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Liam Casement

"Compliments pass when the quality meet" B. Behan

About Me

Liam Casement is 33 and works as a Merchant Marine captain operating in San Francisco, California. I play guitar, banjo, charango and whatever else I can get my hands on. I love music and want to share that with others. I divide my time between San Francisco, Eastport, Maine.. Montezuma Costa Rica and the rest of this beautiful mad world...

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/6/2007
Band Members: Liam Casement on guitar/vocals & percussion
Influences: Victor Jara, Paul Robeson, Charles Mingus, Violetta & Isabel Parra, the labor movement, The Kinks, Phil Ochs, The woods, Eric B. & Rakim, The ocean, Soren Kierkegaard, great sex, Lucio Battisti, The Who, Malin Dahl, travel, Christy Moore, Mary Black, Greg Brown, Eliza Gilkyson, Stan Rogers, The ocean, Black Sabbath, The Modern Lovers, Elvis Costello, lost love, MLK Jr.,Crazy Horse, Salvador Allende, Haji Maleek al-Sabbaz, Elvin Jones, history, Soledad Bravo, Silvio Rodriguez, red wine, Nick Drake, The Wolfetones, bravery, The Smiths, Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem, Roger Casement, Gen. Jack Casement, good upbringing, Duke Ellington, Donald Byrd, Steel Pulse, respect, Funkadelic, cold water on my face, nature and many more...
Sounds Like: A nice guy to know!
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Check this out!!

Professional Mariner Feb-March 2008 Page 55 Current mood: accomplished Category: Jobs, Work, CareersIf anyone is interested, myself and my shipmates on the pilot boat California are profiled in the ...
Posted by Liam Casement on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:46:00 PST

Some shows I saw last week

I wanted to share some of the great music I had the pleasure of seeing live here in the big city this past week or so.. First up was Kris Gruen opening for The Bowmans at Amnesia. They are b...
Posted by Liam Casement on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:47:00 PST

HSBG II

Got to the show a little late but still caught the headliners. Boz Skaggs, Doc Watson and Emmylou Harris. Good stuff, all free and only in San Francisco! Love it.. Liam
Posted by Liam Casement on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:44:00 PST

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival

I am just back from the day of free concerts in Golden Gate park. It started off for me with John Prine playing some great music. Following that I headed over to see Michelle Shocked. She is now doing...
Posted by Liam Casement on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:42:00 PST

One of my favorite poems.. By Charles Baudelaire

A Hemisphere in your Hair   Long let me inhale, the odour of your hair, into it plunge the whole of my face, like a thirsty man into the waters of a spring and wave it in my fingers like a scente...
Posted by Liam Casement on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:17:00 PST

Ojitos Verdes Written By Victor Jara

I hope that you all enjoy the first song I have recorded for my music page. It is Ojitos Verdes (little green eyes) by Victor Jara. Victor was a theater actor and musician from Chile. He grew up ...
Posted by Liam Casement on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:56:00 PST