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Jim Russell

There must be some way out of Lewisham said the joker to the thief

About Me

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Thanks for dropping by. I am sometimes the drummer on the track you can hear and if you click the 'Barebone' logo in myspace friends you will hear some co-written songs. As you can see I play drums and write songs ... and outside of that I can't easily describe myself, it would be a case of the information coming from the person least qualified to speak on the subject. I try not to take myself or life too seriously because there is the ever present a danger of falling down a hole or having a brick fall on your head a la Oliver Hardy, better to expect the unexpected, possibly great maybe disasterous ( never dull ) and then just roll with it. I don't watch soaps, there is no point when you can just look out of the window ( better actors ) and see it in high definition, far more interesting and fully interactive. I love my work and find it hard to think of a better job. Elvin Jones played till he dropped, if it was good enough for Elvin As a drummer I have played with many bands and solo artists in the past including : Scotty Moore, Peter Green, Danny Kirwan, Desmond Dekker, Laurel Aitkin, The human league, Billy MacKenzie and the Associates, Pete Shelly,, Gay and Terry Woods, Sam Brown, Iain Matthews, Robbie Fulks, Don Covay, Junior Walker, Bryn Haworth, Yamaguchi Momoe, Alison Moyet, Ian Shaw, The Inmates , Geno Washington, Hank Wangford, Los Pistoleros, Los pacaminos, Chris Jagger, Desree, Curved air and Stretch. ........... <msprm name="movie"

My Interests

People, Music, Film, Food + drink, Photography, Science, philosophy, Current affairs, sport and having a good time.

I'd like to meet:

Mohamed Ali , Stevie Wonder, Neil Young. Whoever nicked my Vauxhall Cavalier in 1998......liked to have meet.... Jimi Hendrix. Ghandi. W C Fields. Marta Hari, Richard Feynman. Picasso, Churchill, Charles Dickens, Sophia Lauren, Tommy Cooper, Brando, Humphrey Bogart, The 6 wives of Henry the 8th. William Shatner, Oscar Wilde, Noel Coward, Rosa Parks, John Bonham. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.

Music:



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Not in any particular order....... Elvis, Jimi Hendrix, Otis, Ry cooder, Free, Bob Dylan, Aretha ,Ben Webster, The Beach boys, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Wilson Pickett, Anything on the Blue note label, Albert, Freddie and BB King, The Who, Booker T and the MG's, Chuck Berry, John Foggerty and Creedance, Santana, Little Richard, Bill Haley and the Comets, Jango Reinhart, Lowell George and Little feat, Howlin' wolf, Prince, The Beatles, Donnie Hathaway, Stevie Wonder,Marvin Gaye Talk talk, Joe Cocker and the grease band, The Rolling stones, Robert Johnson, Otis Rush, Ike and Tina Turner, The Kinks, The Small faces, The Faces, Led Zeppelin, John Coltrane, The Meters, James Brown, Sly and the family stone.
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Movies:

The Life of Brian, The Apartment, The long goodbye, Play misty for me, The Getaway, Saturday night and Sunday morning, Psyco, The thirty nine steps, On the waterfront, Casablanca, When we were Kings, Dr Strangelove,Thunderbolt and lightfoot. Midnight cowboy, To have and have not. Anything by Robert Altman, Martin Scorcese or Stephen Spielberg, Alfred Hitchcock, The Laurel and Hardy (2 reelers) Norman Wisdom, Ealing comedies. Peter Sellars ( Pink panther ) Film noir..

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Television:

Tv is at it's best when the wheels fall off so live stuff is usually good, but watching people acting like performing seals to resurrect a flagging career no thanks!....................................... .............................................. .............................................. This is some footage of the recording sessions in Nashville for Paul Ansell's album. The Players are Paul Singing and playing acoustic , Reggie Young on guitar, Bob Moore on bass, David Briggs on piano, and Billy Swan as a guest singer. We had a great week doing this and made some great friends. I have the best job in the world. have a look.....

Books:

Autobiographies, Fiction, Psychology, Biographies,

Heroes:

Not forgetting........ James Jamerson + The Funk brothers, Peter Cook, Jimi Hendrix, Levon Helm, George Carlin, Mohamed ali, Earl palmer, zigaboo modeliste, Elvin Jones, Buddy and Scotmo.

My Blog

Spamalot .......A wet fish ?

  Sounds cheesy to say it's a "must see" but this is absoulutely Brilliant , packed with references to early Monty Python material.  Wonderfully, irreverend. A ...
Posted by Jim Russell on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:48:00 PST