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Wunderbar!

Retro-Futurism;Pop-Imperialism

About Me

Former leader of the musicologist's house band, The Moriartys. Now resides in Japan, because, "I wouldn't be able to eat much less record labor intensive pop music if I still lived in the States."Profile edited with CricketSoda's Myspace Editor The Little Golden Record

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Music:

Member Since: 8/26/2006
Band Website: wellrespectedmen.tripod.com/
Band Members: Including (but not limited to) Vincent M.
Influences: Richard Lester, Terry Gilliam, Tim Burton, Oh! What a Lovely War!, classic cartoons, Gavin Bryars, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Ray Davies, early Split Enz, Small Faces, Wizzard, Here Come the Warm Jets and Tiger Mountain-period Eno, VERY early (Deram label) Bowie, any el or Mike Alway related projects, yadda, yadda, yadda...
Sounds Like: someone kicking a jukebox. No genre is safe. Peking opera, barbershop, Russian marches, heavy metal, Civil War laments... Witty crooning over an aural pie fight.
Record Label: O'WANKO
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

snoball, fall, cap whatever..

Have any musos out there set up an mp3 store on your myspace page?  Has anybody actually tried downloading from.. Just a moment.  A boston terrier is trying to climb up my nose. Okay.&n...
Posted by Wunderbar! on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:29:00 PST

Wunderbar! Collaborates with Foz. Christandom Rejoices,

Yes indeedy. 'Twas a privilege and a pleasure to work with one of my guitar heroes and contribute a lyric and vocal to his Waving Not Drowning. I recommend anything the man's been involved with (The ...
Posted by Wunderbar! on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 07:54:00 PST

Bring up the can sanshin. It’s low in the mix.

Nobody asked but, heck, I'll tell yuh anyway. Here are some of the instruments that go into the making of a Wunderbar! track.One of the new songs up (Billions Part 1) has glass harmonica, cumbus saz ...
Posted by Wunderbar! on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:06:00 PST

AND THANK YOU MR. HANNON

And speaking of The Divine Comedy, I just acquired Fin de Siècle. Remarkable. If you've ever had a place you called home even for a short time, you will tear up when you hear the last track on the a...
Posted by Wunderbar! on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 02:08:00 PST

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. And thank you.

My first blog. So first things first. John Howard is it. Only it's difficult to know what to buy, because it's all brilliant. Kid in a Big World is a good place to start. The same thing applies t...
Posted by Wunderbar! on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:45:00 PST