Music:
Member Since: 2/10/2007
Band Website: myspace.com/duryeahawkinsmusic
Band Members:
Duryea Hawkins:
Vocals Guild and Fender guitars Lee Oskar harmonicas Keyboards Percussion
Influences:
... include but aren't even remotely limited to the following:
[NB: Non-musical influences (including the tone-deaf and the rhythmically challenged) have been moved to my personal site: www.myspace.com/duryeahawkins ]
08/12/80 08/16/77 #9 Aage "Alexandra Leaving" (cf. Constantine P. Cavafy ) "And my soul has been psychedelicized." "Answering Machine"
Astral Weeks "Away, you rolling river." Badfinger Chet Baker The Band The Beatles The B-52's Big Star The Birthday Party
The Blue Mask (Happy 25th anniversary!) "The Blue Mask" Billy Bragg Clifford Brown Brownie's (in its former incarnation) Buena Vista Social Club Buffalo Springfield T Bone Burnett "But I don't need a cure, d-don't need a cure, d-don't need a cure..."
1 | 2 (a surprisingly faithful cover)"But Tony couldn't fly... Tony died." (cf. Influences below) The Buzzcocks Charlie Byrd The Byrds John Cale Johnny Cash Cat's Cradle The Cave Nick Cave Lewis Caviness CBGB The Cellar Door Cerberus Alex Chilton Tim Christensen The Clash Shane Cochran Leonard Cohen John Coltrane Ry Cooder Julian Cope Elvis Costello Country Joe and the Fish Creedence Clearwater Revival Marshall Crenshaw The Culture Club The Cure Da-da-da-dum... dum... dum... dum... da-daaa-dum
1 | 2Bill Davis Miles Davis "A Day in the Life" The dB's Jarabe de Palo Del Amitri "Depende" "... didn't you?"
Disraei GearsDon Dixon Kevin Dixon Willie Dixon "Don't Ask me - I don't give a damn." "Don't follow leaders." "Don't hang me up and don't let me down." "Don't Let Me Down" Dream Syndicate Dave Dunton Duryea Place Bob Dylan Jonathan Edwards Lisa Ekdahl
The Electric Company "Emily tries but misunderstands." "Feed your head." The Feelies Flat Duo Jets "Flea... flea fly... flea fly flo vista... coomalada coomalada coomalada vista... no no no no noad avista... eeni meeny examamie oo ah koala... maniacs a exmamie salameenie oo ah koa... beep biddly oh doh a did a do wah... shhh..." (NB: Singing this out loud once a day will add three years to your life.) Edwin Louis Fountain James Fox Marie Frank "Frank Sinatra" Charles & Elaine Gardiner Noah Gardiner Gasolin' "Get out of that state." Philip Glass Dexter Gordon Green on Red Grande's (Wildwod, NJ) "Growin' Up" Guadalcanal Diary :
1 | 2The Gun Club Hallelujah Mr. Hamm
A Hard Day's Night Robert Hazard and The Heroes "Heart of Darkness/30 Seconds Over Tokyo" He's Not Here Robyn Hitchcock Buddy Holly John Lee Hooker Husker Du "I fell right into the arms of Venus de Milo."
Studio feud: 1 | 2"I get your point... you're so sharp." "I guess I like it fine... so far." "I hand you my ball and chain. You just hand me that same old refrain..." (See "The most underappreciated artist of our time" below) "I know we'll meet again some sunny day." "I Put a Spell on You" "I remember how the darkness doubled, I recall lightning struck itself." (Incomparable) "I was listening to the air conditioner hum. It went hmm...'" "Imagine" (A must see):
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7"In my mind I'm gone to Carolina."The Incredible String Band The iPod "It wasn't a rock." "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" "Jai guru deva om." The Jam Jason and the Scorchers The Jayhawks
Jesus Christ Superstar Robert Johnson Freedy Johnston Joy Division
The Jungle Book Kashmir King Crimson King Missile The Kinks KISS Chrissi Kleine The Knitting Factory
Koyaanisqatsi "La la la..."
1 | more?John Lennon Let's Active "Lord knows I've paid some dues gettin' through." "Love is a banquet on which we feed."
A Love Supreme Love Tractor The Magnetic Fields "Mama, take this badge off of me." Matt Umanov Guitars Maxo and the Cube-o-Nauts Maxwell's Mazzy Star Meat Puppets Mercury Lounge Charles Mingus Joni Mitchell The Modern Lovers Thelonius Monk Van Morrison The Mothers of Invention New Order "New Sounds" with John Schaefer
1 | 2New York Dolls "Nobody Hurts You" "Non-Alignment Pact" "Oh, sha-la-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la-la. Hey, baby, come on, lets slip away." "Out on the streets for a living." Graham Parker Gram Parsons The Pier Pere Ubu Itzhak Perlman Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Pixies The Police
A Prairie Home Companion Elvis Presley Punk Pylon Rain Parade The Ramones Lou Reed R.E.M. Steve Reich
Remain in Light The Replacements Reunions:
1 | more?Jonathan Richman "River of Love" "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" at The Varsity Theater The Rolling Stones Roxy Music Kevin Salem David Bradley Schmidt Schoolkids The Schramms Ed Sciaky (cf. WMMR ) "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy." Michelle Sents Mrs. Service Shagging (Get your mind out of the gutter.) Shakespeare The Silos Slickee Boys Patti Smith The Smiths "Some say she's from Mars or one of the seven stars." Sonic Youth "Stay glued to your T.V. set." Al Stewart The Stooges "Street Hassle" The Suzuki Method "Suzy Creamcheese" Matthew Sweet Talking Heads Television "... (laughs) the monkey and the plywood violin." "This Must Be the Place" (The one and only) David Thomas (The nonpareil) Richard Thompson:
Documentary:
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Live:
1 | 2Tower Records Pete Townshend True West "Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream." "Uh, how do call your lover boy?" The Upper Deck jukebox (now accepting first-hand reconstructions):
Definitely:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | more?
Maybe:
1 | 2 | 3 | more?The Velvet Underground
The Village Green Preservation Society Tom Waits
Watusi Rodeo Paul Westerberg The White Horse Tavern Hank Williams WMMR (1978-1981) (cf. Ed Sciaky ) WNYC WXYC "Yeah..." "You Can't Always Get What You Want" "You can't see it 'til it's finished." Neil Young "You're so pretty when you're unfaithful to me." Zen Frisbee Warren Zevon
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All (or at least a pretty fair proportion) of the above.
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