Member Since: 31/05/2007
Band Members: My precious Martin Dreadnought Guitar, my hands and my voice.
Influences: Hmm let's see. It's been a bit of a journey. As a kid, grew up listening to a lot of stuff on 80's radio plus my Dad's vinyl, which contained The Stones, The Beatles, Led Zep, Hendrix, The Who, Cream, basically a lot of 60's and 70's rock. Though at the time I didn't realise it, the influence of these records became apparent when I revisited them later.The end of the eighties seemed so vacuous to me that as an early teenager I honestly believed I was uninterested in music. As adulthood approached, I began taking an interest in some guitar bands, but it was the wave of early 90's rock that for me proved defining. Soundgarden, RHCP, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, RATM. This was the music that showed me how passionately I could feel about music, and which led to me picking up a guitar. Hereafter, Radiohead, Kyuss, Tool, Monster Magnet, Foo Fighters, Janes Addiction, Fu Manchu became mixed with the records in my dad's collection. I diverged into Funk through James Brown, Parliament and The Meters, and Jazz through Charles Mingus, Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis.The seeming paucity of decent music coming out of the late nineties resulted in a backtrack to albums which pre-dated my birth; the likes of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Tom Waits, Procol Harem, Dylan, The Band, John Martyn, Bowie, Velvet Underground, more Beatles, Zep, Hendrix. Fortunately, there was (and still is) more than enough treasure to keep me busy for years, as I bought up the back catelogues of most respected singer/songwriters of that era. Friends introduced me to some great electronic and DJ based music like Bjork, DJ Shadow, Portishead, Morcheeba, David Holmes, Amon Tobin, Air, Breakestra, Jurassic 5, Beastie Boys, Sian Supa Crew etc.Blues too, especially Muddy Waters, Lightning Hopkins and Robert Johnson.Travels around Australasia gifted me the music of artists like The Dirty Three, John Butler Trio, Trinity Roots, and similarly popular acts like Ben Harper, G-Love, Jack Johnson.Also, more contemporary UK-based music like Damien Rice, Gomez, Tamara Parsons Baker and Turin Brakes, and stateside stuff like Sufjan Stevens, Smog, Joanna Newsom, The Velvet Teen, John Frusciante's solo stuff and Johnny Cash's work with Rick Rubin.Outside music, the work of Bill Hicks and Monty Python have irreparably scarred my brain.Most importantly, I've been influenced by the friends and people I've played with, written with or even just shared a stage with.And I'm always open to recommadations if you have any.
Sounds Like: Me and a mix of what I like to listen to.
Record Label: Unsigned