Member Since: 7/7/2007
Band Website: douglasgrayjackson.com
Influences:
Elmer Bernstein
(To Kill A Mockingbird)
Leonard Bernstein
(Rumble from West Side Story)
Dickey Betts
(High Falls, In Memory of Elizabeth Reed)
Alexander Courage
(The original theme from Star Trek)
Danny Elfman
(The Simpsons TV show Theme, Men In Black)
Dominic Frontiere
(Music for the original Outer Limits TV show. Thanks to Afterthem for pointing out this hitherto unknown subconscious influence)
Jerry Goldsmith
(Music for the Our Man Flint and In Like Flint movies)
Bernard Hermann
(Music for the original Twilight Zone TV show, and Hitchcock's North by Northwest, Fahrenheit 451 (1966))
Thomas Newman
(American Beauty)
Steve Reich
(Anything Steve composes, but especially Music For 18 Musicians, Music For A Large Ensemble, Octet, and Different Trains)
Lalo Schifrin
(Music for the Mission Impossible TV show, The President's Analyst, Cool Hand Luke, and THX-1138 movies and many others)
Igor Stravinsky
(Anything Igor composed, but especially, Le Sacre du Printemps, Petrushka, L'histoire du Soldat , Agon, Les Noces, Scherzo à la Russe, plus many others)
Frank Zappa
(Anything Frank composed but especially The Black Page, Watermellon In Easter Hay, Inca Roads, Purple Lagoon, Music for Guitar and Low Budget Orchestra, and many others)
FZ Quote: "A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."
Record Label: Schlecktones Music
Type of Label: Indie