Member Since: 10/23/2006
Band Members: John Michael Oliver - songwriting, vocals, guitars, percussion; and Alex Brown - bass guitar, demo production, engineering, and kindly support (Thank You Very Much, Alex!).
Influences: The Beatles, Yes, Bob Dylan, The Moody Blues, Donovan, Peter Gabriel, Van Morrison, The Rolling Stones, Tom Waits, King Crimson, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, John Cage, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Johann Strauss, Ravi Shankar, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Steve Winwood, The Doors, Cat Stevens, Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Roy Orbison, Woody Guthrie, Gordon Lightfoot, Leon Russell, Joe Cocker, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, Elvis Presley, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Sylvia Plath, Charles Bukowski, Timothy Leary, John C. Lilly, Alan Watts, Aldous Huxley, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Nikola Tesla, Marcia Moore, Astrology and Astronomy, Hermetic Philosophy, Sacred Geometry, Jesus The Christ, Francis of Assisi, Gnosticism, Advaita Vedanta, Bhagavad Gita, The Upanishads, Indian Philosophy, Paramahansa Yogananda, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Mahatma Gandhi, Buddhadharma, Tibetan Buddhism, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Lao Tzu, Carlos Castaneda, Arthur Janov and Primal Theory, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Albert Hofman, Edgar Cayce, Frank Lloyd Wright, Leonardo da Vinci, Lewis Carroll, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Richard Brautigan, Ken Kesey, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Peter Max, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Toulouse Lautrec, Edgar Degas, Georges Seurat, Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali, Gustav Klimt, Maxfield Parrish, Sir John Tenniel, Andy Warhol, Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Robert Redford, Marlon Brando, Roman Polanski, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Rod Serling, Lon Chaney, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lenny Bruce, Monty Python, Peter Sellers, Alex Brown...
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: Unsigned