Songwriting, and everything about music's creation.I also dig on riding my Harley, listening to other local musicians, frequenting the pubs and clubs of Milwaukee, and being an architect.*Photos on this page are by Gareth Glynn Ash- The Celtic Camera.Check out his site at http://garethglynn.smugmug.com
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A recording and touring contract, local musicians, not-so-local musicians, songwriters, record labels, venues, corporate sponsorships, bike builders, and Jack Kerouac- even if it was just for lunch.
My band- The SandcarversMusical influences include (besides mom, Unlce Lee, and Uncle Steve):Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, Jay Farrar, Son Volt, Bottle Rockets, The Jayhawks, Ryan Adams, Whiskeytown, Drive-By Truckers, Flogging Molly, AC/DC, Traffic, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The White Stripes, Niel Young, The Pixies, Placebo, Razorlight, Powderfinger, Flogging Molly, The Young Dubliners, Seven Nations, Ian Gould, Gaelic Storm, The Fenians, The Clancy Brothers, Tommy Makem, The (original) Dubliners, Black Mist (my Detroit brothers), Black 47, The Pogues, and especially Tullamore Dew (your prodigal son carries your torch my friends!) Johhny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams, Hank Williams, Jr., Willie Nelson, and Merele Haggard, Robert Johnson, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Robert Parker and Jon Gewirtz.
COEN BROTHERS- The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Fargo. I listen for soundtracks.....see High Fidelity, Evil Dead II, The Blues Brothers, Braveheart, and Smokey and the Bandit.
Austin City Limits, VH-1's 'Behind The Music' and 'Storytellers', VH-1 Classics, FUSE, and Discovery I guess. Other than that, I listen to hours of music a night and read until the sun rises.
'On The Road'- Kerouac, 'Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenace'- Persig, 'Walden'- Thoreau, 'Howl'- Ginsberg, 'Naked Lunch'- Burroughs.
My grandfather Kitzman, my father, Chad (my brother), Mark (my cousin), Robert Johnson, Johhny Cash, Ronnie Van Zandt, and Jack Kerouac