Member Since: 8/22/2005
Band Website: johnpauldavis.org
Band Members: Copy Of A Copy Of A Copy
John Paul Davis: speaking, piano, synths, touchtone phone, beats, loops, and other laptopish workings
Eric Brown: bass, guitar, djembe, conga, kalimba
Tristan Owner: guitars
Todd Dengler: guitars, electric piano
Brian DeWeese: tabla
Live At The Neighborhood
John Paul Davis: speaking
G. Scott Jones: trombones, flute, digeridoo
Chris Sloan: bass
Julian: drums, percussion
Mario: trumpet, percussion, piano
Influences: Too many to name. Are we just the cross-sections of our influences?
In stream-of-consciousness order:
Wendell Berry, Yusef Komanyakaa, Li-Young Lee, Billy Collins, Jeff McDaniel, Mike Doughty, Wilco, Brian Eno, Bjork, Godspeed You Balck Emperor!, Charles Mingus, Crazy Late 70s Electric Miles Davis, Mos Def, Dennis Kim/Denizen Kane, (Let's take a short break and ponder here: is this really a list of my influences? What does that mean? Will you hear the strands of these people's thoughts and works in my sonic offerings? Or is this just a list of stuff I dig?), Don Delillo, the entire city of Chicago, Northern Exposure (the television show, not the musical act), William James, noisy Radiohead b-sides, of late: Mr. Sufjan Stevens, Over The Rhine, Martin Luther King, Jr. (Another interjection: does Aaron Hodges count? He should count, I wager, because even though he's not famous, or even relatively well-known, and he doesn't make stuff people can buy, he was a very big influence on me. Does he count?) Aaron Hodges, Andy Farkas too, and also, John Murphy. Richard Jones. And Andia Esguerra (who opened the door of grace for me again and probably doesn't even know that or how she did). I digress from listing performers and authors (even though Anida is both and if you haven't seen her do what she does, you've missed out). Huzzah! More performers: SOUND team. Blackalicious. DJ Shadow. Fela Kuti. Every last damn one of the Cheiftains. The Bad Plus, Brad Mehldau, Mogwai. Paul Simon. Modest Mouse is also quite good. Allen motherfucking Ginsberg. Gil-Scott Heron. Am I leaving anyone out? Yes, yes! Annie Dillard! And Frederick Beuchner! And James Baldwin! And, God help me, Bono! And Garth Hallberg.
And that is enough for now.
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