Skid Baxter

Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Alice Cooper, Miles Davis and Alex Harvey have inspired Skid Baxter, the brainchild of Vinnie Salvatore. Vinnie is a guitarist from Pittsburgh, PA, most recently with the Columbus, Ohio-based hard rock band, Rat Bastard Syndicate (since 2016), featuring Steve Theado and Keith Pickens. Theado, Pickens and Salvatore are former members of American Dog.

Update - October 2020

Now that daily routines have been disrupted in ways never quite imagined, people everywhere seek alternate forms of musical entertainment to escape the bombardment of pop culture noise.

Some of those people will be happy to learn that new Skid Baxter music is on the horizon, in addition to long-overdue reissues and tidbits lurking around in the Urban Beef Market Records vault.

Also in the works is a collaboration with West Virginia artist, Aric Slater, plus an exciting new music-related project - both to be announced soon.

Stay tuned!

NEW MUSIC
The writing of music is a never-ending process, kind of like eating and sleeping, thereby making an album of new Skid Baxter music that much closer to becoming a reality. Asked about what people should expect, Mr. Baxter stated, "Hopefully, people will think something completely different after hearing it than what they thought before they heard it."

Häk Sabbath (2020)

RAT BASTARD SYNDICATE

Experts at the Corn & Peanut Research Institute highly recommend a daily regimen of Häk Sabbath as one of the ways to cope with the magnitude, unpredictability and ever-growing frustration of the global pandemic (Main guitar solos by Mr. Baxter!).
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Black Looking Glass (2019)

RAT BASTARD SYNDICATE

This single is an exclusive European release by Rat Bastard Syndicate appearing on the Rawkaholic Vol. - 1 sampler from Rock N Growl Records in Germany, featuring Ryan Roxie (of Alice Cooper), Airforce (feat. Paul Di'Anno of Iron Maiden), and many more rock and metal bands from around the world.

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