Gregg was three weeks shy of his 9th birthday when the Beatles first appeared on Ed Sullivan. It sent his life careening off down an unexpected path from which he has never strayed. He and his wife live in southern Arizona where they bird-watch, chase wildflowers, and star gaze (he majored in Astronomy in college). As far as his music goes, Pasterick describes his genre as “below-fi cosmic cowboy,” and this seems an apt description. In early 2019, Exquisite Noise Records were proud to release his appropriately spaced out yet captivating album, Foreign Lands And Distant Planets, and he also contributed a standalone track to our 2019 label-wide compilation disc, Chill Before Serving. More recently, he followed this up by delivering Evening as the sublime closing track to our 2025 compilation, Exquisite Tales.
After an extended hiatus, Gregg returned at last in 2023 with the even better disc Tombstone. Among the hallmarks of his compositions are a somewhat surreal, unexpected catchiness, a genuine warmth bleeding through the tracks, and seriously clever wordplay. For the uninitiated, we would possibly recommend the two tracks starting with the word “don’t” as an excellent starting point: Don’t You Know That I Love You, which is a really touching tune you’ll be whistling immediately, and the somewhat bawdier Don’t Tell Your Children. But wherever you choose to drop in, the listen is a highly textured and pleasantly varied one. In search of a “safer, quieter place,” he and his wife eventually landed in New Mexico. Though Pasterick cautions, “two years later and we’re still searching.”
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