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Member Since: 4/28/2007
Band Website: This is it!
Band Members: Just me. Recording extraordinary sounds in high resolution digital. Using Pro Tools LE/Digi 002R interface modified by Black Lion Audio. Recording up to 8 simultaneous tracks with up to 32 tracks total. Nice variety of high quality microphones, preamps and other fine things.
Influences: MUSICAL LIKES: Anything with great sonic texture and beauty, guts or heart. More specifically;Tom Waits, Kate Bush, The Band, Michael Hedges, James Brown, P.J. Harvey, Neil Finn, Talk Talk,Deacon Lunchbox,Kevin Ward, Joe Henry, The Mommyheads, Johnny Cash, Sparklehorse, Be Good Tanyas, Joel Hamilton (producer), Iggy Pop, The Melvins, Paul Sprawl,David Lindley,Fiona Apple,Tori Amos,Bjork, Nick Drake,Buck Owens, REM, Segovia, David Grisman, Nee Ningy Band, James Taylor, Steely Dan,Keith Richards, Beastie Boys, Cypress Hill, Tony Rice, Rickie Lee Jones, Donna the Buffalo, Bob Marley, The Butthole Surfers, Talking Heads, Los Lobos, Captain Beefheart, Cracker, Pixies, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Pavement, Joni Mitchell, GG Allin, CSN, Nick Drake, Gipsy Kings, Steve Miller, Al Green, The Melvins,STP, Tool, (I realized I'm not ready to let go of the 90's just yet),Ravi Shankar, Son Volt, Sixteen Horsepower, Aimee Mann, T Rex, Toubab Krewe, Radiohead, Van Morrison, Stein and Walder, Hendrix, Louis Armstrong, Dread Zeppelin, Patti Smith, The Monkees, Peter Gabriel...
ASSORTED PERSONAL HEROES: Dr. Brian Martine (Dr. of Philosophy), David Segrest (like a 2nd father to me), Donald Deal (high school band teacher), Mike Phillips (something good finally came out of South Carolina), Brian McDonald (superhero),Stone Figs, Cecilia, Dustin and Daisy, Van Gogh's Ear, Supreme Shelving drum group, Michael Lackey (visionary), my late parents, my tireless In-Laws, all my wonderful friends and muses, Jesus and Obama (but not that twisted modern day militant religion stuff), many thanks to Tape Op Magazine and forum.
EDUCATION: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
WHO I'D LIKE TO MEET: Beautiful freaks and merry pranksters.
READING: Hemingway, Wm Faulkner, Alan Watts, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson, JD Salinger, Tom Robbins, Isabel Allende, Herman Hesse, Annie Proulx, The Beats, Luis Borges, Mark Twain, Ken Kesey, Charles Frazier, Martin Buber,James Joyce, Albert Camus, Carlos Casteneda, Dorothy Parker, Steinbeck, Edward Abbey, Dr. Andrew Weil, the Tao, Boy Scout Handbook!
HUMOR: It just comes from inside me, and also: The State, Stella, BILL HICKS, Mitch Hedberg, Steven Wright, Woody Allen.
FAVORITE THINGS to do: Record and mix audio, LISTEN TO MUSIC, live and work with my wife,walk in the park every day, porch jam with friends, cross country ski, feel good, good conversation, hang out in the mountains a lot,dig art,hang out and joke around with my grown-up kids, read, write, hike, bike, african drumming, play bass, guitar, cook and eat, buy houses and fix them up, broker real estate deals, whatever I feel like.
SHIT I CAN'T TOLERATE: War, oppression, injustice, cruelty, baby corn.
FILM: Sometimes a Great Notion, Hairdresser's Husband, Henry and June, Blue Velvet, The River's Edge, Enchanted April, Cold Mountain, Pope of Greenwich Village, The Bad Lieutenant, Ironweed, Box of Moonlight, Grumpy Old Men, The Last Waltz, Easy Rider, The Unbearable Lightness of Being,Kung Fu.Eversmile New Jersey, Magnolia, Taxi Driver, Billy Jack, 1 Giant Leap, Bill Hicks LIVE.
ACTORS: Christopher Walken, Harvey Keitel, Willem Dafoe, Dennis Hopper, Barney Rubble, Brando,Robert Redford, Mickey Rourke, Holly Hunter, Meryl Streep, Alfred Molina, Johnny Depp, Forrest Whitaker, Tom Waits, Sean Penn, Nicholson, Peter Fonda, Henry Fonda, Robert Downey, Billy Cruddup, Gumby.
Sounds Like: Your highest form of expression
Record Label: Unknown Indie
Type of Label: Indie
