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Marty E.

A Wasted Life is Better Spent in the City!!!!

About Me



I guess you could say I'm a hell raising, drum slamming, beer swilling, moonlight soaking, 4AM street strolling, American Rock N Roller... I play the drums like there's no tomorrow and there never was a yesterday.
...you can check out various shit that I've done previously RIGHT HERE.
...but who the hell needs the past?
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Don't even ask what possessed me to post these surveys....
You Are a Punk Rocker!
When it comes to rock, you don't follow any rules You know that rocking out is all about taking down the man You've got an incredible stage presence and rock persona You scare moms, make bad girls swoon, and live life on the edge! What Kind of Rocker Are You?
The Cure Shares Your Taste in Music
See their whole playlist here (iTunes required)
Which Musician (or Group) Shares Your Taste in Music?
You Are 50% Weird
Normal enough to know that you're weird...
But too damn weird to do anything about it! How Weird Are You?
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for your music!
You scored as NEW YORK. HOW YOU DOIN? YOUR A NEW YORKER!
NEW YORK


92%

LOUISIANA


67%

FLORIDA


67%

WASHINGTON


67%

California


50%

NEVADA


33%

UTAH


33%

WYOMING


25%
What state should you live in?
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I AM NOT THIS WAY, THE WAY I AM, BECAUSE I'M IN A BAND. I'M IN A BAND BECAUSE I'M THIS WAY. - David Lee Roth
"Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends." -Tom Waits
"He said, 'Son, learn to play something, and you'll always have friends.'" -Ronnie Lane (The Faces, The Small Faces), relating his father's advice
"...This Power is no mystery to us now..." -Jeff Buckley
"Friends applaud, the comedy is finished." -Ludwig van Beethoven's last words
"I think I might have started one last night!" -David Lee Roth, on family
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy!"-Tom Waits
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"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, strategem, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affection dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted." -Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Q: How does it feel to be the Jesse James of Rock? A: "William Bonney would be more accurate. Jesse James was motivated by greed, while Billy the Kid did it for the fun of it. All Americans are outlaws." -Jim Morrison
"I like Rock & Roll; I don't like much else." -John Lennon
"Music today is a bunch of groaning, whining, pseudo-serious, angst-ridden dolts. At some point Rock N Roll became Rock, then it became big business...my job...is to be the Cheese Whiz in the caviar of life." -Mojo Nixon
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom."-Jim Morrisson
"I don't want to romanticise liquor to the point of ridiculousness...maybe I should have a beer, what do you think? I mean, what time is it here? I'll have a Becks." -Tom Waits
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do."- Elvis Costello
"To get your playing more forceful, hit the drums harder." -Keith Moon's admirable grasp of the obvious.
"We are the biggest band in Britain of all time, ever. The funny thing is, that fucking mouthing off three years ago about how we were gonna be the biggest band in the world, we actually went and done it." -Noel Gallagher
"Achievement is for the senators and scholars. At one time I had ambitions, but I had them removed by a doctor in Buffalo."-Tom Waits
Q:How'd you start on drums? A:"Jesus Christ.I think I got a free drum kit in a packet of corn flakes. Ahhahaha!"-Keith Moon
"Art is the last thing I'm worried about...As far as I'm concerned, art is just short for 'Arthur.'"-Keith Richards
"Classic Van Halen made you want to drink, dance and fuck. Current Van Halen encourages us to drink milk, drive a Nissan and have a relationship." -David Lee Roth
"Well...My daddy, he didn't leave me much, you know he was a very simple man, but what he did tell me was this, he did say, 'Son,' he said 'You know it's possible to become so defiled in this world that your own father and mother will abandon you, and if that happens, God will always believe in your ability to mend your ways.'" -Bob Dylan, Accepting a Grammy Award in 1991
"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to." - Elvis Presley
We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world." -Noel Gallagher
"It doesn't matter when you get it....as long as you get it." - Mick Jones (the Clash), on understanding great music.
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart." - e e cummings
"He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long." -Martin Luther, 1777
"Rock N' Roll can mean a million different things to a million different people. I have a million fucking ideas about what Led Zeppelin's "Custard Pie" might be about!"-Izzy Stradlin'
"Energy and persistence conquer all things." -- Benjamin Franklin
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." Berthold Auerbach
"Music is a higher revelation than philosophy." Ludwig van Beethoven
"Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend." Ludwig van Beethoven
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Leonard Huxley
"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself." Henry Miller
"Without music life would be a mistake." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage. -David Lee Roth
"In music the passions enjoy themselves." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." William Jennings Bryan
"It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature." Albert Camus
"Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito." Confucius
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." Albert Einstein
"Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure." Joseph Heller
"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Chaos is the score upon which reality is written." Henry Miller
The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot. - David Lee Roth
"The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface." Aldous Leonard Huxley
"Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never." Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." Albert Einstein
"Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?" Benjamin Franklin
"You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand." Leonardo da Vinci
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do." Benjamin Franklin
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it. - David Lee Roth
"It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten." Charles Baudelaire
"It was nice to see 'em...wouldn't wanna be 'em." - Izzy Stradlin, on his former band
"It's not about selling albums, it's about being real!" - Liam Gallagher
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He's not kidding!!!
It was a sad day for Rock N' Roll.
MY OTHER DREAM JOB!

My Interests

Basically, I like to play Rock N Roll, fuck, sleep, and drink. I don't care much for anything else.

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I'd like to meet:

I'm just out to play some Rock N' Roll, and have some drinks and laughs afterward....the rest, you can keep!

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Music:

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AC/DC, Hellacopters, Motorhead, Kiss, the Cult, Rolling Stones, Van Halen (Roth-era only), Tom Waits, Guns N' Roses (also Izzy Stradlin', Duff McKagan, Slash's Snakepit, Gilby Clarke, etc.), Jeff Buckley, Oasis, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, H.I.M., Thin Lizzy, Iron Maiden, the Clash, Cheap Trick, Replacements, Hanoi Rocks, Cramps, Radio Birdman, Unsane, Faces, Backyard Babies, Super$hit 666, Deftones, the Four Horsemen, Plexi, Motley Crue, Bob Dylan, PJ Harvey, Iggy Pop, Afghan Whigs, Jesus Lizard, The Stills, Nick Cave, Babylon Bombs, Marilyn Manson, Lords of the New Church, Social Distortion, Hoodoo Gurus, Prince, Big Star/Alex Chilton, Immortal Technique, Muse, Velvet Revolver, Johnny Thunders/Heartbreakers, Towers of London, Electric Angels/the Loveless, Manic Street Preachers, Turbonegro, Vain, Mott the Hoople, Glyder, Killswitch Engage, Plimsouls, Johnny Cash, Jim Carroll, Townes Van Zandt, Judas Priest, Kings of Leon, the Cramps, Ours, MC5, Johnny Cash, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, the Walkmen, Surgery, The Drams, Mondo Generator, Diamond Head, A Perfect Circle, New American Shame, Girls Against Boys, Circus of Power, Spiritualized, Helmet, Masters of Reality, Tomahawk, Mars Volta, Big Black, (old) Aerosmith, Therapy?, Gunfire Dance, Beat Angels, Clutch, Sex Pistols, Sisters of Mercy, Ramones, the Verve/Richard Ashcroft, Supersuckers, Gram Parsons, Swervedriver, the Alarm, Raveonettes, X, Cows, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Tomahawk, ZZ Top, Black Halos, Queensryche, Rev. Horton Heat, Black Moses, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Dogs D'Amour, Dramarama, Soundgarden, Patti Smith, the Gits, Slint, Calla, WASP, Peter Laughner, Cop Shoot Cop, the Wanderers, Catherine Wheel, Wildhearts, Dead Boys, Warlocks, Dropkick Murphys, Queens of the Stone Age, the Cure, Billy Idol, Trivium, The Zombies, X, Portishead, Early Man, Artimus Pyledriver, Feeder, the Damned, James Hall/Pleasure Club/Mary My Hope, Mark Lanegan, Mother Love Bone, the Bronx, Led Zeppelin, Tesla, Lou Reed, Silvertide, Slim Dunlap, AFI, the Darkness, Deep Purple, NIN, the Yo Yo's, Bloc Party, Gun Club, the Front, Coyote Shivers, New York Dolls, Nashville Pussy, Nymphs, Skindred, Quicksand, Season to Risk, Tokyo Dragons, Bad Brains, Urge Overkill, the Joneses, Kasabian, Swell, Zen Guerrilla, Dirty Pretty Things, Hank Williams, Thee Hypnotics, Mastodon, Stiff Little Fingers, Tapes N' Tapes, Love & Rockets, My Morning Jacket, System of a Down, Ray Charles, Monster Magnet, James, Sneaker Pimps, Salty Dog, Die Kreuzen, the Go, Shellac, Joe Bonamassa, Sponge, Cheap & Nasty, T-Rex, Heroine Sheiks, The Only Ones, Entombed, Faithless, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Snatches of Pink, Peter Murphy, Tommy Bolin, the Zutons, Lynyrd Skynyrd, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, Killing Joke, Buckcherry, the Raconteurs, Roadstar, Roky Erikson, Seduce, Rose Tattoo, Black Heart Procession, Two-Bit Thief, Big Trouble House, Rage Against the Machine, Stiff Little Fingers, Venison, Drunk Drivers, Pisser/Honky Toast, Trashlight Vision, Mad Juana, etc.

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Movies:

Mystic River, Jacob's Ladder, Blow, Be Here To Love Me, Carlito's Way, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Bowling For Columbine, Mystery Train, Trainspotting, Heat, Farenheit 911, Down By Law, Dead Man, Ghost Dog, Mimento, The Usual Suspects, The Metal Years, Gimme Shelter, Barfly, 9 & 1/2 Weeks, Basketball Diaries, Wild Orchid, Mystery Train, Igby Goes Down, Wonderland, Blue in the Face, Sea of Love, Magnolia, Wonderland, Henry and June, the Empire Strikes Back, 21 Grams, Saw, Smoke, Snatch, etc.

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Television:

Dirt, Sopranos, Entourage, HUFF (put it BACK on the fucking AIR!), Weeds, Sleeper Cell, Brotherhood, Big Love, Six Feet Under, Kid Notorious, Arrested Development, Adult Swim cartoons, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Cheers, That 70's Show, Court TV, VH1 Classics, Fuse, MTV2, CNN, the History Channel...shit like that...

Books:

Fante:Ask the Dust, Bukowski:Women, Miller:Tropic of Cancer, Motherless Brooklyn, Please Kill Me, Hagakure, Rimbaud: Complete Works, Jim Carroll:Book of Nods, Dylan:Chronicles, Twain:Pudd'nhead Wilson, Dumas:Count of Monte Cristo, Rock N Roll books in general, anything by Bukowski, Henry Miller, John Fante...Poetry by Rimbaud, Shelley, Lord Byron, etc....I wish I had more time to read.
"My Groupie"
I read last Saturday in the
redwoods outside of Santa Cruz
and I was about 3/4's finished
when I heard a long high scream
and a quite attractive
young girl came running toward me
long gown & divine eyes of fire
and she leaped up on the stage
and screamed: "I WANT YOU!
I WANT YOU! TAKE ME! TAKE
ME!"
I told her, "look, get the hell
away from me."
but she kept tearing at my
clothing and throwing herself
at me.
"where were you," I
asked her, "when I was living
on one candy bar a day and
sending short stories to the
Atlantic Monthly?"
she grabbed my balls and almost
twisted them off. her kisses
tasted like shitsoup.
2 women jumped up on the stage
and
carried her off into the
woods.
I could still hear her screams
as I began the next poem.
mabye, I thought, I should have
taken her on stage in front
of all those eyes.
but one can never be sure
whether it's good poetry or
bad acid.
-Charles Bukowski

Heroes:

Let's just blame it all on Mick & Keith and call it even...

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My Blog

Musings on the Cathartic Sting of Disappointment or I'm Really Fucking Pissed Off!!!

Alright.  So, for some reason, The Union Dead are over.Why? It sure beats the living hell out of me.I guess certain people in the band lack the proper "confidence" required to get onstage and pla...
Posted by Marty E. on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:11:00 PST

My Top 10 Favorite Songs (that I first heard) in 2006

As much as music might suck these days to degrees that I'd never imagined it could, that in no way means I've stopped loving Rock N' Roll Music more than anything on Earth.  Like a bunko slice of...
Posted by Marty E. on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 02:32:00 PST

6 Great albums for the Winter fucking BLAHS!!!!

Wintertime....I'm sure all you kiddies on the West Coast and the South don't feel the chill and consequently the alteration of body/mind chemistry that comes with the Winter months the way we do on th...
Posted by Marty E. on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:53:00 PST

Radio Birdman at Irving Plaza 9/8/06

A lot of people haven't heard of Radio Birdman, which is too bad.Mainman/guitarist/songwriter Deniz Tek was a Detroit native during the late 60's/early 70's, and saw all those great MC5 and Stooges sh...
Posted by Marty E. on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 03:54:00 PST

My Letter Home on 9/12/01

Everyone's talking about the 5th anniversery of 9/11.  You hear all kinds of bullshit from the pundits and our so-called President about whether we are "safe" or "safer", as if anything any of th...
Posted by Marty E. on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 02:32:00 PST

URGE OVERKILL - Reflections on a band who had it all and then blew it

I was walking to work today in the 97 degree New York City heat, and Urge Overkill's "Sister Havana" came on.  It made my mind wander to all the crazy summers I've had with this song playing in t...
Posted by Marty E. on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 06:05:00 PST

If you've never been to Maine....

....I highly suggest you make the trip up there sometime, especially if you live on the East Coast. First of all, it has the most beautiful coastline I've ever seen in my life (or so as not to piss an...
Posted by Marty E. on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 03:16:00 PST

The Black Crowes w/ the Drive By Truckers at the Borgata, Atlantic City, 7/16/06

Well, we didn't realize that the Drive By Truckers were going on right at 7PM, for crying out loud!  We saw the last 4 songs of their set, which I'm assuming was a pretty short one.  But I g...
Posted by Marty E. on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 05:55:00 PST

Some killer Rock N' Roll I've recently discovered

Between one damn thing and another, playing shows, seeing shows, family weddings, and the general BS of life, I've done quite a bit of traveling up and down the East Coast this Summer.  Consequen...
Posted by Marty E. on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 04:55:00 PST

Favorite Recent Albums....and disappointments

These are some albums that came out in the past year that I think are great and highly recommend: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club-Howl and Howl Sessions EP:  I was sure sprprised by this album, to sa...
Posted by Marty E. on Sat, 27 May 2006 06:34:00 PST