Music, movies, history, photography, film making, bright vibrant color.I am the drummer in a band called the Xstatix, and I also host an internet webcast each week on Thursday nights at 9PM EASTERN (w/ a 24/7 repeat) at:http://www.hrmusic.tvOn this show, we feature live in-studio and on-location performances from some of the best up and coming musicians in the Hampton Roads, VA area. Thanks for checking out my space!
Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Martin, Norman Smith, & Geoff Emerick. And of course, I would like to have met John & George, Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Truman Capote, Lenny Bruce, Andy Warhol, JFK, RFK, FDR, Churchill, Poe, Shakespeare, Aristotle, Bogart, Kurosawa, Picasso and Dali, Da Vinci and Michelangelo...to name a few.
Here's the soundtrack to my life:The Beatles, Rush, Joni Mitchell, ELP, Genesis, Yes, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, The Beach Boys, The Band, Tom Waits, XTC, Queen, Jethro Tull, 10CC, David Bowie, Patsy Cline, Laurie Anderson, The Moody Blues, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Wings, The Who, Elton John, Firesign Theatre, Frank Zappa, Bob Dylan, Digital Underground, Stax, Booker T and the MGs, Motown, Kansas, Blue Oyster Cult, Al Green, De La Soul, Disposable Heroes, Prince, Deep Purple, Public Enemy, The "Mersey Sound", Big Star, Badfinger, Love, Grateful Dead, Sam Cooke, Joan Armatrading, Burt Bacharach, George Clinton, Walter/Wendy Carlos, Parliament Funkadelic, Sly Stone, Bob Marley and the Wailers, John Mclaughlin, Carole King, Little Feat, Beck, Radiohead, Coldplay, Lenny Kravitz, Paul Simon, The Bee Gees, Simon and Garfunkel, Nine Inch Nails, the Mamas and the Papas, The Doors, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, CSNY, Neil Young, Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Herbie Hancock, Jefferson Airplane, Steppenwolf, The Allman Brothers, Return to Forever, Devo, The Residents, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Solomon Burke, Sam & Dave, Zydeco, The Meters, The Neville Brothers, The B52s, Wilco, REM, Talking Heads, Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal, Brand X, "Go Go", Roy Clark, The Black Crows, Cheech and Chong, Melanie, Cream, Hollies, Skiffle, early country, Phil Spector, Peter & Gordon, James Brown, Joe Tex, Chad and Jeremy, Stone Temple Pilots, The Monkees, The Kinks, Aretha Franklin, Ann Peebles, David Sylvian, Japan, Fleetwood Mac, Tony Bennett, Marianne Faithfull, Dire Straits, Black Flag, The Funk Brothers, Staples Singers, Chess, Pretty Things, Oasis, Patti Labelle, Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares, Henry Mancini, "Woodstock", The Carpenters, Steely Dan, Traffic, Rod Stewart, Jimmie Rogers, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Beethoven, Chopin, Dvorak, Debussy, Woody & Arlo Gutherie, Joan Baez, Stravinsky, Carl Stalling, The Byrds, Gershwins, Cole Porter, The Nutcracker, Vince Guaraldi, Doo Wop, Bernstein, Joe Cocker, Vivaldi, Lieber/Stoller, Tchaikovsky, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Brill Building, Peter, Paul, & Mary, Supertramp, Tin Pan Alley, Miles Davis, Jazz, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Santana, Blood, Sweat, and Tears, The Nice, Leonard Cohen, The Cars, The 5th Dimension, Doc Pomus, Richard Thompson, Alice Cooper, ELO, GLAM, Small Faces, Melissa Etheridge, Tracy Chapman, Nirvana, Warren Zevon, Squeeze, Elvis Costello, CCR, Tim and Andrew, Broadway, Little Feat, Sting and the Police, The Clash, Chaka Khan, Ray Charles, Highland Bagpipes, George Duke, Jonathan King, Crack the Sky, Happy the Man, Soft Machine, Gong, Renaissance, Indigo Girls, Louie Jordan, The Sex Pistols, Lyle Lovett, Philly Soul, Louie Armstrong, Johnny Cash, Jeff Buckley, Neil Diamond, Nick Drake, John Denver, Dusty Springfield, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Pearl Jam, Tammy Wynette, Eric Clapton, Iron Butterfly, Gilbert & Sullivan, Nina Simone, T Rex, Eva Cassidy, Tower of Power, Portishead, War, Gil Scott Heron, Rufus Wainright, The Wrecking Crew, the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, Jeff Beck, K.D. Lang, Rickie Lee Jones, Crowded House, Michael Penn, Janet Jackson, The Strawbs, British Art Rock, The Dixie Dregs, Enya, Janis Ian, Split Enz, The Seeds, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, James Brown, Bjorke, Kraftwerk, Klaus Nomi, Petula Clark, Black Sabbath, UK, Tom Lehrer, Thin Lizzy, The Zombies, Gordon Lightfoot, The Roches, Bela Fleck, Victor Wooten, and Futureman, Jackie Wilson, Blues, Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith, Charlie Patton, "Marsalis", The Animals, Nile Rogers, Tom Jones, The White Stripes, Handel, NWA, Be Bop Deluxe, Dave Brubeck, The Guess Who, Chicago, The Dixie Chicks, John Mayall, DCI, The Specials, Haydn, Patsy Cline, 801, Hank Williams SR, Prokofiev, Oingo Boingo, The Producers, Jim Reeves, Bruce Hornsby, The Eurythmics, The Vines, Bach, Todd Rundgren and Utopia, America, Aaron Copland, Bread, Weird Al, Harry Nilsson, Toy Matinee, The Jackson 5, Lulu, the musical "Hair", Canned Heat, Captain Beefheart, Dream Theater, Bruce Springsteen, Joe Henry, The Archies, Foghat, Conway Twitty, Weather Report, Sonic Youth, Styx, Jet, Aerosmith, Les Paul, Primus, Curtis Mayfield, Los Lobos, Judy Garland, The Texas Playboys, The Partridge Family, MC5, The 4 Seasons, Thomas Dolby, The Jam, the Carter Family, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Dionne Warwick, KC and the Sunshine Band, The 4 Freshmen, The Dead Kennedys, The Yardbirds, Celtic and Eastern music, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Hot Tuna, The Everly Brothers, Blue Cheer, Joe Jackson, The Eagles, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Leo Kottke, The Lovin' Spoonful, Ravi Shankar, Doris Day, ZZ Top, The Osmonds, Metallica, "Barbary Coast" psychedelia, US Garage bands, British Psychedelic explosion, L.A. Sunshine Pop, Van Morrison, Syd Barrett, Leon Russell, The Tubes, Donovan, "Louie, Louie", Justin Timberlake, Tommy Emmanuel, Django Reinhardt, Emmylou Harris, Loretta Lynn, Mary Chapin Carpenter, X, Lucinda Williams, Barclay James Harvest, Heart, Lindisfarne and "Pub Rock", The Cure, U2, Velvet Underground, Shawn Colvin, Camper Van Beethoven, Roxy Music, Eno, Iggy Pop, Kate Bush, The Cowsills, Peter Gabriel...and I am sure I have either listed someone twice or forgotten someone.
Citizen Kane, To Kill a Mockingbird, Schindler's List, Pulp Fiction, Children of Men, Fargo, Traffic, Goodfellas, Barry Lyndon, Alfred Hitchcock, Classic Disney, The Private Life of Henry VIII, Harry Potter series, The Godfather, Yellow Submarine, James Bond series, Dazed & Confused, The Player, The Wizard of Oz, Ben Hur, Spike Lee, Rashomon, Dreams, The 7 Samurai, Casablanca, Blue Velvet, Boyz n the Hood, Woody Allen, Night of the Hunter, The 6th Sense, The Kill Bills, Indiana Jones series, Star Wars Series, Boogie Nights, The Color Purple, Gone with the Wind, A Clockwork Orange, to name a few. Actually, I am way into golden era "Studio System" flicks right now. I have seen almost 200 this summer alone.
The Sopranos, Project Runway (for the articles), Rome, Friends, Star Trek Original and TNG, The West Wing, Sex and the City, M*A*S*H, All in the Family, Carol Burnett, Twilight Zone, I Love Lucy, the Daily Show and Colbert, Real Time w/ Bill Maher, Outer Limits, South Park, Countdown w/ K.O., The Simpsons, Family Guy, 6' Under, The Office (UK version), Are You Being Served?, AB FAB, Keeping Up Appearances (I'm an Anglophile because me Mum's Bri'ish. What can I say?) 1st generation here of the "never having grown up without a TV in the house" group, so I love all the 50s, 60s, & 70s shows.
Sinclair Lewis, Ginsberg, Harry Potter series, Stephen King, Bios, Bios, Bios, Bradbury, Poe, Mark Twain, Wells, Updike, Kurt V, Orwell, Atwood, Dickens
The Beatles, JFK and RFK, Albert Einstein, Galileo, Mark Twain, Stephen Hawking and my top drummers (in no particular order, except no. 1):Neil Peart Phil Collins Bill Bruford Alan White Carl Palmer John Bonham Steve Gadd Ringo Starr Hal Blaine Mitch Mitchell Earl Palmer Al Jackson Jim KeltnerA WHOLE BUNCH OF OTHERS I IDOLIZE: Buddy Rich, Ed Shaugnessy, All of the FUNK BROTHERS' drummers, Louis Bellson, Tony Williams, Bobby Colomby, Peter Erskine, Carter Beauford, Max Weinberg, Terry Bozzio, Mike Portnoy, Chad Smith, Dave Weckyl, Dennis Chambers, Vinnie C, Omar Hakim, Stewart Copeland, Manu Katche,Tony Royster...the list goes on)And for the record, some of my fave producers are: George Martin, Roy Thomas Baker, Hugh Padgham, Steve Lillywhite, Phil Spector, Quincy Jones, Tony Visconti, Bob Rock, Mitchell Froom, Don Was, T-Bone Burnett, Carl Boettcher, Gary Usher, Terry Melcher, Owen Bradley, Sam Phillips, Alan Parsons, Joe Meek, and Eddie Offord.Some of my favorite artists: Dali, Roger Dean, Picasso, Hopper, Rockwell, Magritte, Darger & Da Vinci, B. Kliban, R. Crumb, Kahlo, Monet, Ansel Adams, Annie Lebovitz, Richard Avedon, Matt Mahurin, Herb Ritts, Diane Arbus, O'Keefe, Gary Larson, Benjamin West.