' with Amanda Bynes, a comedy directed by Will Gluck. Her character scandalizes her teachers and more conservative religious classmates after a false rumor circulates that she is sexually promiscuous. The script contrasts the novel ''The Scarlet Letter'' and its heroine, Hester Prynne, to the life of the protagonist in the film. Stone read the script before the project was optioned for production, and kept an eye on it along with her manager until preparations were made. She was attracted to the script because it was "funny and sweet" and her character was "fantastic from the first read" who was "fleshed [..] out so much in the script". When she found out that the film went into production, she met with Gluck to express her enthusiasm about the project. A few months later, the audition process started and Stone met again with Gluck to be one of the first actresses to audition. Stone was nominated for the 2011 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for her role. Stone appeared at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards on September 12, 2010, and introduced Linkin Park. She stated in 2008 that she would eventually like to venture into film production, producing her own films, and that her dream was to appear on ''Saturday Night Live''. Stone hosted the late-night sketch comedy show on October 23, 2010. She also appeared in ''Friends With Benefits'', starring Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis, and directed by Gluck. The sex comedy began filming in July 2010, in New York and was released in July 2011.

Stone starred in ''Crazy, Stupid, Love.'', alongside Steve Carell, Julianne Moore, Ryan Gosling and Marisa Tomei. The Warner Bros. film, about a husband (Carell) with marital problems and difficulties with his children, began shooting on April 16, 2010, in Los Angeles and was released on July 29, 2011. Stone starred in ''The Help'', an adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's best-selling novel of the same name, a period piece set in Jackson, Mississippi, in the 1960s, which was released in August, 2011. She plays Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, an aspiring writer, and employed a Southern dialect for the role.

Upcoming roles

Stone joined the voice cast of ''The Croods'', a 3D computer animated caveman comedy by DreamWorks Animation. She will voice the role of Eep, the oldest daughter of Grug (Nicolas Cage) and Ugga (Catherine Keener). Ryan Reynolds voices Gy, the love interest to Stone's character. The film is scheduled for release on March 30, 2012.

She stars in the comedic short film, "Veronica," alongside Kieran Culkin, directed by Griffin Dunne. The short is a comedy segment that is part of an anthology film called ''Movie 43'', featuring Kate Winslet, Gerard Butler, Hugh Jackman, Uma Thurman, Halle Berry, and others. The feature-film was produced by the Farrelly brothers and directed by Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill and Steve Carr.

Stone will star as the female lead in ''The Amazing Spider-Man'', a reboot by Columbia Pictures and Marvel Entertainment of the ''Spider-Man'' film series. She plays Gwen Stacy, Peter Parker's love interest, in the Marc Webb-directed film; a release date of July 3, 2012, has been set. The film went into production in December 2010, and is scheduled to last through April 2011. Stone was considered for the lead in a reboot of ''21 Jump Street'', alongside ''Superbad'' co-star Jonah Hill. She did not take the role however, after signing on to ''Spider-Man''. Stone will again work with writer/director Will Gluck, starring in and executive producing an untitled comedy for Screen Gems.

Stone joined the cast of ''The Gangster Squad'', a film by ''Zombieland'' director Ruben Fleischer. She will again play opposite Ryan Gosling in the ensemble crime drama, which also stars Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi and Michael Peña. Stone plays Jean, a femme fatale caught in a love triangle with Gosling and Penn's character, mobster Mickey Cohen.

Personal life

Stone was living on her own in Los Angeles in 2007, and moved to Greenwich Village, New York City in 2009. Stone has stated that she "was really into HTML and web design" when she was younger.

Although known as a redhead, Stone is naturally a blonde. She landed her first role as a teenager after dyeing her hair dark brown. Film producer Judd Apatow had her change from a brunette to a redhead for her role in ''Superbad''.

In April 2011, Stone ranked 10th on ''People'' magazine's annual 100 Most Beautiful list.

Filmography

! Year	! Title	! Role	Notes
2007		Jules
2008	''''	Amelia
2008	''''	Natalie
2009	''Ghosts of Girlfriends Past''
2009	''Paper Man''	Abby
2009	''Zombieland''	Wichita (Krista)	Scream Award for Best EnsembleNominated - Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best EnsembleNominated-Scream Award for Best Horror ActressNominated-Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress: Comedy
2010		Mazie	Voice
2010	''Easy A''
2011		Kayla
2011	''Crazy, Stupid, Love.''	Hannah Weaver
2011	''''	(Skeeter)	Lead role
2012	''Movie 43''	Ellen Malloy	Post-production
2012			Post-production
2013	''''	Eep	Voice

+ Television
! Year	! Title	! Role	Notes
2005	''''		TV movie
2005			1 episode
2006	''''		1 episode (voice) (season 1, episode 24)
2006	''Malcolm in the Middle''	Diane	1 episode (season 7, episode 16)
2006	''Lucky Louie''	Shannon	1 episode (season 1, episode 8)
2007			7 episodes (1 unaired)

Awards

! Year	! Ceremony	! Category	! Nominated work	Result
2008	Young Hollywood Awards	Exciting New Face
2009		Best Ensemble	''Zombieland''
2010	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie Actress: Comedy	''Zombieland''
2010	Scream Awards	Best Horror Actress	''Zombieland''
2010	Scream Awards	Best Ensemble	''Zombieland''
2011			''Easy A''
2011
2011	The Comedy Awards	Best Comedy Actress – Film	''Easy A''
2011	The Comedy Awards	Breakthrough Performer
2011	NewNowNext Awards	Brick of Fame
2011	MTV Movie Awards		''Easy A''
2011	MTV Movie Awards		''Easy A''
2011	MTV Movie Awards	Best Line from a Movie	''Easy A''
2011	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie Actress: Romantic Comedy	''Easy A''

Rankings

! Year	! Title	! Rank
2008	''Moviefone's'' 25 hottest actors under 25	No.14
2008		No.1
2009	''AskMen.com's'' Top 99 Women	No.93
2009	''FHM's'' 100 sexiest women in the world (US)	No.93
2009		No.66
2010	AskMen.com's Top 99 Women	No.39
2010	''Maxim's'' Hot List	No.49
2010	''LoveFilm.com's'' Top 20 Actresses Under 30	No.18
2011	AskMen.com's Top 99 Women	No.32
2011	NextMovie.com's 20 Funniest Women in Movies	No.6
2011	People's 100 Most Beautiful	No.10
2011	''Maxim's'' Hot List	No.42
2011	''FHM's'' 100 sexiest women in the world (UK)	No.68
2011	''FHM's'' 100 sexiest women in the world (AUS)	No.38

Discography

Katharine McPhee – "I Know What Boys Like" (2008), RCA – iTunes Store single with Emma Stone and Rumer Willis, a cover version of the 1982 single by The Waitresses

References

External links

Category:1988 births Category:Actors from Arizona Category:American child actors Category:American film actors Category:American people of Swedish descent Category:American television actors Category:American voice actors Category:Living people Category:Participants in American reality television series Category:People from Greenwich Village, New York Category:People from Phoenix, Arizona Category:People from Scottsdale, Arizona

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