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About Pie Eyed Pete

About Pie Eyed Pete

Pie Eyed Pete is Peter Cimbalo. Writing his own music has become a passion as the numerous quality records indicate, each one different in style and execution. Pie Eyed Pete writes, records, mixes and plays instruments ranging from Acoustic and Electric guitar and bass to accordion, stylophone and vocoder.

Over the years, he has recorded and performed in numerous bands, including Gin Blossoms, Lost Luggage, Diplomat 6 and currently in his band as well as The Ike Reilly Assassination.

Catch him on tour with Ike! or solo! or with his band! or with his better half acoustic duo Almost Croce! Check out the shows page for all tour dates. 

Pie-Eyed Pete’s natural habitat is the northern wilds of Chicagoland, where he resides with his mate, Sheila, their spawn, Peter John and Cali, the Diva-Dog.

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Nov25

Ike Reilly Livestream - Bassin' It Up!

Wednesday, November 25, 2020 @ 8:00PMWed, Nov 25, 2020 @ 8:00PM

For the past 17 years The Ike Reilly Assassination has performed at the legendary First Avenue in Minneapolis. It’s become a tradition with magical moments and miserable hangovers. There is no replacing the connection and the camaraderie that takes place in that mystical bus depot but we can at least try to make a connection virtually as my band joins me for a Thanksgiving Eve performance, conversation and libation. Tune in and tell your friends.

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Jan30

Pie Eyed Pete and The New Dealers

Thursday, January 30, 2020 @ 8:00PMThu, Jan 30, 2020 @ 8:00PM

Fitzgerald's , Berwyn, IL

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Jan17

Almost Croce Duo

Friday, January 17, 2020 @ 8:00PMFri, Jan 17, 2020 @ 8:00PM

Island Tap , Libertyville IL

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Jan 8 2021

My Boy! Alga record release!

My kid's record is completed and available on all streaming platforms! He wrote, played all instruments, sang, engineered recording, mixed recording and put together recording artwork and linear notes...ALGA/Cell Support the Arts! 

https://algatheband.bandcamp.com/album/cell

Oct 20 2020

Kid's new video!

My boys video for his upcoming record! Enjoy the ALGA!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFZXN3DuKWo

Apr 15 2020

Nice Review From Belgium! We go worldwide soon! Slowgrass!

Thanks to Rootstime!

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Feb 2 2020

Studio hi-Jinx!

Had a blast with the New Dealers laying down a song for our boy Andon Davis new project in Jon Smith's awesome studio! Party On!

Jan 12 2020

Pie Eyed, PJ and Ike

Demoing some new songs with my boy and Ike for Ike's fresh new record in a secret Lake County location. Rock On!

Nov 17 2019

Me and the boss!

Me and my better half singing songs and telling lies on Riff's awesome Reality Rhythms Radio broadcast on your WRLR 98.3 FM.  Train Depot fun!

Oct 18 2019

Pie Eyed video game vocals! Joke Boat!

The Pie Eyed Pete Vocal touch of class added to my boy Andy P's song for their newest video game, Joke Boat! Go get yourself some! Support The Arts! 

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Jul 8 2019

American Music Fest

Had a ball, ran into some great friends..star studded event!

Jul 5 2019

Ike's Slighted Ale

Ike's got a beer! The Ike Reilly  "Slighted Ale"! Serving up the good stuff at Mickey Finn's in Libertyville!

Jul 1 2019

Slowgrassing it up in the Chicago Reader!

Nice blurb in the Chicago reader about or upcoming performance at Fitzgerald's amazing American Music Fest. Yep!

Read all about it!

May 19 2019

Friendly Tap Day Drinker Release Party

Great day Slowgrassing it up at the Friendly Tap to celebrate the release of the new Songs For Sunday record. Support the Arts!

May 9 2019

Released in all Formats! Come get some! Dig it!

Vinyl finally arrived today. Looking nice! Available now. Hit me up!

Jan 7 2019

Hey! #27! The Catfish Hunters of Rock and Roll. 

Lists are nice, if you like lists...

Take a look!

 

 

Dec 2 2018

New record out soon!

Sweet logo courtesy of Cathie! Dig it!

Nov 26 2018

Ike's star up at First Avenue in Minny!

Glad to be a part of this fantastic band and to be able to play this wonderful club year after year. The star was well deserved and happy for Ike. Lake County IL represent! Damn right! Support the Arts!

Nov 9 2018

Bassin' it up in Nashville! Represent!

Added my bass "touch of class" to good pal John Whildin's recording project. Thanks to Andija and the great Bomb Shelter studio for the positive vibrations!

Sep 21 2018

What about this fab video?

 Bassin it up with Ike on this great new song off the record Crooked Love. Support the arts!

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Apr 27 2018

Some big boy music!

Ike and the boys set for Paste Magazine Daytrotter Session. Dig it! 

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Jul 29 2017

Recording at Diamond City!

Pie Eyed and the New Dealers hard at work at Diamond City Studios with mad scientist Ike Reilly and the helm. 

Apr 26 2017

Cover of the Rolling Stone?

Not quite, but close! Exclusive debut of the new Ike single 4/26! Dig It!

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Jul 8 2016

With Ike and Cracker bassin' it up!

Here's Pete adding his bass "touch of class" to the Ike Reilly/Cracker Diamond City Studio sessions in Libertyville IL...don't miss the next one!

Feb 12 2016

The real best records of 2015 - top 10

Who says? They says!

Read all about it!

Oct 21 2015

Video Premiere!

Ike Reilly shares never before released home video footage of Chris Farley in "Born on Fire"

Dig it here!

Aug 12 2015

Pie Eyed Review

Nice review of Workingman's Paradise. Yep!

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Songs For Sunday  by Pie Eyed Pete and The New Dealers

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2019-It seems like, lately, life is always somehow getting away from us. The work week is longer, the weekends shorter and good old conversations have been replaced by tweets and snapchattery. We wake up early, go to bed late and all we really have to show for it is a stomach full of stress and a face full of eye bags. Maybe it’s time we slow things down a little. Enter Pie Eyed Pete & The New Dealers and a little something they call “Slowgrass.” A self-styled genre of music and a way of life. Listening to their new release is like grabbing a beer, heading out to the porch and spending an afternoon strummin’, pickin’, and fiddlin’ away the hours. The nine tunes on their new record “Songs For Sunday” show that life’s like a song: it’s not about how many notes you can cram into it, but actually all about what happens in the space between the notes. With on Cathie Van Wert Menard on Fiddle, Jim O’Donnell on Banjo, Ed Sullivan on Bass, Andon Davis on Mandolin, Peter Cimbalo on Guitar and Vocals and Sheila Cimbalo contributing tight vocal harmonies, The New Dealers style is an authentic, relaxed yet playful vibe that keeps your toes tappin’ and has you singing along by the time the chorus hits. This is a lo-fi band in a Wi-Fi world and they couldn’t arrive at a better time. Recorded by Ike Reilly at his Diamond City studios in Libertyville, IL and mastered by the great Phil Karnats in Kildeer, IL, the feel of the record is live and natural. So, while life is probably not going to slow down anytime soon, Pie Eyed Pete & The New Dealers will always be close by, playing their “Slowgrass for the people”, and reminding you to “forget your dreams, we’re going out tonight.”

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Workingman's Paradise by Pie Eyed Pete

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2015-His seventh release, “Workingman’s Paradise” features a stable of seasoned Chicago music veterans along with a dozen rip-roarin’, beer-pourin’, leave-‘em-wantin’-more’n’ tunes.

Recorded in Libertyville, IL and Chicago IL by the supple hands of Pie Eyed Pete, Chris Harden and Ed Tinley and rounded out with strong supporting performances by luminaries Ike Reilly, multi-talented John Pirruccello, long time guitarist Jim O’Donnell and his trusted drumming friend Phil Levin, Workingman's Paradise is a disk that is equal parts tobacco-soaked vocals and whiskey-soaked guitars, the result is a heady brew of a life lived to its limits, both with and without regrets.

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    She Got Gone (Ghosts) 3:40
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Lake County All Star  by Pie Eyed Pete

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2010-Lake County All-Star is chock full o’ the classic pie-eyed, musical nuggets you’ve come to expect. Equal parts tobacco-soaked vocals, whiskey-soaked guitars and urine-soaked quintessence, the result is a heady brew of a life lived to its limits, both with and without regrets. It’s a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll and a whole lotta barroom sing-along. Recorded in Libertyville, IL by the supple hands of Ed Tinley and rounded out with strong supporting performances by luminaries Ike Reilly, multi-talented John Pirruccello, long time guitarist Jim O’Donnell and his trusted drumming friend Phil Levin, Lake County All-Star is a disk that’ll make you want to stay up all night and drain a keg or three. Sure, you’ll wake up dehydrated and jonesin’ for a hot cup of joe but, like Pie-Eyed Pete, you wouldn’t want it to end up any other way.

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Cars, Guitars, Raising Son and Evening Stars by Me and Peter John

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2009-It started innocently enough…myself, a working dad and part-time songwriter sitting on my couch, strumming my guitar. My precocious 4 year old son, Peter John, walks up and asks, “What are you doing dad?” I answered “Playing my guitar, trying to write a song.” He replies, as all know-it-all 4 year olds do, “I can do that.” My challenging response was “Well o.k. bud, sit down, what do you want to write about?”
And so it began. We would randomly sit together, talk about what he was into that week and try to write a song about it. By the time he was 5, we had a bunch of songs that were pretty darn good. I decided, why not record them? It took a few recording sessions in Chicago to record the drums. The rest of the record was finished in a small studio in my basement. The result is this record, a snapshot of what my son was into between the ages of 4 and 6. He has since moved on to other likes and hobbies. This CD will always remind me of these great times we had together and it is unlike most kid’s recordings as it is adult rock with a child’s perspective. Any child from 3 to 10 years old will love it and you will be able to listen to it as well…enjoy!

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2006- The third record by Pie Eyed Pete, “Dandelion Wine” is now out and available for public consumption. Recorded by Lance Reynolds (Ash, Blue Meanies, Alkaline Trio) at Argyle Studios in Chicago over a 2 year period and featuring a stellar group of musicians, including the long time duo of Peter Cimbalo Jim O’Donnell (Lost Luggage, Diplomat 6, Something For Joey). Also rounding out the band is John Whildin (Wild Bores), Phil Levin (Bucktown, Yard Sale, and Million Yen) and John Pirruccello (Brad Peterson, Nicholas Tremulis, and Keith Richards) The music is an interesting blend of musicianship and fine song craft and reminiscent of a style similar to that of Steve Earle or Tom Petty (so said some random music reviewer!) Dig It! Please see this link for song listing https://pieeyedpete.bandcamp.com/album/dandelion-wine

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2003-The 2nd Pie Eyed Pete recording. A classic! Recorded by John Whildin in Chicago and featuring Glen Kotche, Jim O'Donnell, John Pirruccello, Rob Pierce, Andy Poland. This album Rocks and Rolls! Please use this link to see tracks and preview. https://pieeyedpete.bandcamp.com/album/death-of-a-teenage-idol

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2000- The original! John Whildin needed to vet out his studio and called on Pie Eyed Pete, who had a handful of song ideas to come experiment. The result is a Country tinged rock record that is sure to please. Featuring Glen Kotche, Jim and Tommy O'Donnell, Andy Poland and Rob Pierce. Dig it! Digital only as original pressing SOLD OUT, please contact Pie Eyed for complete song listing.

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