October 24, 2016

Steve Bartek has a broad and quite diverse career! From playing flute with the legendary 60's band, The Strawberry Alarm Clock, to playing in the music troup The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, which became the also legendary group, Oingo Boingo. All the while Steve was studying music composition at UCLA, which has served Steve a lot, composing and orchestrating for film, most notably with former bandmate Danny Elfman, being his orchestrator and arranger. And he composed music for such TV shows as The Tick, Tales From The Crypt, Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories and films as An Extremely Goofy Movie, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, among others. But there's more! Steve is also a session guitarist, having played guitar on such TV shows as Battlestar Galactica, Trauma and Walking Dead. We talk with Steve about his fascinating career of many hats and how guitar fits into the whole picture!!