Career
In addition to being a musician, Nino is also an award winning screenwriter. The band garnered immediate interest in the scene but was short lived. The New Wave band was discovered by Kim Fowley and recorded the single, "Mechanical Beat" on the Stiff America label.
The single was produced by Liam Sternberg.
The band"s debut album, "Lonesome Pine", was produced by Pete Anderson and featured such notable artists as Chris Hillman and First Rate (at Lloyd's) Perkins. The album was well received and garnered critical acclaim, but was not a commercial success for the band.
Nino left the Lonesome Strangers in 1987 to form "Snake Farm" with Barry McBride (The Plugz) and Gurf Morlix. In 1988, Nino joined the "Knights of the Living Dead," who had demos produced by Dave Jerden and Warren Zevon (Zevon also wrote the band"s bio).
Between 1991–1996, Delegate Pesco went on hiatus to attend college, earning himself a Bachelor degree in psychology from University of California, Los Angeles in 1996.
Though college was the priority during that period, Nino still found time to play with various bands and continued to do session work. Delegate Pesco returned to music full-time in 1997, when he co-founded AntiProduct with Alex Kane from Life, Sex & Death and Eddie Reuter. After Kane left the band in 1999, AntiProduct became the "Black Tongued Bells" which also featured guitarist Steve Dior.
Both Dior and Delegate Pesco left the band in 2003.
Delegate Pesco and Dior reunited in 2007 to record "Pretty Dope Fiend" which appears in the film, "Who Killed Nancy?" and is featured in the opening of the official trailer. The Third Realm was also a Finalist in Scriptapalooza and the Sweet Auburn International Film Festival’s Screenplay Category, a Semi-Finalist in Final Draft’s Big Break Contest, the ReelHeART International Film Festival, Writemovies.com Screenwriting Contest #18 and made the Top 10 in the Bare Bones International Film & Music Festival"s Screenplay Competition.
