Martini Ranch
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Martini Ranch was a New Wave band conceived in 1982 by Andrew Todd. The band, comprised of Andrew Todd Rosenthal (vocals and guitar) and actor Bill Paxton (vocals and samples), and featured a similar sound to late 1980's Devo. Understandably, this similarity of sound was most evident on the track, "How Can the Labouring Man Find Time for Self-Culture?", which featured three members of that band.
Martini Ranch is currently Andrew Todd Rosenthal.
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[edit] Holy Cow
In 1988 Martini Ranch released a single album, Holy Cow, on Sire/Warner Bros. Records.
"How Can the Labouring Man Find Time for Self-Culture?" was produced and engineered by Devo guitarist Bob Casale and also featured drummer Alan Myers, and vocalist Mark Mothersbaugh on keyboards.
The track "Hot Dog" features the vocals of Cindy Wilson of The B-52's and actor Judge Reinhold is credited as the whistler on the song "Reach". Along with Mark Mothersbaugh, Bud Cort, lends his voice to the informercial satire, "Fat-burning Formula".
The album also features film-composer Mark Isham, keyboardist Robert O'Hearn ( brother of Frank Zappa bass player Patrick O'Hearn), drummer Curt Bisquera and vocalist Carol Parks.
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[edit] How Can the Labouring Man Find Time for Self-Culture?
Directed by Rocky Schenck, Bill Paxton & Andrew Rosenthal, the video consciously mimics the dystopia of Fritz Lang's Metroplois and generally, German Expressionism.
Besides Todd and Paxton, the cast of the video features cameos by actors associated with Paxton. Anthony Michael Hall, with whom Bill Paxton starred in the 1985 film Weird Science and Rick Rossovich, who appeared with Paxton in The Lords of Discipline, Streets of Fire and The Terminator), represent intellectual class and working class men.
Other appearances include Michael Biehn (The Lords of Discipline and The Terminator), Judge Reinhold (The Lords of Discipline) and Linda Hamilton (The Terminator).
[edit] Reach
Director James Cameron created the comboy-themed video for "Reach". The production includes cameos from his soon-to-wife, fellow director Kathryn Bigelow, as well as Aliens and Terminator alumni Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser and Jenette Goldstein, Judge Reinhold, and Adrian Pasdar who had appeared in Bigelow's Near Dark) with Paxton, Goldstein and Henriksen.
[edit] Trivia
Eighteen years later Mark Mothersbaugh would compose the score for the first season of the television series Big Love, which stars Bill Paxton. Mark Mothersbaugh was fired & replaced after one season by David Byrne of Talking Heads.
Andrew has just finished writing and producing a song for "Savvy & Mandy" (his younger cousins) who are signed to the The Firm/EMI. Andrew has had over 220 songs published and has composed music for dozens of television shows and feature films. He has produced numerous albums in 2004 for James Marsters "Civilized Man" who played Spike on Buffy The Vampire Slayer and 'Ghost of the Robot,' featuring James Marsters. Andrew garnered an Emmy nomination for musical direction and composition. During his stint as Director of Marketing at Del Fi Records, Andrew earned a Triple Platinum album for his marketing efforts on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack, which he followed up with the highly successful Pulp Surfin'. He has also worked as an actor (in everything from Laverne and Shirley to M*A*S*H) and has performed as Sound Effects Editor on numerous feature films, including Better Luck Tomorrow (MTV Films), Jeepers Creepers (Zoetrope), Anniversary Party (Fineline), and Deuces Wild. Andrew and Marty Frasu just finished a wicked remix of The Doors "20th Century Fox" and is soon to be released. Born in Los Angeles, he grew up at the Turf Club at Hollywood Park where his family raced horses, Hillcrest Country Club, and the Friar's Club (among the likes of George Burns, Jack Benny and Milton Berle) F.Y.I. ******Members Of The Tribe aka M.O.T. is a very cool project conceived by Andrew and is available on itunes etc. The album is titled 19.99. As in...tonight you can party for just 19.99...also on SIRE Records. Heeb-Hop at its finest. Ice Berg & Dreidle are funny and clever and the beats are home made and tight.
