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Ben

my life is a rock joyride ~ww

About Me

Musician (primarily drums and percussion), Surfer, and Student from Boston

My Interests

Surfing, Music, Africa, Latin America, the Ocean

Music:

Melodesiac (my band), Fela Kuti, Antibalas, Steel Pulse, Bob Marley, Black Uhuru, the Roots, Dangelo, Aesop Rock, RJD2, Tool, Common, Soulive, Third World, Israel Vibration, Richard Bona, Youssou N'Dour, Salif Keita, Trane, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn, Zakir Hussain, Miles, Aesop Rock, Curtis Mayfield, James Brown, Bilal, Erykah Badu, Femi Kuti, Wes Montgomery, Elvin Jones, Bobby Timmons, Michel Camilo, Tito Puente, De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest, Herbie Hancock.......honestly the list could go on forever

Television:

no thanks

Books:

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Soledad Brother, Old Man and the Sea, many more...

Heroes:

Thomas Sankara, Robert Nesta Marley, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Che Guevara, Pablo Neruda, so many....