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 ]
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08/16/77
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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:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7
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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