Music:
Member Since: 9/19/2006
Band Website: gldbug.webs.com
Band Members: Carl James - Stuff
L.G. Edwards - Other stuff
Influences: Moments of inspiration:
Have I The Right by The Honeycombs! I don’t care how good you are at writing pop songs, you’re not going to top that!
The Clash.......Rudie Can’t Fail! You know, even Combat Rock is starting to sound pretty good. Straight To Hell is brilliant.
The songs of Mr. David Lewis Gedge - The Wedding Present, Cinerama etc.
Mark E. Smith and the Fall. The Classical!
Hüsker Dü. Grant Hart. Bob Mould. Sugar. Candy Apple Grey! Flip You Wig! New Day Rising! etc. etc. etc.
Otis Redding.
Union City Blue by Blondie.
Motown and Stax recordings from the 60’s.
Sneaky Feelings’ Send You album, even if they don’t like how it sounds.
Belle & Sebastian’s earlier records.
Beatles - Rain.
Rolling Stones - Exile On Mainstreet and prior to.
Hearing The Pixies Doolittle for the first time. Then discovering Surfa Rosa.
Muddy Waters - Rolling Stone period.
Polly Jean Harvey at her messed up/ pissed off best.
Young Marble Giants.
Echo And The Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here and Porcupine are just cool as hell to listen to closely on the headphones.
Swervedriver’s swirling guitars.
Talking Heads - Remain In Light. Has anyone listened to the lyrics of Listening Wind lately?
Any good 5 day cricket test match.
Peter Tosh period Wailers
Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra - Some Velvet Morning etc.
The Sex Pistols. Of course.
Split Enz / The Finn boys etc. - Oh come on, you can’t grow up in New Zealand in the 70’s and 80’s and not be influenced by them in some way.
Manchester United Football Club.
George Best with the ball on the end of his foot.
Richard Hadlee. If our slips could only have caught the ball he would have owned every fast bolwing record in the books.
Guided By Voices at their messy and melodic best.
The Velvet Underground. Everything! From Jesus to Sister Ray. Well, except that crap stuff after the main members had left.
Neil Diamond’s use of mournful brass.
Shihad’s sense of power.
R.E.M.’s use of guitars, piano and Michael Stipe’s voice on the first few albums.
60’s pop use of strings.
Beatles use of George Martin (or vice versa depending on your point of view).
Cattle and Cane by the Go-Betweens. And everything else. etc. Grant McClennan RIP.
Jean-Paul Sartre Experience. Garry Sullivan’s drumming. And those lovely songs!
Run To Me, Massachusetts etc. by the Bee Gees. Their ’60’s folk pop phase.
Lady Friend by the Byrds.
Bailter Space and their compressed genius.
Roy Orbison’s voice.
Roxy Music
T-Rex
The Replacements - Tim
My Bloody Valentine. More noise? Yes please.
Joed Out by the Verlaines.
See My Friends by the Kinks.
Boodle Boodle Boodle E.P. by the Clean. Oh, and Bigmouth from the oddities tape. Alright, all their other stuff, too. Getting Older.
Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys.
Emmylou Harris singing Boulder to Birmingham. Emmylou Harris singing anything, actually.
Sun Records. Jerry Lee Lewis. Carl Perkins. Elivs.....
Toots And The Maytals live.
Moments of brilliance that you wish you had created or been a part of.
Sounds Like: It was recorded on a Tascam Porta One cassette 4-track, 'cause it was.....
What ever you think we sound like.
Record Label: Bugtunes
Type of Label: None
