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Andrew Lindstrom

The Goddamn Finkelstein Shit-Kid...SON OF A BITCH!

About Me

Some pertinent facts about ME! ME! ME! for all you loose bitches and fellow professionals...I am 31 y.o., 5'9", 165 pounds, straight, single, and a Libra. My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives. I am here for cheap thrills and possible career networking. I was born and raised in northern New Jersey, and moved to Denver in 1999 after graduating with a B.A. in Music from Rutgers University (exit 9 off the turnpike). I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum. I work two days a week at the Wax Trax vinyl store, and I teach and play drumset (call 720-854-8179 NOW to set up a $20 1/2 hour-ish lesson with me!). I play in two bands: Nightshark and Git Some. A-da-da-da, dee-dee-dee, and whatever the hell else you want to put in there. I like to record my music on a portable Boss 16 track. Get off my land! Get off my property! I can be a pretty rude person sometimes, but I'm just telling you the truth and that's because I respect you as a fellow human being. So shut the fuck up. People laughed at the Wright Brothers, they laughed at H.G. Wells, and now they're laughing at me - so you can bet I'm right. I finally bought a cellphone, so there you go. Hello, twenty-first century! I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. I owe most of my existence to the help I have received from my gracious and loving family. Where's my Chippy? I enjoy week-long hikes through the desolate beauty of southern Utah. I just pull my pants down and go to the bathroom like anybody else...but if 50,000 people want to watch, then hell, I'll do it for them, you know? My teeth look okay, but they are fucked up and expensive to take care of. I don't need your fuckin' sympathy, man, I need my fucking johnson! I like to stay up at night and sleep during the day, whenever possible. I am an atheist. I try to eat a salad daily. If you're gonna split hairs, I'm gonna piss off! I have been known to 'party hearty', if you catch my drift. I am the Lizard King - I can do anything!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/3/2007
Band Members: These are some of the people in the world with whom I enjoy playing music: Becca Mhalek, Bret Sexton, Brian Hagman, Chuck French, Doug Anderson, Doug Mioducki, Eric Moon, Glenn Taylor, Hugh Ragin, J.C. Thompson, Jeb Bows, Jon Gray, Jon Stewart, Justin 'Wetpants' Kinnitt, Lucius Armond Fairchild, Mike Brick, Mike Buckley, Nate Wooley, Neil Keener, Patrick Lee, Paul Riola, Pete Wall, Roger Green, Ron Miles, Ryan Jalbert, and probably a few others I have spaced (sorry).
Influences: DRUMS IN PARTICULAR: Ginger Baker, Joey Baron, Carlton Barrett, Ed Blackwell, John Bonham, Terry Bozzio, Dennis Chambers, Billy Cobham, Vinnie Colaiuta, Jack DeJohnette, Baby Dodds, Steve Gadd, Michael Giles, Eric Gravatt, Roy Haynes, Gerry Hemingway, Earl Hudson, Willie Jones, Jaki Liebezeit, Dave Lombardo, Mike Mangini, Shelly Manne, Mac McNeilly, Mitch Mitchell, Keith Moon, Paul Motian, Andy Newmark, Tony Oxley, Vinnie Paul, Neil Peart, Buddy Rich, Max Roach, Robo, Tony Williams MUSIC IN GENERAL: Frank Zappa, Brian Eno, Slayer, Autechre, Bad Brains, Les Baxter, Anthony Braxton, Claude Debussy, Miles Davis, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Skip James, The Misfits, Steely Dan, Igor Stravinsky, Eyehategod, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Howlin' Wolf, Can, The Minutemen, The 'Tristano School', Naked City, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, The Jesus Lizard, Eric Dolphy, The 'Second Viennese School', Joni Mitchell, Erik Satie, Black Flag, Chick Corea, Kraftwerk, Butthole Surfers, Edgard Varèse, Marvin Gaye, George Russell, Company Flow, Bill Dixon, Led Zeppelin, Charles Mingus, P.I.L., Iannis Xenakis, Jimi Hendrix, Barre Phillips, Bela Bartok, Robert Johnson, Rush, Annette Peacock FILM: Luis Buñuel, Stanley Kubrick, Werner Herzog, Gaspar Noé, Robert Altman, Maya Deren VISUAL ART: Hieronymus Bosch, Max Ernst, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, George Grosz, R. Crumb, M.C. Escher, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, Paul Klee COMEDY: Monty Python, SCTV, Mr. Show, The Ben Stiller Show, Arrested Development, Bill Hicks, Mel Brooks (circa 1974), Buster Keaton, This Is Spinal Tap, Nick Bougas, Raising Arizona/The Big Lebowski, the CKY/Jackass dvds, Neil Hamburger, Metalocalypse, Tim And Eric Awesome Show Great Job!, Driver 23/Atlas Moth THOUGHTS: Charles Bukowski, Sigmund Freud, Mike Elliott, Ambrose Bierce, Jon Krakauer, John Kennedy Toole, Aldous Huxley, Joe Carducci, my mother/sister/uncle Ted

Sounds Like: Whatever you pay me to sound like. If you don't pay me anything, I sound angry.
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

On The Beam

I'm dancing on air, haven't a careI'm on the beamTime's flying byAnd I'm flying highI'm walking on wingsAnd ev'rything's peaches and creamBlind flying's all goneI'm really on the beamI'm like the B-19...
Posted by Andrew Lindstrom on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:04:00 PST

The Night Life

When the evenin’ sun Goes downYou will find me Hangin’ ’roundThe night lifeAin’t no good lifeBut it’s my lifeMany people Just like meDreamin’ of The old used-to-be&...
Posted by Andrew Lindstrom on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PST

The Nuge - Just What The Doctor Ordered

I got my guitar when I was 10 years old Found a love in rock and roll Now I'm on the verge of a nervous breakdown I gotta give my body and soul It's so crazyBut you know that I like it I've found a cu...
Posted by Andrew Lindstrom on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:35:00 PST

I know its terrible and sad and awful, but...

I know it's terrible and sad and awful, but I must admit - reading shit like this makes me spit my vodka drink all over my monitor in convulsive fits of laughter.  Maybe it's because I attended Y...
Posted by Andrew Lindstrom on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:48:00 PST

Way back in the mid-nineties...

Way back in the mid-nineties, people like Steve Albini and Joe Carducci were already making the important observation that most of the innovations made in studio technology over the past fifteen years...
Posted by Andrew Lindstrom on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:04:00 PST

For some strange reason...

For some strange reason, reading this blurb on Variety's website earlier today made me want to simultaneously gouge out my own eyeballs, projectile vomit my intestines, light myself on fire in the mid...
Posted by Andrew Lindstrom on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:24:00 PST

I owe Don Henley my livelihood...

I owe Don Henley my livelihood. Before you erupt in fierce guffaws, I must warn you - I'm serious. Remember that little dude playing the drumset in the video for 'The Boys Of Summer'? Are you old eno...
Posted by Andrew Lindstrom on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:50:00 PST

Im gonna sell this joke to Neil Hamburger...

I'm gonna sell this joke to Neil Hamburger.  I just came up with it: 1955 - Fritz Lang is at an exclusive party hosted by Alfred Hitchcock at his Bel-Air estate.  He vomits violently into a ...
Posted by Andrew Lindstrom on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:14:00 PST

Cecil Taylor re: Karlheinz Stockhausen

Last summer [1964] I went over to the Judson Church to hear the [Karlheinz Stockhausen work] Zeitmasse, and there were all the Storm Troopers, shuttling everybody around and trying to look like they w...
Posted by Andrew Lindstrom on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:49:00 PST

Joe Carducci Is A Genius

There are many useful approaches to rock drumming. What can't be dispensed with is that it must be apparent when listening to the music that the drummer feels the rhythm and is swimming with it, or si...
Posted by Andrew Lindstrom on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:32:00 PST