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Craig Voccia

About Me

Sometimes I write songs.

In an attempt to avoid being known as 'the guy with the sad song' I have uploaded two 'happy' instrumentals and changed my rather somber profile picture. As a friend mentioned last week, it's no longer November. As another friend wrote, December is suppose to be full of surprise and unexpected magic. So here is my attempt at holiday cheer.

Bolero des Chapeaux Rouges and Tuesday at T's are the result of a few months I spent cranking out songs on the ubiquitous $100 casio keyboard. Since the previous names for these pieces were #41 and #46 I had to come up with something a little more snazzy. Two good friends have assured me that the denizens of myspaceopolis are starving for instrumental music and I have named the bolero in their honor. Tuesday at T's was named in honor of Mr. T's Bowl in Highland Park, California. A thanks to all the bands I have seen play there over the years.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/15/2006
Band Members: Jesse Voccia - Drum programming on Crow Calls
Eben Graves- Drums
CV- everything else
Influences: lately... autumn, mint tea, roald dahl, bill evans, lenny breau, elvis costello, serge gainsbourg, kraftwerk, mozart, wagner, franz schubert, bob wills, duke ellington, erik satie, elliott smith, jorges luis borges, chet baker, the kinks, the zombies, david bowie, charlie christian, nick drake, U2, the clash, fugazi, squarepusher, richard thompson, ray price, yes, jon brion, the byrds, the magnetic fields, badfinger, the beatles, radiohead, the who, jimmy bryant and speedy west, junk shops, flea markets, scrap yards, gardens, lakes, little machines, old watches, cameras, music boxes, old photos...

in years past: eric dolphy, john coltrane, the velvet underground, iggy and the stooges, the MC5, the doors, jimi hendrix, bob dylan, the germs, alfred hitchcock and bernard herrmann, nirvana, james brown, led zeppelin, neil young, cream, rhcp, jon frusciante, frank zappa, captain beefheart, the flaming lips, the mars volta, johnny cash, prince, funkadelic, parliament, phillip k dick, steinbeck, black sabbath, 13th floor elevators, mahavishnu orchestra, peter gabriel, steely dan, the beach boys, the four freshman, the hi-los, woody guthrie, the make-up, nation of ulysses, nine inch nails, jim thompson, charlie parker, tony williams, elvin jones, mitch mitchell, ray bradbury, nathaniel west, orson welles, jack kerouac, fassbinder, cannonball adderley, jaco pastorius, miles davis, the police, king crimson, pink floyd, syd barrett, stravinsky, james jameson, paul morphy, thelonius monk, leonard cohen, early REM, minor threat, bad brains, beastie boys, truffaut, george orwell, stan getz...
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

for the curious

this is my first blurb... i'm tired of it... For anyone who doesn't know, I play bass, guitar, sing and play keys a little, drums a little less and occasionally dabble in woodwinds and brass. It's a ...
Posted by Craig Voccia on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:44:00 PST