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Stephen O'Sullivan Knopp

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About Me

Amalgam of disparate influences...Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/1/2007
Band Website: N/A
Band Members: Uncertain
Influences: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (The Newton of composition), IANNIS XENAKIS, Gérard Grisey, George Crumb, CHARLES IVES, ELLIOT CARTER, JIMI HENDRIX, MILES DAVIS, PANTERA, Iron Maiden, THE BEATLES, JOHN LENNON, SYD BARRETT, JAMES DILLON, BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH, MR.BUNGLE, Jani Christou, JOE ZAWINUL, BILL EVANS, HERBIE HANCOCK, JOHN COLTRANE, TOOL, JASON ECKARDT, The Police, Kenn Gartner, Cory Smythe, Wayne Shorter, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Chick Corea, RADIOHEAD, Dr. Dre, The Wolfe Tones, Shawn Lane, SCOTT HENDERSON, SCOTT KINSEY, ALLAN HOLDSWORTH, Greg Howe, GYORGY LIGETI, MICHAEL FINNISSY, TRISTAN MURAIL, JEFF NICHOLS, BUD POWELL, WILHELM KEMPFF, ANDRAS SCHIFF, GLENN GOULD, GUSTAV LEONHARDT, MARC PONTHUS, MARILYN NONKEN, MARTHA ARGERICH, Morton Feldman, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Johnny Winter, Muddy Waters, S.R.V., Buddy Guy, WOLFGANG RIHM, John Zorn, Rory Gallagher, Tony Williams.NON-MUSICAL: The American Transcendentalists - specifically Thoreau and Emerson - Pynchon, Atwood, Huxley, Proust, David Hume, Francis Bacon, Isaac Asimov, Carl Sagan, Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, Michael Collins, James Connolly, Pádraig Pearse, Bobby Sands, James Joyce, Kafka, Ivan Turgenev, Issac Newton, Werner Von Braun - Father of U.S. Space Program, Marvin Minsky, Anthony Storr, Thomas P. Hughes.
Sounds Like: Life-affirming musical pleasantry bound by ecstatic Spirituality.
Type of Label: Indie