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onzello

songs sung from apartment B.

About Me

one guy with a cheap guitar, a voice , tape recorder & sometimes other stuff. singing songs from life, surroundings, relationships, experiences, imagination, the past, the present and maybe the future. some lyrics are from poems he's written, alot of his songs are improvised. he loves lasagna and banana bread. is in love with Debbie Harry. barely middle aged. slightly bald on top. played in a band for one night and a day. has slept under trees, near freeways and behind buildings in all kinds of weather. once tried singing songs to passersby on the streets of a beach town for the price of one quarter each (unsuccesfully.) Has played at The Ugly Mug Cafe in Orange, CA (on open mic-nite). loves god and death metal. has never eaten worms. was once married. has been through hell (probably like yourself). Is usually broke. has been declared bi-polar & schizoid affective. has worked as a dishwasher, cook, hole digger and file-clerk. has been featured on RadioFreakout, Briery Hill 90210, and a podcast called Sundown Lounge (all internet broadcasts). does not like sports. never graduated highschool. Just got a new guitar! has done more than his fair share of drugs. loves his family like hell. has been in one car accident. owes money. sings in every room. ThAnk YoU.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/5/2007
Band Website: this is it (for noW).
Band Members: Eric Dixon (aka grrammmpa spatula, aka Roach)
Influences: Burzum, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Ween, Guided by Voices, Flaming Lips, Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt, Shonen Knife, Rudimentary Peni, laty lat lat, Kick Me Ugly, Tom Malmquist, Sunset Room, M.E.I.N.A.G.S., Pizzicato 5 , mission of burma, Lead Belly, Morrissey, Blondie, violent Femmes, Woody Guthrie, willie Nelson, Thelonious Monk, Throbbing Gristle, Nurse With Wound, Psychic T.V., my uncle Mike, my cousin Casey, my cousins Jessica & Emily, the rest of my family; ecspecially: my Grandfather Royce Onzello Dixon (who gave me my musical-ness) the past, the present, the unknown and known, books, movies, musicals, PBS, nature, god, peopLE, experience, animals, life, Noise, Sound, cieling-gaZing, fear, lovE. the Pixies, the Pogues, the germs, Bauhaus, Joy Division, Cannibal Corpse, Diecide, Job for a Cowboy, Dimmu Borgir, Aborted, Anal Cunt, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Pig Destroyer, true crime documentarys , surviving real and imagined tragedies, mr. rogers (yeah, him), Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Cher, the English Beat, frank Black, , the Shapeshifters, 2-mex, Mercyful fate, the Cure, New Order, Lene Lovich, tori amos, regina speKtor, guns 'n' roses, the Beatles, Tom Waits, williaM Burroughs, Lou Reed, Cock & Ball Torture, velvet underground, napalm Death, Ariel Pink, Morrissey, Echo & the Bunnymen, legendary staRdust cowboy, Daniel Johnston,., Food, eeyore pOwer Tool, baRbara Striesand, Quarter-Pounder, Judy Garland!!and a million other people, bands & things that i could list, except it seems a little tedious or something (right now);}
Sounds Like: whatever you think it sounds like i think.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None