Music:
Member Since: 9/2/2006
Band Website: utopia4all.org
Band Members: Just Say:
Dana Connor: lead vox
Lisa Taylor: drums, back vox (lyrics)
Jim Taylor: bass
Steve Long: guitar
Gordon Johnson: keys, way back vox
All other songs:
All instruments (sequenced Keys): Gordon Johnson
(except Learning To Fly drum loop borrowed from Casio keyboard)
I want to do my songs live so I'm searching for the right people.
The drummer's gonna be groove oriented with the ability to add spice artfully.
The bass player's gonna thump like godzilla and weave like a water snake.
The guitar player's rhythm will hop like Tiggr or crank like a well oiled machine and the leads will move with grace and agility like a dolphin.
The singing will gently reach into your chest and heal your heart one minute, and the next will launch you skyward like a taut trampoline.
Influences:Basically, all over the map.
Raised on classical -- Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovski, Chopin, Lizt, Rachmaninov, Bach, Brahms, Debussy
Rock / Pop -- Sarah McLachlan , Beatles , Joni Mitchell , Chicago , Michelle Branch , Dan , Lovin' Spoonful , C S N Y , Counting Crows , Five for Fighting ,
Led Zeppelin ,
Lynyrd Skynyrd , Gavin McGraw , Two Ton Shoe (Boston is so lucky), Lisa Taylor , Edgar and Johnny Winter, Pure Prairie League , The Monkeys (eek, eek! 1st pop/rock album), Santana (shows how one note can make a solo), Yes , Little Feat , Doobie Bros. , Bryan Adams , Cream/ Eric Clapton , Allman Bros. , Nine Inch Nails , Stone Temple Pilots , Dan Reed Network (fansite: all mp3s) , Genesis / Phil Collins / Peter Gabriel , The Romantics , Loggins & Messina ,
New Country -- Rascal Flatts , Keith Urban (may he stay sober), Sarah Evans , Alan Jackson , Ricky Skaggs , Jo Dee Messina , Lonestar , Martina McBride
R&B --
JAMES BROWN (RIP LA & Baby Face , Anita Baker , Pointer Sisters , Billy Preston (RIP Mariah Carey , Paula Abdul , Aretha Franklin , Stevie Wonder , Sly and the Family Stone , Tower of Power , Bobbie Brown, Lionel Richie , Luther VanDross (RIP Chaka Khan , Whitney Houston
Jazz -- Dixie Dregs / Steve Morse , Weather Report / Joe Zawinul , Alan Holdsworth , Pat Metheny , Louis Armstrong , Glenn Miller , Mills Brothers , Andrews Sisters
Just listening to good music kicks off something in my head and follow-on tunes just start flowing.
Favorite other DC area bands. Many styles here from hard-core punk to funk to country to pop, but great musicianship and energy in all these bands (go see them while you're in town!):
All Good Funk Alliance
Army Of Me
At the Stars (Richmd)
Baba G' Nush
Ballroom Breakdown
Below Sixth
Rebecca Berlin
The Bigger Lights
Lou Black
The Blackjacks
Vikki Blankenship
Blind Rhetoric (Balto)
bob
Boxcar Collision
Boyfriends U.S.A.
Laura Brino
Broken Element
Cadillac Rock Box
The Cheaters
Cinder Road
Cobbler
Conditions (Rchmd)
Nikki Cooper
Count Your Blessings
Crash Boom Bang
The Daybreak Line
The Device
Dream Kitchen
The Dreamscapes Project
Driving East
Elisium (Frdbg)
emmet swimming
Everyone But Pete
Derek Every
Exit Clov
Fairgreen
Richie Fields (Balto)
Fistful of Fifties
Forty Acres
Free Money
The Friday Night Boys
Fourth Element
Full Minute of Mercury
Shane Gamble
The Good fight
The Gypsy Sons
Kent Hamaker
Wil Harris - R&B/Funk
Wil Harris - Rock
HAVOK in HOLLYWOOD
Headstraight
Height of Fashion
The Hint
Honor By August
The Rob Hornfeck Enterprise
Cathy Horner
Hotspur
House Of echO
Idle Ride
InTiFaDa
Jackie Gino
Michael Jantz
Jeda
Jefferson Third
Jimmie's Chicken Shack
Jubeus (Richmd)
JunkFood
Jukebox the Ghost
Justin Jones & The Driving Rain
Just Like Always
KaliCeleste
Karmella's Game (Balto)
Lori Kelly
KOE
Lindy LaFontaine
Larkins Call
Lea
Lemonface
Life in a Hospital
The Lost Tourists
Brian Lotter
Stephen Lucas
The Making
Maple
Margot MacDonald
Andrew McKnight
Meet The Speakers
Mind Traffic
Minus-One
The Monster Band
A Month of Sundays
Lisa Moscatiello
Mudge
My Favorite Highway
Nawat
New Day Rising
NUMA
One Third Dork
Pandora's Lunchbox
Parade the Day
Park Police (Balto)
The Pharmacy Prophets
Pictures In Pieces
Plastic Sky
Plumb Plumb
Politicks
Proven Worth
Quarry (Balto)
Quiet Marshall
Rachel's Fault
Robert Parker Vaughn
PS Lets Ride (Rassan)
Rome In A Day
Rude Buddha
Running With Scissors
Saturn Down
shallowDeep
Shane Hines & the Trance
The Sikes
The Silent Critics
Skydivers
The Speaks
Spilt
So Damn Thirsty
Soft Complex
Soul Lip
Square Trio
Steel Polly
Stone Lucy
Amy J. Sullivan
SupeRcade
Adam Swink
Lisa Taylor
tears of mars
Telograph
Time Tells All
ThatGuy
Justin Trawick
Ultra Nate
The Vicious Martinis
Wakefield
Way Too Serious
Welbilt
Wonderjack
OK, so I may not like these bands but you might. They do their stuff well...
Among Wolves (Balto)
Anamide (Balto)
Beyond the Static
Black Box Warning
Beautiful Disaster
Concrete Valley Band
FUNKMNKYZ
Madison Apart
North Avenue
New Rock Church of Fire
Odd Girl Out (Balto)
The Second Sunrise
Son of Grommit
Suburban Riot
These bands are on tour and hard to catch around here, but if you can, DO!!
Agents of the Sun (Balto/tour)
All Time Low (Balto/tour)
Ballyhoo (Balto/tour)
Carbon Leaf (Richmd)
Fools & Horses (Balto/tour)
Interstate North (Balto/tour)
you, me, and everyone we know
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