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Melly McGee

Your grandmother was never a good actress.

About Me

I have no bio. I feel weird writing my own bio. I would say I need a biographer, but I'm not that important.

Note: Some of the mp3s for download in my profile may have the name Leats McGee as the artist. That is still me. "Leats" was just too much of an "old Irish man's name" for me(I'm not an old Irish man at all, quite the opposite really: a young, American woman) MyGen Profile Generator

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/26/2005
Band Members: Melly McGee - vocals, guitar, mandolin, banjo, fiddle, whistling
Influences: Whatever I'm currently listening to of course, but these are the main ones:

The Top 6
They Might Be Giants
Andrew Bird
Neko Case
Cary Ann Hearst
Jimbo Mathus
The Band

The Rest
Rasputina
Bill Carson & His Checkered Past
Blind Willie Johnson
Charley Patton
Ryan Adams
Jump, Little Children
Stephen Stills
Todd Rundgren
Faun Fables
The Divine Comedy
DeVotchKa
Cabaret Kiki
The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Aimee Mann
Davíd Garza

And Carl "A.C." Newman is a genius. Seriously. Would that I could write such phenomal power pop songs as he, but I'm just not the power pop song writing type of person.

...and David Hasselhoff

Other Influences
Stephen Colbert
Jon Stewart
Thomas Lennon
John Oliver
Scott Thompson
Buster Keaton
Roscoe Arbuckle
Christopher Guest

Sounds Like: Oh gosh, I'm rubbish when it comes to this. Listen and find out for yourself. Although someone told me that I sound like a female Andrew Bird mixed with a whole lot of awesomeness. However, I really don't think I sound anything like Mr. Bird but since he is my favorite, that description makes me smile.

"It's good stuff!" -Ward Williams about Melly McGee
Record Label: none
Type of Label: None

My Blog

England wasn’t made for driving.

Since getting back from England I have had an especially good dose of creativity. Where I had been dwelling on the same chord progressions and tunes before I left and felt rather stagnant, it seems as...
Posted by Melly McGee on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:12:00 PST

Ode to the iMic

No matter where or how hard I look, I cannot seem to find my Griffin iMic. This had put a damper on my recording process(or lack of one). With the new mac mini we got right before Christmas comes the ...
Posted by Melly McGee on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:06:00 PST

Before you go back to London town

Tomorrow I embark on a great journey to England. I'll be there for two weeks. It'll be my first time to ever travel outside of the US. Now, I could go on and on about how "ever since I was a little gi...
Posted by Melly McGee on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:42:00 PST

Guitar and Pen

I'm slowly gathering a little bit of a repertoire.This means that soon I will probably make an appearance at an open mic somewhere. That somewhere will probably be Coffee Underground. I feel the most ...
Posted by Melly McGee on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 08:56:00 PST

The song is always king.

I have no idea what to write about in this myspace blog. How I write songs? Where I get ideas? New experiences I've had in the music world? What?! I think that's why I hardly ever write in this blog. ...
Posted by Melly McGee on Thu, 27 Jul 2006 01:33:00 PST

Recognition from a hero

I've been meaning to write about this for...gee, over a week now but I never got around to it until today. Two Fridays ago I had the opportunity to take in a wonderful concert at the Coffee Undergroun...
Posted by Melly McGee on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:49:00 PST

Prolificity

Over the last two days I have written two songs.Be impressed, this never happens. I mean it took 24 years(read: my whole life) for me to be able to finally write my very first song that didn't have ly...
Posted by Melly McGee on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 01:06:00 PST