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Andy Action

Actions speak louder than words..

About Me

Rokstah, Drummer & Manager Apes & Androids (www.ApesAndAndroids.com ) FORMERLY: Foreign Islands, Cardia, 2 Skinnee J's, Speedball Baby, Matter/Anti~Matter, Ian Love, The Dust Up, Mike iLL, etc.... SOME OF THE ARTISTS I'VE WORKED WITH: Walking Concert (drums on "Run To Be Born" album), Megan Bowman (drums on "Wonderlust" album), The Negatones (Drums on "The Heavy EP"), The Disco Biscuits (engineer on "They Missed The Perfume"), Ali Smith & Steve Almaas (drums on "1st Album" & "You Showed Me"), C. Gibbs & the Cardia Bros. : Pinkermen Set (Engineer, percussion), The Sissy Bars (engineer/mixing on "Our Reunion Is Pending" album), Parker & Lily (drums/engineering on "Here Come Winter"), Andre Williams (drums on "The Monkey Speaks His Mind 7" "), James Chance (drums on "Contort Yourself" Japanese re-release!), plus a bunch of others that I can't think of right now...

My Interests

Burning Wheel (www.burningwheel.org), Mr.Gygax, Atari 2600, Led Zeppelin '68 + ''69 tours, early Pink Floyd / Syd Barrett ('66-77), FZ & the M.O.I. (1966-1976), H.P. Lovecraft (not the band, you hippie), The various scribblings of Prof. J.R.R. Tolkien, Terry Gilliam, Monty Python et al.

I'd like to meet:

YOu!IM: ActionRocksYou (AIM) or email [email protected]

Music:

Zeppelin, Fugazi, Floyd, Zappa/Mothers, Coltrane (not Robbie you git), Sabbath (w/ Ozzy), Yes, King Crimson, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Speedball Baby, Bowie, Queen, Body Bag, Eyewitness, Jaco Pastorius, Rush, Isis, Bad Brains, Syd Barrett (R.I.P.), Hendrix, Funkadelic, The Police/Stewart Copeland/Klark Kent, Miles Davis, Sly Stone. Apes & Androids

Movies:

Throne of Blood, Seven Samurai, Life of Brian, The Satisfiers of Alpha Blue, Blue Velvet, Stripes, LotR (I know, I know...), Borat, The Ninja Scroll, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Live At Pompei, Max Hardcore, Spinal Tap/Guffman/Best In Show/A Mighty Wind

Television:

Rome, The Wire, Deadwood, Twin Peaks, Sopranos, 6 Feet Under, Carnivale, The West Wing, 24, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Vintage David Letterman

Books:

The Magus (Fowles), Blood Meridian (McCarthy), The Silmarillion / LotR - (J.R.R.T), Hitch-hiker's Guide "Trilogy" (Adams), Miles Davis' autopbiography, Frank Herbert's Dune, Fleming's Bond, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes

Heroes:

Miles, Zappa, Bonham, Bowie, Tolkien, Gygax, Luke Crane, Dr. royal hartigan