Member Since: 12/7/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/roderickbarker
Band Members: These recordings are a solo project, so I'm indulging myself: guitar, bass, keys, vocals, midi legos, etc. GET WELL CARDS songs/recordings appear on their own page.
Influences: Dunno. I'm a sponge. As for people and their craft(s) I've admired, some have stuck and others have slipped away - though I may have dug heavily at some point. Anyway, here's a random list for kicks: Bill Evans, Murakami (Haruki), Wire, Bowie, Dylan, Ramones, The Who, Beatles, surf guitar instrumental, Buzzcocks, Neil Young, John Fante, Nick Cave, Debussy, Pogues, Meat Puppets, Wilco, Junior Brown, Sonic Youth, old scratchy Blues recordings, MC Escher, Dead Can Dance, Mott the Hoople, Ravel, Pixies, Rolling Stones, Brian Eno, Roxy Music, Minutemen, Mike Watt, Mr. Dali, Maddox Bros & Rose, Dave Brubeck, various Ambient stuff, Messiaen, Supergrass, 60's one-hit-wonders, Baroque in general, Tom Waits, X, Soft Boys, Robyn Hitchcock, Gene Vincent, Pink Floyd (especially Syd), Louis Armstrong, Can, Mr. Bukowski, Captain Beefheart, Clash, Kinks, Zeppelin, Elliot Smith, Sly & The Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, various pretentious prog rock, various unpretentious folk music around the globe, Edith Piaf, Blasters, Patsy Cline, GoGos, Scenic, Belle & Sebastian, Nino Rota, Scott Joplin, Eubie Blake and Ragtime in general, Paris Combo, Human Hands, Four Tops, 100 Flowers, Hank I & III, Cramps, Nilsson, old-timey country, Howlin' Wolf, J.S. Bach & some of his kin, Sex Pistols, Vivaldi, Ennio Morricone, Chuck Berry, Vince Guaraldi, Devo, etc......I don't know, man. Been discovering so much on MySpace that it's (YOU) all having an influence. Lately, I've been flippin' over the experimentalists - from classical to noise bands; chillin' with ambient stuff; gettin' into various ethnic folk stuff and instruments I'd never seen or heard before; diggin' on both older and contemporary country pickers along with new folkies; reigniting my love of surf & garage bands from Germany, Italy, Spain, whereever; really diggin' some of the new jazz ensembles; and eatin' up a lot of Japanese punk bands. I've also grown especially fond of all kinds o' French pop. It's fun. It's educational. It's....... check out my friends.
Sounds Like: Whatever you think.
Record Label: They're everywhere.
Type of Label: Indie