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Mr. O'Muck

MISTER O'MUCK • " I THINK, THEREFORE I SCREAM!

About Me


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Began playing in front of others of my species (actually there was a large variety of fauna of various species running around most of the places I played) in 1968. Played the Gaslight Cafe, Gerde's Folk City, and other mostly subterranean establishments. Student of the late great Reverend Gary Davis 1969-1970. He called me a "sportin' gitar player". Dave Van Ronk said "that guy has a really good feeling for the blues" to my friend Roland Moussa whom he was sitting next to at the Gaslight. Spent a day with Bukka White in 1969. He asked me how come I didn't have a record out. Was scheduled to open for Skip James at the Gaslight but gig was called on the count of death (his not mine). " There are some real good guitarists here today!" said Brownie McGhee after hearing me play in a tent at the Ithica Folk Festival in 1971?. Led the bay area band" Grungie O'Muck with Rabies" in 1972 with my friend Jane McGarrigle, the eldest of the three McGarrigle sisters. Baby sister Kate McGarrigle included a song to Mr. O'Muck entitled "Homage a Grungie" On The McGarrigle sisters second album "Dancer with Bruised Knees". Thanks Kate. Played Harmonica behind George Gerdes on public TV in LA 1971?. Opened for Freddy King, 1973. Been on a lonnnnngggg sabatical.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/20/2007
Band Members: 1963 Martin D-18, 1946 Gibson LG-0, 1958 Gibson L50. 1949 Gretch Rancher & $15. Kid size Harmony with patented "Nevertune"perpetual slip tuners (Gone foot blues) |Band for GONE TRAIN BLUES:| THE ACADEMY OF ANCIENT BLUES | Mr. O'Muck - Guitar & Vocals | Willie "Twelve Knees" Manicotti - Bottleneck Guitar | Squealing Squap Barlowe - Harmonica | Wacking Willie Tolstoi - Washboard |

Influences: Rev. Gary Davis, Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller, Blind Willie McTell, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Venitian Blinds, Scrapper Blackwell, Lonnie,Tommy,Robert & Larry Johnson, John Hurt, Memphis Minnie, Skip James, Big Joe & Robert Pete Williams, Robert Petawy, Bo Carter, Elizabeth Cotton, Pink Anderson, Charlie Patton, King Solomon Hill, Sleepy John Estes, Yank Rachel, Son House, Fred McDowell, Kokomo Arnold, Furry Lewis, Frank Stokes, Charlie Jordan, Shirley Griffiths, Fats Waller, Bessie Smith, Willie Walker, Leroy Carr, Guitar Pete Franklin, Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry, Memphis Willie B., Billie Holliday, Smokey Babe, John Hammond who showed me an indispensable riff in 1969, Spider John Koerner, The entire Blues catalogues of RBF, Yazoo, Biograph, Stinson, Mamlish, Arhoolie, Folkways, Prestige Bluesville, .., JSP, Rounder, Vanguard, etc, And a fond nod to my deceased architypal bearded caucasoid forebears Eric Von Schmidt, & Dave Van Ronk.
Sounds Like: A Blind Cat Attempting to Mate With a Porcupine
Record Label: Muck-O-Phone
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

OBAMA THE EXECUTIONER!

>WTBF?!@%&$!? )Thats, what the bloody fuck!?) Obama disagrees with the supreme court decision to make raping a child a non execution-able offense.I thought we here on the LEFT (remember us we put you ...
Posted by Mr. O'Muck on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:29:00 PST

HILLARYS BAD VIBES CAUSE OF CHANGE IN ORBIT OF SATURN!

This is a response to the insane degree of vitriol directed at Hillary by certain MYSPACE bloggers and by gray lady psycho Maureen Dowd for whom Hillary bashing has become a fetish. How someone lives ...
Posted by Mr. O'Muck on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:30:00 PST

ITS RAINING CRANES IN NEW YORK CITY

Never vote for anyone who's never swung a hammer. Its not a class thing its a Newtonian one. Building something as simple as a wooden box forces one into contact with several inescapable laws of exis...
Posted by Mr. O'Muck on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:19:00 PST

OIL PRICES MYSTERIOUSLY RISE!

They were made to do so by Jesus, Jehovah, Gautama Buddha, Krishna, Zues, Odin, Ahura Mazda, Gaea, Santa Claus, The Easter Bunny, Hannukah Harry, Wizards, Elves, Dwarves and those conspicuously absent...
Posted by Mr. O'Muck on Thu, 22 May 2008 06:35:00 PST

FIX HOMELESSNESS FIRST!

I'm so fucking sick of having my heart broken everyday by stories of people being forced out of their homes by greed. I'm horrified by human castoffs laying in the street while high risk infant ambula...
Posted by Mr. O'Muck on Wed, 21 May 2008 08:33:00 PST

VOTE IDEAS AND VALUES, NOT PERSONALITIES

This is too important an election for any Hillary supporter not to vote for Obama.I know, I know..she was subjected to vile sexist bullshit treatment (has been for almost twenty years) and IS more qu...
Posted by Mr. O'Muck on Tue, 20 May 2008 05:03:00 PST

BARACK, IT AINT ABOUT THE FRIGGIN $28.!

Its about a symbolic gesture of sympathy by government towards people struggling economically. The language of American politics is spoken in various coded messages in which the word "TAXES" stands in...
Posted by Mr. O'Muck on Thu, 08 May 2008 06:57:00 PST

QUITTING TIME FOR HILLARY

Its a damn shame in my opinion but now it is well and truly over. I hope Barack will look long and hard at how the Democrats and my own dear left treat people who disappoint them, and how yesterdays h...
Posted by Mr. O'Muck on Wed, 07 May 2008 01:35:00 PST

BRANDO, DEAN, ELVIS & McCAIN? @!?

AHHH here it is! The republi-plutocrat marketing campaign to sell McCain brand Bush soap! In a stunning and at first apparently fair minded article about McCain, in the New York Times Week in Review ...
Posted by Mr. O'Muck on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:23:00 PST

The United States Declares Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament!

There's a headline you'll never see. Back about 7000 years ago an anonymous Minoan philosopher warned against the danger of iron weapons supplanting the traditional bronze ones: " A bronze sword canno...
Posted by Mr. O'Muck on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:26:00 PST