Music:
Member Since: 10/15/2006
Band Members: Tom Gaskell - vocals, acoustic & electric guitar (slide, fingerstyle, rhythm, lead), piano & keyboards, bass, sitar, harmonica, ukelele, mandolin, penny whistle, kazoo, theremin, percussion, occasional everythings
Pip Johnson - drums, percussion
Influences: Anything that uses words to make you think, and anything that uses melody to make you move: dance, jump, shake, jive, boogie, shuffle, mosh, bop, bob, wiggle, tap, jig, rave, rag or bounce; It's gotta have soul, and it's gotta have groove!!!
Back In The Day...
Allman Brothers Band, Canned Heat, Johnny Winter, Led Zeppelin, Kaleidoscope, Syd Barrett, Muddy Waters, Funkadelic, ZZ Top, Cream, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix, Dr. John, Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band, Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention, Jethro Tull, Buffalo Springfield, Little Feat, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead, The Velvet Underground, Yes, Jefferson Airplane, King Crimson, The Beatles, The Soft Boys / Robyn Hitchcock, Steely Dan, Deep Purple, Edgar Broughton Band, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Television, Caravan, The Kinks, Crosby Stills & Nash (& Young), The Doors, Family, J. Geils Band, Parliament, Camel, John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Traffic, The Groundhogs, Sly & The Family Stone, Booker T. & the MGs, The Yardbirds, Hawkwind, Fairfeild Parlour, John McLaughlin & The Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Bonzo (Doo Dah) Dog Band, The Sacred Mushroom, The Rolling Stones, Rory Gallagher, Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green era), Faces, Love, Ry Cooder, Stepenwolf, The Band, Klaatu, Creedence Clearwater Revial, Skip Spence.
It's All Relative...
Beck, Primus, Pearl Jam, Kyuss, Queens Of The Stone Age, Meat Puppets, Mr. Bungle, Money Mark, Gov't Mule, Orange Goblin, The Atomic Bitchwax, Clutch, Screaming Trees, Faith No More, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Jane's Addiction, Sonic Youth (but not the lady singer...), Umphrey's Mcgee, Blind Melon, Smashing Pumpkins (pre-Mellon-Collie), Ben Harper, The Derek Trucks Band, Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Frusciante, Fu Manchu, Ween, Soundgarden, Yo La Tengo, The Holloway Brothers, Fast 'n' Bulbous, John Butler Trio, Jamiroquai, Monster Magnet, Alice In Chains, Overwhelming Colorfast, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Portis Head, Liquid Tension Experiment, Pantera, The Flower Kings, Aerosmith, Tool, Fantômas, Blues Traveler, Son of Dave, BS 2000!!
Gimmie That Ole' Time Religion!
Skip James, Mississippi John Hurt, Leadbelly, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Slim, Howlin Wolf, Robert Johnson, Otto Virgial, Lightning Hopkins, Blind Willie McTell, J.B. Lenoir, Robert Peteway, Son House, Lonnie Johnson, Big/Blind Joe Reynolds, Sonny Boy Williamson, Washboard Sam, Josh White, Tommy Johnson, Mance Lipscomb, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Bukka White, Corey Harris, Robert Lockwood Jr., Blind Boy Fuller, Sleepy John Estes, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Memphis Minnie, Eric Bibb, John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley, Charley Patton, Johnny 'Guitar' Watson, T Bone Walker.
All that Jazz...
John Scofield, Dave Bailey's Quintet/Sextet, Django Reinhardt, Sidney Bechett, The Soft Machine, Charlie Parker, Pat Metheny, Charles Mingus, Jimmy Smith, Thelonious Monk, Herbie Hancock, Sun Ra & his Arkestra, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Abram Wilson, Eddie Lang.
Finger In Your Ear...
Neil Young, Incredible String Band, Bert Jansch, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Jackson C. Frank, Iron & Wine, Jim White, John Renbourn, Pentangle, The Strawbs, John Martyn, William Elliot Whitmore, Ben Weaver, Stefan Grossman, Woodie Guthrie, Johnny Cash.
Le-me-hear-ya-say...
Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, Sonic Sum, Rob Sonic, Braintax, Jehst, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien/Deltron 3030, Porn Theatre Ushers, The Herbaliser, Kool Keith/Dr. Octagon/Black Elvis/Dr. Dooom, The Cenobites, Antipop Consortium, The Pharcyde, Quasimoto, DJ Yoda, Jurassic 5, Dilated Peoples, Roots Manuva, Sage Francis, Blackalicious, Cypress Hill, House Of Pain, Kid Koala, Ugly Duckling, Necro, Public Enemy, 2 Live Crew.
And the rest...
The Prodigy, The Sherman Brothers, Gil Scott-Heron, Ravi Shanka, Bob Marley, Lee Perry, Richard Cheese, Billy Connolly, Hayseed Dixie, Jonathon Mayer, Buena Vista Social Club, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Cheech & Chong.
The locals the friends and enemies who directly inspire me the very most...
Tom Fielder, Sam Phillips, Pip Johnson, Murray Wyatt, Will Bailey, Free Will & The Bad Influences, The Chapter/Matt Turns, Tony Wood, The Modal Monks, Steve Lockwood, Krystian Hughes, The Hot Bang, Sky Quintet / Hasan Spiker, LP 45, I Can't Believe It's The Ramsus Holmen Experience, The Shivers, Fourny P, P739, (the legendary) MC9, Men Dressed As Men, James Horton, Tom Colborn, Midnight Crazies, Dog Meat Crew, Ruptured Buboes, The B Conspiracy, "The Art Garfunkel & Co.'s Progressive Rock Band In Which Little Dwarfs Are Manipulated To Apprear As Giants" and the performance-poet that opened for The Rude Mechanicals at Strawberry Fair 2006...who ever you are...
And that concludes the current contents of my MP3 player at present... there's plenty more though!
Sounds Like: Dylan, Ginsburg & Kerouac sitting down together and getting ripped in order to write the words that Beck and Syd Barrett will sing as a duet under the Fort St. George bridge, a thousand ghosts from the Mississippi Delta haunting their every breath. Crazy beebop rhythms and wild boogaloo swings beat the eternal drum of kaleidoscopic jingle jangles and distorted slide guitar, warped patterns of rhythm and blues punctuate the sounds of past, present and future; sometimes wild & ferocious, sometimes quiet & gentle, but never the same twice. Painting the inside of your ears with a million colours you've never experienced, and never even dreamt possible
...that's the idea anyway...
Record Label: Big G Recordings / Studéos / Enterprizes
Type of Label: None
