Member Since: 8/17/2006
Band Website: thrasherqawwal.com
Band Members: I consider the people I have been so honored to play with over the years, my own super-group. They are listed here in no particular order. They are all in "my" band: Meher Baba, Genesis P-Orridge, Miss J, Michael Campagna, Chandra Shukla, Bryin Dall, Koko, David James, T1, Bachir Attar, Billy Goodrum, Scott Breadman, Adrian Michael Plott (AKA BLack Lyon), Anton Newcomb, Derek, Bill Breeze, Chris Grey, Michael Gira, Michael C Ford, Thomas Dimuzio, IBU600, the Legendary Vik Ferrari, Cindy Lowe, The Master Musicians of Jajouka, Saifir, Cliff Hugo, Nik Turner, Jon Weber, Charlie Campagna, Debra Ashe, Adrienne Shamszad, Louis Durra, Rani Didi, Etant Donnes, Kim Cascone, John Conners, Sean Carson, David Gardiner, David J, Daniel Ashe, cEvin Key, the kind and gentle Ogre, Ky Pham, Diva Mia, and Meher Baba (this list is in progress)
Influences: Eastern influences----------------- Meher Baba (wrote my top 10 all time favorite songs), Mehera, Mani Irani, Katie Irani, Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri (my tabla inspiration and teacher), Pandit Jasraj (inspiring alaps and teacher, I studied with him when he was in Cali at AAKC), Aziz Mien (my qawwali hero, may God's grace be upon him), Bhimson Joshi (most inspiring live show ever seen - Poona 1991 - wow!), Habibuddin Khan, Ustad Alla Rakha, Zakirda, Taufiq Qureshi, Pralahad Shinde (my Marathi brother-much love to u!), Tansen (our father), Hamza El Din, Anindo Chatterjee, Jajouka, Ganawa, all things Gimbri, Ustad Bismillah Khan, Rais Khan, Ali Brothers, Afaq Hussain, Jani Babu, Sabri Brothers, Bade Gulam Ali Khan, Bashir Hussain Goga, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, Pannalal Ghosh, Nizamuddin Khan, Latif Ahmed Khan, Ustad Ahmad Jan Thirakwa (of course), Hossein Tehrani, Madjid Khaladj (if I played Tombak, I would seek him out as a teacher), Baaba Maal, any Indian musician with the last name Dagar, all things Drupad (folks we're lossing it - SAVE DRUPAD!, the endangered music species!) Johann Sebastion Bach, Wagner(the first mulit-media uber-genius mad man psychopath, all modern music, theatre, film, and all things dark and goth are (consciously or unconsciously) influenced by this bigoted bigger than life asshole), Genesis P-Orridge (who puts his/her 1000% into every show -always in the moment on stage and my beloved brother/sister/father/mother/daughter/son), Koko, Mozart (over-rated,but still his arias make my heart sing - I feel it), Syd Barret (he invented quirky english phrasing and cool weird chord changes), Beethoven (gave classical music gonads), Francis Brabazon (the "modern Hafez" a poet, musican and Meher Baba follower from Australia), Buddy Holly (invented geek rock and moody introspection by geek rockers), Johnny Ace, Coltrane, Miles, Pink Floyd (the Floyd took white blues music to Chiron), Scriaban, Billy Holiday, Satie, Liszt (underated genius and maybe the first actual "rock star" of the western world), Debussy, Thomas Dimuzio, Hank Williams (greatest white american song writer IMHO), Dead Kennedys, Louis Armstrong, T1, Xenakis, Agent Orange, Velvet Underground (who influenced everybody in the rock genre), Stockhausen, Sons of the Pioneer, Donavan, Bowie, P-Funk, Prince, P-Funk, Hank Snow, Throbbing Gristle, Brian Eno (the only guy I would let produce me), James Brown, Bob Marley and all those great Wailers, Villa Lobos, Patsy Cline, Bessie Smith, Can, Robert Wyatt, Matching Mole, Beatles, Stones, Zappa, Chrome(I love u,Helios Creed, how come u never visit myspace? -u rock!), Vik Ferrari, Motown (u'd have to be from mars to not be influence by Motown and Co, most of us were conceived to Motown music!), Sun(Ditto to Motown), Chess (Ditto to Motown), Texas Swing(argueably the greatest music ever), Dot3, Black Atheletes (an amazing Bay area band from the mid-80-s), Schoenberg, Derek Jarman, John Cage ------------------------------------------||||
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