Member Since: 1/24/2007
Band Website: myspace.com/soulvacation
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Influences: My Mother and Father of course! They gave me my first guitar when I was 8 years old. The guitar was a 1964 Gibson Melody Maker and the amplifier was a Gibson Skylark. I grew up listening to all the great classics. My folks brought me to countless live concerts though the 60's. I grew up experiencing the most amazing performances of many of the greatest singers, songwriters and recording artists of all time! Those shows totally inspired me to play music! And every week the folks would bring records home of all the latest radio hits. I eventually learned how to play every song from those records...by ear. I still have that wonderful collection of records! Of course things became a lot easier when I learned about pitch, tuning my guitar, and learning how to find the key a song was in!God bless my entire family, for the life in music that I still enjoy today!
Sounds Like: Being keenly aware...politically and spiritually. Understanding world religions, history and sciences. Free thinker. Living life void of pretense, hypocracy, dogma, arrogance and assumtions. Feel, watch...listen.
Now for the next level of provoking thoughts...Here we go folks......if we desire real peace of mind once and for all, we must address our local, state and national governments' fiscal irresponsibilities...right now, it's way past time for their accountability, don't ya think? Ahhh...and those time proven weapons of mass distraction...lies! Lies big time! Remember boys and girls, the neo conservative bedtime prayer, a lie a day...keeps the truth away. The current neo-con administration has completely destroyed everything sacred to our forefathers who fought and died for this great country. Mission Accomplished George! And you too DICK! Oh yes...and George, don't forget to turn off the nations' analog signal as you leave ok? Creepy huh? "They" have systematically raped the working middle class and the poor. "Free trade" and the "Global Economy"? "The Patriot Act" and the "Contract with America"? It's nothing more than a perfect neo-conservative plan to destroy this country from the inside out. It worked beautifully! We hardly blinked! This has been the death of America as I knew it, from the inside out. And every mom and pop company that invented everything the world now knows and enjoys, has closed their doors to outsourcing, those same products that were origionally made in the USA, are now sold back to us...our clothes, toys, food...you name it, all reverse engineered, poisonous, dangerous and inferior. So now, all the corporations can have it all made cheaper elsewhere, bathing themselves with deeper oceans of money, and they still think they can take it with them...to hell maybe! Every day the powerful and the greedy are killing off thousands of factories and countless jobs...and still counting! Generations of blood sweat and tears that built this great country...down the drain and gone forever. Why do we continue to allow the greed of big corporations to threaten our national security? Good question? What's the answer? I'm all ears folks....I'm not against capitolism...only the capitolist pigs. I'd like to see a national consumer revolt. But our insatiable desire to consume won't stop us from going to the mall or starbucks! That would be a great start though! That would really get their attention. But those that can still afford to go to those places, haven't been the least bit effected by the countrys' dying economy...yet! I think the time will come that only the scrappy and creative will survive. The oblivious and those that are extremely comfortable do not know how to grow or catch their own food! Or wash their own clothes. Or start their own lawnmowers. "They" just go out and hire cheap illegal labor to do their domestic chores...the things the rest of us do on a regular basis everyday, because we have to. And we also do it with a sense of pride too.
We can thank most of our political leaders for the crap we're in, but we keep re-electing these assholes in good faith to do their job, to represent "We The People"! How can we "not care" that "we" are being misrepresented? So where's the accounability? They're quick to hold us accountable, and constantly looking for new ways to screw us for another dollar. We put them in office, then the very next day "they" are bought and paid for by thousands of registered lobbyists that big corporations has hired to represent "the companys'" special interests, ignoring the people that voted for them to represent "the peoples interests". There are very few brave souls doing their best to do the right thing for "we the people"! So...would paying these spineless bastards more money, encourage them to represent us better? Yeah right...because they don't think, eat and breathe to serve the public. A good legacy is not on their agenda. It's the porkbarrel perks and favors baby! Life is good for the greedy...screw the needy! Well...all I can say is that...it's "their" bad Karma! And it will surely come....
As all things in nature are interconnected....we continually try to alter nature...silly humans, nature will certainly reclaim what was hers...all in good time. Humans can be so presumptuous. Example: all the time wasting gum flapping about Global Warming and climate change...some argue that humans are responsible...I beg to differ...I say all "we" did was speed things up that would've happened eventually anyway. As we waste our precious time arguing with one another about it, Mother earth produces her own natural greenhouse gases like methane, natual gas, sulfur dioxide...and God knows what else. Mother Earth on her own, without our piggy presence, would eventually reclaim what has always been hers anyway. She always has...she always will....or until galaxies and exrataterestial bodies collide. Or near stars expode! Ahhh...the power and beauty of mother nature! We either appreciate and except it...or we won't. It has been said...that the future is for those who see it coming! We believe it...or we don't.
The ancients speak of the future in ways that we are are only beginning to comprehend and understand now. The story of Noah is a great example of enlightenment that was put to use in saving as many humans, plants and animals as possible for the "big flood". Right now, governments around the world are sucking their societies dry to fund "their plans" for changes ahead that only few know about. Building underground cities, bunkers and communication networks, so "they"...the rich and powerful...and some scientists, can remain in power...after what happens, we ask? "They" know...but most of us don't have a clue, "they" hope we don't become the least bit interested in such things. So..."they" keep us distracted with a constant upgrading of electronic gagits, entertainment, videos and games, useless celebrity news, and whatever fear "they" can instill in us to keep us distracted, and numb and dumb as a stump as possible.
Kudos to those that are aware of and understand the Mayan calendar...you know who you are...don't you? Interestingly, the Mayan calendar apparently coinsides with other cultures' ancient texts...and barely known tribes around the world. There are ancient cave paintings and stories that describes these past and future events, passed down by the elders from generation to generation. Regardless of culture, race, chosen religion, poor or rich...the course and outcome ahead was written long ago. Since The Book of Revelation has been misconstrued and misinterpreted differently over the centuries...there have been some incredible findings. As we know, science and religion has always clashed. Religion has always condemed Science...because Science has always seeked and provided the technical explanations that the ancients struggled to describe and understand. The ancient masses didn't know what a UFO was...but you can certainly find them in a lot of their paintings and drawings. Chariots of fire? Angels on silver winged discs from heaven? There seems to be a lot of explaining to do Lucy...denial is still very much alive and well. Ruling the masses with fear is still very effective.
Most of us can agree on one thing, that not many of us can agree on much, but most of us can agree that few have the will, wisdom or the enlightenment to fathom and create a better world, than what "the powerful and greedy" have created for themselves...and the masses that are ill informed will continue to suffer the most. Unless more enlightened, free thinking compassionate humans emerse themselves in the changes ahead, everything will get a little worse everyday, for countless millions and billions who are just trying to survive. I hope that soon...Mother Earth, Karma, and the Gods of all religions, could rid this beautiful world of the thoughtless heartless obnoxious arrogance! Oh well...I have my dreams don't I? Oh yes...and to all that have a dictionary handy, please feel free to correct me on any words that I may have butchered.Have I mentioned that I like camping................Peace and love.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Indie