my wife Sarah, family, friends, worshipping thee almighty RIFF and that holiest grail of sweet SWEET guitar tone, playing guitar with various musical projects, assisting in booking local heavy-ass superfuzzed-out rock shows, human depravity and filth, pelicans, drinking fine beers and sippin' Basil Hayden bourbon when Ezra Brooks ain't around, occasionally writing record reviews for stonerrock.com (kokojones is my e-handle there), DIY modifications on guitar effects pedals, searching for that most elusive of Holy Grails...a 71 DR-100 Hiwatt amp, crankin' up my '71 Sunn(O)) Model T amp, providing medical massage therapy and rehab bodywork for sore folks and aging rock soldiers, ye olde tyme religion, herbalism and various holistic therapies I've picked up over the years, Civil War history from the Confederate perspective, becoming a better person and trying to be somehow/mostly beneficial to the rest of y'all (or, at least not break/spill/ruin anything), organic food co-ops, Food Not Bombs, and people helping people.
Iommi, Bill Hicks, Nikola Tesla, Alan Watts, Noam Chomsky, Vincent McAllister, Toy "The Thumb" Caldwell, Terry Swope, Tony Bourge, Joe Walsh, Dave Murray, Don Brewer, Captain Kangaroo, Ulysses S Grant, Geezer Butler, Gary Rossington, George Clinton
BLACK SABBATH AND ALL OF THEIR BASTARD CHILDRENmy own riffs: a chunky blend of Molly Hatchet... Pentagram......Motorhead......Kyuss ...with just the right amount of good smoke and good whiskey----------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ I used to play guitar in BLACK MOUNTAIN CREEPER and DEVIL IN EXILE......currently, I'm writing new songs with some good friends in an as-of-yet unnamed band. (3 of us wanted to call it (((CRACK WITCH))) but the drummer hates it. Any one know a good drummer with an appreication for the self deprecating humor in metal? j/k....maybe......========================================== ============================================================ ============================================================ ===my main influences: besides Tony Iommi, Jim Dandy, and Danny Joe Brown... PENTAGRAM!!! especially the classic line up...Vincent McAllister, you're one badass mofo! Toy Caldwell, Joe Walsh...James Gang and the Barnstorm solo album. The first 3 Metallica albums ...Cash, Waylon, Willie, Kris, Billy Joe Shaver, all the Hanks, Coe, Haggard, George Jones, George Straitt............ ===========================================================W INO...they say our songs are much too slow, brother, but THEY DON'T KNOW THE THINGS WE KNOW!======================================================= === ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------ANY RECORD THAT BILLY ANDERSON ENGINE-EARS IS SURE TO WHIPASS----------------------------------------------------- ---------------------a fan of most anything spirited and musical, but admittedly I spend most of my time, money, and brain cells on the likes of: TROUBLE, Slayer, Black Flag, St Vitus, Suicidal Tendencies, David Allan Coe, Misfits, Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top, Hank III, C.O.C, DOWN, CROWBAR, !!!BOWER POWER!!! Zoetrope, Free, Venom, Celtic Frost, ORANGE GOBLILN, Rudimentary Peni, DECEASED, Cactus, FOGHAT (RIP Rod Price), FLOWER TRAVELIN BAND, Deep Purple, SUPAFUZZ, Captain Beyond, Iron Maiden, Nasum, Godflesh, Mountain, VOIVOD, Venom, ALICE COOPER BAND, Holy Terror, JFA, Angel Witch, Manilla Road, Excel, GRAND FUNK RAILROAD, Judas Priest, Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66, Obituary, Boards of Canada, NAZARETH, ***MOLLY HATCHET (god bless Duane and Danny Joe...the world is surely worse off without y'all)***, Discharge, Weedeater, Teeth of the Hydra, Marshall Tucker Band, Dixie Witch, Suplecs, HERMANO, Crass, Blackfoot (RIP Jackson Spires), Nick Drake, Burning Spear, Burning Witch, SKELETON WITCH, Eric Nassau, Gorilla Biscuits, Danzig, High On Fire, Mammoth Volume, Glazed Baby, YOB, Corrupted, Red House Painters, UNIDA, Led Zeppelin, Entombed, Cathedral, Brutal Truth, Cop Shoot Cop, MELVINS, CORONER, Vio-lence, Soilent Green, Goatwhore, Warhorse, Funkadelic, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Tony Williams Lifetime, STEPSON, BANCHEE, Leafhound, Alabama Thunderpussy, Badfinger, JAMUL, Danny Joe Brown Band (R.I.P. Danny Joe, you sweet talkin' sunnuvabitch!), Black Oak Arkansas, Truth and Janey, The Rubes, TAILDRAGGER, Antiseen, Beck Bogert Appice, Whitesnake w/ Cozy Powell, hell, ANYTHING with Cozy Powell, Dio w/ Vivan Campbell, early Scorpions, Badlands/Jake E Lee, 13, 16, EYEHATEGOD, Buzzov-en, Big Business, Karp, Crowbar, Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, the Obsessed, SPIRIT CARAVAN, Hidden Hand, Can, Faust, Ghost, Silver Apples, Witchcraft, Budgie, Tom Waits, Rue, Dag Nasty, Minor Threat, Pigface, Skinny Puppy, The Tear Garden, Tones On Tail, This Mortal Coil, Cocteau Twins, BAUHAUS, Sonic Youth, Dead Can Dance, Esquivel, Canned Heat, Neil Young, Frank Zappa, Mahogany Rush, Honky, Kenny Rogers, RANDY HOLDEN, Cherubs, Hickoids, Bouffant Jellyfish
Movies that can scare you and make you laugh at the same time. Gaspar Noe, Jim Jarmusch, John Waters, Michael Mann, David Lynch are some faves...
Confederates In The Attic - by Tony Horwitz; Spacious Body - by Jeffrey Maitland; Stiff...Curious Lives of Human Cadavers- by Mary Roach; Ishi...In Two Worlds- by Theodora Kroeber; anything by Harlan Ellison or Tom Robbins
Natas Kaupas Bill Hicks Scott Wino Weinrich Randy Rhoads Nicolas Joly Dr. John Upledger, D.O. Ronnie Van Zant