Uploaded by sxsw on Feb 21, 2011
Echo Park. Nico Stai, has the intensity of a tornado, the regal airs of a king, and the humility of a minstrel as he enters the café. Late night shows and keeping a vampire's schedule lends to 1pm breakfasts. Nico has reached the tip of the Indie artist iceberg and is ready to break into mainstream. Appearing on Carson Daily last April (www.nbc.com/Last_Call_with...Daly/.../nico-stai/1081208), playing The Fonda, Troubadour, Spaceland, and going into cut a few tracks with producer Rob Schnapf (Beck, The Vines, Elliot Smith), Stai leads a life most mainstream musician would kill for...a life filled with artistic freedom. So how did he do it?
Tinpaco, Stai's former band, "self imploded" before finishing a deal with Producer Garrett Lee (Snow Patrol) and London Records (Warner UK). "While you're in it, you see failure all around, but in hindsight it afforded me the opportunity to do what I want to do." Stai walked away with ownership of the masters and began his solo career.
"I went home and picked up my acoustic and started doing what I always do...I view myself as an artist or a craftmaker...a guy who makes tables...but I get up in the morning, (laughs) or afternoon, and make songs." He sips his coffee. "When I decided to go solo, I had to see what I had to say and that's tough too. Your ego wants you to be this guy, talk about this, and whatever...but maybe whatever is coming out of you is not that guy, and its not talking about this, but it's talking about sh*t that you don't want people to know that you're talking about, that's the good stuff. " When something "makes me feel really self-conscious...then I know I'm onto something good. It makes me feel really naked, like I don't wanna tell my best friends about this...I don't wanna write a song about it (and) that's (exactly) what you should be doing."
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chuck we will always love u, with or without the intersect <3
5 days ago 3
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Awsome voice and I hope you keep making music:)
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Chuck + Nico= match made in heaven.
9 months ago 7
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good song
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/replay
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Amazing
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lovely voice dude :)
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Chuck brought me here yay!!
oh oh.. i have another favourite ;) This is soo pretty
wallswashed87 11 months ago 13
very good song. hey and chuck brought me here. thumbs up to the best tv series.
smkhan80 11 months ago 11