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matthew armistead

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About Me

I obtained a drumset in 1991. I play in these bands:
Bright Duplex (I play clarinet and drums with bright duplex)
Harry J. Anslinger
Aurora Plastics Company
Plutonium Farmers

I used to play with The Clarified Butter, Better, Pine Pettichoke and Carl Smith's E.C.F.A. as well as Downtown Grapeshot and the Vivian Girls(austin)

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/18/2007
Influences: Tony Williams
Evan Parker
Rashied Ali
Mal Waldron
Iannis Xenakis
Sven-Ã…ke Johansson
Sten Sandell
The Pixies
Mary Halvorson
Bern Nix
The Blue Humans
Beaver Harris
The Minute Men
Buffalo Tom
Alvin Fielder
Bobby Timmons
Zach Hill
Pheeroan Aklaff
Michael Carvin
Charles Ives
Allen Armistead
Sidney Bechet
Steve Lacy
John Cage
Charlotte Hug
Ahmad Jamal
Hank Jones
Wes Montgomery
Roy Brooks
Don Byron
Axel Dörner
Zeena Parkins
Love and Rockets
Bauhaus
Lush
Carl Smith
Chris Cogburn
Odean Pope
Joe Chambers
Milford Graves
Sergio Mendes
Larry Young
Stefon Harris
Clayton Thomas
Lester Young
Billy Hart
Tatsuya Nakatani
Fred Hopkins
Bobby Hutcherson
Paul Bley
McCoy Tyner
Bobby Few
Pat Patrick
John Gilmore
Rudi Mahall
Trevor Dunn
Karl Berger
Noah Howard
Gerri Allen
William Hooker
Charles Waters
Sirone
Joey Baron
Dinosaur Jr.
My Bloody Valentine
Raymond Strid
The Revolutionary Ensemble
Leroy Jenkins
Jerome Cooper
Scott Beckey
Steve McCall
John Betch
Bill Dixon
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Butthole Surfers
Alan Silva
Clarence Penn
Dave Dove
Dave Douglas
Matthias Bauer
James Blood Ulmer
A.D. Mannion
Chris Corsano
Vanessa Niwi Rossetto
Keith Jarrett
Hal Blaine
Dave Holland
Chick Corea
Ken Vandermark
Mats Gustafson
Alan Dawson
Booker Ervin
Peter Brötzmann
Han Bennink
Peter Kowald
Blind Willie Johnson
Lionel Hampton
Keith Rowe
Stuart Bogey
Richard Williams
Dieter Scherf
Paul Lovens
Jack McDuff
Billy Higgins
Barry Harris
Eddie Harris
Hank Mobley
Lou Gare
Eddie Prévost
Sonny Sharrock
Ronald Shannon Jackson
Charles Tyler
Marzette Watts
Rashaan Roland Kirk
Grady Tate
Art Tatum
Dizzy Gillespie
Elvin Jones
James Black
Yusef Lateef
Charles Davis
Chico Hamilton
Ornette Coleman
Erroll Garner
Gene Krupa
Frédéric Blondy
Lightning Bolt
Sonny Greer
Mike Clark
Wynton Kelly
Paul Chambers
Art Taylor
Stanley Turrentine
Dave Burns
Carlos "Patato" Valdes
Keith Jarrett
Paul Motion
Charlie Haden
Sonny Clark
Kenny Dennis
Tommy Flanagan
Cedar Walton
Jimmy Cobb
Lex Humphries
luqman ali(Edward Skinner)
Tommy Hunter
Don Byas
Aaron Dugan
Lisa Cameron
Charlie Haden
Paul Motion
Scott Lafaro
Bill Evans
Joe McPhee
Paal Nilssen-love
Dewey Redman
Alice Coltrane
Mc Coy Tyner
Clifford Brown
Abbey Lincoln
Big Sid Catlett
Art Blakey
Edward Kennedy Ellington
Zutty Singleton
Chick Webb
Andrew Hill
Gary Peacock
Don Cherry
Billy Strayhorn
Fats Waller
Ben Webster
Cornelius Cardew
Charles Moffet
Coleman Hawkins
Phineas Newborn Jr.
Joe Henderson
John Coltrane
Pharaoh Sanders
Charlie Parker
AMM
Freddie Waits
Nasheet Waits
Denis Charles
Tom Price
Travis Weller
Elizabeth Warren
Sonny Terry
Cecil Taylor
Jimmy Lyons
Jimmy Garrison
Archie Shepp
Max Roach
William Parker
Anthony Cole
Joshua Redman
Gerald Cleaver
Hamid Drake
Sam Rivers
"Mississippi" Fred Mc Dowell
Tony Malaby
Thelonious Monk
Howlin' Wolf
Buddy Rich
Prince
Mozart
Tony Conrad
Freddie Hubbard
Bob James
Robert Pozar
Charles Lloyd
Tom Price
Miles Davis
Skip James
Sonny Simmons
Smiley Winters
Richard Davis
Jon Donovan
Marion Brown
Jonathan Horne
Rob Brown
Konk Pack
Roger Turner
Tom Rainey
Gerry Hemingway
Nels Cline
Hubbub
Henry Grimes
Herbie Hancock
Johnny Griffin
Reggie Workman
Shostakovich
Carl Stalling
Clifford Jarvis
Sun-Ra
Philly Joe Jones
Dennis Chambers
George Coleman
Buddy DeFranco
Steve Ellington
John Tchicai
Malachi Favors
Son House
Otis Cleveland
Roy Haynes
Papa Jo Jones
Cab Calloway
Lê Quan Ninh
Charles Mingus
Eric Dolphy
Albert Ayler
Denardo Coleman
Edward Blackwell
Elis Regina
James Brown
Clyde Stubblefield
Jabo Starks

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My Blog

know your nanny....

peak times and the duty of a womanizerchannel train and real time audiowe cannot rewind to a better place anymorefeel like the time has come to pass and pass it shallI am in the kitchen barefoot and p...
Posted by matthew armistead on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:57:00 PST

all the poems......

WARNING: CHEESE ALERT!!!!!! I hadn't ever really written anything before and these bad poems just started pouring out of my head last year:so much we haven't doneand so much we have donecome over and ...
Posted by matthew armistead on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:45:00 PST

transitional phases

fly me to the moon I can go with the shout take head off and replace foundry in the basement chance meeting of distanced relations never had it so good
Posted by matthew armistead on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:05:00 PST

anti-matter party

I can see this world working in my mindthe feeling is baretry to sleep with some comfort this timenothing is implied to know further truth and knowledgecan you turn down the street sound and the barra...
Posted by matthew armistead on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:38:00 PST