recording creative and inspiring musicians in my project studio, speeding on I-40 through town, dodging Coopertown Police, funk guitar and bass, playing my 1927 Gibson banjo
creating music for Freetime films productions, Appalachian culture, all-niters at bluegrass festivals, black and tan and red bone hounds
Penfolds Bin 389, Peter Lehmann Barossa Valley Shiraz, sushi at Ken's and Koto Sushi bar, over/under shotguns, reel-to-reel tape, vintage microphones, backpacking in SW Virginia, 1949-1951 Ford pickup trucks, dusty vinyl, jazz records, woodsball paint ball with my homeboys and girls with short skirts and loooooong jackets...
I'd like to meet:
Kenny Vaughan (sideman to the stars), Ethan Johns (my favorite producer) Also, chicks that rawk, groovy nashvillians....musical collaborators.....I like funk, and plan to expand my network of funkateers in Nashville.
I'd like to meet these guys:
Miss Nigella Lawson
and Darlin' Emmy Lou...
Music:
Ralph Stanley
Lester and Earl, Tim O'Brien, Darrell Scott, Gillian Welch, Peter Rowan, Cake, Led Zep, Bela Fleck, Uncle Earl, John Scofield, Country Gentlemen, Larry Keel, Ryan Adams, Charlie Parker, Jim Lauderdale, Lucinda Williams, RHCP, Carter Administration, Parliament, P-Funk
Will Kimbrough, James Brown, Fugazi, John Butler Trio, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Lenny Kravitz, J.D. Crowe, Gibson Brothers, The Rev. Horton Heat, Dawn Kinnard, Lake Trout (Baltimore!!), Johnny Cash,
Django Reinhardt, Hendrix, Scott Miller, John Jackson, Jack Johnson, Tony Trischka, Santana, Henry Rollins, Black Diamond Heavies, The Beatles, Emmylou Harris, Bob Marley, Mountain Heart, Willie Nelson, Hands Down Eugene, Kokomo Arnold
Bob Freaking Dylan, Sheryl Crow, Talking Heads, The Police, Kyle Andrews (one talented white boy...yes indeed), Yams from Outer Space (the best funk band out of Blacksburg, VA), Wilco, Neil Young, The Meters, Del McCoury, Chris Whitley, Juliana Hatfield
DJ Greyboy, Mindy Smith, Beck, John Dee Holeman, Immortal Lee County Killers, Bad Brains, Del McCoury Band, my banjo GURU - Mike Munford, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Phoenix, Blue Highway, Dr. Dre, Kasey Chambers, Bare Jr., Tommy Womack, Skip James, Tom Petty, Hank Snow, David Grisman, Ben Harper, Wolfmother, Raconteurs, PJ Harvey, Interpol, White Stripes, Brother Henry
Movies:
Shawshank Redemption, Gandhi, Pulp Fiction, Wall Street, Sling Blade
Rounders, Tommy Boy (my company sales training video), The Godfather I and II, Life, The Big Lebowski, Napoleon Dynamite (It works Napoleon, you don't even know...), Old School (you're my boy, Blue!), O Brother, Where Art Thou?, High Fidelity, Office Space (actually, my company's documentary), The Ninth Gate, Fargo, Pollock, Boyz n the Hood, 40 Year Old Virgin, Almost Famous, Goonies,
Snatch, Layer Cake, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Philadelphia, Casino, Goodfellas, Clerks, Sideways...can't forget PCU, fool....Wilco video "I'm trying to Break your Heart", Fugazi's "Instrument", Led Zep DVD, Donnie Brasco
"Do the Truffle Shuffle"
Television:
Tom and Jerry cartoons during the beatnik era...I stop everything for Nigella Lawson's cooking show...that 70s show...Jon Stewart, Steven Colbert....emergency broadcast messages...
Books:
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, 1984 by George Orwell, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, Mastering Audio by Bob Katz
anything by this man:
Just finished:
Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World by Lawrence Goldstone & Nancy Goldstone
Imposter by Bruce Bartlett
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Currently reading: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
When I don't have my nose in a book, I'll be reading TapeOp, Paste, Wine Spectator or American Songwriter.
Heroes:
Mom and Dad...and
...a super hero
