I have many interests, in which I am keenly interested..... I particularly enjoy playing a multidude of instruments including the guitar, mandolin, drums, banjo, and harmonica. I also love to sing as much as possible. I love playing music with my new band, Dedicated Maniacs. Check us out here:
http://www.myspace.com/dedicatedmaniacs (or just click the link over there )
We're a sort of psychedelic cowboy outfit in which I play drums (and mandolin when necessary) and sing.
My other band, Throck Morton, also has a page up on here. We love to hear from you. We also have a page up on Tribe at: [email protected]
I also have a solo act in which I play guitar, harmonica and vocals. I play lots of songs.
I love going to see live music of most varieties, hiking, camping, biking (if I only had one), travel of all variety, especially long road trips, communing in nature, meeting interesting people and doing interesting things...
Intelligent lifeforms...
Before anything else, I have to say that my new favourite spot is: percyboyd.com
After that, I have to start out by saying that if you've never heard of ThaMuseMeant or Frogville Records, you best go there right now and find out.
While you're at it, you should stop by my Yahoo! Launchcast Station...
Just look for endwarr...
Having said that, here's a little taste...
And, this is just to scratch tha surface... ThaMuseMeant, KPIG (kpig.com Check it out.), Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead, Cronkhite(RIP), The Phil Lesh Quintet, Throck Morton, Love, Syd Barrett, The Beatles, Bill Monroe, Big Smith, Yonder Mountain String Band, Taarka, The New Fidelity, Hundred Year Flood, The Seldom Scene, Mark Bilyeu, John Hartford, Gram Parsons, Buck Owens, Tom T. Hall, The Velvet Underground, Leonard Cohen, Red Meat, Clarence Ashley, Doc Watson, Norman Blake, Tony Rice, DEVO, Ween, El Capitan, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Paul Simon, Nick Drake, Aimee Curl, Gillian Welch, Norah Jones, Sharon Gilchrist, Bryn Bright, Felicia Ford, My Tea Kind, P.J. Harvey, Me Infecto, Cervantes, Free Peoples, The Moody Blues, ALO, Keller Williams, Hank Williams Sr., Lefty Frizzell, Marty Robbins, Smokey Robinson, Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton, Otis Redding, Surprise Me Mr. Davis, Duane Allman, Leftover Salmon, Tom T. Hall, Tom Waits, Nathan Moore, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Darrell Scott, Bill Thomas, Bill Palmer, Jimi Hendrix, Randy Crouch, David Tiller, Drew Emmitt, Dallas Jones, Moore and Healy, Still On The Hill, The Band, The Angoras, The Usuals, Gorch Fock, Col. Bruce Hampton, Split Lip Rayfield, George Jones, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, David Alan Coe, Steve Earle, Peter Rowan, Earl Cate, Hit and Run Bluegrass, Dickey Betts, Art Blakey, Charles Mingus, Enion Pelta, Miles Davis, Bud Powell, Buddy Rich, Ricky Skaggs, Earl Scruggs, Buell Kazee, Mississippi John Hurt, Taj Mahal, G.B. Grayson, Dock Boggs, Joan Baez, Cori Teeple, Clare Starr, Mike Seeger, John Cohen, Koerner Ray and Glover, Leo Kottke, Michael Hedges, Mia And Jonah, Uncle Walt's Band, The Country Gentlemen, the list goes on forever.....Hit me up. We can talk all about it.
Or, check this out...
Star Wars, The Lord Of The Rings, Harold and Maude, Raising Arizona (or anything by the Coen Brothers, for that matter), The Planet of Junior Brown, Bound For Glory, Better Off Dead, Strange Brew, Amelie, All The Real Girls, I Heart Huckabees, The Life Aquatic, Big Trouble In Little China, The Good The Bad And The Ugly, Once Upon A Time In The West, Fire Walk With Me, Blue Velvet, Doctor Strangelove, High Fidelity, Eat The Document, Short Cuts, Frida, Sin City, True Romance, The Princess Bride, Blazing Saddles, Anchorman, The Last Waltz, The Forbidden Zone, Eternal Sunrise Of The Spotless Mind, and all of the Monty Python movies to name a few.....
I don't much care for television... Except for the Simpsons... and Seinfeld... and California's Gold... and Arrested Development.... and Mr. Show... and, of course, The Daily Show (the only news I would deign to watch...), and The Colbert Report (for my inner conservative), lately I've been geeking out ..rek TNG, and my current favorite, Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia (check it out! hilarity.), and Chicago Cubs baseball (on WGN with Len and Bob) of course... GO CUBS!!! And who could forget old school Ren and Stimpy?
Books are cool... Especially Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday, The Lord Of The Rings, The Hobbit, The Dharma Bums, The Way Of The Peaceful Warrior, The Teachings Of Don Juan, Searching For The Sound, Star Wars books (for the geek in me)... I've been getting into the poetry lately... Namely, William Blake, Arthur Rimbaud, and William Butler Yeats...
People with especially heroic qualities... Oh, and anyone who has the courage to stand up for their beliefs. Or just about anyone who dares to be different. (i.e. My mother, Bob Dylan, Phil Lesh, Willie Nelson, Nathan Moore, Randy Crouch, John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, the list goes on and on...)