Member Since: 9/3/2006
Band Website: cdbaby.com/cd/arturoroyal
Band Members: Everything in my CD, all the music, instruments, composition, recording, mixing, lyrics, voices, et cetera, et cetera, was done by myself.
Influences: Me, Seventies pop (and pop-rock, prog-rock, glam-rock, punk-rock), disco, electronica, new wave, Tom Waits, Rurus Wainwright, The Sleepy Jackson, some The Beatles, The Doors -especially Jim Morrison's clowning around and fooling the dorky fans into thinking he was some sort of "rock god", Grandaddy, Sparklehorse, Radio Head, David Bowie, The Geto Boys (best damn rap group EVER!!!), They Might Be Giants, Carol King, Corny Mexican music (including Ranchero), Flamenco -the real stuff, Charles Bukowski, Kafka, Ed Wood, TV, Cartoons, The Church of the Subgenius and Jr. "BOB" Dobbs, cheesy American Folk, good American Folk, Elliot Smyth, The B-52's, America (both the country and the band), sappy love songs, weird fringe music like The Cramps and their ilk, Little Richard (The MAN!), Star Trek (all of them) -especially Mr. Spock & Data, Toys, Robert Crumb, The Strokes, John Fante, Nicanor Parra, Satan, Nick Drake, The Dead Milkmen, Daniel Johnston, The Flaming Lips, Shamanism as a whole, paganism in particular, Jean-Paul Sartre, Freddie Nietzsche, Dave Brubeck, Beethoven (we have the same birthday, tee hee!), me again, life and death.
Sounds Like: You tell me.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Indie