Member Since: 8/12/2005
Band Website: virb.com/chrisgavito
Band Members: Chris Gavito: Songwriter, Vocals, Drums, Guitar,Piano.
Influences: Songwriters: Paul McCartney...Brian Wilson...Smokey Robinson... Holland/Dozier/Holland...Bacharach/David...Curtis Mayfield...John Lennon... Harry Nilsson...Ray Davies...Thom Bell...Todd Rundgren...Pete Ham...
Eric Carmen...Elvis Costello...Neil Finn...Rodgers/Hart.*** Singers: Terry Hall...Chet Baker...Paul McCartney...Billy Joel...Emitt Rhodes.****
Other Musical Influences: 1970's AM Pop Radio... King Tubby & Dub Reggae...Mick Fleetwood...Frederic Chopin...Stevie Wonder...Steely Dan...Claude Debussy...The Melodians...The Heptones...ELO...Pilot...Bill Evans...AC Jobim...The Left Banke...Philly Soul...Joe Raposo...The Bee Gees...Gilbert O'Sullivan...10cc...Al Jackson Jr...Karen Carpenter...George Gershwin...James Jamerson...Little Sonny Brown...2-Tone...Daryl Hall...Bob Dylan...Maurice White...Cory Gavito***Other Non-Musical Inspirations:Giorgio DeChirico...Rene Magritte...Carl Jung...Franz Kafka...
John Steinbeck...Grass...Childhood memories, Dreams,Monterey and Santa Clarita CA The Pacific Ocean, The Moon, Poetry,Animals,Disney,Felix The Cat,Hitchcock,Rod Serling,Paul Klee,Fred Astaire,Marx Brothers,Charles Schulz,Kubrick,Greek Myths, Gypsies,1960s and 1970s TV Theme Songs,Kites,Beckett,WC Fields,Rimbaud,WKRP,Film Noir,The Banana Splits, Joyce (James and DeWitt)the guy who played the xylophone solo on "Moonlight Feels Right", Robert Carradine as Johnny Crystal in the 1976 Crown International epic "The Pom Pom Girls"
Sounds Like: Whimsy through a catastrophic lens, or something quite like it.
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Record Label: High Tide Park Records
Type of Label: Indie