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CRAIG STONEMAN

"we all want the love supreme

About Me


I have been playing’ and writing music around the mid-west area for 20 years, living and absorbing a wide spectrum of music. The origin of the song is my mission. Always aspiring to understand the effects of melody/sound on the human condition. They say music is the language of the soul (energy) and ALL OF US have the connection to this intuitive Source. If we awaken the NOW that we all manifest. I write songs with a social conscience using familiar characters everyone can relate to. Mixing in real issues that have and are happening in this world, indeed the trick is, at the same time being entertaining enough not be tune out by the mainstream alternative (FILL IN THE BLANK AS DESIRED WITH THE ARTIST YOU WISH TO WORSHIP OR DENOUNCE) It’s funny! Have you ever noticed, not that I am the first to point this out, The term "alternative" has been completely co-opted for the sake of anything but. It is an oxymoron to have a mainstream alternative of course, Anyways I am rambling on and on. Despite all of the obvious challenges I aim to throw in a little humor to lighten things up. Usually I play with the old archetype of good against evil and the equally common UNDERDOG (that represents all of us) with the obvious love themes that are easily accessible for sentimental people that have had their hearts ripped out and handed to them. I am striving to also bring the old idea of the protest song into the 21st century with a social progress report to wake up the sleeping masses that are mindlessly brainwashed walking with the herd through their lives unaware of relevant issues that the mainstream corporate media(war criminals/military industrial complex) won’t tell the public or networks are forbidden to talk about or are complicit in the active censoring of the TRUTH/DISSENT on the radio, newspapers and the boob tube. Being that the old model of NEWS i.e. information (free press) is gone. Any coverage of real hard news is evaporating by the minute, replaced by info-tainment, with all the frivolous materialistic consumer based skull numbing tabloid sensational coverage of all the usual suspects (pick your flava) of the GLITTERATI. I have always been focusing on writing good tunes with some universal appeal sprinkled with a bit of sarcastic esoteric characters from another time and space. My eclectic influences create my own unique mix of rock n roll for the masses of this new millennium. With heartfelt political and social commentary I am wading through the mess with my eyes wide open to the beauty, injustice and irony of our world today. In these times we live in, it is most exciting and inspiring to see all the history (VOTE RON PAUL) unfolding and there is no other time but NOW to live, because NOW is all we’ve ever had to learn and grow as creative children. That is our only job while we spend this moment on this infinite plane of opportunities. WE ALL HAVE THE POWER OF THE MOST INCONCIEVABLE ULTIMATE DEVINE CREATION OF EVERYTHING WE EVER COULD OR WOULD EVER WANT HERE OR ON ANY OTHER PLANE OF EXSISTANCE THAT YOU MAY BE BLESSED TO EXPERIENCE. THERE’S ONLY INFINITE LOVE EVERYTHING ELSE IS AN ILLUSION. JOHNNY&BOBBY IN A TAXI
A LITTLE "HIgh" PERHAPS? ALL HAIL THE KING CASH DOES THE KING ZAPPA SINGS FOR GEORGIE bill hicks the music from the heart

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Member Since: 6/6/2007
Band Website: reverbnation.com/craigstoneman
Influences: The Beatles,stones,Dylan,Townes Van Zandt,John Prine,Jimi Hendrix,Van Morrison,Willie Nelson,Elvis,Johnny Cash,Jim Croce,Wilco,The Smashing Pumkins,the Clash,Van Halen,Zepplin,Hank sr.and jr.,Cat Stevens,Tom Petty,U2,REM,The Alarm,Janis Joplin,Kris Kristofferson,Lefty Frizzell,George Jones,Waylon and Shooter Jennings,Brian Jonestown massacre,Big Head Todd,The replacements,John Hiatt,Sublime,The Police,Robert Johnson(king of thy delta blues),Booker T & the MG’s,Albert King,Procol harom,CCR,Sam Cooke,Bob Marley,The Specials,Peter Gabriel,AC/DC,Spinal Tap,Joy Division,Lynyrd Skynyrd,B.B. King,J Giles Band,RUSH,Ricky Nelson,The Violent Femmes,Peter Frampton,Los Lobos,The Band,Neil Young,Marvin Gaye,The Stone Roses,Bing Crosby,The Animals,The Kinks,Nirvana,Pearl Jam,Stevie Ray Vaughn,The Ramones,Beck,Wide Spread Panic,The beach Boys,The BOSS,Grateful Dead,Chet Atkins,Brian Setzer(stray cats),merle haggard,RambLin’ Jack Elliot,Miles Davis,Black Crowes,Tesla,Coltrane,Charlie"The Bird"Parker,Les Paul,Jerry Lee Lewis,Otis Redding,Brian Wilson,James Taylor,Roy Orbison,John Denver,Muddy Waters,KISS,XTC,Patti Smith,Steely Dan,Don Mclean,Eric Clapton,Allman brothers,Little richard,Pink Floyd,Joni Mitchell,Buddy Holly,Pete Seger,Eddie cochran,Tom Dowd(greatest engineer of all time),Lou Reed,Crosby,Stills and Nash,the plimsouls,Chuck Berry,Ritchie Havens,Country Joe& Fish,Frank Sinatra,Ray Charles Robinson,Sly & the Family Stone,WAR,(too fast 4 love)CRUE,The Cult,Gordon Lightfoote,The Eagles,The Byrds,Gram Parsons,Alice in Chains,Jeff Buckley,OZZY,X,Ben Harper,The Beastie boys,Sex Pistols,The Flying Burrito Brothers,David Bowie,Velvet Underground,James Brown just to name a few.
Sounds Like: LIKE ME.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Willie Speaks OUT!

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Posted by CRAIG STONEMAN on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:40:00 PST

Days Of Protest & Rebellion

Days Of Protest & RebellionJim Kirwan2-19-8 This nation was not born into this world as it exists today. It began with an idea that slipped through the rigid and established traditions of the Old Worl...
Posted by CRAIG STONEMAN on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:33:00 PST

STRIKE 3

Strike 3Jim Kirwan1-8-8 In May of 1886, the Supreme Court granted rights of personhood to private corporations, with all of the rights of personhood, and virtually none of the responsibilities. Then ...
Posted by CRAIG STONEMAN on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:54:00 PST

STRIKE 2

Strike 2A response to: Strike 1Boyd Lowell Applegate1-6-8 Mr. Kirwan, Well, you're a shining example of what Americans need more of. While the masses acting individually are swept aside as insignific...
Posted by CRAIG STONEMAN on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:53:00 PST

STRIKE!

Strike!Jim Kirwan1-5-8 "WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is going ahead with a controversial pilot program giving Mexican trucks greater access to U.S. highways despite a new law by Congress agai...
Posted by CRAIG STONEMAN on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:52:00 PST

Tonkin Never happened? DUH???

WASHINGTON (AFP) - North Vietnamese made hoax calls to get the US military to bomb its own units during the Vietnam War, according to declassified information that also confirmed US officials faked an...
Posted by CRAIG STONEMAN on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:51:00 PST

Thinking For Yourself is Now A Crime

Thinking For Yourself Is Now A CrimeBy Paul Craig Roberts1-6-8 What was the greatest failure of 2007? President Bush's "surge" in Iraq? The decline in the value of the US dollar? Subprime mortgages? N...
Posted by CRAIG STONEMAN on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:48:00 PST

Complicity & Contempt

Complicity & ContemptJim Kirwan11-18-7The United States has become a criminal enterprise led by a 'government' in league with criminality at the highest levels of this land. Since the 'election' of th...
Posted by CRAIG STONEMAN on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 02:48:00 PST

loose change Final Cut Trailer

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Posted by CRAIG STONEMAN on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:56:00 PST

RON PAUL-Our Last Chance

Ron Paul - Our Last ChanceBy Edgar J. Steele11-4-7I don't often forward the work of others and very, very rarely do I make a direct pitch for contributions. Today, I do both, possessed of the certitud...
Posted by CRAIG STONEMAN on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:54:00 PST