Music:
Member Since: 11/6/2007
Band Website: msflp.com
Band Members: Yes, and oddly enough, no
Influences: Peter Tork, Fuzzbee, Rev. Gary Davis, Neil Young, Little Feat, Buffalo Springfield, Pink Floyd, Patsy Cline, Talking Heads, Henry Mancini, Parliament Funkadelic, The Shirelles, David Lindley, Waddy Wachtel, Laura Nyro, Eddie Hazel, Garry Shider, Portishead, Mark Eitzel (one of the best songwriters of the 20th century - hard at work on the 21st!),
Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli, Ruby and the Romantics, Richard Phillips Feynman, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, MC5, Peter Erskine, Smokey Robinson, Heart, Link Wray, Richie Hayward, Mitch Mitchell, Bernard Purdie, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea and Return to Forever, The Marvelettes, Imogen Heap, Toots and the Maytals, Jeff Porcaro (deep pocket...DEEP, a beautiful man who left us too soon), Trulio Disgracias, UB40, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, Art Tatum, Jesse Colin Young, It's a Beautiful Day, Cold Blood, Patti Smith, Television, The Velvet Underground, Ennio Morricone, Ella Fitzgerald, Otis Spann, Otis Redding, Elvis Costello, H.B. Barnum, Roy Thomas Baker, Steve Lillywhite, Woody Herman and the Thundering Herd, Coldplay (when they're not ripping off Joe Satriani!), Stevie Wonder, Joe Satriani (when he isn't being ripped off by Coldplay!), Alice Coltrane, Public Enemy, Robert Palmer, Ian McLagan, Gary Katz, Paul Fox (the producer, NOT the Ruts guitarist - although he was pretty cool too), David Kahne, Judy Collins, Bad Brains, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughn, Prince, Foreigner, Sam and Dave, Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland, Quincy Jones, Woody Allen, Traffic, Alive and Kickin', Brian Wilson, Fleetwood Mac, Steve Hillage, The Sweet, Be Bop Deluxe, Stanley Sheldon, Stanley Clarke, Dr. Dre, Robin Trower, Dennis Chambers, Ice Cube, Fellowship, The Tourists, Sons of Champlain, Three Dog Night, Yes, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Albert Einstein, Goldfinger, Do the Right Thing, Strangers on a Train, Help!, Easy Rider, The Kiss of the Vampire, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Pink Flamingoes, Freaks, The Manchurian Candidate (original), Hairspray (original), Shampoo, Blue Velvet, Sunset Boulevard, The War of the Roses, Some Like it Hot, Alphaville, The Bicycle Thief, Metropolis, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Lilies of the Field, Murder, The 39 Steps, The 400 Blows, Blow Up, The Graduate, Apocalypse Now, Eating Raoul, Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, Throw Momma From the Train, Bram Stoker's Dracula (I designed the shadow effects - it's true, look it up!), Kiss of the Spider Woman, Mephisto, GoodFellas, Raising Arizona, A Hard Day's Night, Rebecca, She's Got to Have it, Sid and Nancy, Cotton Comes to Harlem, Swamp Thing, Boogie Nights, Pillow Talk, The Glass Bottom Boat, Being There, Seconds, Vertigo, Citizen Kane, The Shining, The Polar Express, Shrek, Deep Throat, Death Becomes Her, The Birds, Dementia 13, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, Eraserhead, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, New Wave Hookers, The Seven Year Itch, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blazing Saddles, Ghost in the Shell, Watermellon Man, Starman, The Ice Age, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, In The Heat of the Night, The Devil in Miss Jones, The Sound of Music, Dr. Zhivago, Harsh Times, Deep Cover, Victor Victoria, The Incredible Mr. Limpet, The Exorcist, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Time Machine (original), The Jerk, Psycho (original), Triumph of the Will, The Great Dictator, Dolemite, Coffy, The Rope, Black Mama White Mama, Bonnie and Clyde, Rear Window, Barfly, The Kid, The General, Satyricon, Roma, Black Like Me, Finding Nemo, Swept Away, Malicia, Manhattan, Sleeper, Hi Mom!, The Incredibles, Sweet Sweetback's Badass Song, Shaft (original), Spirited Away, Bananas, Toy Story, Zelig, Purple Rain, Taxi Driver, Broadway Danny Rose, The Terminator, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Robocop, Dr. Strangelove, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, A Clockwork Orange, To Sir With Love, Raging Bull, The Godfather, Salvador Dali, Merry-Go-Round, Easy Beats, The Band, Squeeze, Glen Laughlin, 311, Malcolm (McLaren and X), Throwing Muses, Laura Antonelli, Martha and the Muffins, Janis Joplin, R. Buckminster Fuller, The Bangles, Bonnie Raitt - one badass b... um, beauty!, Keith Haring, David Hockney, Jeff Koons, The Byrds, Poco, The Lee Pickens Group, Left Banke, Love, Nina Simone, Jimmy Cliff, The Cars, Lottie Golden, Christine Perfect (look it up), Eric Dolphy, Lottie Golden (So good I had to say it twice!), J.R.R. Tolkien, Joy Division, A.C. Jobim, Fiona Apple, Aretha!, The Go-Go's, Dick Dale!!!,
Weather Report, Björk Guðmundsdóttir, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Cher, The Rascals, The Psychedelic Furs, Thin Lizzie, Bobby Hutcherson, Subject to Change, Cry On Cue, American Music Club, The Sex Pistols, Lili Haydn, Claude Monet, NWA, Simple Minds, The Kinks, Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry, Led Zeppelin, Lenny Kravitz, Lenny White, Spike Lee, Peter Gabriel, Peter Frampton, Peter Green, Peter Huggins, Peter Sellers, Tim Burton, Josephine Baker, Elton John, Carole King, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Herb Alpert and the TJB, Bill Bruford, Small Faces, Blind Faith, Steel Pulse, Burt Bacharach, Sam Cooke, Paul Rodgers (best voice in R&R!), The Four Seasons, The Five Stairsteps, Nas, The Nazz, The Bee Gees, Spanky and Our Gang (the band and the TV show), Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, John Mayer, Mickey Rourke, Tower of Power, Roy Orbison, Robert Johnson, Maxfield Parrish, Pretenders (any place, any time, Chrissie!), U2, Jethro Tull, Alfred Hitchcock, The Ramones, Arik Marshall, Lonnie Marshall, The Police, Betty Page, Sly and the Family Stone, Living Colour, Cree Summer (forever my red hot mamma!), Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, Phillip Fisher (best drummer on the planet...ever...no shit!), Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, John Cleese, James Gandolfini, Chaka Khan and Rufus, E.U., Deep Purple, The Yardbirds, James Joyce, James Brown, Astrid Gilberto, Elkie Brooks, The English Beat, Bernard Herrmann, Gale Garnett, Devo, Dylan Thomas, David Milch, Social Distortion, David Hockney, Phil Chen (Mohawk says, "hey, my brother!"), Fernando Sor, Roxy Music, ELP, T-Rex, Iggy Pop, The B-52's, The Beatles, Blackbyrd McKnight, Garbage, Blinker the Star, Fishbone, Steely Dan, Martin Scorsese, Joni Mitchell, XTC, David Bowie, Jay-Z, REM, Cocteau Twins, Alice in Chains, James Jamerson, Alex Acuna, Jane's Addiction, Snoop Dogg, Vincent Van Gogh, Spinal Tap, Blondie, Jaco Pastorius (the one, the ONLY), The Who, Mauro Giuliani, Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Poneys, Alan Spenner, Abraham Laboriel, Robert DeNiro, Denzel, Glenn Plummer, Bob Marley, Leona Boyd, William S. Burroughs, Beach Boys, Jimmy Wyble, Bill BJ Robinson, Rory Gallagher, Buddy Guy, Elmore James, Eric Clapton, Eric Idle, Adrian Belew, Larry Carlton, Robben Ford, Chuck Jones, Mel Blanc, Freddie King, Albert King, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Marilyn Monroe, The Selecter, Digital Underground, Weapon of Choice, Al Dimeola, Richard Pryor (do I have to say it?), Pat Martino, Pat Metheny, The Clash, Kool and the Gang, Louis Armstrong, Allan Holdsworth, Hollywood Babylon, John McLaughlin, John Kricfalusi, The Cure, Hank Williams Sr., The Crusaders, Robert Williams, R. Crumb, Joseph Clement Coll, Glenn Vilppu, Andy Warhol, Mark Ryden, Richard Estes, Chuck Close, Audrey Flack, Don Eddy, Howard Roberts, Van Morrison, Radiohead, Raphael Sanzio, Joe Diorio, Ry Cooder, Badfinger, Kim Fowley, Dave Mason, The Charles Ford Band, Tony Williams, The Carter Family, Herb Remington, Roy Smeck, Big Bill Broonzy, King Crimson, Son House, Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, Thelonius Monk, Francis Ford Coppola, Earth Wind and Fire, Christopher Guest, Tex Avery, Wendy O. Williams, Earl Slick, Kenny Burrell, Tommy Tedesco, Carol Kaye, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Tal Farlow, John Hall, Joe Pass, Venus and the Razorblades, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Frank LLoyd Wright, Suzi Quatro, Fanny (June and Jean, baby, whew!), Jack Nicholson, Da Vinci, Simon and Garfunkel, Patti Labelle, Jackson Browne, Chuck Berry, Blondie Chaplin, Martha and the Vandellas, Duane Allman, The Mamas and the Papas, Joe Strummer, Hammer Films, Fuuri, Humble Pie, The Jam, Cake, Cream, Bread (I must be getting hungry!), Ma and Pa Bell, The Supremes, The Everlys, Richard Penniman, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Miles Davis, The Jackson Five, Annie Lennox, 10,000 Maniacs, Glenn Gould, Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, Ross Bleckner, Warren Buffett, The DDDickies, Sublime, Ted Greene, Howard Alden, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Leadbelly, Mick Ronson, Muddy Waters, The Doors, George Van Epps, The Monkees, McCoy Tyner, Chet Atkins, Mott the Hoople, Niccolo Paganini, Claude Debussy, Oscar Peterson, X, King's X, Fear, Christian Death, The Georgia Satellites, Howard Alexander Dumble, Michael Soldano, Tears for Fears, Food for Feet, Porno for Pyros, 10cc, Supertramp, Sparks, The Smithereens, The Eagles, Creedence, Billy Cobham, CSNY, Graph Nobel, The Coen Brothers, Van Halen, Santana, Johnnie Walker (black or red), William DeVaughn, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Ray Charles, Blind Lemon Jefferson (think about it!), Simon Shaheen, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, King Sunny Adé, Kim Wilkins (the singer not the writer, unless the writer also sings), Terry Reid, The Tubes, The Showmen, Fastball, Leo Fender, Paul Reed Smith, Green Acres (mmmm, hotscakes!), Jeff Beck, Joe Walsh, Donovan Leitch, Tommy Bolin, Rick Derringer, Fats Waller, Ben Harper, The New Radicals, Beck, Sheryl Crow, Elliott Randall, Ernie Isley, Denny Diaz, Vinegar Joe...Let's see, who did I forget?......TONS!!!
Sounds Like: All of the above...from time to time.
Record Label: Unsigned
