Member Since: 10/9/2007
Band Members: Paler Shade Team- Dave Perkins (Producer, Electric Guitar, Background Vocals), Pam Mark Hall (Acoustic Rhythm Guitar, Keyboard, Lead and Background Vocals), David Davidson (Violin), Phil Parlapiano ( "Sweetin it Up!" Acoustic Guitar, Mandolin, Accordion, Vocal Duet on "I'm On Your Side"), Brent Rowan (Acoustic Guitar "See Me Grow"), Glenn Worf (Bass), Reece Wynans (Keyboards), Mike Radovosky (Bongos, Drums, Percussion), Michael Saleem (Steel Barrell), Mustafa (flute) Ashley Cleveland (Background vocals)
Influences: MUSICIANS: Joni Mitchell, Dylan, Joan Baez, Leonard Cohen, Richard and Mimi Farina, Phil Ochs, Tim Buckley, Lennon/McCartney/ Beatles, Ray Charles, Roy Orbison, Tony Bennett, Aretha, Peter Paul and Mary, The Smothers Brothers, CrosbyStillsNashYoung, James & Kate Taylor,Mark Spoelstra, Carol King, Stevie Wonder, Motown, Dan Fogelberg, Jackson Brown, Judee Sill, Rita Coolidge, Wendy Waldman, Linda Rondstadt, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Carly Simon, Bruce Cockburn, Al Green, Bach, Bernstein
PRODUCERS: George Martin, Larry Klein, Peter Asher, Dave Perkins, Wendy Waldman, Norbert Putnam, Keith Thomas -
INDIVIDUALS Jesus, "the homeless, orphaned and abused," Roy Rogers/Dale Evans, Abraham Maslow, Martin Luther King, Albert Schweitzer, Harriet Tubman, Gandhi, Mother Theresa, Pablo Casals, Dalai Lama, Thomas Merton, Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Shirley Temple Black, Walter Cronkite, Frida Kahlo, Eric Hoffer, Bruce Cockburn, Tony Campolo, Bill Moyers, Joseph Campbell, Brother Mel Meyers...
PLACES: Berkeley, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Wine Country,CA- Santa Fe, Cote D'azur and Menerbes, France- Oslo, Norway, Guanajuato and San Miguel De Allende, Mexico
MOVIES: Frida, Surviving Picasso, Sophie's Choice, Stealing Beauty, Cinema Paradisimo, Farewell My Concubine, Motorcycle Diaries, Gypsy Caravan, English Patient, In the Time of Butterflies, Chocolat
AUTHORS/BOOKS/MEDIA: "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl, "Escape from Freedom" by Eric Fromm, "How to Think Like Leonardo DaVinci"by Michael J. Gelb, "Artist’s Way" by Julia Cameron, the "Bible," Madeleine L'Engle, C.S. Lewis, Annie Dillard, Elizabeth O'Connor, Dorothy Sayers, Thomas Wolfe, "Jitterbug Perfume," Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, "Love in the Time of Cholera," "Getting To Yes" by Roger Fisher,William L. Ury, and Bruce Patton,, "Rich Christians in an
Age of Hunger" by Ron Sider, and Public Broadcast Television and Public Radio Network
Sounds Like: A woman who can describe what she feels, as she feels it and what she wore when she felt it.
Record Label: currently unsigned
Type of Label: Indie