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Boltsy Amsterdam

Can I borrow a feeling?

About Me

This is Craig. 29 Years Old and not a band. Also comfortably medicated. I have played bass for bands in the oi!, punk, reggae and mod style for the past 13 years. My likes are having good times with friends, and making new friends, reading, exercise, video games, pittsburgh sports teams, juventus, tottenham hotspur, borussia dortmund, deportivo la coruna and dynamo kyiv are my favorite soccer teams, only US nationals for my world side. I also love to travel and have gotten into hiking in the jungle when i am in places that have a jungle, ie latin america so far.Fav. Movies-Gangs of New York, Smokey and the Bandit, Evil Dead Quadrilology, Versus, Ichi the Killer, Battle Royale, Deer Hunter, Ghandi, Dolemite, Willy Dynamite, Mystery of Chess Boxing, 5 Deadly Venoms, Cannibal Holocaust, any Argento or Herzog film.Books/authors-Platonov, Gogol, Babel, Turgenev, Dostoyevskii, Tolstoy, Huxley, Vonnegut, Orwell... books like Papillon, midnight express, dry guillotine, anything on true crime, murderers and the crusades/knights templar.TV-besides various sports, national Geographic channel and discovery....not a whole lot. i love old shows like sanford and son, good times, what's happening, barney miller, seinfeld and simpsons, three stooges, etc. office is funny too.If you are a person who does not know me, SEND ME A MESSAGE FIRST!!!! I don't care if you are a person, band, chisler, whatever. I will deny you.Here's my bandography:The Kebabs-Punk Rock/indie-1995-1997 The Traditionals-Oi!/Punk-1997-2006 Stomping Abrasions-Street Punk-1998-1998 (one gig) Small Axe-Ska/Reggae-2002-2003 Thee Spanish Fleas-Two man band of garage rock covers-2002-2002 (one gig) The Prime Numbers-Psychedelic Rock-2003-2006 The (California) Dreams-Cover band that performed Lush tunes-2005-2005(one gig) Jason Martinko Revue-Blues Rock/Covers-2005-2007 Camera-Mod Dance Pop-2006-2007 45 Adapters-Punk, etc.-2007-present

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/9/2003
Band Website: boltsy.friendtest.com
Band Members: single PS:I am Not a band!!
Influences: st. alexander nevskii and abebe bikila
Sounds Like: music: soft machine, nino ferrer, cream, shade, camera, black tie revue, wynkataug monks, shopping, squeeze, the templars, july, pretty things, serge gainsbourg, jacques dutronc,, Francoise Hardy, ride, supergrass, inspiral carpets, grand funk railroad, pere ubu, blue oyster cult, motley crue, robert wyatt, rudimentary peni, lee perry, symarip, sam and dave, don drummond, jimmy reed, bo diddley,Arthur Kay, the milkshakes/mighty caesars/buffmedways/billy childish stuff....ALSO Status quo, the Lurkers, johnny moped, the gorillas, Dillinger, Dennis Alcapone, U Roy, Jackie Mittoo, The Thanes, Amboy dukes, Deep Purple, Bloodrock, ELP, BOC, Radio Birdman, Big Star, The Byrds, Cockney Rejects, The Blood, The Pioneers, Sean Paul, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, The Streets, The Silver thread, The count bishops, Girlschool, ACDC, rose Tattoo, Slade, The faces, The small faces, creation, The Rezillos, Menace, Nabat, Sema 4, the Undertakers, The turtles, The Tell Tale Hearts, Nazz, Joy Division, The smiths, the cure, James Brown, Crazy World of Arthur Brown, The Kinks, Les Fleur de Lys, Barry and the remains, Gang of four, the fall, Wire, Mission of Burma, The Chords, The Dwarves, The Barracudas, Led Zep, The VIP's, The cigarettes, The clique, The Yardbirds, Creedence Clearwater revival, Jimmy Reed, Charlie Parker, Link wray, syd barrett/pink floyd, The nice, the band, King crimson, Roxy music with eno, The Embrooks, Shutdown 66, Motorhead, Donald Byrd and the Blackbyrds, The hues Corp., The sussed, Patriot, Pist n' Broke, Specials, Madness, Selecter, Bad Manners, The Action, the Move, Merton Parkas, the Jam, Paul Weller, Happy mondays, Stone roses, Lord sutch, The wailers, the sonics, Dead Moon, Make Up, weird war, MC5, The smoke, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett, Archie Bell and the drells, Prince buster, King tubby, Junior Murvin, The clash, The damned, The undertones, the buzzcocks, husker du, buju banton, the zodiac, jethro tull, the who, early skrew, johnny and the self abusers, the solarflares, the missing links, the lime spiders, the saints, angelic upstarts, twisted sister, rainbow, alton ellis, the haunted, television, T.Rex, The Paragons, Sham 69, CRIME, Wu Tang, Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, The Beatles, Hank williams Sr., Rev. Al Green, Last Resort, The zombies, The Meters, Booker T and the MG's, Moby Grape, Skip Spence, Pink Faries, The Mothers of Invention, Jay-Z, Outkast, Huddy Leadbetter, Modern Lovers, Aggrolites, Slackers, Ladytron, HP Lovecraft, The Matadors, Joe Meek, Sasquatch and the Sickabillies, Iron Cross ,Graham Bond Organisation, The Outsiders, Marie Laforet....i basically listen to all music.i play basso continum in Camera (Mod/Pop).

Type of Label: Major