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About Me

My name's Robert Grant Bookout. I go by Bobby. I grew up in the country outside a small town in South Texas called Carrizo Springs... Graduated in '98 from Lee High in Midland. Went into the Navy (fleet) for four years. Got out and started school at South Plains College in Levelland Texas under their commercial music program in Fall of '02. Did that for three years and in '05, I joined the Navy Reserves (seabees) and deployed to Iraq with NMCB 22. Got back... finished school May of '07... Became Keenan LeVick's hero in July of '07... Now I'm in Austin working on my album and hope to release in summer '08. It's all been an adventure and I'm really lucky to be living my dream right now... I've been blessed with an awesome family and some of the greatest friends in the world. I'm thankful... and life... is beautiful... ............................................................ ..................................................."It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the door of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly... who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known neither victory nor defeat." -Teddy RooseveltRemedy Live at SPC

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I think this Marine's name is Matthew Denton... Proud words... Good Stuff... Listen and then listen again until it sinks in. If you don't hear or make out every word, you will after a few times...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/23/2005
Band Members: well there's me for sure...
Influences: I'm influenced by a lot but music isn't just influenced by other music... real music's influenced by life and what we take in everyday. Life in all states is beautiful, even at its worst. Music is also beautiful regardless of the mood or emotion it conveys or reflects... I hate when people base their 'likes and dislikes' on the popularity of a given artist... that's such an ignorant/narrow minded way to evaluate/appreciate something so great. Every song to me is it's own, so I like a broad range of music, from some of the most popular to stuff that's pretty obscure. Choosing to 'not' like a song because it's 'trendy' or vice versa is ridiculous and in actuallity shines a light on a much larger problem with our mentality and lack of identity in America. And naming 100 bands you're pretty sure most people haven't heard of in your music section based simply on their lack of popularity, doesn't make you profound, mysterious, or hip... it makes you lame... So, with that said... I'll step off my soap box and say that first of all... Elvis Presley is one of the greatest things to ever happen to music... nobody yet has come even remotely close in versatility and I'm all about some versatility, aside from him, Incubus... they're more bad ass than meets the eye, Jimmy Eat World (Clarity was rad), Lauryn Hill, Radiohead, Michael Tyler, Tom DeLonge, Billy Idol, Jay-Z (one of the greatest MC's alive), Coldplay, Prince, Fiona Apple, Black Thought, Frank Sinatra, Muddy Waters, Trent Reznor, Ani DiFranco, Nirvana, Thrasher Shiver, Timberland, Phil Collins, Buddy Guy, Deftones, Wilco, Moby, Dave Matthews, George Strait, Boys II Men, Alanis Morissette, Harry Connick Jr., Marilyn Manson, BB King, Queen, Hendrix -of course-, C.C.R., Ray Charles, Nas, The Cure, George Michael, ACDC, Outkast, John Mellencamp, Bob Marley, Dave Grohl, Garth Brooks, Robert Johnson, Aaron Lewis, Rob Thomas, Pink Floyd, Beethoven, Jerry Lee Lewis, Otis Redding, Gary Allen, Sigur Ros, Howlin' Wolf, Nirvana, The Temptations, Nickel Creek, The Beatles, The Judds, UGK, Dave Navarro, Tupac, Diamond Rio, Michael Jackson, Jeff Buckley, Travis Tritt, Eric Clapton, Chili Peppers, Junior Wells, Dru Hill, Mana, Stevie Wonder, Billie Holiday, Dispatch, Merle Haggard, Ben Harper, Hank Williams Jr., Air, Dwight Yoakam, Bryan Adams, U2, Jewel, Led Zeppelin, and as of late... Citizen Cope, Common, DeVotchka, Regina Spektor, Ray LaMontagne, Muse, & Damian Marley, etc... and i'm diggin' the shit out of Angels & Airwaves and both of Snow Patrol's albums...
Sounds Like: Well, that's the question of the year... I don't know, I like being versatile as far as style's and influences go but I don't think I really just sound like anyone... I don't know... I do know that I tend to sound like me a lot... but only sometimes and often rarely...
Record Label: Make me an offer...
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Song: Last Words

Last Words Written and Composed by: Robert G. Bookout ã 2007 Wintergarden Music These are the last words, my last goodbye Can't let the last one go I wish you the best, I'll never regr...
Posted by B-O-B-B-Y on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:19:00 PST

This is what the fuck is wrong with this country...

I'm so sick of this shit... My frustration comes from my inability to smack people in the face and say, "wake up... snap out of it..." People in this country are clueless... The bubble we all live in ...
Posted by B-O-B-B-Y on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:57:00 PST

Song: Never Say Goodnight

This will be fast throbby rock... Very big sounding with a really optimistic feel... Huge Crescendo's all over the place... Like breathing in too much air at once... -Never Say Goodnight- ...
Posted by B-O-B-B-Y on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 07:33:00 PST

D.C.

So wow... Thursday, I got back from an eventful 4 days to say the least... And here's the promised blog... if you're not interested in the political stuff& skip the first paragraph& For those o...
Posted by B-O-B-B-Y on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:21:00 PST

Song: One Drunk Kiss

One Drunk Kiss... Written and Composed by: Robert G. Bookout & Scott Faris Copyright 2004 Wintergarden Music One drunk kiss Is what... started all this... I'd been lied to and chea...
Posted by B-O-B-B-Y on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 02:31:00 PST

Song: Austin

austin Written & Composed by: Robert G. Bookout ã 2007 Wintergarden Productions (v1) You say you've come to realization And I could be the one So where in that lies complication I neve...
Posted by B-O-B-B-Y on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:05:00 PST

10 concise points on life, for Bella

so my friend Bella, in Australia, is doing this project and asking all of her friends for 10 concise points on life... if i were more awake at the moment, i may have thought of other more important th...
Posted by B-O-B-B-Y on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:52:00 PST

Bad American

I've posted this once already but I was clearing out my blogs and re-read this and decided it needed re-posting... YES, I'M A BAD AMERICAN by: George Carlin I Am Your Worst Nightmare. I am a BAD Ame...
Posted by B-O-B-B-Y on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:20:00 PST

A Rant On Musical Arrogance...

I did all of this on a word doc. so if some of the punctuation doesn't carry over... I apologize. You all know me and you all know how much I hate arrogance. I hate stereotypes. And I hate the...
Posted by B-O-B-B-Y on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:43:00 PST

Song: Open Door

I realized I already had the lyrics for 'Meant To Be' posted on the actual song so I decided to ditch it as a blog and post this one instead... This is one of the last songs Kopelli did... The m...
Posted by B-O-B-B-Y on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:20:00 PST