“With his frizzy hair and maniacal laugh, Kramies comes off as a gentler and kinder version of the titular character that Gene Wilder portrayed in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.” Thank You ClevelandScene
was still a teenager, he began playing shows with his shoegazer band Pot Roast. In the late ’80s and early ’90s, the group played Flash Gordon’s, a now defunct venue that Kramies, who grew up in Fairview Park, describes as a “glam metal divebar.” It was a formative experience.
“Then, I wanted to write my own songs,” says Kramies. “I wrote all these songs and was super into David Bowie and the whole art-rock thing. I have always had an addictive personality. I was getting into drugs and would write acoustic David Bowie-esque type stuff.” That band lasted until 1998. At that point, Karmies was using cocaine and had developed an addiction that he says impaired his ability to develop and mature as an artist. In 2004, he decided to get sober and eventually signed a solo deal with Hidden Shoal, an Australian label with world-wide distribution. While touring in Ireland Kramies became inspired by the unique wooden toys he saw one evening at a Galway, Ireland toy shop called the Wooden Heart.
In 2022, he released a self-titled album featuring Tyler Ramsey, Patrick Carney , Becker, and Lytle and followed it with “Ohio I’ll Be Fine,” a track featuring Becker on keys, guitar and strings as well as Counting Crows drummer Jim Bogios. In 2022, he also recorded music for the soundtrack to a French book and went on a book tour throughout France.
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