black mclean

Music:

Member Since: 25/08/2007
Band Members: Black McLean - guitars & piano & gypsy bellsPatchy - doppelganger
Influences: Let’s start with... Igor Stravinsky, A Hawk & A Hacksaw, Colleen, Tom Waits, Erik Satie, Ennio Morricone, Captain Beefheart, John Barry, Betty Blue, Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Serge Gainsbourg, Miles Davis, JB Nelson & The Chainsaws, Danny Elfman, Dick Dale, Leonard Cohen, Phillip K Dick, Akira, Elliott Gould & Sterling Hayden drinking aquavit in The Long Goodbye, Charles Trenet, Professor Fate & Max, Carter Family, Cupidus, Terry Gilliam, Dmitri Shostakovich, Dizzy Gillespie, Drugstore Cowboy, Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli, Serpico/Uncle Bobby, Patchy the doppelganger, Carter Family, Ry Cooder, Jack the Hard Worker, Grieg, Burt Lancaster, Henry Mancini, Sergei Prokofiev, Nico, Royal Trux, South Park, Uncle John & Whitelock, Those Poor Bastards, Petrushka, the Lucky Baddies, Willie Sutherland & Frank Coutts, Cornelius, Susumu Yokota, Brigitte Bardot, Raymond Chandler, Venice and Paris and Jerusalem and Los Angeles, Charlie Parker, Bingbongism, Yma Sumac, it might sound good but what are you going to do with it? Aquariums, time is a thief, you can have all my money but my time is mine, Charlie Patton, Jane Birkin, hats on the beds are no no no no no no no no no no, the Bluth Company... all combined, dragged unwillingly into a cast iron pot over a raging fire and melted into one big solid gold nugget of bones and CD plastic...
Sounds Like: Bing-bong - shut up!
Record Label: JB Nelson Records
Type of Label: Indie