Member Since: 11/24/2006
Band Website: birdmanrecords.com/tomrecchion.html
Band Members: me
Influences: Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolfman, The Mummy, Lon Chaney Sr/Jr., The Twilight Zone, The Addams Family, Jeepers Creepers, Jeepers Keepers, Zacarley, The Munsters, The Chilling Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted Mansion LP, The Crawling Eye, The Giant Gila Monster, The Flamingos "I Only Have Eyes For You", John Cage, Gertrude Stein, Marcel Duchamp, Egon Schiele, Andy Warhol, Spontaeous Sound (Christopher Tree), The Beatles, The Rolling Stones (w/ Brian Jones), The Association, Pop Art, Robert Wyatt, Brian Eno & his Obscure Records label, David Toop, Max Eastley, Hugh Davies, Steve Beresford, Terry Riley, FLUXUS, Gavin Bryars, Derek Bailey, Captain Beefheart, CAN, Sound Effect Records, The Velvet Underground, Henry Cow, Allen Kaprow, Alan Splet, Morton Feldman, Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Soft Machine, my fellow LAFMS cohorts: Le Forte Four, Airway, Smegma, Ace & Duce, Dennis Duck, Fredrik Nilsen, Joe Potts, Rick Potts, Juan Gomez, Chip & Susan Chapman, Kevin Laffey, Ace Farren Ford, Joseph Hammer, Ju Suk Reet Meat, Oblivia, Solid Eye, Dinosaurs With Horns, the sounds in everyday life, La Monte Young, Miles Davis, Martin Denny, Michel Waiswicz, Joni Mitchell, Mitch Mitchell, Jon Christianson, Chris Cutler, Christian Vander, Jaki Leibzeit, Tony Oxley, Jamie Muir, Frank Perry, Han Bennink, Pip Pyle, tablas, Akio Suzuki, Toru Takemitsu, Magma, AMM, Sonic Arts Union, Forest J. Ackerman, Luciano Berio, Mauicio Kagel, early Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, Hatfield & the North, Egg, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, David Crosby, The Red K(C)rayola, INCUS Records, FMP, Instant Composers Pool, David Lynch, Sun Ra, Yves Klein, Viennese Aktionists, Joseph Beuys, Paul McCarthy, Yoko Ono, Jad Fair/Half Japanese, One String Sam/Joe, Kurt Weill, John Fante, Aero-Mic’d, This Heat, La Monte Young & Marion Zazeela, Martin Denny, Jackie Gleason, Les Baxter, Ferrante & Teicher, Guru Guru, Faust, Amon Duul2, Family, Sly & the Family Stone, Spirit, Bernard Hermann, Stockhausen, Stockhausen & Walkman, Gerald Bole, Erik Satie, Morton Feldman, Music Improvistion Company, Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Ed Wood, Bozo the Clown, Gore Vidal, Volcano the Bear, Aaron Moore, Robert Smithson, R. Crumb, Jonathon Rosen, Tony Mostrom, Don Van Vliet, Frank Zappa & the Mothers Of Invention, Ennio Morriconi, Nino Rota, Christian Marclay, DNA, Mars, Prag Vec, the Pop Group, Wire, Terje Rypdal, Nam June Paik, The Ramones, Patti Smith, Dusty Springfield, Sandy Shaw, Ronnie Spector, 49 Americans, General Strike, Tristian Honsinger, Alterations, Harry Partch, Van Dyke Parks, Harold Budd, To Kill A Mockingbird, Housekeeping, Sankai Juku, Claes Oldenberg, Giuseppe Ielasi, John Duncan, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Ashley, Percy Dovetonsils (Ernie Kovacs), Roxy Music, Gruppo Di Improvviszione Nuova Consonanza, Intersystems, Syrinx, Wired, The Iron Butterfly, The Nice, King Crimson, Leo Kottke, John Fahey, Factrix, Cecil Taylor, Creed Taylor, Gong, Love’s Forever Changes, Napoleon the XIV, Tiny Tim, Ivor Cutler, Lol Coxhill, The San Lucas Band, Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, the music from Bali, Hawaii, Asia, Africa, Gong, Maurice Ravel, Pandit Pran Nath, Cream, Kahondo Style, Basil Kirchin, Library Music, Conny Plank, Noam Chomsky, Staff Carpenborg And The Electric Corona, Moondog, Grey Gardens, Dawn Davenport, Sally 'Mutant' Webster, Nico, Patty Waters, Lady June, Mrs. Miller, Colleen, Diamanda Galas, Annette Peacock, Carla Bley, Akiko Yano, The Spice Girls, The G.T.O’s, Y.M.O, Oblivia, The Frank Chickens, Divine, Supersilent, Supersister, the mellotron, the tambura, Deathprod, DADA, Bill Fontana, Bill Evans, the Three Suns, the Three Stooges, The Stooges, The Swell Maps, WC Fields, Field Recordings, Esquivel, Marcos Valle, Caetano Veloso, Arto Lindsey, Buffalo Springfield, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Mitchell Brown, Bee Gees, Pentangle, Fairport Convention, the Russolo’s, Led Zeppelin, Pere Ubu, David Sylvian, Weather Report, Jon Hassell, The Necks, Blue Cheer, Thelonius Monk, Meridith Monk, The Monks, The Supremes, Eric B & Rakim, Dr. John the Night Tripper, Bobby Calendar, Big Daddy Roth, Dieter Roth, Roland Kayn, Taj Mahal Travelers, John Huston, Keiji Haino, Nick Drake, Jim Fox, Andrew Peckler, Charles Mingus, Massive Attack, Christoph Heemann, Polar Goldie Cats, Graziano Lella, Popol Vuh, Points of Friction, PJ Harvey, Thomas L. Friedman, Nurse With Wound, early Jethro Tull, Raymond Scott, Scott Walker, Kenneth Anger, Burt Bacharach, Eric Matthews, The Cramps, The Mamas & The Papas, Family, Sly and the Family Stone, Carl Stone, Carl Stalling, Gyorgy Ligeti, The Shaggs, Oren Ambarchi, Organum, Olga Neuwirth, Michael Mantler, Angelo Badelamenti, Ange, Richard Horowitz & Sussan Deyhim, Spooky Tooth, Sonic Youth, Echo & the Bunnymen, Clive Graham and his wonderful Paradigm label, Morphogenesis, Mirror, Christoph Heemann, Daisuke Suzuki, Friend Sound, Jessica Catrone, Gordon Mumma, Neu, Kraftwerk, Aeolin Harps, The Groundhogs, The Cramps, The Bananaman, Bob Dylan, Joy Division, Motown, Meeuw, Traffic, Fats Waller, Metamophosis, Brian Wilson, Phew, Paul Thek, Max Ernst, Bruce Conner, Lee Patterson, Slapp Happy, Seefeel, the Yardbirds, Ya Ho Wah 13, Issac Hayes, Parliment/Funkadelic, Chris Watson, John Zorn & other things.
Sounds Like: a skipping record, a broken radio, a creaking floor, static on the tv, nails on a blackboard, an out of tune piano, a squeaky chair, etc.
Record Label: LAFMS, Cortical, Schoolmap, Birdman, PSF, RRR
Type of Label: Indie