BLIND PONY
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Blind Pony is the brain/heart child of Kent Klineman. He is the songsmith, lead singer and guitarist.
Kent Klineman grew up in New York City where he got his hands on a guitar at the age of 9. He wrote his first song sitting on a beach in Greece ten years later.
After winning a Tony Award on Broadway in Death of a Salesman, Kent decided to move to LA to pursue Music and a film and TV career,
In 2004 he founded Blind Pony
Clinton Kirby is Blind Pony's magician. He has played drums and bass simultaneously at shows. He's a master musician and composer in his own right
Anthony Cook has been defined as a bassist who can play in any genre and in any setting. He allows each song to breathe by providing space, and knows when to provide defined movement to propel songs to a higher level.
Blind Pony has played many of LA’s premier venues: The Viper Room, The Echo, The Mint, State Social House, The Escondite, Paladino’s, Davey Wayne’s, Silverlake Lounge, The Cinema Bar, Maui Sugar Mill and many others. And in CA: The Siren in SLO, Milk Bar and Winters Tavern in SF and many others.
Blind Pony music is Psych Blues Rock with flashes of punk, folk and Country. They have been compared to Neil Young and The Black Keys.
I walked into the Cinema Bar one recent summer Sunday night with high expectations. Though the tavern is small, it's developed an insider's reputation as a remarkably consistent showcase for top-notch Los Angeles singer/songwriters. And when Blind Pony took the stage and began belting out hook laden, 1970s working class rock 'n roll I knew I would not be disappointed.
Blind Pony is something of a ball of contradictions. Just when I thought I had them pegged as credible interpreters of Tom Petty style rock, they switched over to much more psychedelic, "Animals" era Pink Floyd vein. From there I heard bits of Neil Young, REM and even the raw ferocity of Iggy Pop in his heyday. The band is tight --- locked into a pounding groove for up-tempo numbers, but quite comfortable to wield a lighter touch for ballads and lo-fi offerings. Front man Kent Klineman sweats authenticity and earnestly belts out vocals with an energy too rarely found in much of the modern music scene. And he has a knack for penning eclectic lyrics that catch the listeners ear. "I'm Freudian, I'm Jungian, I'm analyzing all the time" he sang during an intense acoustic number entitled "Go Down."
After the band performed their set and a much requested encore, they stepped off stage and proved to be quite approachable, eagerly mingling with a new bar room of fans. They clearly seem driven more by the desire to create good music than ego and that resonates in their performance. I heartily recommend any opportunity to take in one of their shows.
-Wil Forbis, author of Acid Logic. ..
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