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[edit] Pinnstock Music and Arts Festival (2007/2008)

Pinnstock 2008 is the second-annual music festival thrown by Roe Pressley, on behalf of Marcus Lendway and Steve Johnson Project Productions. It is set to take place on September 13, 2008, at Harmony Park in Geneva, Minnesota. Ticket prices will include one night of camping. Rumors are circulating that this year's headliners will include Carnage The Executioner with Jimmy2Times, Big Quarters, Ill Chemistry (Carnage and Desdamona), The Crest, The Bill Mike Band feat. Carnage, and DJ Swee2th. (subject to change; more artists and details TBA)

The First Annual Pinnstock Music and Arts Festival on September 1 and 2, 2007, was the first installation of this multi-genre music festival and took place in Ojibwa, Wisconsin. Music headliners included Face Candy (featuring champion battle-rapper Eyedea, of Rhymesayers fame), Dessa and Turbonemesis of Doomtree, Ill Chemistry (featuring Carnage the Executioner and Desdamona), DJ Jimmy2Times, and Sandman and the Band.

The purpose of the festival, as stated by organizer Roe Pressley, was to celebrate the life and legacy of his best friend and musical partner Marcus Lendway (aka Bobby Pinn, hence Pinnstock), who died suddenly in 2007 from a ruptured aneurysm in his spleen.

The music also featured performances from The Hyde Brothers Band, which included Marcus's father, Mark Lendway, on drums and vocals. Other performers included Mason Jar Mary, Simply Us and the 2 Sides of We, jGreen, Bear 'n' Arin feat. Dejahn, DJ Swee2th, DJ Teddy, jism&dropsie, Kyle Peck, Renegade Carnival Music, The Butchers, and Bob Hobbs.

The festival was invite-only for the extended friends and family of the Lendway and Pressley families, and the friends of the artists performing. It featured two days of music and two nights of camping. There was also a birthday/memorial service on September 1, which coincided with Lendway's birthday. The birthday song was song, and cake was served to all the guests--one a regular birthday cake, another chocolate-habañero (Lendway was particularly fond of cooking with habañeros and other hot peppers).

[edit] History

Pressley and Lendway had been best friends since kindergarten. Pressley cites Lendway as the main inspiration for his picking up the guitar and getting into music. Late in high school, Pressley began delving into turntable-based music in the form of house and techno. As he progressed, he got more interested in turntablism due in part to a growing interest in local rap music, including artists on the Rhymesayers label.

Meanwhile, Lendway's diverse passion for music was leading him in a similar direction. But where Pressley's passion revolved around scratching and beat making, Lendway's lifelong talent at writing pushed him into writing raps, which were often highly personal and greatly critical of status quo society. They recorded a 6-song sampler in the summer of 2005, using nothing but a desktop PC, a Roland MC-307 Groovebox, a DJ mixer, a stage microphone, and Cool Edit 2000. Collectively, they called themselves 2th & Nail, a reference to Pressley (DJ SweeTooth, or Swee2th), and Lendway as the "Nail" (why exactly he was the Nail is not clear). Lendway later took on the stage name Bobby Pinn, after one of their songs of the same name. They called their sampler Letters from the Free World and distributed it only to their network of friends and family.

In 2006, the duo reprised some of the songs from the sampler and recorded a number of new tracks to accompany them. In September of '06, they completed their 17-track debut, entitled Simple Answers. (the disc itself carried the subtitle, ...for strange people.) The subject matter travels a spectrum of themes and emotions, ranging from the trials and tribulations of love, to the inherent darkness and mystery of the dream world, to the lies perpetrated by President Bush in the lead-up to and execution of the Iraq War. The sound, though often raw and minimally produced (a sign of the limited technology and budget available), is also widely expansive, ranging from boom-bap-style beats to stuttering staccatos, to mellow, airy ambiance and harmonic melodies.

Unfortunately Lendway died before the two of them were able to work out any distribution or sales deals with local record stores, which is something Pressley says he is still planning to do. Copies are available only through Pressley, the Lendway Family, and record stores The Metro and The Works in Arcata and Eureka, California, where Pressley attended college at Humboldt State University. Pressley hopes it will soon be available at Fifth Element in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Their second album (currently untitled) is in the making; Pressley hopes to have it done before this year's Pinnstock but has made no guarantees.