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Matt Batchelor, Vicious Violet

Matt Batt, formally of Morticia and Static Grey,and, ATPH (97 to 98), now Vicious Violet.I am The Fi

About Me

I started playing drums at 7, had my first paying gig with two high school kids at 11, and played my first nightclub at 14.By the time I was 17, I landed a job with the higest paid cover band in Denver, Dreams. I dropped out of high school, bad mistake.Kids, I don't care how well you are doing in music, stay in school!! I wanted to be one of three things, A secret agent, a horror movie host, or a rock star.
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My Interests

Music history,(The 60's and The 70's).Textile screenprinting,Cooking. Collecting obitauries of the famous & not so famous.

I'd like to meet:

A few of Vicious Violets up coming shows.ROCK ON TRACI MICHAELZ!!!!!

Music:

Surf instrumentals,Garage rock,Psychedelic,60's Acid rock,Spy Movie themes,70's Glitter,Punk,80'sGoth,Rockabilly,Electro-Industrial, some jazz, some 70's fusion,novelty records, As far as what I do, I like single bass drum kits. My bass guitars I like with only 4 strings, and vocals understood... most of all, guitars, and everything tuned to A-440. If given a choice between Whankvay Fastien or Nokie Edwards (from The Ventures) for a guitar player, I would choose Nokie.I do like 60's & 70's Funk & Soul, Sly Stone,James Brown,60's Soul like Jackie Wilson, Ottis Redding. What the record industry calls R&B today means really bad music. Other than Grand Master Flash, I don't like rap or hip hop.I think it has been forsed down the throats of everyone.And I hope the new kids see the light that rock will never die.Pick up an axe and ROCK!!!! Also, Support Independent Radio!

Movies:

Horror and Sci Fi , Black and white movies, 60' spy ,Music ..arys,Punkexpolitation,A Clockwork Orange,The Magic Christian,Diary Of A Mad Housewife,Hammer Horror,Roger Corman Edgar Allen Poe,The Trip, Wild In The Streets,Vanishing Point,Ed Wood, Rocky Horror, Hedwig,The Gene Kruppa Story, Yellow Submarine, The Ghost Goes Gear, Having A Wild Weekend, Sunset Blvd, What Ever Happend To Baby Jane? The Three Faces Of Eve, Over The Edge, Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill!

Television:

The Avengers, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., The Prisoner, Get Smart, Batman, The Monkees, The Banana Splits, Lancealot Link, Johney Quest, Thunderbirds are go!, Dark Shadows, The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, The Munsters, The Addams Family,Abb Fab, New Wave Theater (R.I.P. Peter Ivers), BRING BACK HORROR INC!!! The Nancy Boys,T.C. Muizque, Drinking With Ian, And my guilty pleasure is American Idol, and Rockstar Whateverbandnameitis. Because it shows how crappy the professional music business is. As Homer Simpson once said," The first rule about the music business is, don't trust anyone in the music business."

Books:

Edgar Allen Poe, Anne Rice (But you lost me when you wrote that Lestat sang like Springsteen). Poppy Z. Brite, The I love Elvis Cookbook (if you ever wanted to kill someone off in a slow way, this is the cookbook for you).How To Form A Rock Group(1967),Me Alice,I'm With The Band,GLAM!(but I thought that Mr Hoskyns had the wrong take on The Alice Cooper Band)The Hex Files (that's because I'm in it with Static Grey, and Mick Mercer wrote good about us).PUNK DIARY by George Gimarc (anything about Punk is in this book.A good Christmas present for that punk in your life) .

Heroes:

We can be heroes...just for one day.

My Blog

BAND GIRLFRIENDS GUIDE TO KEEPING YOUR MAN

BAND GIRLFRIENDS GUIDE TO KEEPING YOUR MAN BAND GIRLFRIENDS GUIDE TO KEEPING YOUR MAN (Edited version - compliments of JFK!)-Don't try to be the "manager", do not get involved with band busines...
Posted by Matt Batchelor on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 03:56:00 PST