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Steve Conte NYC 💙🌀🔹 @steveconte.bsky.social · 33m

Damn...good night.

D'Angelo - Untitled (How Does It Feel)
(Official Music Video)

youtu.be/SxVNOnPyvIU?...

D'Angelo - Untitled (How Does It Feel) (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO

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Steve Conte NYC 💙🌀🔹 @steveconte.bsky.social · 9h

variety.com/2025/music/n...

D’Angelo, Neo-Soul Pioneer and ‘Untitled (How Does It Feel)’ Singer, Dies at 51

Legendary R&B singer D'Angelo, who released three albums throughout his career, has died. He was 51.

variety.com

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Steve Conte NYC 💙🌀🔹 @steveconte.bsky.social · 9h

RIP D'Angelo 💔
Master of laid back phrasing, my favorite male NeoSoul singer of the '90s. You ain't heard him? Well here ya go:

Devil's Pie
youtu.be/8fNtipp5RLs?...
How Does It Feel
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxVN...
Brown Sugar
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_Wz...
Cruisin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAfu...

D'Angelo - Devil's Pie

YouTube video by kordtyb

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Steve Conte NYC 💙🌀🔹 @steveconte.bsky.social · 14h

More NYC airplay for
The Earls of Babylon!
(Me & Brian Ray…)

Have you heard the new single yet?

Did you save it to your streaming platform – or have you bought the 7 inch single on clear vinyl?

orcd.co/earlspieceof...

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Steve Conte NYC 💙🌀🔹 @steveconte.bsky.social · 15h

Steve Conte Tour Dates:

NYC, Asbury Park, Woodstock, Boston & Providence!

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Steve Conte NYC 💙🌀🔹 @steveconte.bsky.social · 1d

Thommy Price, myself, Robert Gordon & Tony Garnier before our 1st RG gig together in 2019. Thommy swung like a MF that day…as always.

(Thanks for the photo Kenny Caskey)

#thommyprice #robertgordon #tonygarnier #steveconte #rockabilly #kennycaskey

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Steve Conte NYC 💙🌀🔹 @steveconte.bsky.social · 2d

Studio Day 2: Recorded basic tracks for 5 songs this weekend - me, Rob & Ben - with engineer Geoff Sanoff (1/2)

#littlesteven #stevievanzant #renegadenation #studio #nyc #geoffsanoif #robyoungberg #bentoro #wickedcool #records #undergroundgarage

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Steve Conte NYC 💙🌀🔹 @steveconte.bsky.social · 2d

Well, musical knowledge isn’t really necessary for songwriting - but it helps, especially if you want to write more like Brian Wilson & less like DeeDee Ramone 😜

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Steve Conte NYC 💙🌀🔹 @steveconte.bsky.social · 2d

This is why Ringo said:
“I think it’s the best out of all the records I’ve ever done. ‘Rain’ blows me away… I know me, and I know my playing, and then there’s ‘Rain.’”

Rain (Take 5 / Actual Speed) youtu.be/P3IuNGxGVXk?...

(We all know it was slowed down for the record, right?)

Rain (Take 5 / Actual Speed)

YouTube video by The Beatles - Topic

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Steve Conte NYC 💙🌀🔹 @steveconte.bsky.social · 2d

I believe that musicians who have studied and have a desire to improve know this: Once you realize how much you don’t know - it’s humbling.

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Steve Conte NYC 💙🌀🔹 @steveconte.bsky.social · 2d

This is what Clapton wishes he could sound like but never did & never will. His 1976 “Keep Britain white” rant is unforgivable. Him being drunk is no excuse - that’s when the truth comes out anyway.

Listen to this TONE!

The master - Freddie King:
Let The Good Times Roll

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Freddie King - Let The Good Times Roll

YouTube video by ssurfcity

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Steve Conte NYC 💙🌀🔹 @steveconte.bsky.social · 3d

We got basic tracks recorded for some new songs today in the Little Steven Van Zandt Studios… Stay tuned for more updates!

#steveconte #band #robyoungberg #bentoro #littlesteven #stevievanzandt #renegadenation #nyc #rocknroll #wickedcool #records #undergroundgarage

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Steve Conte NYC 💙🌀🔹 @steveconte.bsky.social · 3d

Recording new music w/ the band today Renegade, Little Steven’s studio in NYC; me, Ben & Rob way in the back.

#SteveConte #Band #NewMusic #Recording #Renegadenation #studio #LittleSteven #StevieVanZandt #NYC #RobYoungberg #BenToro #RockAndRoll

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Steve Conte NYC 💙🌀🔹 @steveconte.bsky.social · 3d

Coincidentally, this post kicked back into the news feed this morning as I continue to think about Thommy Price’s life & drumming - and as I prepare to go into this same studio (Little Steven Van Zandt’s) to record with my new band today…

Steve Conte NYC 💙🌀🔹 @steveconte.bsky.social · Feb 1

Who’s that behind me on drums? Why, that’s the legendary Thommy Price recording a track for my album The Concrete Jangle - at Little Steven Van Zandt’s studio in NYC!

#ThommyPrice #LittleSteven #StevieVanZandt #Studio #WickedCool #Records #SteveConte #TheConcreteJangle #rocknRoll #PowerPop #NYC

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Steve Conte NYC 💙🌀🔹 @steveconte.bsky.social · 3d

Coincidentally, this post kicked back into the news feed this morning as I continue to think about Thommy Price’s life & drumming - and as I prepare to go into this same studio (Little Steven Van Zandt’s) to record with my new band today…

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Steve Conte NYC 💙🌀🔹 @steveconte.bsky.social · 3d

Coincidentally, this post kicked back into the news feed this morning as I continue to think about Thommy - and as I prepare to go into this same studio (Little Steven’s) to record with my new band today…

Steve Conte NYC 💙🌀🔹 @steveconte.bsky.social · Feb 1

Who’s that behind me on drums? Why, that’s the legendary Thommy Price recording a track for my album The Concrete Jangle - at Little Steven Van Zandt’s studio in NYC!

#ThommyPrice #LittleSteven #StevieVanZandt #Studio #WickedCool #Records #SteveConte #TheConcreteJangle #rocknRoll #PowerPop #NYC

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Steve Conte NYC 💙🌀🔹 @steveconte.bsky.social · 4d

Of course. But he wasn’t the bandleader.

Steve Conte NYC 💙🌀🔹 @steveconte.bsky.social · 4d

Oops - I forgot about that. Yeah he’s a Cunt, but I heard this song on the radio today and I remembered how much I loved it as a kid before before the racist prick in him came out…

Steve Conte NYC 💙🌀🔹 @steveconte.bsky.social · 4d

Can we all agree that -

Derek and the Dominoes
was the best thing that Clapton ever did?

Followed by Blind Faith?

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Steve Conte NYC 💙🌀🔹 @steveconte.bsky.social · 4d

Would that be a 40 dollar Washburn Dreadnaught?

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Steve Conte NYC 💙🌀🔹 @steveconte.bsky.social · 4d

I do think there were some pre recorded tracks that he played to…mainly bass parts.

Steve Conte NYC 💙🌀🔹 @steveconte.bsky.social · 4d

hung in there for quite awhile. I loved the guy and will miss him forever. I wish his beautiful wife & daughter strength at this time…

#ThommyPrice

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Steve Conte NYC 💙🌀🔹 @steveconte.bsky.social · 4d

(he also played with Michael Monroe & many others). We just spoke last week when he called to tell me he was coming to NYC soon and we talked about our kids.

Thommy was a real warrior, with all of his health issues, some of the toughest a person can deal with, he really (cont)

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Steve Conte NYC 💙🌀🔹 @steveconte.bsky.social · 4d

“Decomposing A Song For You”). There are 2 songs he played on that are still unreleased that will go on my next album.

Besides the rock gigs like Joan Jett & Billy Idol that he was most famous for, he could groove on play R&B as he did w/Willy in Mink DeVille, we bonded over that when we met (cont)

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Steve Conte NYC 💙🌀🔹 @steveconte.bsky.social · 4d

It beaks my heart to say RIP Thommy Price. An amazing groove drummer, fantastic human being and a wonderful friend.

I was honored to have done many gigs with Thommy when we played with Robert Gordon and to have him play on my album The Concrete Jangle (he’s drumming on “All Tied Up” & (cont.)

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