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Leonard Pennifold

About Me

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Began musical career as Lenny the Singing Baby, touring vast world of Brentwood, Essex, England in pram that pre-dated elastic mind guitar, exploding unrehearsed wake-up songs at Abundant Green Grocers, Infinity Sweet Shop, Wavering World Playground, Underwater Fish & Chip Shop...

Enter Canada by way of one room schoolhouse in rural Nova Scotia... In later manifestations, teenage garage band in smalltown Ontario... Over to England, acoustic poem songs in folk pubs... Return to Canada, Montreal coffee houses-Yellow Door, Cafe Pragg; & then to the West Coast of Canada,busking for THE ELECTRIC WHIRLING Masses & some gigs in Seattle,Victoria, later Vancouver electric punk songs---Move to Toronto, openings for underground punk'n roll bands as solo with electric guitar & best batch of songs yet---deranged bliss at Cabana Room, Cameron House, Beverly, Rivoli, Queen City Tavern, Hotel Isabella, Ontario College of Art...

Ooze out of night with punk/rock'n roll band Raw Venus, fall from grace, group dissolves after gathering strong following, lessons to be learned... Back to solo... Enter singer/songwriter/dancer Patricia & subsequent collaboration Aspirin Moon Twins, move to Vancouver & play local venues-Commercial Street Festival, Cafe Cafe, Railway Club with Hard Rock Miners, Clouchard Gallery; The Aspirin melted... Slide solo again with shows at 56 Gallery, Ping's Cafe, Glass Slipper; Twilight Zone with rock'n rollers Holy Cows; poetry readings with Alice Tepexcuintle & Hilary Peach; Co-Op Radio's Sondicate, Rational, What the Folk, The Muse Hour...

And so saga continued, acoustic songs released in South of the Final Nerve,..

Was later abducted by alien soundwaves, & Turned Creative Delinquent with runaway four track & using it as an instrument & played in the land of magical obscurity, until a performance at the Fing Folk Festival in Gibson's BC led him back to public wailing & to the Montmartre Cafe, alongside the wonderful & talented Steve Wells ,aka Citrus Weeps, & the magic man himself, Adam Nation & the marvelous bassist & singer Jo Jo Darling & other shows at places, such as The Princeton with the Counterrevolutionaries ..........

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/5/2006
Influences: Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Sex Pistols, Iggy Pop, Stooges,MC5, New York Dolls, Television, Richard Hell,Talking Heads, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks, Them, Downliners Sect, The Animals, Manfred Mann, The Who, The Yardbirds, Dusty Springfield, Soft Machine, The Move, Liverpool Scene, The Small Faces, Bob Dylan, The Byrds, Sandy Denny, The Doors, Janis Joplin, Neil Young, Flying Burrito Brothers, Laura Nyro, The Hollies, Richard Thompson, Nic Jones, Holly Golightly, Jonathan Richmond, Elvis Costello, Joolie Wood, The Watersons, Waterson Carthy, The Copper Family, Harry Cox, Fairport Convention, Planxty, The Pogues, The Chieftains, Margaret Barry,The Makems, Steeleye Span, Dando Shaft, Eclection, Maddy Prior, June Tabor, Ewan Maccoll, Ann Briggs, Lonnie Donegan, Nick Drake, Roy Harper, Can, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith, Kevin Coyne, Robyn Hitchcock, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, Oscar Peterson, Louie Armstrong, Edif Piaf, Sun Ra, Carter Family, Clarence Ashley, Doc Watson,The Gourds, Gillian Welch, Lucinda Willaims, Nickel Creek, The Sadies, Ian & Sylvia, Odetta, Memphis Minnie, Skip James, Jimmy Rogers, Johnny Cash, Hank Willaims, C.C.R, White Stripes, Von Bondies, Captain Beefheart, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Ike & Tina Turner, Shirelles, Rufus Thomas, Bob Marley, Toots & the Maytals, Desmond Dekker, Lee Scratch Perry, Dillinger, Sister Carol, Dizzie Rascal, Demolition Doll Rods , Cramps, Gun Club, Raving Mojos, Pandoras, Chesterfield Kings, Dream Syndicate, Clash, Vibrators, Buzzcocks, Wreckless Eric, Blondie, The Psychedelic Furs, Charlatans UK, Oasis, Pulp, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Dick Dale, The Shadows, Johnny Kidd & the Pirates, Billy Childish, Milkshakes, Headcoatees, Singing Loins, Blur, The Sundays, Wonder Stuff, Montoya, Billy Bragg, Syd Barret, Leadbelly, Patti Smith, Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Dinosaur Junior, Replacements, Butthole Surfers,Yoko Ono, Dead Kennedys, X, Sonic Youth, Shonen Knife, Mazzy Star, Nikki Sudden, Pretty Things, Link Wray, Howling Wolf, Mozart, Chopin, Kronos Quartet, Boston Consort, David Bowie, Joan Jet, T-Rex, Bonzo Dog,Do Da Band, Shirley Collins, Pixies, G.B.V., The Fall, P.J. Harvey, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Tim Buckley, Love, The Sonics, The Seeds, 13th Floor Elevators, Shadows of Knight,Paul Revere & the Raiders, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Violent Femmes, Pentangle, Bert Jansch, Davy Graham, Simon Finn, Woody Guthrie, Ramones, Smiths, Red Kross, Nirvana, Mudhoney, R.E.M., Pavement, Cat Power, Led Zeppelin, Ry Cooder, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, pre-army Elvis, Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent, Johnny Burnette, Wanda Jackson, Fats Domino, Bill Monroe, Interpol, Placebo,The Libertines, Art Brut, Arctic Monkeys, Arcade Fire, Editors,The Room Upstairs, The Red Hearts, Detroit Cobras, The Gossip, Mr. Airplane Man, The Black Lips, Make-Up, Grandmaster Flash, Public Enemy, D.J. Shadow, The Residents, Laurie Anderson, Glenn Branca, Acid Mothers Temple, Joanna Newsome, Ali Hassan Kuban, Papa Wemba, Tinariwen, Ravi Shankar, James Brown, Wilson Picket, Funkadelic, The Roots, Royal Trux, African, Rai, Arabic, Gypsy, Indian, Chinese classical, oud music, Udi Hrant Kenkulian, experimental & noise, many more... MANY!
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My Blog

AUSTRIAN SIGHTING OF CROONMAN

Where will he turn up next? He was apparently On the Croon at a wedding reception in a small Austrian hamlet by the name of Gudlucken. As usual the women were in a fever and begged for salvation in hi...
Posted by Leonard Pennifold on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:25:00 PST

CROONMAN IN GERMANY

Or is it? Can the Croonman really be satisfied with just one woman? Even the voluptuous Vanessa Volupia? Well, it´s not for the Croonman to say. And anyway, can Vanessa really be trusted? Hollywood in...
Posted by Leonard Pennifold on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:19:00 PST

CROONMAN & VANESSA VOLUPA

It's official! Croonman has shacked up with Hollywood starlet Vanessa Volupia. She LOVES croon juice. End of story.
Posted by Leonard Pennifold on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:40:00 PST

CROONBURGEN IMPERIAL CITY

Ancient ruins found in Kleinboggin Austria Believed to be the remains of Croonburgen Imperial City . They were a tall race of people no one under TEN FEET. Contact with aliens gave them special croo...
Posted by Leonard Pennifold on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:24:00 PST

CROONHEAD REPLIES

Bwaaa, ha ha ha ha ha.Yes armed and legged Croonhead is very dangerous, but open yourself to Him, you will find it perhaps unsettling at first, these strange emotions coursing through your body, what ...
Posted by Leonard Pennifold on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:04:00 PST

LAST SEEN ON LOVE STREET

MISSING STEVE CROONHEAD, alias CROONMAN. Last seen on the 17th Floor of Love Street Apartments, Vancouver. Has been known to frequent the dark seedy side of Crooner Alley. He seeks your Redemption, O...
Posted by Leonard Pennifold on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 05:23:00 PST

Cor Blimey Mate Kipper Kelly Has Your Number

Cor Blimey Mate !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!>Yes our boys are on to him in London. We also have reason to believe that there are several Copies of him around the globe. Which one is the Original we ...
Posted by Leonard Pennifold on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:00:00 PST

Croonman Missing After UFO Sighting

Croon Man Missing After UFO Sighting Near Toronto Canada Heartburn Authorities from the Ontario Cartoon Security Squad are greatly puzzled by the Very Sudden Disappearance of Croon Man , on the ou...
Posted by Leonard Pennifold on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:43:00 PST

Croonman's Hidden Agenda!

Croonman's Hidden AgendaIT'S TRUE IT'S TRUE. I AM BEING HELD IN CROONMAN'S LOVE CASTLE. I SNUCK INTO HIS OFFICE AND LOGGED ONTO HIS COMPUTER (PASSWORD: CROONLOVE) PLEASE DON'T TELL MY MOTHER. IT'S SO ...
Posted by Leonard Pennifold on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:50:00 PST

Stop Your Allegations ; Croonman

Re: Jake & Sidney PieThis is CROONMAN. How did you find out about the LOVE CASTLE? I deny all knowledge of the untimely death of the filmmaker Stems (I was in Vegas with Babs, celebrating the Jacko vi...
Posted by Leonard Pennifold on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:31:00 PST