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Member Since: 8/27/2006
Band Website: amnestyusa.org
Band Members: Brian - songwriter, guitar, piano, keyboards, harmonica, hand drums/percussion, all vocals, production. Also see DEATH OF BRIAN & JAMS RUN FREE
BSmile - drums on 'Ill Wait' (Video) and also see JAMS RUN FREE
Sean drums on 'I'm not Down' also see SAGE WIND
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Influences: ..I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own... -THE PRISONER
"A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face" -Blue
"The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese." - FRANK ZAPPA
"This will be our response to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully and more devotedly than ever before."- Leonard Bernstein
"You can't censor people's dreams."
-ROBYN HITCHCOCK
“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.â€-Albert Einstein
"In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God."
-RAVI SHANKAR
"When the bone was picked up in despair and the bone disconnected the flesh from the hair and the bone running red, held aloft smashed and bled smashed and bled crushing sinew, smashing head, terrorized and blinded by sand and the beast disconnected from Life by his hand. Then silence, then silence and terror subside and the bone held aloft and the victim exchanges his side and the bone held aloft all matted with hide and the hunter's demise and through widening eyes he invented realize, realize, realize... - STUMP (Bone)
"These are great days we're living, bros. We are jolly green giants, walking the Earth with guns. These people we wasted here today are the finest human beings we will ever know. After we rotate back to the world, we're gonna miss not having anyone around that's worth shooting." - FULL METAL JACKET (KUBRICK)
"Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on."-SAMUEL BECKETT
'Once in a while you get shown the light
In the strangest of places if you look at it right' - Robert Hunter
GRATEFUL DEAD 'He's gone'
"I go to the hills when my heart is lonely
I know I will hear what I've heard before
My heart will be blessed with the sound of music
And I'll sing once more... -RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN
"But it is wrong to speak of ..situations,.. implying sets of circumstances leading to some resolution, some escape of tension; there were no situations, simply the balloon hanging there..muted heavy grays and browns for the most part, contrasting with the walnut and soft yellows. A deliberate lack of finish, enhanced by skillful installation, gave the surface a rough, forgotten quality; sliding weights on the inside, carefully adjusted, anchored the great, vari-shaped mass at a number of points. Now we have had a flood of original ideas in all media, works of singular beauty as well as significant milestones in the history of inflation, but at that moment, there was only this balloon, concrete particular, hanging there." THE BALLOON
-DONALD BARTHELME
"If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses."
-LENNY BRUCE
We're gonna kill
the California girls
we're gonna fire the exploding load in the milkmaid maiden head
we're gonna find the meaning
of feeling good
and we're gonna stay there as long as we think we shouldmystery train
three way plane
expressway
to your skull-SONIC YOUTH (Expressway to yr skull)
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"In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows."
-WOODY ALLEN
"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted."
-ALDOUS HUXLEY
Why move around the world when Eden was so near?
The bosses get talking so tough
And if that wasn't evil enough
We get the drunken and passionate pride
Of the citizens along for the ride
-RUSH(NEIL PERT)
"The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation."
-JIMMY CARTER
"Seen a man standin.. over a dead dog lyin.. by the highway in a ditch
He..s lookin.. down kinda puzzled pokin.. that dog with a stick
Got his car door flung open he..s standin.. out on highway 31
Like if he stood there long enough that dog..d get up and run
Struck me kinda funny seem kinda funny sir to me
At the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe" - -BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (Reason to believe)
Brian: I am NOT the Messiah!
Arthur: I say you are Lord, and I should know. I've followed a few. MONTY PYTHON (Life of Brian)
"I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life."
- MAHATMA GANDHI
..An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them... -ANDY WARHOL
"I wish The Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had ever happened." -LOTR
"A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody."
-ARTHUR C. CLARKE, First on the Moon, 1970
"It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be."
-JAMES A. BALDWIN
"I'll handle this ... the only danger in space is if we land on the terrible Planet of the Apes ... wait a minute. Statue of Liberty ... THAT WAS OUR PLANET! YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!" - HOMER SIMPSON
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Sounds Like: I look at this part of my site as a reflecting pool...
Record Label: My life is my own
Type of Label: None
