Keith Foti: PRESS

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Vanessa Bryston

I was surfing around MySpace one day and I stumbled upon Keith’s page. ‘Hair God’…that caught my attention! I am one of those ladies who happens to cherish her long hair so to find a stylist that claims ‘Hair God’ is a dream come true for me. As I was reading his page, I decided to turn the speakers on so I could check out the song on his page. Completely oblivious to the fact that it was actually KEITH singing! I sent him an email asking about the artist on the song – LO and BEHOLD I found the answer I was looking for!



‘Wide Awake’ is the title of the track and you have GOT to head over to his page and check it out! Keith has some very impressive clients and it thanks to these fellows that he has some amazing music to rip his vocals to. Velvet Revolver’s drummer Matt Sorum plays the drums on this single; Billy Duffy from The Cult plays all of the killer kick ass guitar solos & Weezer’s bassist Scott Shriner contributed to this hit as well.

Working his hair magic in a salon in Beverly Hills Keith says that “I would love to write & record more than anything in the world”. Looking for a band that is serious about music & people he can co-write with, Keith takes every day for what it is worth and never looses sight of his goals in music.



“Really dramatic & real life emotional stuff like broken hearts, people dying, real life events” is what inspires him to write & create music. “Music is how I vent my thoughts, I like to make music people can relate to” says Foti.

Writing since the age of 18, Keith is keeping it real by staying with his career as a Stylist for the time being. He was at an event with papa Roach in April making the band look stylish as always!



Check out his killer track ‘Wide Awake’ and if you are fortunate enough to live close enough to Beverly Hills – drop in to see Keith and ‘get your hair did!’

Good luck Kith and keep making the Rockers looking hot!

"Let them brush your rock and roll hair," sang Ric Ocasek in 1978. New Jersey native Keith Foti is doing just that- blending a career in hairstyling with making great music.

Keith started workin in SOHO doing hair at John Dellaria while performing acoustically at many local bars, clubs and street corners. The music eventually lead Keith to LA where he recorded his first CD, ALL THAT STILL REMAINS, releasing it on his own Powerline label. Keith also joined Giuseppe Franco Salon in Beverly Hills where a friendship with guitarist Stevie D. of Buckcherry led to Keith stlying the entire band for the CRAZY BITCH video.

SInce then, he has had the great fortune to style and befriend Duff McKagan (Velvet Revolver, Guns N' Roses, Camp Freddy) and Duff's Camp freddy band mates; Billy Duffy, Chris Chaney and Donovan. Keith's current client roster also includes a star studded, red carpet of rock musicians including Matt Sorum and Scott Wieland (Velvet Revolver, Camp Freddy), Billy Morrison (Camp Freddie, Circus Diablo) Brett Scallions (Fuel, The Xs, Camp Freddy), Rick Richards (Georgia Satallites) and Chuck Kentis (Rod Steward).


"I've also recently met and styled Mickey Rourke, who was referred to me through the salon and Aimee Mann who I have to say, is the coolest chick ever."

You can stay current with Keith by visiting him at www.myspace.com/kfotihair
and if you want that rockstar look,
contact Keith at
GIUSEPPE FRANCO SALON
350 N. CANON DRIVE
BEVELY HILLS, CA 90210
(310) 274-8967

EXCLUSIVE RIGHT: KEITH FOTI speaks
Interview with the friend of Jeff Buckley

Interview collection gives: Emanuele Tamagnini


We could launch this interview like sensational scoop… a type “four to chiacchiere with the last person who has seen Jeff alive Buckley…” or things of this kind. But we would have dealt meat in scato it for thread to the green pepper. The truth that you will read more ahead is that one than a boy who has little it wants to speak about its adventure, of Memphis, of that period beside the angel Buckley also because attempt to finish a book on those days that changed the life to many persons. The curiosity to trace Keith Foti, than the lamented musician it met just in the city of the Tennessee, is been born from weeks lived with one strongly nostalgia and the right memory of its premature passing appeared just on these pages. Keith Foti is a musician and an estimated barber in the world of the show - an authentic one “hair god” like loves to define itself. The only solista album laughed them to the 2004 (“All That Still Remains”) published on its Powerline label and coadiuvato in study from musicians navigates like Scott Shriner (bassista of the Weezer) and Chuck to you Kentis (tastierista of Rod Stewart).
While in foundation the function repeat is nailed on “Forget Her”, the hands are melted on the keyboard, like the cardiac pulsations when it knows them the end of the piece, woven from the organ between inspiration, lirismo and suffering…


Then Keith tells to us a little you… from where you come… musical yours background…

They have grown to Fairview in the New Jersey and to the age of five years they are moved to me to Bergenfield where I have lived until the eighteen. Two years after I was to New York in a small apartment/study of Manhattan. Therefore I have begun to play like solista in the small clubs and the bars around to the city. My infancy has been characterized from music rock. The first disc was “Destroyer” of the Kiss… had approximately four years, my father carried to me in a disc store of the zone, to Cliffside Park exactly, and the look remained glue on that cover! All those make up and that escape from hell hit my imaginary one… but I listened to it equally. My mother, instead, was one fanatical of the Beatles that listened to all the day. Without a doubt it has been a great infuence that I have always carried with me, then are arrives Ozzy, Van Halen, Ac/Dc and a formation to you of year-end formations '80 like the Jane's Addiction. Here just the band of Perry Farrell she has represented an enormous inspiration in that period… until when they have not become a pochino older to return to Bob Dylan and Neil Young.

When you have understood that you could begin to write songs…

To the age of eighteen years. Hard one of my life therefore taken a guitar was a period much and composed the first piece that called “Would You”. I had interrupted a sentimentale history and the only way in order to ask excuse that girl me seemed to be one song. From that day music, my music, is often served for lenire the pain of moments not too much happy

29 May 1997 you were with Jeff Buckley to Memphis… what memories of that funesto day

The day that Jeff drowned has been the worse one of my life. The confusion, the sadness and the desperation are still present and difficultly cancellabili. E' that type of experience that always changes the persons in order. I am working to a book that I tells the last days with Jeff… therefore… beh dispiace but I cannot very add other on this argument… sorry!

At least some word in order to remember it…

I augur myself that he remains always here in order with we. Ringrazio still the Getlteman in order to have had the fortune to pass those moments with he, memory its incredible energy, the magic that succeeded to create around. Using a metaphor I could say that its force can be represented from a pot in boiling on one stews… that sbuffa and spark… but you will not be able to never have the opportunity to stop that fire. Music of Jeff speaks alone. It has changed to my life and that one of hundred of persons

Also your risente of that infuence… is much deep evocativa and… and then one curiosity: who is “Gloria”?

“All That Still Remains” is like a full album of photographies of memories and very precise musical inspirations. I wanted to realize a disc that it could paint every thing you had seen and listened until then… because when it watches behind you succeed to only focus the memories. I wanted to give to people mine ritratto: who is and what has been my life. Gloria has a double quantity meant in the song. E' an other way to define the heroin. The drug is like a girl who succeeds to carry “outside turns to you” makes you to sballare. In the piece I speak about before the time that I have tried the heroin… was a girl who walked outside from the door of the bath… called Gloria. I do not know that fine it has made but I know that the sound of the song is my way to describe what test going itself “outside” with that drug

There are innovation for your label?

Not, for the moment nobody. The Powerline does not have intention to publish an other solista album of Keith Foti… ah ah ah!

You appear in the documentary “Amazing Grace” dedicated to the last days of Jeff Buckley… memories what you said in that occasion?

It thinks that I have not never had the opportunity to see that film! Six years interviewed me ago and frankly I do not have idea of what I told!!!

Last question regards Los Angeles… com'è the life in California… and if you want to leave some word our readers…

The life to Los Angeles is a continuous divertimento! The time is optimal, the girls are delicious and every evening is one large band from some part in city. E' a lot exciting to be hair stylist for the celebrities in a this place… life is without a doubt more interesting.
I would want ringraziare anyone will read this interview and if someone wants to send some “beautiful Italian to me girl”… us of they are little from these you leave! My mother says that I would have need of an Italian girl for sistemarmi...com unque the only negative thing to L.A is that the Italian food is not found…!!!


All That Still Remains [2004]


Keith Foti













ESCLUSIVA: parla KEITH FOTI
Intervista con l'amico di Jeff Buckley

Intervista raccolta da: Emanuele Tamagnini


Potevamo lanciare questa intervista come un sensazionale scoop... tipo "quattro chiacchiere con l'ultima persona che ha visto Jeff Buckley vivo..." o cose di questo genere. Ma avremmo spacciato carne in scatola per filetto al pepe verde. La realtà che leggerete più avanti è quella di un ragazzo che ha poca voglia di parlare della sua avventura, di Memphis, di quel periodo accanto all'angelo Buckley anche perchè intento a terminare un libro su quei giorni che cambiarono la vita a molte persone. La curiosità di rintracciare Keith Foti, che il compianto musicista incontrò proprio nella città del Tennessee, è nata da settimane vissute con una forte nostalgia e con il doveroso ricordo della sua prematura scomparsa apparso proprio su queste pagine. Keith Foti è un musicista ed uno stimato acconciatore nel mondo dello spettacolo - un autentico "hair god" come ama definirsi. L'unico album solista risale al 2004 ("All That Still Remains") edito sulla sua etichetta Powerline e coadiuvato in studio da musicisti navigati come Scott Shriner (bassista dei Weezer) e Chuck Kentis (tastierista di Rod Stewart).
Mentre in sottofondo la funzione repeat è inchiodata su "Forget Her", le mani si sciolgono sulla tastiera, come le pulsazioni cardiache quando sale il finale del pezzo, tessuto dall'organo tra ispirazione, lirismo e sofferenza...


Allora Keith raccontaci un po' di te... da dove vieni... il tuo background musicale...

Sono cresciuto a Fairview nel New Jersey e all'età di cinque anni mi sono spostato a Bergenfield dove ho vissuto fino ai diciotto. Due anni dopo ero a New York in un piccolo appartamento/studio di Manhattan. Ho quindi iniziato a suonare come solista nei piccoli club e nei bar intorno alla città. La mia infanzia è stata caratterizzata dalla musica rock. Il primo disco fu "Destroyer" dei Kiss... avevo circa quattro anni, mio padre mi portò in un negozio di dischi della zona, a Cliffside Park esattamente, e lo sguardo rimase incollato su quella copertina! Tutto quel make up e quell'uscita dall'inferno colpirono il mio immaginario... ma lo ascoltai ugualmente. Mia madre, invece, era una fanatica dei Beatles che ascoltava tutto il giorno. Senza dubbio è stata una grande influenza che ho portato sempre con me, poi sono arrivati Ozzy, Van Halen, Ac/Dc ed una schiera di formazioni di fine anni '80 come i Jane's Addiction. Ecco proprio la band di Perry Farrell ha rappresentato un'enorme ispirazione in quel periodo... fino a quando non sono diventato un pochino più vecchio da tornare a Bob Dylan e Neil Young.

Quando hai capito che potevi iniziare a scrivere canzoni...

All'età di diciotto anni. Fu un periodo molto duro della mia vita così presi una chitarra e composi il primo pezzo che si chiamava "Would You". Avevo interrotto una storia sentimentale e l'unico modo per chiedere scusa a quella ragazza mi sembrò essere una canzone. Da quel giorno la musica, la mia musica, è servita spesso per lenire il dolore di momenti non troppo felici

Il 29 maggio 1997 eri con Jeff Buckley a Memphis... cosa ricordi di quel giorno funesto

Il giorno che Jeff annegò è stato il peggiore della mia vita. La confusione, la tristezza e la disperazione sono ancora presenti e difficilmente cancellabili. E' quel tipo di esperienza che cambia le persone per sempre. Sto lavorando ad un libro che racconta gli ultimi giorni con Jeff... così... beh mi dispiace ma non posso aggiungere molto altro su quest'argomento... sorry!

Almeno qualche parola per ricordarlo...

Io mi auguro che rimanga per sempre qui con noi. Ringrazio ancora il Signore per aver avuto la fortuna di trascorrere quei momenti con lui, ricordo la sua incredibile energia, la magia che riusciva a creare intorno. Usando una metafora potrei dire che la sua forza può essere rappresentata da una pentola in ebollizione su di una stufa... che sbuffa e scintilla... ma non potrai mai avere l'opportunità di fermare quel fuoco. La musica di Jeff parla da sola. Ha cambiato la mia vita e quella di centinaia di persone

Anche la tua risente di quell'influenza... è molto evocativa e profonda... e poi una curiosità: chi è "Gloria"?

"All That Still Remains" è come un album di fotografie pieno di ricordi ed ispirazioni musicali ben precise. Volevo realizzare un disco che potesse dipingere ogni cosa avessi visto e ascoltato fino ad allora... perchè quando guardi indietro riesci a focalizzare solo i ricordi. Volevo regalare alla gente un mio ritratto: chi sono e cosa è stata la mia vita. Gloria ha un doppio significato nella canzone. E' un altro modo di definire l'eroina. La droga è come una ragazza che riesce a portarti "fuori giri" a farti sballare. Nel pezzo parlo della prima volta che ho provato l'eroina... c'era una ragazza che camminava fuori dalla porta del bagno...si chiamava Gloria. Non so che fine abbia fatto ma so che il sound della canzone è il mio modo di descrivere quello che si prova andando "fuori" con quella droga

Ci sono novità per la tua etichetta?

No, per il momento nessuna. La Powerline non ha intenzione di pubblicare un altro album solista di Keith Foti... ah ah ah!

Appari nel documentario "Amazing Grace" dedicato agli ultimi giorni di Jeff Buckley... ricordi cosa dicesti in quell'occasione?

Pensa che non ho mai avuto l'opportunità di vedere quel film! Mi intervistarono sei anni fa e francamente non ho idea di cosa raccontai!!!

Ultima domanda riguarda Los Angeles... com'è la vita in California... e se vuoi lasciare qualche parola ai nostri lettori...

La vita a Los Angeles è un continuo divertimento! Il tempo è ottimo, le ragazze sono deliziose ed ogni sera c'è una grande band da qualche parte in città. E' molto eccitante essere un hair stylist per le celebrità in questo posto... la vita è senza dubbio più interessante.
Vorrei ringraziare chiunque leggerà questa intervista e se qualcuno vuole mandarmi qualche "bella italiana ragazza"... ce ne sono poche da queste parti! Mia madre dice che avrei bisogno di una ragazza italiana per sistemarmi...comunque l'unica cosa negativa a L.A. è che non si trova il cibo italiano...!!!

Even though its musically variety, all 11 tracks simply melts into one
great soul grabbing experience. And like a great book it feels
absolutely terrible when you turn the last page.
This album is one that grows on you and still after about 10 times it
is simply just getting better.

"America" is one of the songs that makes me very curious how it would
be seeing you play live. No doubt it would be great. Love the
playing with the words in this one.

"Gloria" Extremely dark and very "walking outside in the snow, at
night, freezing, with nowhere to go" - that just popped into my mind.
Well, music is all about feelings isn't it?

"Blue Sky Rain" is so sweet and innocent and was a very good song to
put next after "Gloria".

"Not again" A favourite. I can link the lyric to parts of my own
life and I have to admit from the second time I heard it I've been
sinking really into it, singing and all. Knowing my self, you should
take that as a very good compliment. 1:48 min into the song comes this
guitar playing that sweep me off my feet and gives me a feeling I just
cannot describe, or rather will not (it would be embarrassing)

"Movin' On" would be a great hit on this island I live (Bokn) if I
brought it to one of the parties. And I will do the next time.

"The Distance Between Us" & "Behind Your Eyes" Love the guitar in
these one too, favourite too.

All in all, simply fell in love with the album and I am so glad I
didn't miss out on it. And I will do my best to inform people about
you. I have put a link to your page on the Internet community I'm a
member of and I will bring the CD to a few music dealers I know and
see if they are interested in taking it in.
Too few people actually read the lyrics, but I do, and I have to say
you are quite poetic. Beautiful combination of words of choice.
I don't have the best sound system, but the one I have is over whats
normal in most homes here, and the studio work comes out great. Good
details and all, no disturbing elements even if I play it quite loud.

I am not very good with criticism really, especially because of the
language. Hope it doesn't seem to weird. But I think it must be
interesting for you to get feedback on your work like me on my
sculpturing.

Have a wonderful day Keith, and thank you very much for the music! Great work!

Regards,
Suzanne

Keith Foti @ Tangier
Los Feliz



Contact: keith@keithfoti.com

Web: www.keithfoti.com

The Players: Keith Foti, vocals, guitar; Raymond Horwitz, keyboards; Nick Snow, bass; Cary Kane, drums.

Material: Once upon a time in Los Angeles, music scenesters knew what “skinny-tie powerpop” meant. Foti and his band look like a flashback to that scene, but the music doesn’t match up with the image. There was neither enough power nor pop in this set. If Foti wants to aim instead for a more classic progressive or techno sound, then he needs more Bruce Springsteen-like material. In whatever style he chooses, his present set does not contain material that makes audiences say, “I want to hear that one again.”

Musicianship: If the intention of Foti’s band is to rock, they should consider playing with more intensity than they do now. If they want to deliver a melodic cocktail set, then they should consider adding more hooks to their material. Once a direction is decided upon, then maybe some distinctive songs will emerge.

Performance: If an entertainer doesn’t getcha from the get-go, it’s likely to make for an unsatisfactory performance overall. As it is, the songs didn’t catch fire, and neither did the performance. If Foti wants to do more with his music then he’s going to have to work harder to earn new fans in this very competitive town.

Summary: Foti said he used to be a hairdresser who wanted to make a record. Now that he’s made a CD, he needs to set a new goal. If he wants to make another CD, he should consider focusing on developing his ability to make his songs memorable as a writer and a performer. Both his songwriting and his performing abilities do require much more development if this artist wants to reach another level.

—Lyn Jensen
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Contact: Powerline Records
PowerlineRecords@aol.com / www.keithfoti.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 15, 2004


KEITH FOTI Debut CD: All That Still Remains
NY AND LA LIVE DATES CELEBRATE RELEASE; INDIE FILM TO FEATURE TRACK


LOS ANGELES?Singer, songwriter and guitarist Keith Foti makes his solo recording debut with All That Still Remains, an emotion-packed 11-song collection of tough-edged but heart-rendered songs, written, produced and performed by Foti and his band.

Recorded with the assistance of engineer Jon Rustad at the Famous Bakery studios in Hollywood in late 2003 and early 2004, All That Still Remains features his core players?Nick Snow (bass) and Cary Kane (drums)?while Scott Shriner (bass for Weezer) and Chuck Kentis (organ/keyboards for Rod Stewart) sat in during the sessions.

Filled with Foti?s passionate reflections on life?s bittersweet realities?from broken bonds and promises to the hopes, lessons and loves that inspire us to get up each day and do it all over again?the tone for All That Still Remains is set by its moody lead-off track, ?Return to Gray.? ?This record is filled with passionate, trouble minded, soul searching songs,? Foti says.

?The Distance Between Us? is a downbeat meditation on the often temporal nature of treasured relationships, while the anthemic ?Out of This Town? is set to be featured in Alan Chan?s upcoming independent short film, Ring Road, screening in early 2005.

Foti currently appears in Amazing Grace, the critically-acclaimed documentary film about the late Jeff Buckley.

Keith Foti will be touring the West Coast with his band (which now includes keyboardist Raymond Horwitz), followed by a solo acoustic tour with singer-songwriter Thom Cachon in spring 2005.

Scheduled Live Dates

December 8 Los Angeles, CA Tangiers 9 p.m.
December 28 New York, NY Sidewalk Caf� 9 p.m.
January 8 Chicago, IL Uncommon Grounds 8 p.m.

For additional information, please contact Powerline Records: PowerlineRecords@aol.com; or visit www.keithfoti.com.


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