Martini Ranch
was a New Wave band conceived in 1982 by Andrew Todd Rosenthal. The band was composed of Andrew (vocals and guitar) and actor Bill Paxton (vocals and samples), and featured a similar sound to late 1980s 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 /2008
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Holy Cow
In 1988 Martini Ranch released a single album,
Holy Cow
, on
Sire/
Warner Bros. Records. The album was reissued in 2007 by
Noble Rot.
"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" "New Deal" and "World Without Walls" features the vocals of
Cindy Wilson of
The B-52's. 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) who also plays Bass on the song (New Deal), drummer Curt Bisquera of Morris Day's Band (singer for The TIME) plays drums on "Serious Girl" and vocalist Carol Parks sings bgv on a few tracks too..
Andrew (Martini Ranch) have just finished writing music and all post sound supervision for some Toyota commercials to air in the southern region featuring Judge Reinhold. In June 2008 Andrew wrote music for a new pilot called "Anytown Beatdown", hosted by Tito Ortiz this is a civilian version of UFC. (Andrew is also a Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do and is a part time instructor at a Do Jang in West Los Angeles. He is producing and composing for TV commercials,film & pop music. 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. In 1991/2 Andrew garnered an Emmy nomination for musical direction and composition for Disney's "Adventures In Wonderland". 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/redo 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 with partner Hillel Tigay (Dr.Dreidle) they released an a CD & cass on SIRE/WB available on itunes etc. The album is titled 19.99. As in...tonight you can party for just 19.99.Heeb-Hop at its finest. These guys created it. Ice Berg & Dreidle are funny and clever and the beats are home made and tight. ?Andrew's Mother's family (with a few friends) owned the property and built the Rivera Hotel in Las Vegas Nevada which they sold in 1976 and got out of Vegas for good.... The movie "Casino" is a little to close to home.
Videos
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
Metropolis
and generally,
German Expressionism.
Besides Andrew Todd (Rosenthal) 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
Catharine Bigilow (director of Near Dark.
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.
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 (Martini Ranch) have just finished writing music and all post sound supervision for some Toyota commercials to air in the southern region featuring Judge Reinhold. In June 2008 Andrew wrote music for a new pilot called "Anytown Beatdown", hosted by Tito Ortiz this is a civilian version of UFC. (Andrew is also a Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do and is a part time instructor at a Do Jang in West Los Angeles. He is producing and composing for TV commercials,film & pop music. 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. In 1991/2 Andrew garnered an Emmy nomination for musical direction and composition for Disney's "Adventures In Wonderland". 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/redo 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 with partner Hillel Tigay (Dr.Dreidle) they released an a CD & cass on SIRE/WB available on itunes etc. The album is titled 19.99. As in...tonight you can party for just 19.99.Heeb-Hop at its finest. These guys created it. Ice Berg & Dreidle are funny and clever and the beats are home made and tight. ?Andrew's Mother's family (with a few friends) owned the property and built the Rivera Hotel in Las Vegas Nevada which they sold in 1976 and got out of Vegas for good.... The movie "Casino" is a little to close to home.