Member Since: 10/21/2006
Band Website: wrotethatdown.com
Band Members:
Various.
I'm always looking for good players to work with ...
Influences:
A Day From My Youth
It's summer, six in the morning, Long Island, NY (maybe 1976)
The sound of migrating birds wakes me; I go back to sleep
A few minutes later...
The sound of a four thousand horse-power diesel crane being started. I open
my eyes to see the shelves on my wall literally taking flight from the vibration.
Knowing there were at least a dozen cranes parked in the sump behind our house
last night I wrap the pillow around my head and try to go back to sleep
...
The parkway is a half a mile away and sounds like a rushing river with all the
morning traffic
The radial arm saw screams it's song in the garage as my father works on a project
9 AM
Downstairs the coffee pot is perking (not a coughing, spitting automatic machine,
this is the real thing)
My father will crank up his stereo in a few minutes, it could be anything from
the history of recorded music - Maybe today it's Les Paul and Chet Atkins or
the Doobie Brothers, it could be anything (he doesn't play the 78s very often
anymore but he's told me about buying them when he was a kid - "if you had a
quarter you could get the really good quality records" but most of his were
from the nickel and dime racks - same songs by lesser artists/labels)
As the sun goes down there the crackle of the PA down the street at the little
league field
The garage next door will soon come alive with the sound of a local band, and
that's where I will be. Keeping their amps running and getting lessons on guitar,
bass and drums (and life). Don's got a Gold Top Les Paul; cost $357 brand new.
Brian's is a Strat, I don't remember the color but it was closer to $400 brand
new. And of course the Ampeg Gemini VI guitar amp that I bought from Don when
he quit playing, he would only take $40 for it (back then we all thought it was old - 30 years later I still use it).
Sounds Like:
Just about anything...
Record Label: Wrote That Down
Type of Label: Indie