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Gene Thunderbolt

I like The Hat and The Hat likes me!

About Me

Yeah well, I play the joanna (piano), guitar and bodhran. Started playing when I was nine. Went to a shitty high school were I didn't learn a lot apart from to accept no authority. I speak Spanish well, can get by in Italian, say a lot of culinary terms in French and swear a bit in German. Was taught Irish as a kid but it's pretty rusty now. I love animals, having always lived with them. Had my first drink when I was one year four months old. Since then pretty much experimented with everything. Became a punk when I was fourteen. First puff on a reefer when I was sixteen. First band when I was eighteen-I'd just moved out of home and gone to London to study. Big, bad interesting world out there. I liked it and still do! Played in many bands since. Done many tours. Seen many places. I've lived in eight countries and I've been to twenty-nine so far. Yeah, I love travelling. I circumnavigated the globe once. I smoke, drink and I can cook pretty well. I intensely dislike religions maybe due to being brought up in one and seeing all the shit that threw up round my way. Politics sucks too in my opinion although I observe the craziness at times. Extremists and bigots I ignore completely whatever angle they're coming from. Friendship is very important for me. I'm a great believer in the free spirit-not drippy-hippy bullshit-just being free not dependent on anyone and feeling fulfilled in what I do. I strive to open my mind and become more aware. There is a lot yet we don't yet know and it has been suggested that we only use
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My Interests

Pianos, Hammonds (especially the B3!)+Leslies, Farfisas, Vox Continentals, Fender Rhodes (my favourite is the MKII). Gibson electric guitars,Rickenbacker basses. Making all kinds of sound/noise/melody/harmony/cacophony! Oh yeah....travelling, reading, writing, myths and legends, urban legends, a good joke, good whiskey (Bushmills Black label), good wine (Red-Rioja para siempre por Dios! White-Rebeira), good Scotch (partial to Macallan), good beer (Dresdner Felsnerkeller is a good one), blue cheeses (Stilton, Cabrales, Roquefort etc), tapas, a decent cup of tea (Barry's tea from Cork is the best!), talking to animals, looking at oceans, seas, rivers or streams (I grew up beside the sea!), watching people interact and discerning their thoughts, dreaming (cheese is excellent for this!), pool, darts,...ahem football (not that silly American game of course!), romantic strolls-well romance in general is the finest altogether and finally driving fast! Hell yeah!!!

I'd like to meet:

Open-minded people from all walks of life preferably with a good sense of humour too! Add that with a bit of mischief and there you have the kind of people I'd most like to meet!

Music:

Now....jaysus I'm gonna be here for hours filling this one out! Fek! Arse! A taster of my eclectic tastes is all yez are gettin' as I'm in dear need of a cup of tea! AC/DC/Aerosmith/Albeniz/Arthur Brown/ Bad Brains/Beastie Boys/Beethoven/Black Sabbath (with Ozzy)/Booker T and the MG's/Byrds/Brain of Morbius/Brian Auger/Black Flag/Buzzcocks/Charlie Parker/Charlatans/Chopin/Conflict/Cramps/Cynics/Damned/David Bowie/Dead Boys/Dead Kennedys/Debussy/Dictators/Dolores Keane/Doctor John/Dubliners/Eddie and the Hot Rods/Egos/Exodus/Experiment/Fats Domino/Felchers/Five Horse Johnson/Gluecifer/Guitar Wolf/Gun Club/Hellacopters/Hitmen/Holy Sheep/Howlin' Wolf/Hydromatics/Iggy and The Stooges/Jam/Jane's Addiction/Jimi Hendrix/Johnny Cash/Killing Joke/Kinks/King Khan and the Shrines/Legendary Tigerman/Lou Reed/Lydia Lunch/Lynyrd Skynyrd/Midnight Oil/Minutemen/Misfits/Motorhead/Neal Young/New Model Army/Nick Cave/Nitwitz/Nirvana/Norman Greenbaum/Oscar Peterson/Pain/Patti Smith/Planxty/Pogues/Porno for Pyros/Radio Birdman/Ramones/Reverend Horton Heat/Ruff, Ruff, and Ready/Saints/Satie/Scientists/.Sea/Sex Pistols/Sham 69/Sky Saxon and the Seeds/Stiff Little Fingers/Sly and the Family Stone/Thin Lizzy/Toilet Boys/Tom Jones/Tom Waits/Tower of Power/T-Rex/Undertones/Van the Man/Wesley Willis/Who/X-Ray Specs/Yardbirds/ZZ top.....now that'll keep yez goin'!

Books:

Lots but here are some of my favourite writers....Joseph Conrad/Oscar Wilde/J.M.Synge/James Joyce/Gustave Flaubert/Gabriel Garcia Marquez/Hunter S. Thompson/J.R.R. Tolkien/Douglas Adams/W. Shakespeare/Paul Theroux/Laurie Lee/George Orwell/Roddy Doyle/Fyodor Dostoyovsky/Yann Martel......and so on!

My Blog

Living life on the edge in 5th gear!

Yeah, about three months back I had just squatted an abandoned pub and got a few of the local posse involved and a full-on party mode was taken for about a month and a half or so! For me a bit of a bl...
Posted by Gene Thunderbolt on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:47:00 PST

Being a member of the Undead sometimes ain’t fun...

....what with having to deal with a crap society and having to listen to a pile of shite...I, at times, just want it to end.....but it's difficult for that to happen when one is a member of the UnDead...
Posted by Gene Thunderbolt on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:07:00 PST

Santa Claus is a vampire!

Oh yeah, 'tis getting to that time of year when many an arm goes up,And many a shot of whatever anyone's poison is goes down. However this time many are going to get a frightWhen they suddenly realise...
Posted by Gene Thunderbolt on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:02:00 PST

Alcohol and Isaac Newton’s theorem....

....don't really mix that well as I, of late, have been finding out what with falling down left, right and centre! However, as bruised as I am after a full-on playing session, it was a most inter...
Posted by Gene Thunderbolt on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:45:00 PST

Living the life of an urban hermit.....

.....as that is what I'm doing at the moment. Days on end without venturing out of my pad, days on end without speaking to people, days on end having plenty of adventures in the dreamworld and, of cou...
Posted by Gene Thunderbolt on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:50:00 PST

Attacked and knocked out from behind yet again....

.....what a fuckin' surprise not and just confirms that some humans, such as the ones who attacked me for no reason, are nothing else except vermin. Well, I'm still here and the show mu...
Posted by Gene Thunderbolt on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 03:55:00 PST

Cuando estoy mirando......

Cuando estoy mirando, Fuera de la ventana Empiezo a pensar, de la Tristeza de humanidad Parece que ahora no queran nada Aparte de caos negativo. Bueno, niños de la gran puta Me da igual todo! Será ...
Posted by Gene Thunderbolt on Wed, 23 May 2007 07:46:00 PST

Love is Dead...?

..> It existed once,On one sunny day,When that feelingReally had a meaning.But since those days,And passionate nights,It has faded awayInto obilvion,Leaving an unanswered questionOf when and ifIt...
Posted by Gene Thunderbolt on Wed, 23 May 2007 08:04:00 PST

Check out this new outfit we've formed with the name of.....

'LOUD HAILER, a warped form of 21st Century rock'n'roll' And we're now up on the myspace music frequency and on www.youtube.com under the band's name if ya wanna see some footage of us in action! Rega...
Posted by Gene Thunderbolt on Sat, 12 May 2007 08:45:00 PST

Sometimes, myspace is the proverbial pain in the ass&..

&..and though I'm sure that it has already been mentioned on many the occasion it just so happens that it's my turn to do so-especially as the site has just gone and 'lost' a cool and very descriptive...
Posted by Gene Thunderbolt on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:24:00 PST