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josh riley

About Me

I am a musician! Ha! Mostly a bass player, but i do play other instruments (guitar, drums, piano, ocarina, etc.) I'm a recording engineer and mixer, producer, listener, music fanatic, bass teacher, bass student, piano technician, sound wave generator, improviser, transcriptionist, music theorist, instrument technician, interpreter, band manager, booking agent, therapist, motivational speaker, music seller, music buyer, microphone placement critic, equipment and gear lust decrier, noisemaker, peacemaker, etc. Did I mention that I'm a bass player?

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 25/08/2006
Band Website: this is it
Band Members: the music posted here can and will contain any various assemblage of people i may or may not know including myself
Influences: sonic youth, bjork, radiohead, sheila chandra, jeffery oryema, massive attack, edgar meyer, yo-yo ma, beethoven, mozart, shostakovich, chopin, billie holliday, charlie parker, miles davis, john mclaughlin, tony williams, john bonham, danny carey, bob marley, toots, the abyssinians, U2, daniel lanois, brian eno, vast, afro celt soundsystem, liquidrone, posterboy, zydepunks, the winter sounds, butthole surfers, the residents, sinead o'connor, NIN, melt banana, philip glass, mickey hart, mike patton, tom waits, beck, amon tobin, hooverphonic, the blue states, thievery corporation, bauhaus, jimi hendrix, jaco pastorius, thelonius monk, ornette coleman, snakefinger, din of thieves, them crooked vultures, devotchka, etc...
Sounds Like: a delicate whisper in one ear and a megaphone gone haywire in the other...
Record Label: notta one

My Blog

Nu Toons!

Big news... we've moved into our new digs (finally) and  i posted a few new tracks... more to come, and pictures even sooner.......
Posted by on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:01:00 GMT