Music:
Member Since: 01/07/2007
Band Members:
Influences: I take an approach to music that is not neccessarily revolutionary, but is certainly worth repeating...
"Music is what moves you"
That being said, all music impacts us one way or another. It could be from our own CD players or whatever is on tap at your friend's house. The melodies that entered your mind while picking up your niece from choir practice have left an impression on you just as much as the odd sounding Stravinsky compositions that you thought you hated do!
In a nut shell - I listen to anything that strikes me as interesting. That could be straight ahead Metal, Prog Metal, Black Metal, Classic Rock, Folk Music, Indian Tribal Music, Mongolian Throat Singing, Turkish Gypsy Music, Regional Gospel Music, Hymns and yes even beatbox (this generation's phenomenon)
So picking out a few that I conciously listen to are noted here:
System of a Down
Rush
Queensryche
Nightwish
Epica
The Showdown
Dream Theater
Symphony X
Kings X
Galactic Cowboys
Precious Death
Ronnie James Dio
Eloy
Terry Reid
Shawn Phillips
Willie Nelson
John Cowan
Kansas
Foreigner
John Starnes
Fleetwood Mac
Johnny Hartman
Louis Armstrong
Bryn Haworth
Tom Jones
Precious Bryant
Liza Minnelli
Iron Maiden
early Ozzy
Yes
King Crimson
My Chemical Romance
Coheed & Cambria
Incubus
Pantera
Fairfield Four
Alice Cooper
Canton Spirituals
Shoppy
John Hartford
Deliverance
Dory Previn
Linda Lewis
Marillion
Bawn In The Mash
Gentle Giant
Stravinsky
Anton Roolaart
Strangeland
Leonard Cohen
Caveat
The jubilee Four
Greg X Volz
Isaac Hayes
Neal Morse
Giles, Giles & Fripp
Fairport Convention
Cage
Starcastle
Frost Like Ashes
Charlie Peacock
Slayer
Pantera
Happy Rhodes
Miles Davis
Centipede
Steve Smyth's Esseness Project
Staind
Styx
Bob Dylan
Recon
Roger Waters
Kris Kristofferson
Keith Christmas
Al Green
Fright Pig
The Frames
Fiery Furnaces
Allison Krauss
Pete Seeger
Six Feet Deep
Slayer
Bride
20/20 Blind
Bill Withers
Angelica
Steve Vai
Freak Kitchen
PJ Harvey
The Frames
Grateful Dead
Paul Robeson
Alan Stivell
Tony Martin (yeah, THAT Tony Martin, so what!?)
Mike Keneally (& Beer for Dolphins)
Record Label: Unsigned
