Member Since: 10/08/2006
Band Website: TO BE ANNOUNCED
Band Members: My name is Andrew Christensen. Eternal Soul is my AKA. The music your hearing on this page is myself creating, playing, and recording music in the studio. Live bass, lead guitar, synth, turntables and production. As well as a little help from Codini2000 on the talkbox. Bringing you that original home town Detroit flavor where the sun don't shine, but The Funk & Soul lives on forever. Vegas as my new home. Michigan is where I was born and raised. The home of all my family and friends too. All but a select few i've had the honor to meet since i've been out here in the belly of the beast that we know as the sin city. Big Shout Out to all my people in Flint, Pontiac, Detroit and all the surrounding cities in Michigan.
Influences: God, family, friends, experience, art, music, dancing, love, hate, life, people, passion, everything. Generaly anything to do with music. Rock, Classic Soul, Funk, Jazz, Electronic, Metal, Latin Jazz, Afro Cuban, Drum, Tribal, Psychadelic. Subjects on how FUNK-Style Dance (Locking, Popping, Boogaloo) B-boying, Capoeira, Martial Arts, Graffiti Art, Turntableisim and The Emcee paved and created a style which once was and still is REAL HIP HOP. All through THE FUNK and THE STREETS. Mo-Town as being a whole movement and to many artists to mention. Also other artists such as Sly And The Family Stone, Grahm Central Station, Bootsy Collins, James Brown, Funkadelic, Eddie Hazel ( The King of acid funk guitar) The P-Funk All Star Movement, Parliament, George Clinton, The Brides Of Funkinstein, Parlet, The Rubber Band, Michael Hampton and anyone that has anything to do with or loves all the bomb uncut FUNK Funkadelic, Parliament, George and Bootsy started. Unparalleled and priceless, untouched and eternal. Hendrix (Master of Soul Rock guitar fusion & effects UNTOUCHABLE),Zapp, Ohio Players, Curtis Mayfield, War, Mandril, , Maceo Parker, Maceo & The Macks, Fred Wesley & The JB's, Fred Wesley & The Horny Horns, The Jimmy Castor Bunch, The Meters,(Donald Byrd, The Mizell Brothers, and Bobbi Humphrey... If you don't know, you honestly should, with the most soulful uplift of funk), Prince, Gap Band, Cameo, B.T. Express, A.W.B., Mass Production, Brass Construction, Tom Browne & NYC, Rick James and The Stone City Band, Rick James, One Way, Pleasure, Ruffus feat. Chaka Kahn, Evelyn Champagne King, S.O.S Band, D-Train, Dazz Band, Fatback, Twentynine, Brick, Slave, Lake Side, Michael Henderson, Secrete Weapon, Van Masson And Crew, Chic, Raydio, Bill Summers and Summers Heat, Brothers Johnson, Bar Kays, Con Funk Shun, Heatwave, Faze-O, Atlantic Star, Dennis Coffey & The Detroit Guitar Band, Gamble and Huff ,Shugar Hill Records and all of the artists on the Shugar Hill label, African Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force, Curtis Blow, Blow Fly, Roy Ayers, Bob James, Idris Muhammad, Grover Washington JR, Billy Cobham, Herbie Hancock, Paul Jackson (The Black Octopus), Lenny White, Jaco Pastorius, Stanly Clark. Return To Forever, George Benson, George Duke, Lonnie Liston Smith, Groove Collective, Mark Anthony Jones, Pink Floyd, Santana, The Doors, Led Zepplin, Dimebag Darrell R.I.P. (The most soulful metal guitarist to ever walk the planet earth) , some House like Naked-Music artists and what not. Blue Six, Miguel Migs, Aquanote, Lisa Shaw, Gaelle, Andy Caldwell, Jay J, Trentemoller, Onda, Petalpusher, Avid, Quant, Weekender, Soulfuric artists, Salted and any House with Funk and soul, All the newschool thrash, hardcore progressive metal and rock. Opeth, Arch Enemy, God Forbid, Trivium, Shadows Fall, Killswitch Engage, Disincarnate, James Murphy, Carcass, Death, Sepultura, Children Of Bodom, Bucket Head and some others. Jack Burningtree R.I.P. (One of Mo-Town's best keept secrets. Wrlock, Dream Foundation, Aaron Sanchez, Pablo Sanchez, Terry Pinland and finally Codini & Messy J (The Brothers).
These are not all of my influences, but some of my favorites. I'm also a super huge fan of the B-boy, Funk and Boogaloo dance crews around the world. As I said at the begining. They are a great influence to me when it comes to writing my music. B-boys and girls along with underground real Hip Hop artists, Break Beat Heads and House Heads are the only ones that have kept THE FUNK alive over the nu school years. While all the originals have left us or just faded, so I would like to express my love and gratitude to all you real heads out there. I love you all!!! Peace and blessings!!!
Other things in connection to influence the music include the following subjects. Creation, outerspace, ancient civilizations of mystery, the mind and spirit, people of indiginous descent, monks, nature, life, love, women, women grown and sexy. Women not affraid and hung up on inhibitions with all the glits and glam. I love all women though. I sound like a dog, but you would see the dog in you to if you looked a little closer.
Conciously speeking and aware. Don't forget. Dog is man's best friend. Dog is woman's best friend. Best friend! Movies:
Anything oldschool Kung Fu, music, B-boy flicks, G flicks. Books:
Celestine Prophecy and Hiden Message in Water. Books on the mind, psyche, social behaviors, history, prehistoric, true happenings of miraculous and mysterious nature, mind over body and matter, space and time, that of the celestial bodies and living matter that surrounds us inside of the spaces between nothingness. Meaning the black space nothingness of outerspace that seems to be endless and infinite to our small minds. How small things like stars can use the power of light to shine a guide through the black space nothingness that seems to our minds to be endless. What is the bigger picture? The nothingness we won't allow our selfs to perceive. The farthest reaches beyond what the stars and reflection are able to let our eyes see. What if the stars decided to burn hotter and shed a larger light to reveal what hides in the endless darkness, what's just one step away and out of reach. The power of light is awsome how it can with just a small spark, light a entire space of endless nothing. A little bit of light will outshine a endless space of darkness. Love the light. Be thankful for the light. Respect the light while you can. Love the light while you can and shed you'r light while you can.
Sounds Like: YO GRANDMAMA CUTTING A RUG WITH NO SHAME
Record Label: WHO NEEDS EM? IT'S MUSIC! THE SHIT IS FREE.
Type of Label: Indie