Member Since: 8/31/2006
Band Members:
:Grant Skylar Hayden:
Electric and acoustic 6 and 12 string guitars
Bass
Keyboards (organ, piano, etc.)
Synthesizers
Drums
Additional percussion (congas, bongos, chimes, bells, tambourine, guiro, gong, maracas, shekere, clave, etc.)
Field recordings
Broken trumpet
Words
Voice
Atmospheres and textures
Sound experimentaion and treatment
Recording/mixing/producing/composing
Influences:
=The work of=
Dan Akroyd
Abbott and Costello
Lucille Ball
Lenny Bruce
George Carlin
Dave Chappelle
Rodney Dangerfield
Larry David
Chris Farley
Andy Kaufman
The Kids in the Hall
The Marx Brothers
Monty Python
Paul Mooney
Richard Pryor
Gilda Radner
Paul Reubens
The Three Stooges
Susan Tyrrell
=Directors=
Mel Brooks
Luis Bunuel
David Cronenberg
Federico Fellini
Terry Gilliam
Robin Hardy
Werner Herzog
Alfred Hitchcock
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Stanley Kubrick
Akira Kurosawa
Spike Lee
Sergio Leone
David Lynch
Adam McKay
Jan Svankmajer
=Writers=
Ron Kovik
William S. Burroughs
Anthony Burgess
Charles Darwin
Philip K. Dick
Daniel Keyes
Ken Kesey
Alfred Kubin
William Golding
John Steinbeck
George Orwell
Frank Miller
Rod Serling
Howard Zinn
Edgar Allen Poe
Arthur Rimbaud
Henry Rollins
Raymond T. McNally & Radu Florescu
=+Artists+=
Salvador Dali
Frida Kahlo
Max Ernst
Raymond Pettibon
René Magritte
Man Ray
Marcel Duchamp
Alex Ross
--Television Shows--
The Outer Limits (the series from 1963 to 1965)
Eerie Indiana (the original series)
The Twilight Zone (the original series)
The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the BBC miniseries)
Night Gallery
The League of Gentlemen
The X Files
::Misc.::
Life
Dreams
Loved ones
Weathered and decaying synthetic institutions
Ghost towns
Graffiti
Train tracks
Prosimians
The Sixth Finger
Robby the Robot
The Burning Giraffe
The film Another State of Mind
Broken Glass
A Stop at Willoughby
Trees
The ocean
The Nazca Lines
Storms
Machu Picchu
Cocoons
Dischord Records
Sitting Bull
Necropolises
Black holes
Claymation
Moai
Bullet holes
Bonobos
Bison
SST Records
Rats
Cacti
Horse flies
:Musical Artists:
Miles Davis
Carlos Montoya
Greg Ginn
Black Flag
Baby Huey and the Babysitters
Madlib
Big Boys
Robert Fripp
King Crimson
Syd Barrett
Pink Floyd (nothing later than the "Meddle" album)
Ennio Morricone
Pharoah Sanders
Brian Eno
Fela Kuti
MF DOOM
Gang of Four
Lee "Scratch" Perry
PIL
The Stooges
The Mahavishnu Orchestra
King Tubby
Joy Division
The Art Ensemble of Chicago
Wire
Sun Ra
CAN
John McGeoch
Sly and the Family Stone
Siouxsie and the Banshees (nothing later than "Hyaena")
Minor Threat
Neu!
Public Enemy
Van Der Graaf Generator
Circle Jerks
Alice Coltrane
TSOL (nothing later than "Beneath the Shadows")
Aphex Twin
Parliament
Funkadelic
The Germs
Charles Mingus
Adolescents
Billie Holiday
13th Floor Elevators
The Slits
James Brown
Dead Kennedys
Roky Erickson
Toots and the Maytals
X-Ray Spex
A Tribe Called Quest
Mulatu Astatke
Social Distortion (nothing later than "Mommy's Little Monster")
Stark Reality
Django Reinhardt
John Coltrane
Pere Ubu
The Specials
The Misfits (the album "Static Age")
Madvillain
Herbie Hancock
Duke Ellington
Bad Brains
Captain Beefheart
The Screamers
Ornette Coleman
Augustus Pablo
Thelonious Monk
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None