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The Black Avatars

Don't get up gentlemen I'm only passin' through

About Me

None of your business!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/6/2007
Band Website: My OTHER myspace page (see top friends)
Band Members: Just me. I play everything, write everything, record everything, produce everything - even had to do this myself.
Influences: MUSIC - The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Phil Spector, Noel Gallagher, Lee Mavers, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, Bernie Taupin, The Velvet Underground, Benny and Bjorn, Bob Marley, Van Morrison, Blondie, Brian Wilson, The Stone Roses, The Kinks, The Small Faces, The Who, Led Zepplin, Paul Weller, The Doors, Queen, The Manic Street Preachers, Jim Steinman, Mark Knopfler, The Primitives, Shakey, The Stones, CCR, ELO, I could go on………….OTHER WRITERS & BOOKS - Carl Jung, Geza Vermes, Jeff Mayo, Tom Chetwynd, the various authors of the old and New Testaments and the words of the prophets they claim to record, The Tao Te Ching, The I Ching, Tolkien, George Lucas, George Orwell, all of the Monty Python team, I could go on……………OTHERS – My family, a few close friends from over the years, an old lady we knew as a kid who could read palms, an old friend of my mum’s who could see auras (apparently) and told me all about that kind of stuff, a select few teachers, the record collection of the Dad of an old friend, the BBC, I could go on………..
Sounds Like: When I asked my wife what to write here she replied "a strangled cat".
Record Label: Record Labels are for losers
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Saturn, The Hits and Me (again)

Saturn's Day morning, lying on the sofa. Clear sunny day outside, the crisp remains of a two day old snow fall on the ground. Helen has the flu, James has just gone to bed for his morning nap and I'm ...
Posted by The Black Avatars on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:27:00 PST

Explanations for my absence and crap new track.

What possessed me to record this dreary number (Autumn, by the Lake) with no chorus and very little tune? God knows. It really needs remixing and the crap percussion deleting but the computers gone nu...
Posted by The Black Avatars on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:00:00 PST

The Forces of Good and Evil

..> The Forces of Good and Evil. The title was just there to draw you in, I haven't actually got anything at all profound or interesting to say. I'm just avoiding starting the gardening. Two bags ...
Posted by The Black Avatars on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:37:00 PST

The meaning of life (etc)

I was just writting a response to a blog on Janet's page when I thought 'hey mike this is almost interesting why not post it up as a blog' - so I am doing.Throughout life we entertain ideas that help ...
Posted by The Black Avatars on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 03:03:00 PST

TalkTalk are crap

Hello and please accept my sincerest apologies for my prolonged cyberspace absence. We moved house a couple of weeks ago, and I might as well search for the Holy Grail in the soulless new housing esta...
Posted by The Black Avatars on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:49:00 PST

Try to be myself????

I was rather hurt by this message someone just sent me, "i like your music man but may i just give you a small word of advice from one artist to another. just be yourself when you write your music. i...
Posted by The Black Avatars on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:09:00 PST

Help Im running out of ideas.

Hi Karen hope you had a nice weekend (Karen is the only person who occasionally reads my blogs, although after this latest batch of desperation even she should run a mile),..:namespace prefix = o ns...
Posted by The Black Avatars on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:40:00 PST

Anyone who reads this blog will die!!

Hello Cyberspace, this is Captain Avatar speaking...:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> I went away for a wee while but now I'm back. As some of you already know i...
Posted by The Black Avatars on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:20:00 PST

The man beast lies in his cage sniffing popcorn.

Once or twice in my life I've been asked what my favourite album is. Now, for someone of my quite obvious exquisite musical tastes this is not nearly enough. However, others ignorance is something lar...
Posted by The Black Avatars on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:36:00 PST

Me and my blogtastic new material.

Well  I finally found the time to finish recording some new songs and stick them up on my space. The results so far have been well .... a bit underwhelming really. Thanks very much to the folk wh...
Posted by The Black Avatars on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:58:00 PST