Member Since: 3/20/2007
Band Website: philsolem.net
Band Members: Moi
Influences: My dad, Adolph 'Al' Solem,who sang me to sleep every night as a kid, not to mention that he showed me all the 'cowboy chords'; Dean Martin (I thought I sounded just like him when I was 4), Elvis Presley, too much cartoon music & TV theme songs, Ricky Nelson, Nat King Cole, The Beatles (together and seperately), Glen Campbell (the Man himself, and all the great artists featured on his classic show The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour)), Jimmy Webb (he wrote my all-time fave - Witchita Lineman), Peter Noone (I was actually lucky enough to be in his band the Tremblers, and do a record with him, produced by Bruce Johnson of the Beach Boys!), and his band, Herman's Hermits; then there was The Everly Brothers, The Monkees (and songs by Boyce & Hart & Neil Diamond), the Turtles, Chet Atkins, Buck Owens, Andy Williams, Henry Mancini (Moon River - another fave), Leonard Bernstein, Burt Bacharach, Jose Feliciano, Carlos Montoya, Roy Orbison, The Doors, The Stones, Bob Dylan (my homeboy), David Bowie, Zep, Cheap Trick, Eno, Focus, Yes, King Crimson, Queen... tons of 50's, 60's and 70's music of every variety were my life's soundtrack... where do I begin? ...and where does it end? Well, there are the 80's and 90's, and that's a whole other story...Thinking back to when music didn't have to fit into such tight catagories, where I believe it's going tomorrow, judging by MySpace, where you can get it all, and it's about time. Gotta love Beethoven, Stravinsky, Aaron Copeland, and their ilk, too, without whom none of the above would have evolved. Oh, and lest I forget, Jimi Hendrix, who snuck in there while I was all into classical music as a teen. Whoa... what about Jan Ackerman? The list reads on and on and on and on...Give me music with real music in it. It's about melodies, baby.
Sounds Like: Me, and a little of all of the above
Record Label: label-free
Type of Label: None