Wally Pleasant

Wally Pleasant is a U.S. musician from Michigan . He plays humorous songs based on folk music & 1950s-60s rock and roll influences.

Born in Detroit, Pleasant did not become a serious guitarist until college. While majoring in political science at Michigan State University, he performed at various Lansing-area open mic nights, gaining significant local popularity. A successful homemade cassette tape in the late 1980s led him to release a total of six CDs, the first five on his own record label Miranda Records. 2004's "Music For Nerds & Perverts" was released on Nashville, Tennessee-based Spat! Records. Pleasant has performed throughout the United States over the years, especially in areas where large numbers of MSU Spartan alumni have settled. For much of the 1990s, he was a full-time musician, but has scaled back his schedule in recent years due to personal and family concerns.

He has been a featured artist on the Dr. Demento radio show with songs like "The Day Ted Nugent Killed All the Animals". Nugent had Pleasant perform this song on Detroit radio in the mid-1990s.

Primarily a solo artist, Pleasant performed occasionally in the 1990s with individual sidemen (electric guitarists, bassists) and with a four-piece band, The Happy Neighborhood. In 2003 and 2004 Pleasant also played with a backup band, Appearing as "Wally Pleasant and Carl". Carl was comprised of former Turdcutter band members Eric Sweeney (drums) and David Wellbaum (bass).

In a 1997 "Daily Vault" review of Pleasant's 1992 college radio favorite "Songs About Stuff", Sean McCarthy wrote:

Discography

Albums

*"Songs About Stuff" - 1992
*"Welcome to Pleasantville" 1993
*"Houses of the Holy Moly" - 1994
*"Wally World" - 1996
*"Hoedown" - 2000
*"Music For Nerds And Perverts" - 2004
*"Exile on Wally Street" - 2008 (projected)

External links

* [http://www.wallypleasant.com/ The Official Wally Pleasant Site]
* [http://www.spatrecords.net/ Spat! Records] Wally's current label
* [http://www.wallypleasant.com/miranda.cfm Miranda Records]
* [http://www.antifolkonline.com/WallyPleasant.html Antifolk Online] article about Wally Pleasant's
* [http://www.songmeanings.net/artist.php?aid=15735 Lyrics] to some of Wally Pleasant's more popular songs
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