Member Since: 3/27/2007
Influences: As stated the Grateful Dead but I think that my life was changed forever when I heard "I Saw Her Standing There" by the Beatles !!!!!! Roy Orbison, the Doors, Love, Batdorf and Rodney, The Sex Pistols, REM, Emmy Lou Harris, The Meat Puppets, The Electric Prunes, Frank Zappa, Capt. Beefheart, Mozart, Handell, Todd Rundgren, Woody Guthrie, Joni Mitchel, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Moms Mayballe, Lena Horne, Bing Crosby, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Amazing Blondel, Pearls Before Swine, Gentel Gaint, Jethro Tull, Hot Tuna, Canned Heat, BB King, Blind Wille Matell, Yes, Flatt and Shrugs, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Fleetwood Mac before Stevie Nicks, David Bromberg, Tom Waits, Pete Seeger, Savoy Brown, Ten Years After, The New Christy Minstrels, The Kinks, Peter Paul and Mary, Donavan, The Rolling Stones, Tom Rush, Leo Kottke, Crash Test Dummies, Stevie Wonder, Patti Smith, and last but not least because he is the one I most wanted to be like Jimi Hendrix................. Reading this list over after a while, I see there are a few who inspired me and continue to such as John Sebastian and the Loving Spoonful, Cream, Judi Collins, James Taylor,Allison Krauss, John McLaughlin, Miles Davis, Wes Montgomery, The Who. I know that I could keep on going because not in the list is Thunderclap Newman, a Canadian band called the Cats, Child, Lee Michaels, The Band. I even was inspired by the likes of the 1910 Fruitgum Company (go figure) Judy Garland, the King Family Singers (Aldo Ray with his talking pedal steel just blew me away as a kid)--------------------------I have been inspired by those who I have around me, my family mostly, Cause they are what is important to me, friends and jamming buddies, and those that travel with me on the steps to a free life style--at least 12 of them (lol)
Sounds Like: An interresting mix of acoustic cosmic sounds. Sort of a musical stream of conscieness down uncharted sonic waterways. Or it might just be simple melodies played with reckless abandon. Kinda like the aroma of blueberry pancakes and bacon cooked over a campfire with some exotic spices thrown in. Whatever it sounds like, it is a self expression of my love of life and the joy of playing.
Record Label: Unsigned