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Gerard

Slam the slam door and scream

About Me

2nd generation Punk Rocker, 1st generation Hardcore kid, and I was an active participant of what is now recognized as the 1st generation of the American Independent Underground (Indie Rock). I was a member of the group PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH (Homestead Records), but also have previous musical associations with some lessor or better known bands along the way. Current musical projects include CANARTIC (Austin, TX) and I recently played on the new THIRD BORDER album, produced by Roger Miller (MISSION OF BURMA) and Laurence Miller (DESTROY ALL MONSTERS). The album is called SUN OF WATER, SEA OF LIGHT and is available on Radial Records. You can purchase THIRD BORDER's "Sun of Water, Sea of Light" on CD Baby here: http://cdbaby.com/cd/thirdborder2

My Interests

Playing artful punk rock. Playing not so artful punk rock. Maintaining my interest.

I'd like to meet:

The guy who shrieks unintelligibly at exactly 7 am every morning from an undisclosed location in my otherwise bucolic neighborhood. Yeah, that guy exactly.

Music:

Stuff like Canartic, Gene Clark, The Liars, The Rogers Sisters, The Rolling Stones, Minor Threat, The Fall, Guided By Voices, The Stooges, Iggy, Mastodon, The Hellacopters, Velvet Underground, Dead Boys, Led Zeppelin, Mission of Burma, 8 Eyed Spy, The Contortions, 13th Floor Elevators, AC/DC, Alice In Chains, Avengers, Bad Brains, Big Black, Big Star, Black Flag, Blue Oyster Cult, Brian Eno, Buzzcocks, Captain Beefheart, Carcass, Charles Mingus, Charlie Haden, Chet Baker, Chris D. (The Flesheaters & The Divine Horsemen), Come, Count Five, Cramps, Death of Samantha, Deerhoof, Dictators, Dinosaur Jr., Discharge, Dream Syndicate, Einsturzende Neubauten, Flipper, Gang of Four, Les Savy Fav, Gun Club, Guns N Roses, Half Japanese, Henry Cow, Husker Du, Jefferson Airplane, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, Killing Joke, Kiss, Laughing Hyenas, lcd soundsystem, Lightning Bolt, Link Wray, Live Skull, Love, Lucinda Williams, Mars, Massacre, MC5, Miles Davis, Minutemen, Moby Grape, Monster Magnet, Mott The Hoople, Motorhead, Mudhoney, My Bloody Valentine, My Dad Is Dead, Negative Approach, Neil Young, New York Dolls, Nick Drake, Nomads, Oneida, Ornette Coleman, Os Mutantes, Phantom Tollbooth, Pink Floyd, Pontiac Brothers, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Primal Scream, Public Image Ltd, Pussy Galore, Radio 4, Radio Birdman, Rapeman, Ruts, Raybeats, Redd Kross, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, Rick Derringer, Rick James, The Faces, Ramones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rudimentary Peni, Salem 66, Savage Republic, Scratch Acid, Scream, Screaming Trees, Sex Pistols, Shellac, The Seeds, Sightings, Slade, Sonic Youth, Spacemen 3, Squeeze, Steely Dan, Suicide, Swans, Sweet, T. Rex, Talking Heads, Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, Television, Third Border, The Animals, B-52's, The Bellrays, Turbonegro, Birthday Party, Black Crowes, Charlatans U.K., Pere Ubu, The Chills, Circle Jerks, The Cult, The Damned, The Cure, Drive-By-Truckers, Eastern Dark, The Ex, The Feelies, The Flesh, Germs, Kinks, Melvins, Necros, The Move, The Creation, The Pretenders, The Pretty Things, The Rapture, The Replacements, The Scientists, The Seeds, The Slits, The Sonics, The Undertones, The Who, Tool, UK Subs, Van Halen, Volcano Suns, U.S. Maple, Void, Voivod, Wire, X, X-Ray Spex, Yes, Yo La Tengo, The Dillinger Escape Plan

Television:

I can't commit.

Books:

The Devil Tree (Jerzy Kosinski), Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller), The Big Nowhere (James Ellroy), Green Eggs and Ham

Heroes:

Thomas Edison, Carlo Filangieri